摘要 |
<p>The present invention is directed to a communication apparatus (101) that can notify other communication apparatuses (101) that do not receive a multicast signal, of information on a function provided by the communication apparatus (101) when the communication apparatus (101) sends the multicast signal to notify the information on the function provided by the communication apparatus (101). The communication apparatus (101) according to an embodiment of the present invention sends a unicast packet containing the information about the function together with the multicast packet to another communication apparatus (101) which does not receive the multicast packet, but does not send the unicast packet together with the multicast packet to another communication apparatus (101) determined as receiving the multicast packet.</p> |