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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus capable of managing other nodes, based on the IEEE Standards 1394. SOLUTION: The communication apparatus comprises: a means for reading management information stored in a terminal node connected over a network for showing the managing condition of the terminal node; a means for writing identification information in the terminal node for showing that own apparatus manages nodes, if the management information contain no identification information of other control nodes; and a means for managing the terminal node. Thus one control node is constituted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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