Patent attributes
When a native application and a downloaded application installed on a mobile equipment are simultaneously executed by multitask and when these applications try to use short-range wireless communication simultaneously, the short-range wireless communication may be unavailable because of restrictions on communication resources. An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method capable of performing communication management to permit the applications to use the short-range wireless communication, without a need for a complicated operation of especially terminating an application to release a communication resource in the foregoing case. A communication profile storage 105 stores combinations of communication profiles which can be simultaneously executed. A short-range wireless communication management unit 104 determines whether a communication process according to an instruction from an external application 102 can be executed, based on the communication profiles. When the short-range wireless communication process is determined not to be executed, a disconnection unit 108 notifies the external application 102 of unavailability of the communication.
