Wireless communication device and computer program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8976771-B2
Application number	US-201314079334-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2013
Priority date	Sep 11, 2009
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

A wireless communication device communicable with a first type and a second type of networks based on a first type and a second type wireless setting data respectively, includes: an obtaining section obtaining an identifier of an access point when a detection section detects the disconnection with the second type network through a certain access point; and a trial section trying to connect with the second type network through the certain access point if at least one second type wireless setting data stored in the second storage includes the obtained identifier, and the trial section trying to connect with the first type network through the certain access point any of the second type wireless setting data stored in the second storage does not includes the obtained identifier but the first type wireless setting data stored in the first storage includes the obtained identifier.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless communication device communicable with a first type of wireless network including an access point and communicable with a second type of wireless network including a terminal device having an access point function, the wireless communication device comprising:
a wireless communication interface;
a controller; and
a storage,
wherein the controller is configured to:
if a disconnection with a specified wireless network is detected, and the spe…

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Nogawa Hideki

Classifications

• H04W88/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/028

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/19

  Electricity · mapped topic