Patent ID: 11901959
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A communication method in which communication between a base station and a terminal is performed by an optical wireless communication and an RF wireless communication, the communication method comprising:
repeatedly transmitting a frame from the base station to the terminal by the optical wireless communication, the frame including authentication information for permitting a communication using the RF wireless communication;
extracting, by the terminal that has received the frame, the authentication information from the frame;
transmitting the authentication information to the base station by the RF wireless communication; and
authenticating, by the base station that has received the authentication information transmitted by the RF wireless communication from the terminal, the terminal that has transmitted the authentication information to permit a communication between the authenticated terminal and a network,
wherein the RF wireless communication has a plurality of communication protocols.