Patent ID: 11910473
Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer included in a wireless communication device to execute processing comprising:
establishing a wireless connection with a terminal device upon request for the wireless connection from one of the wireless communication device and the terminal device;
querying, upon establishment of the wireless connection with the terminal device, the terminal device with which the wireless connection is established to check whether a first application program for causing the wireless communication device to execute a first function is in a state of being executed or run by the terminal device;
maintaining or cutting off the wireless connection with the terminal device based on a response from the terminal device to the query,
after a predetermined period has elapsed since a time at which the wireless connection with the terminal device is maintained based on the response from the terminal device to the query, re-querying the terminal device with which the wireless connection is maintained, and cutting off or continuing to maintain the maintained wireless connection based on a response from the terminal device to the re-query, and
identifying, as a connection-prohibited terminal device, a terminal device not responding to at least a predetermined number of queries, cutting off the wireless connection with the connection-prohibited terminal device, and prohibiting the connection-prohibited terminal device from reconnecting to the wireless communication device within a connection prohibition period, the connection prohibition period being updated in accordance with a number of times that the wireless connection has been cut off.