Patent ID: 9661677
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A wireless communication apparatus for communicating with an access point through a first communication and communicating with another communication apparatus through a second communication via a network including an access point, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: a user interface; and processing circuitry configured to when the processing circuitry determines that the connection information of the network layer has been changed, the connection information of the network layer of the wireless communication apparatus stored in the wireless communication apparatus is changed to the connection information of the network layer of the wireless communication apparatus acquired through the first communication, the processing circuitry is configured to notify the user, via the user interface, that the connection information of the network layer of the wireless communication apparatus cannot be acquired by a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) when the connection information of the network layer through the first communication has not been acquired, and when the processing circuitry determines that the access point has been changed to use a method of allocating a specific IP address to the wireless communication apparatus without DHCP, the processing circuitry notifies the user, via the user interface, that a setting related to acquisition of address information to be used for DHCP is switched.