Patent ID: 9686754
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. An onboard wireless communication apparatus which is installed inside a vehicle and includes a first wireless communication apparatus that carries out wireless communication, the onboard wireless communication apparatus comprising: an in-vehicle informing processor that sends information that enables a wireless set to recognize that the wireless set is located inside the vehicle to the wireless set, wherein when the wireless set recognizes that it is located inside the vehicle, the wireless set prepares for carrying out wireless communication with the first wireless communication apparatus by controlling a transmit power of the wireless set in a manner avoiding an excessive receiving power level of a second communication apparatus that is carrying out, besides the first wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication inside the vehicle by a wireless communication technique using the same frequency band as the first wireless communication apparatus, the in-vehicle informing processor is the first wireless communication apparatus; and the information that enables the wireless set to recognize that the wireless set is located inside the vehicle is information about a communication connection ID which is sent from the first wireless communication apparatus to the wireless set to establish wireless communication with the wireless set and which is formed by incorporating information about the vehicle the wireless set can recognize into the communication connection ID.