Patent ID: 9614856
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of controlling a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection of an image forming apparatus that supports the P2P connection, the method comprising: receiving in the image forming apparatus a P2P connection request from an external wireless device; checking a device type of the wireless device by the image forming apparatus; determining whether the device type is a connection restricted device type; when the device type is not the connection restricted device type, determining a group owner to operate as an access point (AP) among the image forming apparatus or the wireless device; and when the device type is the connection restricted device type, blocking a P2P connection to the wireless device by the image forming apparatus, and when the device type is not the connection restricted device type, P wherein the image forming apparatus operates as the AP that allows clients on a wireless local area network (WLAN) to be connected to each other and concurrently operates as a client on the WLAN.