Patent ID: 9572031
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. Any one of information processing devices among a plurality of the information processing devices capable of communicating with one another, the information processing device comprising: a hardware processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: if own device is first activated among the plurality of information processing devices having been shut down at a specific time, enabling a connection mode of a wireless LAN, and waiting until a connection is established from another information processing device among the plurality of information processing devices; setting authentication information based on information obtained through wireless LAN communication from the activated information processing device; performing authentication for enabling the own device based on the authentication information; the setting authentication information includes obtaining service set identifier (SSID) information of the wireless LAN from all the other information processing devices as the authentication information, determining an activation order of the plurality of information processing devices from the obtained SSID information, and setting at least one of SSID information to be detected by each of the information processing devices and SSID information not to be detected based on the activation order, and activation time information of each of the information processing devices.