Patent ID: 9693177
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus for writing tag information in a short range wireless communication tag, the information processing apparatus comprising: a search unit configured to perform a device search; a display unit configured to display search results of the device search by the search unit, wherein the search results include information of a plurality of devices in a case that the plurality of devices have been searched by the search unit; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not to include an SSID (Service Set Identifier) of an access point in the tag information; a generation unit configured to (a) in a case that the determination unit determines to include the SSID in the tag information, generate tag information including (1) identification information of a device selected by a user from among the plurality of devices and (2) the SSID, and (b) in a case that the determining unit determines not to include the SSID in the tag information, generate tag information including the identification information but not including the SSID; and a writing unit configured to write the tag information generated by the generation unit into the short range wireless communication tag with a short range wireless communication.