Patent ID: 9572188
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A communication device comprising: a processor; and a memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the communication device to execute: accepting an instruction for establishing a wireless network to which the communication device and an external device are to belong, each of the communication device and the external device being capable of transferring to one of a parent state of belonging to the wireless network as a parent station and a non-parent state being different from the parent state; searching for the external device in a case where the instruction is accepted; causing a state of the communication device to transfer from the parent state to the non-parent state in a case where the communication device is in the parent state and the searched external device is in the parent state; and executing a forming process for forming a first wireless network to which the communication device is to belong as a child station and the external device is to belong as the parent station after the state of the communication device has transferred to the non-parent state.