Patent ID: 9577739
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A communication device that is capable of communicating with a mobile terminal in cooperation with another communication device, and is capable of communicating with the mobile terminal via the another communication device, wherein the communication device comprises: an information transmitting unit configured to put mode information and identification information for identifying the another communication device into first notification information and broadcast the first notification information to the another communication device and one or more mobile terminals including the mobile terminal directly by using a notification channel without specifying a destination; a mode selecting unit configured to select one of a cooperative communication mode and a relayed communication mode, the cooperative communication mode being for causing the another communication device to broadcast second notification information to the one or more mobile terminals including the mobile terminal directly not through the communication device by using a notification channel without specifying a destination, the second notification information being for causing the mobile terminal to perform a cooperative communication and including specific notification information, wherein the specific notification information is used by the mobile terminal in the cooperative communication and is not included in the first notification information, the relayed communication mode being for causing the another communication device to relay the first notification information received from the communication device and unchanged by the another communication device to the mobile terminal, the mode information indicating the cooperative communication mode or the relayed communication mode; an information receiving unit configured to receive cooperative capable information from the mobile terminal when the mode selecting unit selects the cooperative communication mode, the cooperative capable information including the identification information indicating another communication device transmitting the second notification information; and a cooperation instructing unit configured to instruct another communication device, which is corresponding to the identification information included in the cooperative capable information, to perform cooperative communication setting, when the information receiving unit receives the cooperative capable information, wherein: the mobile terminal determines whether the mobile terminal receives the second notification information when the mode information indicates the cooperative communication mode; and the mobile terminal transmits the cooperative capable information to the communication device when the mobile terminal determines that the mobile terminal receives the second notification information and the cooperative communication is available to the mobile terminal.