Patent ID: 9686325
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor; a network interface that establishes a connection to either a first network or a second network, and the network interface also establishes a connection to a client terminal; and a storage unit, wherein the processor is capable of executing a tethering function to control communication between the first network and the client terminal through the network interface, the storage unit stores network information of the first network and the second network, to which the information processing apparatus connects, and ON/OFF information of the tethering function in association with the network information, the processor turns on the tethering function based on the ON/OFF information of the tethering function when the network interface connects to the first network, and the processor turns off the tethering function based on the ON/OFF information of the tethering function when the network interface connects to the second network.