Patent ID: 8774144
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication device comprising: a controller configured to: obtain, from each of one or more access points, access point information including network identification information corresponding to the access point, in a case where a non-automatic wireless setting mode is selected by a user in a menu screen for wireless setting, without an automatic wireless setting mode being selected by the user in the menu screen, the automatic wireless setting mode being a mode in which an input of a password is not required, the non-automatic wireless setting mode being a mode in which the input of the password is required; determine, in a case where specific network identification information corresponding to a specific access point with which the wireless communication device is to be wirelessly connected is selected by the user from among one or more network identification information obtained from the one or more access points, whether specific access point information obtained from the specific access point includes support information indicating that the specific access point is supporting the automatic wireless setting mode; and perform a wireless setting in accordance with the automatic wireless setting mode in which the input of the password is not required in a first case where a determination is made that the specific access point information includes the support information even if the non-automatic wireless setting mode in which the input of the password is required is selected by the user.