Patent ID: 8588131
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless slave device for performing, in a wireless network managed by a wireless master device, wireless network communication with the wireless master device, and for performing wired network communication with one or more terminals connected by wire to the wireless slave device, the wireless slave device comprising: a wireless reception unit operable to wirelessly receive, from the wireless master device that relays communication between the wireless slave device and another wireless slave device that belongs to the wireless network, a wireless frame that is (i) transmitted from one or more other terminals connected by wire to the other wireless slave device and (ii) addressed to the one or more terminals connected by wire to the wireless slave device, the wireless frame storing, in a frame body, (a) data of a first frame that includes information indicating an address of the one or more other terminals and (b) connection information indicating an address of the other wireless slave device which relays the first frame, the address of the other wireless slave device being added by the other wireless slave device; a storage unit operable to store the address of the other wireless slave device in association with each of the addresses of the one or more other terminals included in the wirelessly received wireless frame; a wire reception unit operable to receive, by wire, a second frame that includes a transmission destination address and that has been transmitted from the one or more terminals connected by wire to the wireless slave device; and a setting unit operable, when the transmission destination address of the second frame received by the wire reception unit matches any of the addresses of the one or more other terminals stored in the storage unit, to specify the address of the other wireless slave device stored in association with the address of each of the one or more other terminals and to perform a setting for direct wireless communication without involving the wireless master device.