Patent ID: 8037218
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus having a wired communication interface and a wireless communication interface, comprising: a wireless connection unit adapted to wirelessly connect to a first communication device by the wireless communication interface, in accordance with a type of a signal received from the second communication device via the wired communication interface; a disabling unit adapted to disable wired communication with a second communication device via the wired communication interface, until the communication apparatus wirelessly connects to the first communication device by the wireless connection unit, in accordance with the type of the signal received from the second communication device via the wired communication interface; an enabling unit adapted to enable the wired communication with the second communication device, which has been disabled by the disabling unit, in response to success of the wireless connection to the first communication device by the wireless connection unit; and a relaying unit adapted to relay data communication between the wired communication with the second communication device via the wired communication interface and the wireless communication with the first communication device via the wireless communication interface after enabling the wired communication with the second communication device by the enabling unit.