Patent ID: 8649340
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless LAN system including a first wireless LAN relay device and a second wireless LAN relay device that are able to wirelessly communicate with each other by using a plurality of channels, and a station that is able to wirelessly communicate with the first wireless LAN relay device, wherein the first wireless LAN relay device comprises: the second wireless LAN relay device comprises: wherein the requesting section successively selects an additional channel, each time the requesting section transmits another probe request after the first probe request, until all the channels that the first wireless LAN relay device can use have been selected, and wherein the first wireless LAN relay device further comprises a waiting control section for controlling the first wireless LAN relay device so as to restore the channel from the second channel to the first channel using the post-request restoring section, each time the requesting section transmits the another probe request after the first probe request, and wait at the first channel for more than a beacon transmission period during which the first wireless LAN relay device transmits a beacon to the station, before transmitting the another probe request.