Patent ID: 9185644
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A terminal device comprising: a communication unit comprising hardware configured to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of access points; a storing unit storing a history table including access-point information, printer information, and time information in a correlated manner, the access-point information indicating a connected access point through which the communication unit has sent an instruction to a printer, the printer information indicating the printer to which the communication unit has sent the instruction through the connected access point, the time information indicating a time at which the communication unit has sent the instruction to the printer through the connected access point; a processor; and a memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the terminal device to perform: identifying, from among the plurality of access points, at least one accessible access point from which the communication unit is currently capable of receiving an outputted signal; identifying, as a target access point, one of the at least one accessible access point through which the communication unit most recently has sent the instruction to the printer, identification of the target access point being made on a basis of the history table; connecting to the target access point via the communication unit; and sending, through the target access point by using the communication unit, an instruction to the printer that is indicated by the printer information correlated to the access-point information indicating the target access point in the history table; wherein the history table includes a plurality of sets of access-point information, a plurality of sets of printer information, and a plurality of sets of time information, each of the plurality of sets of access-point information being correlated to one of the plurality of sets of printer information and one of the plurality of sets of time information in the history table, the each of the plurality of sets of access-point information indicating a connected access point through which the communication unit has sent an instruction to a printer, the one of the plurality of sets of printer information indicating the printer to which the communication unit has sent the instruction through the connected access point indicated by the each of the plurality of sets of access-point information, the one of the plurality of sets of time information indicating a time at which the communication unit has sent the instruction to the printer indicated by the one of the plurality of sets of printer information through the connected access point indicated by the each of the plurality of sets of access-point information, wherein the identifying identifies the target access point through which the communication unit most recently has sent the instruction to the printer from among the at least one accessible access point on a basis of the plurality of sets of access-point information, the plurality of sets of printer information, and the plurality of sets of time information in the history table.