Patent ID: 7716301
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An information processing device for performing processing including communication over a network, the information processing device being capable of connecting to a plurality of networks using a plurality of communicating sections, each communicating section corresponding to one of the plurality of networks and comprising: a memory storing information on search priorities for the plurality of networks; an environment recognition section searching for a network environment to which the information processing device is connected in order of search priorities based on the information and detecting a unique address in a network environment to which the information processing device is connected and recognizing the network environment; an environment setting section setting, in the information processing device, operating environment information appropriate to the network environment recognized by the environment recognition section, to enable the information processing device to communicate using one of the plurality of communicating sections, the one of the plurality of communicating section being used to recognize the network environment recognized by the environment recognition section, the operating environment information being a network information of an operating system for using a network corresponding to the network environment of the one of the plurality of communicating sections; and a table containing unique addresses corresponding to different networks, each unique address in the table being associated with operating environment information that may be set in the information processing device, wherein the environment recognition section searches the table for one unique address that matches the unique address on the connected network environment to identify the network environment.