Patent ID: 8412184
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for switching a communication in a communication made by a communication system having a plurality of communication devices, the method comprising: detecting an environmental change in a communication device by one of the plurality of communication devices, wherein all of a change in a neighboring communication device physically located in a neighborhood of the communication device that detects the environmental change, a change in a state of a communication network to which the communication device that detects the environmental change is connected, and a change in a state of an application running in the communication device that detects the environmental change can be detected in detection of the environmental change; making a selection of a communication path for use in a communication and a selection of one or more communication devices for use in the communication from the plurality of communication devices, by using the communication device that detects the environmental change; and switching a communication using only a destination communication device to a communication using a plurality of communication devices by distributing a plurality of communication packets, all of which are transmitted from a communication corresponding terminal and in all of which the destination communication device is indicated as a destination, to the destination communication device and a neighboring communication device physically located in a neighborhood of the destination communication device based on results of the selections.