Patent ID: 6233452
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A wireless information processing terminal which is movable across a plurality of wireless cells, and executes a wireless data exchange operation with a wireless base station serving one of said wireless cells where said terminal currently resides, comprising:communication means for executing a communication with a wireless base station;means for extracting a base station-ID from data received from a wireless base station;memory means for storing records representing associations between the base station-IDs and the nearest access points of a provider;access point retrieving means for accessing said memory means and attempting to retrieve the record of one of the access points associated with a current wireless base station;means, responsive to successful finding of said record for attempting to establish a connection to the retrieved access point;user input means for receiving user input;prompt means, responsive to unsuccessful finding of said record in said table, for prompting a user to enter information about an access point; andregistration means for registering a record for associating the entered access point with its base station-ID into said memory means.