Patent ID: 8996008
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication network system comprising: a mobile terminal that transmits a switching request for requesting to switch a connection target from a currently connected first wireless communication apparatus to a second wireless communication apparatus mounted on a mobile body; and a wireless communication apparatus that determines permission or prohibition that the mobile terminal switches the connection target from its own apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus, based on permission/prohibition setting of switching the connection target from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus in accordance with a type of the first wireless communication apparatus, wherein the permission/prohibition setting is made such that it is possible to switch the connection target from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus, when the type of the first wireless communication apparatus represents a first fixed apparatus that is installed for a mobile terminal in a boarding/exiting facility for the mobile body, the permission/prohibition setting is made such that it is impossible to switch the connection target from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus, when the type of the first wireless communication apparatus represents a fixed apparatus other than the first fixed apparatus, and the permission/prohibition setting is made such that it is impossible to switch the connection target from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus, when the type of the first wireless communication apparatus represents a mobile apparatus mounted on the mobile body.