Patent ID: 8761118
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication apparatus which is capable of performing wireless LAN communication through a wireless LAN communication section with a terminal apparatus and with a second wireless communication apparatus and which is capable of performing short distance wireless communication through a short distance wireless communication section with the second wireless communication apparatus, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: a first judgment section which, when the wireless communication apparatus is in a state of performing data communication through the short distance wireless communication section with the second wireless communication apparatus based on at least polling data and authentication information received from the second wireless communication apparatus, judges whether the data communication is to be taken over by data communication through the wireless LAN communication section; a second judgment section which, when the first judgment section judges that the data communication is to be taken over by data communication through the wireless LAN communication section, judges whether the wireless LAN communication section is in a data communication state with the terminal apparatus when the wireless LAN communication section is in a state of being communicationally connected to the terminal apparatus via a wireless LAN and of not being communicationally connected to the second wireless communication apparatus through the terminal apparatus via the wireless LAN; a first communication control section which starts wireless LAN communication with the second wireless communication apparatus through the terminal apparatus while maintaining the state of being communicationally connected to the terminal apparatus via the wireless LAN, when the wireless LAN communication section is judged to be in the data communication state with the terminal apparatus by the second judgment section; and a second communication control section which disconnects a wireless LAN connection with the terminal apparatus through the wireless LAN communication section, communicationally connects the wireless LAN communication section to the second wireless communication apparatus, and performs wireless LAN communication with the second wireless communication apparatus without the terminal apparatus, when the wireless LAN communication section is judged to be not in the data communication state with the terminal apparatus by the second judgment section.