Patent ID: 8228880

Claim:
A wireless LAN terminal, comprising: a wired LAN (Local Area Network) interface; a wireless LAN interface; and a bridge unit which detects that a terminal apparatus connected with said wired LAN interface moves to a position under different wireless LAN equipment and learns a MAC (Media Access Control) address of said terminal apparatus which moves, and wherein said bridge unit judges whether or not a period of time from a time point of the latest receiving a packet transmitted from said terminal apparatus which is connected with said wired LAN interface to a time point of receiving a broadcast/multicast packet via said wireless LAN interface is not shorter than a predetermined period of time, and wherein when said period of time from said time point of the latest receiving said packet transmitted from said terminal apparatus which is connected with said wired LAN interface to said time point of receiving said broadcast/multicast packet via said wireless LAN interface is not shorter than said predetermined period of time, said bridge unit judges that said received packet is a broadcast/multicast packet which is transmitted from said different wireless LAN equipment via said wireless LAN interface.