Patent ID: 8477783

Claim:
A wireless communication method, implemented by a communication apparatus, for relaying a packet, the method comprising: receiving the packet wirelessly; identifying a header of the received packet; determining a destination of the received packet based on the header; recognizing a next transmission destination by looking up a table, if the determined destination is not the communication apparatus itself; discriminating sequence numbers of packets determined to be relayed and packets to be transmitted by the communication apparatus itself; managing the discriminated sequence numbers; if the received packet is renewing the sequence numbers, transmitting a reception completion confirmation packet into which a renewing sequence number is inserted; determining a packet to be relayed based on the identifying said header and the recognizing said next transmission destination; and neither transmitting the received packet nor a reception completion confirmation packet if the received packet is from a station from which a packet reception is not required, according to a determination according to security information included in the received packet and a security table.