Patent ID: 8126998

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for managing one or more wireless terminals and one or more wireless base stations included in a wireless network, the information processing apparatus comprising: at least one processor; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information from a wireless terminal, the information being related to a wireless base station, the wireless base station being detected by the wireless terminal; a storage unit configured to correlate and store the wireless base station detected by the wireless terminal and a wireless terminal wirelessly connected to the wireless base station, based upon the information acquired by the acquisition unit; a deriving unit configured to derive another wireless base station not having a wireless connection with a wireless terminal, based upon the information stored by the storage unit; a requesting unit configured to request a wireless terminal, the requested wireless terminal having detected the another wireless base station derived by the deriving unit, for transmission of data having passed through the another wireless base station; and a determination unit which, when data requested by the requesting unit having passed through the another wireless base station from the wireless terminal has not been received, is configured to determine the another wireless base station is not under management of the information processing apparatus; wherein the information stored by the storage unit includes a history of wireless terminals having been wirelessly connected to the wireless base station; and the deriving unit derives a wireless base station having no history of being wirelessly connected to a wireless terminal; wherein the acquisition unit, the deriving unit, the requesting unit and the determination unit are implemented, at least in part, by the at least one processor.