Patent ID: 7310512

Claim:
A wireless communication method for performing wireless communication by using a network connecting a wide-area wireless communication system capable of wireless paging and one or more wireless communications systems, between a calling side connecting through the network to any wireless communication system or the wide-area wireless communication system and a called side connecting to another wireless communication system in the network, the method comprising: a paging-sending step of sending a communication request packet including a calling side ID number on the network and a called side ID number on the network to the called side by the calling side; a converting step of converting the called side ID number on the network into a called side ID number on the wide-area wireless communication system; a paging step of paging a receiving means in a wireless communication terminal of the called side by sending a paging packet including the called side ID number on the wide-area wireless communication system and the calling side ID number on the network; a paging detecting step of detecting, by the wireless communication terminal, paging from the wide-area wireless communication system; a paging notifying step of notifying, by the receiving means in the wireless communication terminal, wireless-communication-controlling wireless communication means that the receiving means has been paged along with the calling side ID number on the network; a connecting step of connecting the called side to the calling side by sending a reception notification packet from the wireless communication means to the calling side ID number on the network through any wireless communication system in the network; a communication step of performing wireless communication between the calling side and the called side; and a disconnecting step of disconnecting connection to the wide-area wireless communication system by at least one of the calling side and the called side.