Patent ID: 8917642

Claim:
A station which can be connected to an access point, comprising: a link information obtaining procedure which obtains link information including identification information of the access point to which the station is connected and a communication quality of a link while the station is connected to the access point; an application control procedure which selects an application to be booted and the initial operation mode of that application according to the identification information of the access point to which the station is connected by referring to an action profile in which the link information, the application to be booted and operation are related and registered, and selects operation of the application to control a communication traffic requested by the application by referring to the action profile and according to the communication quality of the link; and a station control section which sets the station in a power saving mode of reducing power consumption of the station and restarts the station after a lapse of a sleep time being predetermined, wherein the action profile includes the sleep time which is registered after being related to the identification information of the access point to which the station is connected, and the application control procedure sets, to the station control section, the sleep time according to the identification information of the access point to which the station is connected, and causes the station to transition to a power saving mode, after operation of the application is completed; wherein the action profile includes the sleep time which is registered after being related to link information indicating that connection with the access point is unestablished, and when connection with the access point is unestablished, the application control procedure sets, to the station control section, the sleep time according to the link information indicating that the connection is unestablished, and causes the station to transition to a power saving mode.