Patent ID: 7451480

Claim:
A method of constructing a wireless network using a wireless communication apparatus storing in a memory a plurality of network identification information for identifying a wireless network, the method comprising: detecting network identification information being used in the vicinity by receiving a signal transmitted from another wireless communication apparatus; discriminating network identification information being used in the vicinity from among the plurality of network identification information stored in the memory by comparing the network identification information detected in the detecting step with the plurality of network identification information stored in the memory; distinctly displaying network identification information discriminated as being used in the vicinity and network identification information not discriminated as being used in the vicinity on a display unit such that a user can select network identification information not used in the vicinity from among the plurality of network identification information stored in the memory when the plurality of network identification information is read from the memory and is displayed on the display unit; and newly constructing a wireless network of the network identification information, which has been displayed in the displaying step and has been selected by the user.