Patent ID: 8503417

Claim:
A wireless LAN device for performing wireless communication with another wireless device in a wireless communication system, the wireless LAN device comprising: a wireless access point interface which functions as an access point, and which performs wireless communication as the access point participating in a configuration process using a predetermined protocol; a wireless station interface which functions as a station, and which performs wireless communication as the station participating in the configuration process; a reception section which receives an instruction for the wireless access point interface and the wireless station interface to execute the configuration process; an execution section which executes, based on the instruction received by the reception section, the configuration process by use of one of the wireless access point interface and the wireless station interface in cooperation with the another wireless device; and an exclusion section which performs, before the configuration process is completed, an exclusion process that excludes the other of the wireless access point interface and the wireless station interface from continuing to participate in the configuration process.