Patent ID: 8447978

Claim:
A wireless communication method comprising: receiving a first frame requesting to start a registration protocol in Wi-Fi protected setup (WPS) of wireless LAN security standards; transmitting, after receiving the first frame, a second frame containing security types and encryption keys for the respective security types, the security types including at least one of Wi-Fi protected access (WPA), WPA2 and WEP; and transmitting a third frame, after transmitting the second frame, the third frame instructing to terminate WPS, wherein the second frame contains management data and the management data includes an authentication-response and an association-response according to IEEE 802.11 standards, the method further comprising: receiving a fourth frame containing an authentication-request and an association-request according to the IEEE 802.11 standards after receiving the first frame and before transmitting the second frame, wherein the association-request includes a WPA information element containing data showing that WPA is supported and data showing a security type desirable to use, and the second frame contains the security type contained in the WPA information element.