Patent ID: 8601527

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a manipulation unit including a terminal communication transition unit for sending a transition instruction for transitioning to a state in which communication with a communication terminal that performs contact communication or non-contact communication is possible; a terminal communication unit that transitions to a state in which the contact communication or the non-contact communication with the communication terminal is possible in response to the transition instruction sent by the terminal communication transition unit; a signal generating unit for generating a signal corresponding to a manipulation of the manipulation unit including a transition instruction signal corresponding to the transition instruction; a transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting the transition instruction signal generated by the signal generating unit to an information processing device; a reception unit for wirelessly receiving a response from the information processing device to the transition instruction signal transmitted from the transmission unit; and a terminal communication control unit for starting to control information transmission/reception between the communication terminal and the information processing device only when predetermined conditions are satisfied, in which the predetermined conditions include if the response received by the reception unit indicates that the information processing device is in a state in which information transmission/reception to/from the communication terminal is possible and there is no other communication terminal that transmits/receives information, in which the information processing device is a television receiver, and in which when the predetermined conditions are satisfied information transmission/reception between the communication terminal and the television receiver are enabled by way of the wireless communication device such that information transmission/reception is not enabled directly between the communication terminal and the television receiver.