Patent ID: 8396146

Claim:
A wireless communication modem for receiving data sent from a host device in a nonprocedural manner, then subjecting the received data to protocol conversion, and transmitting the converted data to a server via a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication modem has an on-request transmission mode in which the data is transmitted to the server only when a connection from the server to the wireless communication modem is established, wherein the wireless communication modem comprises a data processor for processing the data sent from the host device in a nonprocedural manner, and when the on-request transmission mode is being selected but the connection from the server to the wireless communication modem is not established, the data processor performs a data discarding process for discarding the data, the wireless communication modem has an unconditional transmission mode in which the data is unconditionally transmitted to the server regardless of whether the connection from the server to the wireless communication modem is established or not, and the wireless communication modem comprises mode switching means for selecting one of the unconditional transmission mode and the on-request transmission mode.