Patent ID: 8625482

Claim:
A wireless access point, comprising: a wireless receiving unit that receives a packet through wireless communication; a judge unit that determines whether a first wireless transmission path for a transmission of said packet that is received by the wireless receiving unit from a second wireless access point to a destination address of the packet is shorter than a second wireless transmission path of the packet that is determined according to the packet; a transmission control unit that transmits the packet to the destination address, without changing an access point to which a station belongs when the judge unit determines that the first wireless transmission path from the wireless access point to the destination address of the packet is shorter than the second wireless transmission path of the packet determined according to the packet; and a transmission notifying unit that notifies, when the judge unit determines that the first wireless transmission path for transmission from the wireless access point to the destination address of the packet is shorter, of an event that the wireless access point sends the packet to the destination address to other wireless access points on the second wireless transmission path determined according to the packet, wherein information notified by the transmission notifying unit includes a reception confirmation packet for the packet received by the wireless receiving unit and an identifier indicating that the transmission control unit conducts the transmission, wherein the wireless access point is coupled through wireless communication with a third wireless access point, said third wireless access point being connected to a first backbone communication line, and wherein the wireless access point further comprises a transmission stop unit that terminates the transmission of the packet through the wireless communication to the other wireless access points when the packet is received from a respective station belonging to the second wireless access point and a notification to send the packet to the first backbone communication line is received from the third wireless access point.