Patent ID: 7536015

Claim:
A method of initializing a wireless communication card attached to a computer peripheral equipment and a wireless communication unit of a computer, comprising: a first calculation step of that said computer peripheral equipment calculates identification information and an encryption key to be used for a wireless communication using the wireless communication card attached to the computer peripheral equipment based on identification information of the computer peripheral equipment; a first setting step of that said computer peripheral equipment sets the calculated identification information and the encryption key in the wireless communication card attached to the computer peripheral equipment; an input step of that a user inputs the identification information of the computer peripheral equipment into said computer at the same time when a driver software of the computer peripheral equipment is installed in the computer; a second calculation step of that said computer calculates identification information and an encryption key to be used for wireless communications using the wireless communication unit on the computer based on the inputted identification information of the computer peripheral equipment, when said driver software is installed in the computer; a second setting step of that said computer sets the identification information and the encryption key calculated in the second calculation step in the wireless communication unit of the computer; and an establishing step of that the wireless communication card attached to the computer peripheral equipment and the wireless communication unit of said computer establish the wireless communication using the identification information and the encryption key which are set in the first and the second setting steps.