Patent ID: 7949731

Claim:
A communication apparatus, the communication apparatus being a TV receiver comprising: communication control means for carrying out communications with a second apparatus through a predetermined network; recording-medium reading means for reading communication control information being required for accessing the predetermined network from a recording medium capable of being inserted in and removed from the TV receiver; and communication control information setting means for setting communication control information read from the recording medium to the communication control means, wherein the TV receiver allows a user to operate a remote controller to change the communication control information read from the recording medium and records the changed communication control information back to the recording medium, wherein the recording medium stores a communication process program that causes the TV receiver to display a menu requiring a user to select one communication information process from a read process, a write process, or a set change process, wherein the read process reads out the communication control information from the recording medium, the write process writes the communication control information to the recording medium, and the set change process changes the communication control information that is currently used, wherein the recording medium is logically configured to have communication related information stored in a communication folder and to have communication unrelated information stored in additional folders, the communication folder further having wireless communication related information stored in a wireless communication folder, wherein the communication control means prepares a browse list of IP addresses of each apparatus constituting the predetermined network so that the IP address of each apparatus of the predetermined network is recognized by reading the browse list, wherein the TV receiver includes a first antenna that receives television broadcast signals and a second antenna that radiates and receives a radio wave for wireless LAN communications, wherein when the TV receiver has previously accessed one or more wireless networks, the communication control means displays one or more wireless network names of the one or more wireless networks, each wireless network name associated with an SSID, wherein when the TV receiver has previously accessed the predetermined network and a DHCP is determined not to be within the predetermined network, the communication control means acquires an IP address and net mask of the predetermined network to be assigned by an AutoIP function, and wherein after the TV receiver initiates wireless access to the predetermined network, the communication control means acquires a net mask of the predetermined network, an IP address of other communication apparatuses in the predetermined network, and an IP address to be assigned to itself if a DHCP is determined to be within the predetermined network.