Patent ID: 7830849

Claim:
A wireless communication print server for relaying a print request received through wireless communications to a printer, said wireless communication print server comprising: a retention unit that retains parameters for establishing wireless communications; a determination unit that determines whether or not the setting of said wireless communication parameters registered in the retention unit is in the initial state; a rejection unit that ignores said print request corresponding to said wireless communication parameters in the initial state if the setting of said wireless communication parameters is in the initial state; and a change unit that receives a change instruction for the setting of said wireless communication parameters and changes the setting of said wireless communication parameters from the initial state based on the change instruction, wherein the initial state of the wireless communication parameters is either one of a factory shipment setting or a default setting, and the wireless communication parameters in the initial state are sufficient to cause the wireless communication print server to wirelessly communicate with other devices if it were not for the rejection unit.