Patent ID: 8131859

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a network detection unit adapted to detect a plurality of wireless networks; a network connection unit adapted to connect to one or more of the wireless networks detected by the network detection unit; a printer searching unit adapted to search for one or more printers having a predetermined print function within each wireless network connected to by the network connection unit; a network changing unit adapted to, when the printer searching unit completes searching for the one or more printers having the predetermined print function within a wireless network connected to by the network connection unit, change the wireless network connected to by the network connection unit to another wireless network detected by the network detection unit, to search for the one or more printers having the predetermined print function within the other wireless network connected to by the network connection unit; a display unit adapted to selectably display printer information associated with one or more printers detected by the printer search unit, every time the printer search unit detects one of the one or more printers having the predetermined print function; an aborting unit adapted to abort the searching by the printer searching unit, when an operator selects a printer associated with information displayed by the display unit; and a printer connection unit adapted to, when the operator selects the printer associated with the information displayed by the display unit, connect to one of the plurality of wireless networks including the selected printer and connect to the selected printer.