Patent ID: 6968181

Claim:
An access point that provides a connecting point used for connecting a plurality of clients with a wide area network, said access point comprising: a wireless communication module that transmits information to and from at least one client among said plurality of clients by radio wave; an announcement information storage module that stores announcement information, which is recognizable by said one client; a status detection module that detects at least a position of said one client, based on a receiving status of the radio wave from said one client, said status detection module further including sub-module that detects an attitude of said one client, in addition to the position of said one client; a position specification module that specifies a positional relationship between the position of said one client detected by said status detection module and a position of another client connecting with said access point, said position specification module determining that said one client and said another client hold a predetermined positional relationship, when it is specified that said one client and said another client face each other based on the position and the attitude of said one client and the position of said another client; and an information transmission module that transmits the announcement information stored in said announcement information storage module to said one client, when said position specification module determines that said one client and said another client hold the predetermined positional relationship.