Patent ID: 8310982

Claim:
A wireless communication device allocating a slot that indicates a given communication period in a time division manner and transmitting slot allocation information in which allocation of the slot is defined, the wireless communication device comprising: an information generation processing part to generate the slot allocation information of each slot including notification slots for transmitting notification from an electronic device to the wireless communication device, a transmission or reception part to transmit the slot allocation information generated in the information generation processing part, a controller to control whether or not to provide a first device notification slot; wherein the notification slots include the first device notification slot for transmitting a coupling request to the wireless communication device and a second device notification slot for transmitting notification to the wireless communication device except the coupling request; and wherein in the case when an environment setting is in a first state and a coupling instruction is not input, provision of the first device notification slot is stopped, and in the case when the environment setting is in the first state and the coupling instruction is input, the first device notification slot is provided.