Patent ID: 7508833

Claim:
A wireless communication apparatus capable of establishing a wireless communication conformed to a predetermined standard with a base station or stations conformed to the predetermined standard via a wireless communication device, said apparatus comprising: a memory device for storing identification information individually assigned to each of the base station or stations in conformity to the predetermined standard, in association with each of the base station or stations to be an object of access; and a base station detection device having a first detection mode capable of sending via said wireless communication device a first detection signal, whose object of detection is all base stations conformed to the predetermined standard, without specifying the identification information, and capable of detecting the base station or stations existing within a communication area of said wireless communication device to be the object of access, on the basis of a response signal, which is transmitted in response to the first detection signal from each of the base station or stations set to be responsive to the first detection signal among the all base stations and includes the identification information, wherein said memory device further stores, in association with the identification information, reference information to indicate whether or not each of the base station or stations to be the object of access is a base station set to be responsive to the first detection signal.