Patent ID: 8112036

Claim:
A wireless communication device, comprising: a first communication section that performs a non-contact communication with an other wireless communication device and that receives predetermined setting data from the other wireless communication device; a second communication section capable of establishing a wireless connection with the other wireless communication device; a control section that establishes the wireless connection between the second communication section and the other wireless communication device by using the predetermined setting data, for the wireless connection, received by the first communication section; and a data processing section that stores the predetermined setting data in a storage medium before the wireless connection is released, wherein the control section uses the predetermined setting data stored in the storage medium at a time of establishing a wireless reconnection between the second communication section and the other wireless communication device, the wireless communication device and the other wireless communication device have group information enabling an identification of a group to which each belongs, and the data processing section makes a storage period for the predetermined setting data in the storage medium variable depending on whether the group information of the wireless communication device and the group information of the other wireless communication device correspond to each other or not.