Apparatus and method to control reconnection of a terminal device to a wireless network via another wireless network
AssigneeFujitsu Client Computing Limited
InventorNobuharu Iinuma
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Abstract
An apparatus obtains connection status information of each of terminal devices coupled to a first wireless network via an access point, from the access point. The apparatus detects a disconnected device which is a terminal device whose communication with the access point is disconnected, with reference to the connection status information, and notifies, by using a second wireless network, the disconnected device of a reconnection instruction for instructing the disconnected device to reconnect to the first wireless network by accessing the access point.
Claims9
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor that is coupled to the memory and that:
- obtains, from an access point, connection status information of each of terminal devices coupled to a first wireless network via the access point,
- detects, from among the terminal devices based on the connection status information, a disconnected device whose communication with the access point is disconnected, and
- transmits, via a second wireless network and to the disconnected device without going through the access point, a reconnection instruction that instructs the disconnected device to reconnect to the first wireless network by accessing the access point.
A method comprising:
- obtaining, from an access point, connection status information of each of terminal devices coupled to a first wireless network via the access point;
- detecting, from among the terminal devices based on the connection status information, a disconnected device whose communication with the access point is disconnected;
- transmitting, via a second wireless network and to the disconnected device without going through the access point, a reconnection instruction that causes instructs the disconnected device to reconnect to the first wireless network by accessing the access point;
- and
- executing, at the disconnected device, a reconnection process to the first wireless network based on the reconnection instruction received over the second wireless network.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute:
- obtaining, from an access point, connection status information of each of terminal devices coupled to a first wireless network via the access point;
- detecting, from among the terminal devices based on the connection status information, a disconnected device whose communication with the access point is disconnected;
- and
- transmitting, via a second wireless network and to the disconnected device without going through the access point, a reconnection instruction that instructs the disconnected device to reconnect to the first wireless network by accessing the access point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.