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Communication device

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsTakanobu Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Munehisa Matsuda, Satoshi Tanaka

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Abstract

A communication device may execute a wireless communication of object data with a mobile device via a first target network using a second type of interface after executing a sending process of sending a wireless setting, for causing the mobile device to belong to the first target network, to the mobile device using a first type of interface in a case where the communication device is determined as currently belonging to the first target network. The communication device may execute the wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device via a second target network using the second type of interface after executing a specific process of causing both the communication device and the mobile device to belong to the second target network in a case where the communication device is determined as currently not belonging to the target network.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A communication device comprising:

a first type of interface configured to execute a wireless communication with a mobile device;
a second type of interface configured to execute a wireless communication with the mobile device;
a processor;
and
a memory that stores computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the communication device to:
execute a wireless communication of object data with the mobile device via a first target network using the second type of interface after sending information for communicating with the mobile device via the first target network, to the mobile device using the first type of interface in a first case where the communication device is in a first mode in which the wireless communication using the first target network can be executed;
and
execute a wireless communication of object data with the mobile device via a second target network in which the communication device operates as an access point, using the second type of interface after sending a wireless setting for causing the mobile device to belong to the second target network, to the mobile device using the first type of interface in a second case where the communication device is in a second mode in which the wireless communication using the second target network can be executed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/426,022Filed 30 May 2019 · continuation
Priority: JP 2012-08281530 Mar 2012
Published: US 2019/0281432 A112 Sep 2019
Granted: 1 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04W 76/14
Connection setup: direct-mode setup
H04W 76/15
Connection setup: setup of multiple wireless link connections
H04W 84/20
Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks: leader-follower arrangements

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Application13/831,983Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Mar 2013
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US 9,088,863 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Jul 2015
Application15/664,848Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Jul 2017
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US 2013/0260682 A1Published application
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US 2017/0332429 A1Published application
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