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US 8,711,391 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus to automatically select a communication condition
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorKuniaki Fujisawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises a communicator for performing communications with a plurality of host apparatuses, a memory for memorizing a plurality of communication conditions, a selector for selecting a single communication condition among the plurality of communication conditions stored in the memory, wherein the communicator performs communications based on the single communication condition selected with the selector.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a real time clock for ascertaining the current time of day;
- a memory for storing a plurality of communication conditions including different security conditions corresponding respectively to different times, the stored communication conditions including a first communication condition corresponding to a first time period and a second communication condition corresponding to a second time period;
- a selector for selecting a single communication condition, based on the current time of day, from among the plurality of communication conditions stored in the memory, the first communication condition being selected if the current time of day is in the first time period and the second communication condition being selected if the current time of day is in the second time period;
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- a communicator for performing wireless communications with at least one host apparatus based on the single communication condition selected with the selector,
- wherein the first communication condition is selected in the first time period and wireless communication is performed based on the selected first communication condition, and subsequently when the second time period comes, the wireless communication based on the first communication condition is discontinued, and after completing discontinuation of the wireless communication, wireless communication based on the second communication condition is performed.
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