Method of connecting to device and apparatus for supporting Wi-Fi direct for performing the method
AssigneeS-Printing Solution Co., Ltd.
InventorNaveen Maheshwari
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Abstract
A method of performing a Wi-Fi Direct connection of a mobile device, including: determining a first device with which Wi-Fi Direct connection is to be performed; determining whether the mobile device has been Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device; and when the mobile device has been Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device, performing a Wi-Fi Direct connection to the first device based on stored connection information, wherein when the mobile device is Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device, the connection information is automatically stored.
Claims20
A method of performing a Wi-Fi Direct connection by a mobile device, the method comprising:
- determining, by the mobile device, a first device to which a Wi-Fi Direct connection is to be performed by
- determining a current position of the mobile device, and
- determining, as the first device, a device adjacent to the determined current position of the mobile device;
- determining, by the mobile device, whether the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device;
- and
- when the determining whether the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Directed connected to the first device determines that the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device, performing a Wi-Fi Direct connection by the mobile device to the first device based on connection information stored in the mobile device when the mobile device was previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device,
- wherein the connection information of devices to which the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Direct connected has been automatically stored in the mobile device.
A mobile device comprising:
- a storage;
- a wireless interface;
- and
- a controller that
- automatically stores, in the storage, connection information of devices to which the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Direct connected,
- determines a first device to which a Wi-Fi Direct connection is to be performed by
- determining a current position of the mobile device supporting Wi-Fi Direct, and
- determining, as the first device, a device adjacent to the determined current position of the mobile device,
- determines whether the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device, and,
- when the controller determines that the mobile device has been previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device, controls the wireless interface such that Wi-Fi Direct connection to the first device is performed based on connection information stored in the storage when the mobile device was previously Wi-Fi Direct connected to the first device.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a controller;
- a network interface;
- a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the controller, perform operations comprising:
- receiving a Wi-Fi Direct connection request from an external device;
- determining whether a maximum number of connectable devices are connected to the image forming apparatus;
- when the determining whether a maximum number of connectable devices are connected to the image forming apparatus determines that the maximum number of connectable devices are connected to the image forming apparatus, determining a device to be disconnected among the connected devices, based on connection state information of the connected devices;
- disconnecting the device determined to be disconnected;
- and
- establishing a connection to the external device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.