Wireless connection device and wireless communication device

• US 20080007485A1
• Filed: 12/20/2006
• Published: 01/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Saitou, Tomoharu
• Granted Patent: US 8,588,769 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

To make it easy to specify a terminal (wireless communication device) connected to an access point (wireless connection device) by performing display corresponding to the access point to which the terminal is connected. A wireless connection device reads, from a storage unit, specified information for designating a display mode for specifying a connection of the wireless connection device itself, performs wireless communications with a wireless communication device, and notifies the wireless communication device of the specified information read from the storage unit. On the other hand, the wireless communication device performs the wireless communications with the wireless connection device, receives the specified information from the wireless connection device, and conducts the display in the display mode designated in the specified information.

Claims

1. A wireless connection device comprising:

a storage unit stored with specified information for designating a display mode for specifying a connection of the wireless connection device itself;

a wireless communication unit performing wireless communications with a wireless communication device; and

a notifying module reading the specified information from the storage unit, and notifying the wireless communication device of the specified information via the wireless communication unit.

2. A wireless connection device according to claim 1, further comprising a relay unit that relays the communications between the wireless communication device and another device via the wireless communication unit.

3. A wireless connection device according to claim 1, wherein the specified information is information that designates a display color and/or a light emitting pattern.

4. A wireless connection device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication unit inserts the specified information given from the notifying module into a Beacon frame or a data frame, and thus transmits the specified-information-attached frame to the wireless communication device.

5. A wireless connection device according to claim 1, wherein the specified information designates a display mode corresponding to a channel or a network that are utilized for the wireless communications.

6. A wireless connection device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication unit, when establishing a connection to the wireless communication device, transmits the specified information to the wireless communication device.

7. A wireless connection method executed by a wireless connection device, comprising steps of:

reading, from a storage unit, specified information for designating a display mode for specifying a connection of the wireless connection device itself;

performing wireless communications with a wireless communication device; and

notifying the wireless communication device of the specified information read from the storage unit.

8. A wireless connection method according to claim 7, wherein the communications between the wireless communication device and another device are relayed through the wireless communications.

9. A wireless connection method according to claim 7, wherein the specified information is information that designates a display color and/or a light emitting pattern.

10. A wireless connection method according to claim 7, wherein the specified information is inserted into a Beacon frame or a data frame, and the specified-information-attached frame is transmitted to the wireless communication device.

11. A wireless connection method according to claim 7, wherein the specified information designates a display mode corresponding to a channel or a network that are utilized for the wireless communications.

12. A wireless connection method according to claim 7, wherein when establishing a connection to the wireless communication device, the specified information is transmitted to the wireless communication device.

13. A recording medium recorded with a wireless connection program for making a wireless connection device execute steps of:

reading, from a storage unit, specified information for designating a display mode for specifying a connection of the wireless connection device itself;

performing wireless communications with a wireless communication device; and

notifying the wireless communication device of the specified information read from the storage unit.

14. A wireless communication device comprising:

a wireless communication unit performing wireless communications with a wireless connection device;

a specified information acquiring module receiving specified information that designates a display mode for specifying a connection to the wireless connection device via the wireless communication unit; and

a display control module conducting display in the display mode designated in the specified information.

15. A wireless communication device according to claim 14, wherein the specified information is information that designates a display color and/or a light emitting pattern.

16. A wireless communication device according to claim 14, wherein the specified information acquiring module extracts the specified information from a Beacon frame or a data frame received by the wireless communication unit.

17. A wireless communication device according to claim 14, wherein the wireless communication unit, when making a request for a connection to the wireless connection device, sends back a signal purporting that the specified information has been acquired.

18. A wireless communication method executed by a wireless communication device, comprising steps of:

performing wireless communications with a wireless connection device;

receiving, for the wireless connection device, specified information that designates a display mode for specifying a connection to the wireless connection device; and

conducting display in the display mode designated in the specified information.

19. A recording medium recorded with a wireless communication program for making a wireless communication device execute steps of:

performing wireless communications with a wireless connection device;

receiving, for the wireless connection device, specified information that designates a display mode for specifying a connection to the wireless connection device; and

conducting display in the display mode designated in the specified information.