WIRELESS USB COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, USB HOST, AND USB DEVICE

• US 20100153595A1
• Filed: 12/10/2009
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Sakuda, Kenji, Kitahara, Yoshinao
• Application Number:
  US12/635,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20100153595A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/63
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/3814 Wireless link with a computer system port

Abstract

A wireless USB communication system includes: a USB host that has a first communication module for performing communication based on a wireless USB standard; and a USB device that has a second communication module for performing communication based on the wireless USB standard, another communication module for performing communication based on a standard other than the wireless USB standard, and a memory capable of storing various information. In the system, the USB host establishes connection with the USB device by sharing a connection context with the USB device in an in-band method based on the wireless USB standard.

Claims

1. A wireless USB communication system comprising:

a USB host that has a first communication module for performing communication based on a wireless USB standard; and

a USB device that has a second communication module for performing communication based on the wireless USB standard, another communication module for performing communication based on a standard other than the wireless USB standard, and a memory capable of storing various information,

wherein the USB host establishes connection with the USB device by sharing a connection context with the USB device in an in-band method based on the wireless USB standard, and subsequently transmits communication information on a communication condition of the another communication module to the USB device through the first communication module, and

wherein the USB device establishes connection with the USB host by sharing the connection context therewith and subsequently stores received communication information in the memory and sets a communication condition of the another communication module on the basis of the received communication information when receiving the communication information from the USB host through the second communication module.

2. The wireless USB communication system according to claim 1, wherein the another communication module is a wireless LAN communication module or a wired LAN communication module.

3. The wireless USB communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the USB host is a PC, and

wherein the USB device is a printer.

4. A USB host comprising:

a first communication module that communicates with a second communication module belonging to a USB device on the basis of a wireless USB standard; and

a host control section that establishes connection with the USB device by sharing a connection context with the USB device in an in-band method based on the wireless USB standard, and subsequently transmits communication information on a communication condition of another communication module for performing communication based on a standard other than the wireless USB standard belonging to the USB device to the USB device through the first communication module.

5. A USB device comprising:

a second communication module that communicates with a first communication module belonging to a USB host on the basis of a wireless USB standard;

another communication module that performs communication based on a standard other than the wireless USB standard;

a memory that is able to store various information; and

a device control section that establishes connection with the USB host by sharing a connection context with the USB host in an in-band method based on the wireless USB standard, and subsequently stores received communication information in the memory and sets a communication condition of the another communication module on the basis of the received communication information when receiving the communication information of the communication condition of the another communication module from the USB host through the second communication module.