WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20110243116A1
• Filed: 06/10/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Kagawa, Ryohei, Endo, Takahisa
• Granted Patent: US 8,599,805 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/04 combined with photographic or television appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A wireless communication terminal that performs wireless communication with other terminal includes an information holding unit that holds a communication channel setting of the wireless communication and information of a communication attribute of the wireless communication, a communication unit that receives the information of the communication attribute held by the other terminal from the other terminal by wireless communication using a communication channel that the communication channel setting held by the information holding unit represents before a logical connection of the wireless communication with the other terminal is established, and a control unit that controls the establishment process of the logical connection with the other terminal based on the information of the communication attribute received by the communication unit.

Claims

1. A wireless communication terminal that performs wireless communication with other terminal, comprising:

an information holding unit that holds a communication channel setting of the wireless communication and information of a communication attribute of the wireless communication;

a communication unit that receives the information of the communication attribute held by one or a plurality of the other terminals or others from one or a plurality of the other terminals by wireless communication using a communication channel that the communication channel setting held by the information holding unit represents before a logical connection of the wireless communication with one or a plurality of the other terminals is established; and

a control unit that controls whether or not the establishment process of the logical connection with one or a plurality of the other terminals based on the information of the communication attribute of one or a plurality of the other terminals received by the communication unit is suspended during a predetermined time period.

2. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when it is detected that a terminal that holds the same communication channel setting and communication attribute as the own terminal exists, or when it is detected that a plurality of terminals that hold the same communication channel setting as the own terminal exist, the control unit suspends the establishment process of the logical connection with the other terminal.

3. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 2, further comprising an informing unit that informs an operator of information representing a suspension of the establishment process when the control unit suspends the establishment process of the logical connection with the other terminal.

4. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein the informing unit further informs the operator of information encouraging a change of the communication channel setting.

5. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information of the communication attribute is information representing an attribute of any one of a terminal that establishes the logical connection with the other terminal in response to a connection request of wireless communication from the other terminal and a terminal that establishes the logical connection with the other terminal by making the connection request of the wireless communication for the other terminal.