WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130107779A1
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kawakita, Masaya, Mori, Daisuke
• Application Number:
  US13/661,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20130107779A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/311
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A smart phone includes: a communication processing unit that performs wireless communication by WiFi; a touch screen display; and a controller which, when power of the touch screen display is turned OFF in an active state of WiFi, determines whether or not data communication is being performed by WiFi, and when it is determined that the data communication is not being performed by WiFi, makes the smart phone transfer to a power save mode.

Claims

1. A wireless terminal device comprising:

a first communication unit which performs wireless communication by a first wireless communication system defined in IEEE 802.11;

a display unit;

a controller which, when power of the display unit is turned OFF in an active state of the first wireless communication system, determines whether or not data communication is being performed by the first wireless communication system, and

when it is determined that the data communication is not being performed by the first wireless communication system, makes the first communication unit transfer to a power save mode defined in IEEE 802.11.

2. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit makes the first communication unit maintain the active state when it is determined that data communication is being performed by the first wireless communication system.

3. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines whether or not data communication is being performed by the first wireless communication system after a predetermined time period after the power of the display unit has been turned OFF.

4. The wireless terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit repeats the determination at intervals of a predetermined time period until it is determined that data communication is not being performed by the first wireless communication system while the power of the display unit is turned OFF.

5. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising

a second communication unit which performs wireless communication by a second wireless communication system, wherein

when the first communication unit transfers to the power save mode while the power of the display unit is turned OFF, the control unit makes the second communication unit establish a data communication session and transfer data communication to the second wireless communication system.

6. The wireless terminal device according to claim 5, wherein the second wireless communication system complies with a telecommunications standard for a cellular system.

7. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit makes the first communication unit search for the first wireless communication system when the power of the display unit is turned ON, after making the first communication unit transfer to the power save mode while the power of the display unit is OFF.

8. A communication control method of a wireless terminal device that includes a communication unit which performs wireless communication by a wireless communication system defined in IEEE 802.11, and a display unit, the method comprising the steps of:

determining whether or not data communication is being performed by the wireless communication system when power of the display unit is turned OFF in an active state of the wireless communication system; and

making the communication unit transfer to a power save mode defined in IEEE 802.11 when it is determined that the data communication is not being performed by the wireless communication system.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a program that instructs a wireless terminal device including a communication unit which performs wireless communication by a wireless communication system defined in IEEE 802.11, and a display unit, to perform the steps of:

determining whether or not data communication is being performed by the wireless communication system when power of the display unit is turned OFF in an active state of the wireless communication system; and

Making the communication unit transfer to a power save mode defined in IEEE 802.11 when it is determined that the data communication is not being performed by the wireless communication system.