WIRELESS TERMINAL

• US 20130201887A1
• Filed: 08/07/2012
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Buffalo Incorporated (Melco Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Buffalo Incorporated (Melco Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: GOTO, Satoru
• Application Number:
  US13/568,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20130201887A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/311
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless terminal that includes a control unit that controls a wireless communication section of the wireless terminal to not perform uploading data to, or downloading data from, an external storage when a wireless connection is established with a wireless access point other than a wireless access point specified in advance; and controls the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance.

Claims

1. A wireless terminal comprising:

a wireless communication section that establishes a wireless connection with a wireless access point; and

a control section that controls the wireless communication section to not perform uploading data to, or downloading data from, an external storage when a wireless connection is established with a wireless access point other than a wireless access point specified in advance, and controls the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance.

2. The wireless terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a storing section that stores identification information corresponding to the wireless access point specified in advance.

3. The wireless terminal of claim 2, wherein

the control section acquires the identification information corresponding to the wireless access point specified in advance from the storing section and controls the wireless communication section on the basis of the acquired identification information.

4. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein

the wireless access point specified in advance is connected to a same local network to which the external storage is connected.

5. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein

the control section controls a procedure of registering the external storage as a counterpart device with which the uploading or downloading is performed.

6. The wireless terminal of claim 5, wherein

the registering includes registering reference information corresponding to a storage location within the external storage to which data is uploaded to, or from which data is downloaded.

7. The wireless terminal of claim 6, wherein

the reference information includes at least one of a path name and a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to a storage folder of the external storage.

8. The wireless terminal of claim 5, wherein

the wireless access point specified in advance is a wireless access point to which the wireless terminal is connected when the procedure of registering the external storage is performed.

9. The wireless terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a battery that provides power to the wireless terminal, wherein

the control section controls the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading based on amount of power stored in the battery.

10. The wireless terminal of claim 9, wherein

the control section compares the amount of power stored in the battery to a predetermined threshold value.

11. The wireless terminal of claim 10, wherein

the control section controls the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance and the amount of power stored in the battery is equal to or higher than the predetermined threshold value.

12. The wireless terminal of claim 10, wherein

the control section controls the wireless communication section to not perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance and the amount of power stored in the battery is less than the predetermined threshold value.

13. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein

the control section controls the wireless communication to stop an in-progress uploading or downloading if a wireless connection established with the wireless access point specified in advance is disconnected.

14. The wireless terminal of claim 1, wherein

the control section compares a communication quality parameter corresponding to a signal received from the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance to a predetermined threshold value.

15. The wireless terminal of claim 14, wherein

the control section controls the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance and the communication quality parameter is equal to or higher than the predetermined threshold value.

16. The wireless terminal of claim 14, wherein

the control section controls the wireless communication section to not perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance and the communication quality parameter is less than the predetermined threshold value.

17. A method performed by a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

controlling, by a processor of the wireless terminal, a wireless communication section of the wireless terminal to not perform uploading data to, or downloading data from, an external storage when a wireless connection is established with a wireless access point other than a wireless access point specified in advance; and

controlling, by the processor, the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program instructions, which when executed by a wireless terminal, cause the wireless terminal to perform a method comprising:

controlling a wireless communication section of the wireless terminal to not perform uploading data to, or downloading data from, an external storage when a wireless connection is established with a wireless access point other than a wireless access point specified in advance; and

controlling the wireless communication section to perform the uploading or downloading via the wireless access point specified in advance when a wireless connection is established with the wireless access point specified in advance.