Wireless communication device

• US 9,088,968 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ando, Satoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B
• Application Number:
  US13/846,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20130303083A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 370/338
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers

Abstract

A wireless communication device may execute a wireless communication with a specific device by using first or second setting information. The wireless communication device may determine whether the wireless communication device is capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device. The wireless communication device may change target setting information that is setting information currently to be used from the second setting information to the first setting information in a case where a network identifier is received from the specific device in a situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information, and maintain the second setting information as the target setting information in a case where the network identifier is not received from the specific device in the above situation.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device for executing a wireless communication with a specific device, the wireless communication device comprising:

an information memory that stores first setting information including a first network identifier;

one or more processors; and

an instruction memory that stores computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, causing the wireless communication device to execute;

executing a wireless communication with the specific device by using the first setting information or second setting information that is different from the first setting information;

determining whether or not the wireless communication device is capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device, in a case where target setting information that is setting information currently to be used by the wireless communication device is the second setting information;

changing the target setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information in a case where the first network identifier is received from the specific device in a situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device; and

maintaining the second setting information as the target setting information in a case where the first network identifier is not received from the specific device in the situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the information memory further stores the second setting information, and

in a specific case where the target setting information is changed from the second setting information to the first setting information,

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless communication device to further execute:

sending the second setting information to the specific device by using the first setting information that is the target setting information, and

changing the target setting information from the first setting information to the second setting information after the second setting information has been sent to the specific device.

3. The wireless communication device according to claim 2, wherein

the computer-readable instructions cause the wireless communication device to execute the sending of the second setting information to the specific device in a first case where the second network identifier included in the second setting information and different from the first network identifier is received in the specific case, and

the computer-readable instructions cause the wireless communication device not to execute the sending of the second setting information to the specific device in a second case where the second network identifier is not received in the specific case, and

the computer-readable instructions cause the wireless communication device to execute:

the changing of the target setting information from the first setting information to the second setting information in the first case; and

maintaining the first setting information as the target setting information in the second case.

4. The wireless communication device according to claim 3, wherein

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless communication device to further execute:

erasing the second setting information from the information memory in the second case.

5. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless communication device to further execute:

causing an output module to output information for causing the specific device to execute a wireless communication using the first setting information in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication with the specific device cannot be executed by using the second setting information.

6. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the first network identifier is a network identifier unique to a first network that is obtained by using a first identifying information unique to the wireless communication device and a second identifying information unique to the specific device, and the first network is a network for the wireless communication device to execute the wireless communication with the specific device by using the first setting information.

7. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the first setting information includes ad hoc wireless setting information, and

the second setting information includes infrastructural wireless setting information.

8. A wireless communication device for executing a wireless communication with a specific device, the wireless communication device comprising:

an information memory that stores first setting information including a first network identifier;

a wireless communicating unit configured to execute a wireless communication with the specific device by using the first setting information or second setting information that is different from the first setting information;

a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the wireless communication device is capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device, in a case where target setting information that is setting information currently to be used by the wireless communication device is the second setting information; and

a changing unit configured to change the target setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information in a case where the first network identifier is received from the specific device in a situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device, and maintain the second setting information as the target setting information in a case where the first network identifier is not received from the specific device in the situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for a wireless communication device for executing a wireless communication with a specific device, and comprising an information memory that stores first setting information including a first network identifier, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by one or more processors mounted on the wireless communication device, causing the wireless communication device to execute:

executing a wireless communication with the specific device by using the first setting information or second setting information that is different from the first setting information;

determining whether or not the wireless communication device is capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device, in a case where target setting information that is setting information currently to be used by the wireless communication device is the second setting information;

changing the target setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information in a case where the first network identifier is received from the specific device in a situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device; and

maintaining the second setting information as the target setting information in a case where the first network identifier is not received from the specific device in the situation in which it is determined that the wireless communication device is not capable of executing the wireless communication using the second setting information with the specific device.