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Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer readable storage medium

US10638323B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 10, 2017
Grant dateApr 28, 2020
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Expiry dateMar 10, 2037

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W84/12
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A wireless communication device including: a processor configured to: serve a wireless network with one or more other wireless communication devices, the wireless communication device and the one or more other wireless communication devices wirelessly publishing a specified identifier of the wireless network in common and wirelessly communicating with a wireless terminal when receiving a request, for coupling to the wireless network, transmitted based on the specified identifier from the wireless terminal, transmit to the other wireless communication device, when the wireless communication device detects that a scanned wireless signal from another wireless communication device publishes the specified identifier, a specified request for coupling to the wireless network, and determine whether the other wireless communication device is one of the one or more other wireless communication device or not based on a response, originating with the specified request, from the other wireless communication device.

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