Short-range wireless communication device

1. A short-range wireless communication device utilized together with a communication partner terminal that executes a cooperative application for providing a service in cooperation with the short-range wireless communication device while switching between a foreground operation and a background operation in a state where a predetermined protocol is established between the communication partner terminal and the short-range wireless communication device, and disconnects a predetermined established protocol by changing the cooperative application running in the foreground operation to the background operation, the short-range wireless communication device comprising:

a control device that

determines whether a condition having a possibility of returning the cooperative application changed to the background operation to the foreground operation in the communication partner terminal is satisfied,

determines whether the cooperative application returns to the foreground operation according to an operating status of an application in the communication partner terminal when the control device determines that the condition is satisfied, the operating status being acquired from the communication partner terminal, and

transmits a request for establishment of the predetermined protocol to the communication partner terminal through an establishment request transmission device when the control device determines that the cooperative application returns to the foreground operation,

wherein, when the control device determines that the cooperative application does not return to the foreground operation, the control device repeatedly acquires the operating status from the communication partner terminal.

2. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control device repeatedly acquires the operating status of the application from the communication partner terminal within a predetermined time or a predetermined number of times as an upper limit.

3. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 1 further comprising:

an identification information receiving device that receives identification information for identifying the application running in the foreground operation in the communication partner terminal,

wherein the control device determines that the cooperative application returns to the foreground operation when the identification information received from the communication partner terminal by the identification information receiving device is identification information for identifying the cooperative application.

4. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the short-range wireless communication device transfers data including any one of a voice, a text and an image to the communication partner terminal as the cooperative application.

5. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the short-range wireless communication device transfers data including a voice to the communication partner terminal as the cooperative application, and

wherein the control device transmits the request for establishment of the predetermined protocol through the establishment request transmission device to the communication partner terminal, and transmits a reproduction request for instructing the communication partner terminal to reproduce the data including the voice from a reproduction request transmission device to the communication partner terminal after transmitting the establishment request of the predetermined protocol through the establishment request transmission device to the communication partner terminal to establish the predetermined protocol.

6. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the communication partner terminal changes the cooperative application running in the foreground operation to the background operation at a trigger that a request for starting another application is made while the cooperative application is running in the foreground operation.

7. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the control device determines that the condition is satisfied when the control device determines a possibility that the another application is finished.

8. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 7 ,

wherein the communication partner terminal changes the cooperative application running in the foreground operation to the background operation at a trigger that a request for starting an application related to an incoming call from a communication network as the another application is made.

9. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 8 ,

wherein the control device determines a possibility that the application related to the incoming call from the communication network is finished when the control device determines that a call related to the incoming call from the communication network is finished, determines that a voice call or a data communication, which responds to the incoming call from the communication network, is finished, or determines that a response to the incoming call from the communication network is refused.

10. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 8 ,

wherein the control device transmits the request for establishment of the predetermined protocol to the communication partner terminal through the establishment request transmission device when the control device determines a possibility that the application related to the incoming call from the communication network is finished, and determines that the condition is satisfied.

11. The short-range wireless communication device according to claim 1 ,

wherein a data communication profile defined by a communication standard of Bluetooth is utilized as the predetermined protocol.