IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,902,869
Granted Patent B2
US 11,902,869 · App. 18/051,331 · Granted Feb 13, 2024

Communication device

Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki (Nagoya, JP); Hirotaka Asakura (Nagoya, JP); Munehisa Matsuda (Nagoya, JP); Satoshi Tanaka (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
H04W4/80H04W76/14H04W76/15H04W84/20H04W88/06H04W76/16H04W88/04
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Patent No.
US 11,902,869
App. No.
18/051,331
Granted
Feb 13, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication device may execute a wireless communication of object data with a mobile device via a first target network using a second type of interface after executing a sending process of sending a wireless setting, for causing the mobile device to belong to the first target network, to the mobile device using a first type of interface in a case where the communication device is determined as currently belonging to the first target network. The communication device may execute the wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device via a second target network using the second type of interface after executing a specific process of causing both the communication device and the mobile device to belong to the second target network in a case where the communication device is determined as currently not belonging to the target network.

Claims (33)

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for a second device comprising a first type of interface configured to execute a communication with a first device and a second type of interface, which is different from the first type of interface, configured to execute a communication with the first device, a communication speed of a communication using the second type of interface being faster than a communication speed of a communication using the first type of interface, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor mounted on the second device, causing the second device to:

send predetermined information to the first device via the first type of interface, wherein in a case where the second device currently belongs to a target network, the predetermined information includes a first wireless setting for the first device belonging to the target network, and in a case where the second device does not currently belong to the target network, the predetermined information does not include the first wireless setting, the target network being a network for executing a wireless communication using the second type of interface;

in a case where the second device sends the predetermined information including the first wireless setting to the first device, receive, from the first device via the first type of interface, information indicating that a setting change is unnecessary; and

in the case where the second device does not currently belong to the target network, belong to a specific network by using a second wireless setting received from the first device and execute a wireless communication of object data via the specific network, the specific network being for executing a wireless communication using the second type of interface.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1 , wherein

the first wireless setting is information for the first device establishing a wireless connection with an access point being different from the second device, and

the second wireless setting is information for the second device establishing a wireless connection with the first device operating as a parent station.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1 , wherein

the first type of interface is for executing a wireless communication according to any one of Near Field Communication (NFC) scheme and Bluetooth scheme.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1 , wherein

the second type of interface is for executing a wireless communication according to Wi-Fi scheme.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1 , wherein

the first device is any one of a printer and a scanner.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as in claim 1 , wherein

the second device is a mobile device configured to send the first device an instruction for causing the first device to execute a function.

7. A first device comprising:

a first type of interface configured to execute a communication with a second device;

a second type of interface, which is different from the first type of interface, configured to execute a communication with the second device, a communication speed of a communication using the second type of interface being faster than a communication speed of a communication using the first type of interface; and

controller, wherein the controller is configured to:

receive predetermined information from the second device via the first type of interface, wherein in a case where the second device currently belongs to a target network, the predetermined information includes a first wireless setting for the first device belonging to the target network, in a case where the second device does not currently belong to the target network, the predetermined information does not include the first wireless setting, the target network is a network for executing a wireless communication using the second type of interface;

execute a wireless communication of object data with the second device via the target network;

in a case where the predetermined information includes the first wireless setting, send, via the first type of interface, information indicating that a setting change is unnecessary to the second device to execute the wireless communication of the object data with the second device via the target network;

send the second device a second wireless setting for the second device, which does not belong to the target network, belonging to a specific network, the specific network being for executing a wireless communication using the second type of interface; and

execute a wireless communication of the object data with the second device via the specific network.

8. The first device as in claim 7 , wherein

the first wireless setting is information for the first device establishing a wireless connection with an access point being different from the second device, and

the second wireless setting is information for the second device establishing a wireless connection with the first device operating as a parent station.

9. The first device as in claim 7 , wherein

the first type of interface is for executing a wireless communication according to any one of Near Field Communication (NFC) scheme and Bluetooth scheme.

10. The first device as in claim 7 , wherein

the second type of interface is for executing a wireless communication according to Wi-Fi scheme.

11. The first device as in claim 7 , wherein

the first device is any one of a printer and a scanner.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2022
From: SUZUKI, TAKANOBU; ASAKURA, HIROTAKA; MATSUDA, MUNEHISA; TANAKA, SATOSHI
To: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 061599/0903 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-082815 · Mar 30, 2012 · national
Continuity (6)
Continuation 17101060 · Nov 23, 2020
Continuation 16426022 · May 30, 2019
Continuation 15664848 · Jul 31, 2017
Continuation 14789696 · Jul 1, 2015
Continuation 13831983 · Mar 15, 2013
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