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US 12,432,535 · App. 18/403,286 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

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 12,432,535
App. No.
18/403,286
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
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 (14)

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, the second type of interface being configured to execute wireless communication according to a Wi-Fi Direct standard, 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:

determine whether the second device currently operates as a Group Owner state of a first Wi-Fi Direct network for executing a wireless communication using the second type of interface or currently operates as a Device state according to the Wi-Fi Direct standard;

in a case where the second device currently operates as the Group Owner state, send a first wireless setting for the first device belonging to the first Wi-Fi Direct network to the first device via the first type of interface;

in a case where the second device currently operates as the Device state, send a second wireless setting for the first device belonging to a second wireless network formed by an access point, which is different from the first device and the second device, to the first device via the first type of interface; and

execute a wireless communication of object data with the first device via any one of the first Wi-Fi Direct network and the second wireless network.

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

the first wireless setting includes a password, and

the second wireless setting does not include a password.

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

the first type of interface is a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface.

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

the first type of interface is a Bluetooth interface.

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

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

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2024
From: SUZUKI, TAKANOBU; ASAKURA, HIROTAKA; MATSUDA, MUNEHISA; TANAKA, SATOSHI
To: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 066117/0698 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-082815 · Mar 30, 2012 · national
Continuity (8)
Continuation 18051331 · Oct 31, 2022
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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