US 11,943,822 B2
Communication device, connection destination determination method, and wireless connection method
Yoshiyuki Imada, Chiba (JP); Masashi Kamata, Komazama (JP); and Tai Hirakawa, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/289,039
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/044027
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/096068, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-211195 (JP), filed on Nov. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0410202 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication device that is wirelessly connectable to an external apparatus, the communication device comprising:
a first communication unit;
a second communication unit of a same type as that of the first communication unit; and
a control unit operating to control the first communication unit and the second communication unit, wherein
the control unit operates to acquire a communication situation of the first communication unit with external apparatus and another communication situation of the second communication unit with external apparatus; and
the control unit operates to execute an allocation process for determining a connection destination of an external apparatus in a data transfer mode to the first communication unit or the second communication unit based on the communication situations,
wherein the control unit operates to execute the allocation process such that a communication load with external apparatus on the first communication unit is equal to or lower than a communication load with external apparatus on the second communication unit.