US 11,838,968 B2
Communication device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device
Hirotaka Asakura, Nagoya (JP); Munehisa Matsuda, Nagoya (JP); and Takuya Inoue, Nisshin (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/350,679.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-108050 (JP), filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400749 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/20 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 84/20 (2009.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04W 76/18 (2018.02); H04N 1/00233 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication device comprising:
a first wireless interface configured to execute wireless communication according to Bluetooth standard;
a second wireless interface configured to execute wireless communication according to Wi-Fi standard; and
a controller configured to form a parent station network that is a wireless network of the Wi-Fi standard and in which the communication device operates as a parent station,
in a case where a state of the communication device is a respondent state, cause the first wireless interface to send a first signal, the respondent state being a state in which a Wi-Fi connection that is a wireless connection via the second wireless interface is able to be established between the communication device and a terminal device, and the first signal being sent from the first wireless interface before a Bluetooth connection that is a wireless connection via the first wireless interface is established between the communication device and the terminal device; and
in a case where a state of the communication device is a non-respondent state, cause the first wireless interface to send a second signal different from the first signal, the non-respondent state being a state in which the Wi-Fi connection is not able to be established between the communication device and the terminal device, wherein the non-respondent state comprises a first non-respondent state and a second non-respondent state different from the first non-respondent state, in a case where the state of the communication device is the first non-respondent state, the controller is configured to cause the first wireless interface to send the second signal including first status information indicating that a number of child stations belonging to the parent station network is equal to an upper limit, in a case where the state of the communication device is the second non-respondent state, the controller is configured to cause the first wireless interface to send the second signal including second status information indicating that a first belonging process is in execution, and the second signal being sent from the first wireless interface before the Bluetooth connection is established between the communication device and the terminal device.