US 11,924,684 B2
Electronic apparatus, method for controlling an electronic apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium
Satoshi Takano, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Satoshi Takano, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on May 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/317,991.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-108046 (JP), filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400530 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/06 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 28/0273 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a sub-system configured to receive, from a wireless local area network module, incoming data including a plurality of wireless local area network packets according to a plurality of communication methods; and
a main system including a processor configured to process the incoming data,
the sub-system including
an interface circuit configured to
acquire a data length of each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets from a header of the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets,
based on a plurality of media access control addresses included in the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets, identify a communication method of the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets, and
based on the data length and the communication method of the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets, transfer the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets to one of a plurality of different storage areas respectively corresponding to the plurality of communication methods, and
a sub-processor configured to transfer the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets from the one of the plurality of different storage areas to the main system, wherein
the interface circuit of the sub-system includes a selector circuit configured to, in accordance with the communication method of the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets, select the one of the plurality of different storage areas to which the each of the plurality of wireless local area network packets is transferred.