US 12,294,880 B2
Wireless communication device
Yuichi Morioka, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/949,444.
Application 17/949,444 is a continuation of application No. 16/956,687, granted, now 11,477,672, previously published as PCT/JP2018/046019, filed on Dec. 14, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-253151 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0015192 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/08 (2013.01) [H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device configured to:
control wireless communication of a first wireless communication device, wherein the control device comprises:
a processing circuitry configured to:
control transmission, to a second wireless communication device, of a measurement request signal that requests measurement related to a first propagation status of a first signal from at least one target wireless communication device, wherein the first wireless communication device is configured to connect to the at least one target wireless communication device;
control reception of a measurement request response signal transmitted from the second wireless communication device in response to the measurement request signal, the measurement request response signal including a result of the measurement; and
control transmission, to the at least one target wireless communication device, of a connection request inducing signal that gives an instruction on transmission of a connection request signal, wherein the connection request signal requests connection to the second wireless communication device determined as a new connection destination of the at least one target wireless communication device.