Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Kunihito Terashita

Tatsuhiko Sone

Naoki Yoshida

Yongyong Ren

A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.

Communication apparatus

A communication apparatus may determine whether specific apparatus identification information for identifying a specific external apparatus is stored in a memory in a case where the specific apparatus identification information is received via a second interface from the specific external apparatus, shift an operating state of the communication apparatus from a non-parent station state to a parent station state in a case where it is determined that the specific apparatus identification information is stored in the memory, receive a wireless connection request from the specific external apparatus via a first interface after the operating state has been shifted from the non-parent station state to the parent station state, and form the wireless network in which the communication apparatus operates as the parent station and the specific external apparatus operates as a child station, in a case where the wireless connection request is received from the specific external apparatus.

A communication apparatus may determine whether a first external apparatus is a target apparatus by referring content of a predetermined area included in a first connection request, in a case where the first connection request is received from the first external apparatus via a wireless interface, under a state where the communication apparatus operates in a first operation mode, and establishes a first wireless communication with the first external apparatus in a case where it is determined that the first external apparatus is the target apparatus. A wireless communication with the first external apparatus may not be established in a case where it is determined that the first external apparatus is not the target apparatus. The communication apparatus may store setting information in a setting area in a memory in a case where the setting information is received from the first external apparatus by using the first wireless connection.

A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.

A communication apparatus may determine whether a first external apparatus is a target apparatus by referring content of a predetermined area included in a first connection request in a case where the first connection request is received from the first external apparatus via a wireless interface under a state where the communication apparatus operates in a first operation mode, and establishes a first wireless communication with the first external apparatus in a case where it is determined that the first external apparatus is the target apparatus. A wireless communication with the first external apparatus may not be established in a case where it is determined that the first external apparatus is not the target apparatus. The communication apparatus may store setting information in a setting area in a memory in a case where the setting information is received from the first external apparatus by using the first wireless connection.

A communication system includes a printing device, a terminal device, and another device. The printing device includes a communication interface that enables communication through at least two modes; an operating portion that accepts a mode-switch instruction; a printing portion that prints an image based on print data, and a processor. In a direct communication mode, the printing device communicates directly with the terminal device. In an indirect communication mode, the printing device communicates indirectly with the other device. The processor switches the communication mode from the indirect communication mode to the direct communication mode when the operating portion accepts the mode-switch instruction, and switches the communication mode from the direct communication mode to the indirect communication mode when the processor determines that the printing device has finished receiving print data. Communication between the printing and terminal devices includes transmitting the print data from the terminal device to the printing device.

Printing devices and terminal devices that switch communication modes

Communications apparatus

A function performing apparatus includes a function performing unit performing a specific function, a processor, and memory storing computer-readable instructions therein, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the function performing apparatus to perform, in response to receiving a user authentication information when the user authentication information has been registered in an authentication memory, transitioning a state of the apparatus from a non-permission state to a permission state, registering, in the authentication memory, a device authentication information in association with the user authentication information upon establishing a first connection with a portable device, and transitioning the state of the apparatus from the non-permission state to the permission state when a second connection with the portable device is established and the device authentication information is obtained from the portable device.

Function performing apparatus and portable device

A communication apparatus may include: a first wireless interface; a second wireless interface; a processor. The communication apparatus may perform: in a case where a first communication link via the second wireless interface is established with a first external apparatus while the communication apparatus operates as a first parent station of a first wireless network, operating as a second parent station of a second wireless network different from the first wireless network, each of the first wireless network and the second wireless network being for performing a wireless communication via the first wireless interface; and after the communication apparatus has started an operation as the second parent station, establishing a wireless connection via the first wireless interface with the first external apparatus so as to cause the first external apparatus to participate as a child station in the second wireless network.

An information processing apparatus includes: a communication interface; an operation device; a storage configured to store connection information and identification information relating to at least one wireless terminal to which the information processing apparatus can be connected over wireless communication; a controller. The controller is configured to: when a wireless connection to a wireless terminal is instructed, determine a first wireless terminal as a wireless terminal to which the information processing apparatus is to be connected; when first connection information and first identification information relating to the first wireless terminal are stored in the storage, determine whether the wireless connection with the first wireless terminal is being established; and when the wireless connection with the first wireless terminal is being established, maintaining the wireless connection with the first wireless terminal.

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Nagoya, Japan

Kunihito Terashita