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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2018
Allied Telesis Holdings K.k., Tokyo, JP;
Jaehyuk Ryu, Tokyo, JP;
Allied Telesis Holdings K.K., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to the present disclosure, a wireless communication device wirelessly communicates with mesh portals in conformity with the IEEE 802.11s standard. The wireless communication device includes a MAC address receiving section, a MAC address recording section, an IP address inquiring section, and an IP address recording section. The MAC address receiving section receives the MAC addresses of the mesh portals from the mesh portals. The MAC address recording section records the received MAC addresses in correspondence to metrics between the mesh portals and the wireless communication device. The IP address inquiring section preferentially requests an IP address from one of the mesh portals having a MAC address corresponding to a smaller one of the metrics based on contents recorded by the MAC address recording section. The IP address recording section records the IP address transmitted from the mesh portal as a result of the request.