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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Tomoki Ogawa, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuki Yamada, Shiga, JP;
Masayuki Kozuka, Osaka, JP;
Kunio Gobara, Osaka, JP;
Yoshishige Yoshikawa, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Nakai, Nara, JP;
Junya Suzuki, Kyoto, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus includes a plurality of wireless communication modules for connecting apparatus to a server that manages the apparatus via a plurality of networks different from one another; storage that stores, for each of the networks, a characteristic regarding communication; acquirer that acquires communication information indicating, for each of communication modules, whether communication via the communication module is possible; identifier that identifies a specific communication module from among communication modules, the specific communication module being indicated by the communication information as being a communication module via which communication is possible, and being selected based on the characteristic; and controller that causes the specific communication module identified by identifier to connect to the server to enable communication.