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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2009
Seiichi Inoue, Kawasaki, JP;
Seiichi Inoue, Kawasaki, JP;
NEC Infrontia Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An access point device of a wireless LAN connecting a client device to a wired LAN: monitors a connection between the access point device and the wired LAN; transmits a portal request, to an adjacent access point device, indicating a request for serving as a proxy connection node accessing the wired LAN and implements a process as a relay node between the adjacent access point device and the client device, if the connection between the access point device and the wired LAN is not normal; and implements a process as a proxy connection node indicated by a portal request sent from the adjacent access point device, if the connection between the access point device and the wired LAN is normal where the access point device receives the portal request from the adjacent access point device.