Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, system, and communication method
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Application No.: US16971300Application Date: 2019-02-27
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Publication No.: US11259363B2Publication Date: 2022-02-22
- Inventor: Tomoki Ogawa , Mitsuki Yamada , Masayuki Kozuka , Kunio Gobara , Yoshishige Yoshikawa , Shinya Nakai , Junya Suzuki
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/007573 WO 20190227
- International Announcement: WO2019/168033 WO 20190906
- Main IPC: G08C17/00
- IPC: G08C17/00 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W76/14 ; H04L12/28 ; H04W52/02 ; H04W88/04

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.
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