Image forming apparatus supporting peer-to-peer connection and access point operation and method of controlling peer-to-peer connection and access point operation thereof

摘要

A method of controlling a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection of an image forming apparatus that supports the P2P connection includes: receiving in the image forming apparatus a P2P connection request from an external wireless device; checking a device type of the wireless device by the image forming apparatus; determining whether the device type corresponds to connection restricted device types; and when the device type is the connection restricted device type, blocking a P2P connection to the wireless device by the image forming apparatus, and when the device type is not the connection restricted device type, P2P connecting the image forming apparatus to the wireless device.

主权项

1. A method of controlling a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection of an image forming apparatus that supports the P2P connection, the method comprising:
receiving in the image forming apparatus a P2P connection request from an external wireless device; checking a device type of the wireless device by the image forming apparatus; determining whether the device type is a connection restricted device type; when the device type is not the connection restricted device type, determining a group owner to operate as an access point (AP) among the image forming apparatus or the wireless device; and when the device type is the connection restricted device type, blocking a P2P connection to the wireless device by the image forming apparatus, and when the device type is not the connection restricted device type, P2P connecting the image forming apparatus to the wireless device, wherein the image forming apparatus operates as the AP that allows clients on a wireless local area network (WLAN) to be connected to each other and concurrently operates as a client on the WLAN.