Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication terminal control method

摘要

A mobile phone terminal receives current position information thereof from a public wireless base station, and stores the current position information. The mobile phone terminal reads a profile name corresponding to the position information from a public wireless base station-WLAN profile association table, and sets the WLAN profile as a scan profile. Then, the mobile phone terminal scans the WLAN profile when the mobile phone terminal is located outside the WLAN service area.

主权项

1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:
a first communicator configured to communicate via each of a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations covers a base station area; a second communicator configured to communicate via a wireless local area network (LAN) access point that covers a wireless LAN area that overlaps multiple base station areas, the wireless LAN area is smaller than the base station area; a storage configured to store overlapping information indicating that a first base station area overlaps a wireless LAN area; and a controller configured to make the second communicator find the wireless LAN access point based on the overlapping information and, when the wireless communication apparatus moves from the first base station area to a second base station area, add additional information to the overlapping information, the additional information indicating that the second base station area overlaps the wireless LAN area.