US 6,983,156 B2
Information processing apparatus and communication setting method
Kazuya Fukushima, Haruma (Japan); and Koichi Kaji, Hidaka (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/255,831.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-304657 (JP), filed on Sep. 28, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2003/0073438 A1, Apr. 17, 2003
Int. Cl. H04Q 7/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—456.1 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a communication unit capable of executing communication;
a memory configured to store first setting information that enables communication in a first region, second setting information that enables communication in a second region, and third setting information that enables communication in the first and second regions, the first and second setting information including the third setting information, the third setting information being initially set in the memory, the first and second setting information other than the third setting information being not initially set in the memory;
an acquiring unit configured to acquire region information relating to a region where the apparatus is present; and
a processing unit configured to change setting information set in the memory from the third setting information to one of the first and second setting information, and configured to set the changed one of the first and second setting information onto operations of the communication unit, on the basis of the region information acquired by the acquiring unit.