METHOD OF DETERMINING UNSAFE WIRELESS ACCESS POINT Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H04W12/12 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: identification information associated with wireless access points is collected from a plurality of client devices (106, 112). A reputation request is received from a client device, wherein the request includes identification information of an available wireless access point. The received identification information is compared with the collected identification information to determine the trust level of the available wireless access point. The trust level of the available wireless access point is transmitted to the client device. The wireless access points may include a cellular wireless access point or a base station, a Wi-Fi access point or a femtocellular access point.

EFFECT: low risk of user exposure to unsafe wireless access points.

35 cl, 4 dwg