Patent ID: 11877154
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A wireless station (STA), comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing a program, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation, the operation comprising:
prior to establishing a connection with a wireless network comprising a service set identifier (SSID), receiving a network message from an access point (AP) associated with the wireless network;
identifying an encrypted identifier in the network message, wherein the encrypted identifier comprises encrypted information relating to the wireless network comprising the SSID;
validating the encrypted identifier comprising encrypted information relating to the wireless network, and in response determining that the AP corresponds to a trusted wireless network, wherein validating, at the STA, the encrypted identifier comprises:
generating a query at the STA;
encrypting the query at the STA;
transmitting the query to a trusted third party service,
wherein the query is transmitted from the STA to the third party service via the AP, and
wherein the encrypting prevents the AP from modifying the query;

receiving a response from the trusted third party service; and
determining that the response is valid; and

designating the SSID as trusted.