Patent ID: 9578458
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G01S,H04K,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A computing device for identifying rogue access points having an actual location different from a registered location, the computing device comprising: a communication module to receive a unique identifier of each access point of a plurality of access points within a communication range of the computing device from each access point; and a location determination module to (i) determine a registered physical location of each access point based on the unique identifier of each access point, (ii) determine a spatial distance between each access point and each other access point based on the registered physical location of each access point and each other access point, (iii) determine a reference distance between the computing device and each access point based on a transmitted signal received from each corresponding access point, (iv) identify rogue access points based on the reference distance between the computing device and each access point and the spatial distance between each access point and each other access point, and (v) determine a physical location of the computing device with a trilateration algorithm, based on the identification of the rogue access points.