Patent ID: 9667659
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network, the method comprising: determining, by one or more processors, a current operating environment of computing devices that includes a first computer and one or more local computers, wherein the one or more local computers are computing devices that are operating within a range of wireless communications to the first computer through a wireless network; identifying, by one or more processors, data corresponding to the determined current operating environment of computing devices that includes data that corresponds to a time period of the determined current operating environment of computing devices; determining, by one or more processors, security information corresponding to the determined current operating environment of computing devices, wherein the determined security information includes a familiarity of the first computer to the determined current operating environment of computing devices and a historical security of the first computer in the determined current operating environment of computing devices; and wherein the familiarity of the first computer to the determined current operating environment of computing devices is based on information indicating how frequently the first computer is operating in the determined current operating environment of computing devices during the time period.