Patent ID: 9591483
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed on a client computing device, the method comprising: obtaining, by the client computing device, trust information related to a wireless access point from a source other than the wireless access point; receiving, by the client computing device from the wireless access point while the client computing device is not connected to any network to which access is provided by the wireless access point, an unrequested message that is encrypted; decrypting, by the client computing device based on the obtained trust information, the received unrequested message; verifying, by the client computing device based on successful decryption of the received unrequested message, the received unrequested message or an identity of the wireless access point; and accepting, by the client computing device in response to the verifying, the decrypted message.