Patent ID: 9584491
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing a message being transferred from a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: the mobile device determining a level of sensitivity of data in a payload of the message prior to the mobile device sending the message to a wireless access point en route to a destination device; if the data in the payload has a first level of sensitivity, the mobile device connecting and sending the message to a first secure wireless access point having encryption at a threshold strength at a network layer and utilizing a protocol having encryption at an application layer; if the data in the payload has a second level of sensitivity lower than the first level of sensitivity, the mobile device (a) connecting and sending the message to the first secure wireless access point having encryption at the threshold strength at the network layer without utilizing the protocol having encryption at the application layer or (b) connecting and sending the message to a second, less secure wireless access point having encryption at a strength less than the threshold strength at the network layer and utilizing the protocol having encryption at the application layer; and if the data in the payload has a third level of sensitivity lower than the second level of sensitivity, the mobile device connecting and sending the message to the second wireless access point without utilizing the protocol having encryption at the application layer.