Patent ID: 8590015
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling access of a wireless station to a service owned by a wireless device, said wireless station communicating with said wireless device through a wireless network, wherein the wireless device keeps records of wireless stations that had previously been authenticated, the record comprising respective first or second status for those wireless stations, indicating enabled or disabled access to said service, respectively, the method, when adding a wireless station for which no record is kept, comprising, at the wireless device, the steps of: authenticating said added wireless station to said wireless device, the authentication including verification of the identity of said added wireless station at said wireless device, and if the verification succeeds and said added wireless station is authenticated, then further: wherein the method further comprises, at the wireless device, the steps of: modifying, by a user, a previously assigned first or second status of a recorded wireless station, for which a record is kept, from enabled to disabled access in order to suspend access to said service, or from disabled to enabled access in order to renew access to said service, respectively, and updating the record and the status accordingly, wherein in the case of enabling access of a recorded wireless station, whose access had previously been disabled, verification of the identity of said recorded wireless station is not required for accessing said service.