Patent ID: 8787899
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving at a user's wireless communication device via a pairing controller at least one pairing attempt from at least one unknown wireless communications device using a communication protocol for pairing in a trusted connection; displaying a notification on a display at the user's wireless communication device, associated with the at least one pairing attempt; receiving a reject signal at the user's wireless communication device, from the user of the wireless communication device via a user interface at the user's wireless communication device, activated by the user of the wireless communication device in rejecting the at least one pairing attempt; counting at the user's wireless communication device a number of times that the user of the wireless communication device has rejected pairing attempts from each of at least one unknown wireless communication device according to the pairing controller at the user's wireless communication device, the count indicating a paring attempt number determined by the pairing controller; and deciding at the user's wireless communication device to reject the pairing attempt by the at least one unknown communications device depending on whether the rejected pairing attempt number determined by the pairing controller is greater than a threshold count value.