Patent ID: 7788707

Claim:
A method comprising: a wireless access point of a first user receiving from a wireless device of a second user a request for access to the wireless access point of the first user; responsive to the request, the wireless access point of the first user determining whether the second user is in a trust group of the first user; if the second user is not in a trust group of the first user, then the wireless access point of the first user determining whether there exists a third user such that the second user is in a trust group of the third user and the third user is in the trust group of the first user; and only if the second user is in a trust group of the first user or is in a trust group of the third user, the wireless access point of the first user providing the second user with access to the wireless access point of the first user in response to the request, wherein at least one of the trust groups is a buddy list.