Patent ID: 7448070

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium comprising: computer-executable instructions thereon for performing a method, the method comprising: establishing at least one connection to at least one computer network, each computer network having at least one network attribute, each network attribute associated with at least one identity confidence modifier, each identity confidence modifier specifying an identity confidence transformation, and each network attribute having a value; issuing an issued network identifier for at least one computer network of said at least one computer network; and determining an identity confidence for each issued network identifier with respect to at least one current computer network, the identity confidence for each issued network identifier comprising a probability of correct identification of the at least one current computer network, and the step of determining the identity confidence comprising: for each current computer network and each network attribute, applying at least one of said at least one identity confidence modifier associated with the network attribute to the identity confidence of each issued network identifier if the value of the network attribute of the computer network identified by the issued network identifier matches the value of the network attribute of the current computer network, wherein applying the at least one of said at least one identity confidence modifier to the identity confidence comprises transforming the identity confidence in accordance with the identity confidence transformation specified by the identity confidence modifier.