Patent ID: 7505596

Claim:
A wireless network detection system including computer storage medium storing a computer executable instructions that when executed on one or more processors facilitates identification of wireless network encryption type, said system comprising: a connection component that can connect a device to a plurality of wireless networks; and, a detection component that automatically identifies an encryption type of an available wireless network, wherein identification of the encryption type is based at least in part upon eliminating one or more of a plurality of possible encryption types by at least one of detecting a failure of a portion of an authentication sequence of the available wireless network or exceeding a time threshold without having detected an expected portion of the authentication sequence of the available wireless network, wherein identifying the encryption type includes: the detection component attempting an 802.1x authentication sequence to the wireless network and determining that the wireless network as a wired equivalent privacy network requiring a wired equivalent privacy key when a failure of a portion of the 802.1x authentication sequence or exceeding a time threshold without having detected an expected portion of the 802.1x authentication sequence occurs; the detection component identifying the wireless network as a 802.1x when a failure of a portion of the 802.1x authentication sequence and exceeding a time threshold without having detected an expected portion of the 802.1x authentication sequence do not occur; the detection component having identified the wireless network as a 802.1x attempting a wireless provisioning services sequence and determining that the wireless network does not support wireless provisioning services when a failure of a portion of the wireless provisioning services authentication sequence or exceeding a time threshold without having detected an expected portion of the wireless provisioning services authentication sequence occurs; and, the detection component identifying the wireless network as a 802.1x supporting wireless provisioning services network when a failure of a portion of the wireless provisioning services authentication sequence and exceeding a time threshold without having detected an expected portion of the wireless provisioning services authentication sequence do not occur.