Patent ID: 8724816

Claim:
A security service control method, comprising: stopping a WLAN Privacy Infrastructure (WPI) service between a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal and an Access Point (AP) when the WLAN terminal creates a security service of an Internet Protocol (IP) layer and/or a layer above the IP layer in TCP/IP model with the AP, wherein the WPI service comprises: encrypting a data link layer message to be transmitted, and decrypting a received data link layer message; and wherein executing the operation of stopping the WPI service when a security control module of the WLAN terminal receives a request of creating the security service of the IP layer and/or the layer above the IP layer transmitted by an application layer module of the WLAN terminal; and creating and initiating, by the security control module, the security service of the IP layer and/or the layer above the IP layer for the application layer module according to the request of creating the security service of the IP layer and/or the layer above the IP layer after the WPI service is stopped.