Patent ID: 8559339

Claim:
A method of adaptation to mobile-station usage attempts, carried out by a low-cost Internet base station (LCIB) having a coverage area, the method comprising: an LCIB transmitting a pilot beacon having a pilot-beacon transmission-power level that defines the coverage area of the LCIB; the LCIB receiving usage attempts from a plurality of mobile stations; the LCIB storing records corresponding to the usage attempts, each record identifying the corresponding mobile station from which the corresponding usage attempt was received, each record having a corresponding timestamp that identifies at least one of (i) a time of day at which the corresponding usage attempt was received, (ii) a day of the week on which the corresponding usage attempt was received, and (iii) a date on which the corresponding usage attempt was received; the LCIB storing data that reflects the respective pilot-beacon transmission-power level at which each respective usage attempt was received; the LCIB using the records to classify each mobile station in the plurality of mobile stations as authorized or rather as unauthorized, wherein classifying a given mobile station as authorized or rather as unauthorized comprises classifying the given mobile station based at least in part on at least one of the frequency and the recentness of the timestamps of the records corresponding to the usage attempts from the given mobile station; and the LCIB configuring the coverage area by setting the pilot-beacon transmission-power level to be less than the lowest level at which the stored data indicates that a usage attempt from an unauthorized mobile station had been received.