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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2007
Applicant:
Aniruddha Patwardhan, Pune, IN;
Inventor:
Aniruddha Patwardhan, Pune, IN;
Assignee:
AirTight Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and a system for detecting access point devices that provide unauthorized wireless access to local area computer networks is provided. The method includes transferring one or more marker packets to the wired portion of the local area network. The one or more marker packets include an authentication data that is computed based at least upon identify of the wirelessly active access point device and a secret key. The method includes processing one or more wireless frames transmitted from the wirelessly active access point device to extract and to verify at least a portion of the authentication data.