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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2007
Sung-joon Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Sung-joon Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A station and a method of collecting information corresponding to security. A wireless communicator transmits a request packet to search a wireless network to at least one external device and receives a response packet to the request packet. An authentication method determiner analyzes the response packet to search for at least one wireless network and determines an authentication method supported by each of the searched wireless networks. A storage unit stores the determined authentication method of each of the searched wireless networks. Thus, necessary information corresponding to security during a connection to a wireless network can be searched in advance and provided to a user.