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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Devin C. Moore, Lewis Center, OH (US);
Wade P. Thompson, Moore, SC (US);
Inventors:
Devin C. Moore, Lewis Center, OH (US);
Wade P. Thompson, Moore, SC (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 12/12 (2009.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04W 12/04 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system associated with a first tower in a wireless network receives, at the first tower, tower lists generated by other towers that are nearby the first tower. The system further authenticates each of the received tower lists, and identifies ones of the nearby towers as rogue towers based on failures to authenticate respective ones of the received additional tower lists. The system also broadcasts a tower black list that lists the identified rogue towers to the nearby towers and to nearby mobile devices.