Authentication failure in a wireless local area network

摘要

In the event of an authentication process failure, a mobile station bans a connection profile storing the credentials provided by the mobile station when initiating the failed authentication process, thus affecting how subsequent scans—other than discovery scans—and connection attempts are handled. In the event of an authentication process failure, a mobile station bans or suppresses an access point with which the mobile station initiated the failed authentication process. The mobile station refrains from transmitting any communications addressed to the unique identifier of any banned access point. The mobile station may ignore any communications received from a banned access point. Suppressed access points are occasionally not made available to the mobile station for selection as a target for a connection attempt.

主权项

1. A method in a mobile station, the method comprising:
attempting to perform an authentication process with an access point, including transmitting in a manner receivable by the access point parameters from an editable connection profile stored in the mobile station, wherein the editable connection profile includes a network name; determining that the authentication process has failed and consequently banning the editable connection profile; if any active scanning for wireless local area networks, other than active scanning performed as part of a discovery scan, is performed by the mobile station while the editable connection profile is banned, excluding the editable connection profile from the active scanning; and if any passive scanning for wireless local area networks, other than passive scanning performed as part of a discovery scan, is performed by the mobile station while the editable connection profile is banned, removing from results of the passive scanning any records including the network name of the editable connection profile.