SUPPORTING A DECISION BY A MOBILE TERMINAL WHETHER TO USE AN AVAILABLE ACCESS POINT

摘要

For supporting a decision by a mobile terminal whether to connect to an available access point for accessing a desired service, the mobile terminal receives from the access point reputation information on the access point and determines whether the reputation information makes a connection to the access point appropriate. A connection is initiated in case the connection is determined to be appropriate. Then, the mobile terminal rates the access point depending on a quality of a provided access service and transmits resulting rating information to a central control apparatus . The central control apparatus updates respective reputation information for various access points based on rating information received from mobile terminals, and provides the respective updated rating information to the concerned access point for transmission to mobile terminals.