Identifying mobile access points

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for providing an indication that an access point is a candidate mobile access point, the instructions, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• receive, at the computing device, a plurality of observations, each observation comprising an identifier of an access point accessible to the computing device and an indication of geographic location of the computing device;
• determine, at the computing device, a stored geographic location associated with the access point based on a lookup in an access point location data store;
• determine, at the computing device, that the stored geographic location associated with the access point is inconsistent with the indications of the geographic location of the computing device in the plurality of observations and that at least two of the indications of the geographic location correspond to distinct geographic locations;
• and
• provide, from the computing device to a server, an indication that the access point is a candidate mobile access point that travelled at least a threshold distance during a plurality of time periods of a predetermined length based on the determination that the stored geographic location of the access point is inconsistent with the indication of the geographic location of the computing device in the plurality observations and the determination that the at least two of the indications of the geographic location correspond to distinct geographic locations.

A computing device for providing an indication that an access point is a candidate vehicle-based mobile access point, the computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a network interface;
• and
• a memory comprising instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive a plurality of observations, each observation comprising a media access control (MAC) address of a WiFi access point accessible to the network interface and an indication of geographic location of the computing device;
• determine that a stored geographic location associated with the WiFi access point is inconsistent with the indications of the geographic location of the computing device in the plurality of observations and that at least two of the indications of the geographic location correspond to distinct geographic locations;
• and
• provide, to a server, an indication that the WiFi access point is a candidate vehicle-based mobile access point that travelled at least a threshold distance during a plurality of time periods of a predetermined length based on the determination that the stored geographic location of the WiFi access point is inconsistent with the indication of the geographic location of the computing device in the plurality observations and the determination that the at least two of the indications of the geographic location correspond to distinct geographic locations.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining that an access point is mobile, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to:

• receive, at the one or more computers from one or more client computing devices, a first threshold number of candidate mobile access point reports associated with a first specified access point, wherein each candidate mobile access point report comprises an indication that a detected geographic location of a computing device to which the first specified access point is accessible is inconsistent with a stored geographic location of the first specified access point, the computing device being from among the one or more client computing devices, and wherein the first threshold number of candidate mobile access point reports are associated with at least a second threshold number of unique detected geographic locations;
• and
• determine, at the one or more computers, that the first specified access point is mobile and that the first specified access point travelled at least a threshold distance during a plurality of time periods of a predetermined length based on the first threshold number of candidate mobile access point reports;
• and
• provide, to a memory, an indication that the first specified access point is a mobile access point.