公开(公告)号：US20220150216A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17585188

申请日：2022-01-26

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Bo ZHANG ,  Ping HUANG ,  Kai ZHU ,  Shusheng LIU ,  Haiyan WANG ,  Bin ZHOU

IPC: H04L101/622 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04L61/5014

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a device identification method and a related apparatus, to reduce costs of identifying whether a device that accesses a network is an AP device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: when a type of the device that accesses the network needs to be identified, obtaining a MAC address of the access device, and obtaining a MAC address of a Wi-Fi hotspot around a network access device; and then comparing the MAC address of the access device with the MAC address of the Wi-Fi hotspot, and determining, if the MAC address of the access device and the MAC address of the Wi-Fi hotspot belong to a same address segment, that the access device is an AP device.