A USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR PROTECTION OF USER PRIVACY IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

摘要

The invention relates to a user equipment 100 and a method for communication with an access point 200 in a communication network, with a view of protecting user privacy, and finding an application particularly in wireless communication networks such as Wi-Fi communication network.;The user equipment 100 comprises a processing unit, a memory unit 102, 104, and a communication interface 101, 103 for data communication with said access point 200 under control of said processing unit, said communication interface being configured to use an identifier 300 stored in the memory such that any data communication sent by the communication interface to the access point, is associated with said identifier.;The memory unit further comprises a category-to-identifier database 102 in which one or more virtual identifiers 300_i are stored each associated with a specific content category C_i.;The communication interface is further configured to determine which specific content category a determined data to be sent to the access point belongs to, to obtain from the category-to-identifier database the virtual identifier corresponding to the specific content category which the determined data belongs to, and to allocate to said determined data said virtual identifier as identifier to be used for transmission of said determined data to the access point.