Specifying management nodes in a device management system

• US 20050010585A1
• Filed: 06/28/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kaappa, Eero, Sahinoja, Mikko, Hallamaa, Mika
• Application Number:
  US10/878,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for specifying information on a management node used for device management in a system comprising a first device and a second device managing the first device. In accordance with the method, at least one piece of management node information specified by a first device is transmitted from the first device to a second device as a response to at least one piece of information on a management node used for device management being specified in the first device.

Claims

1. A method for specifying information on a management node used for device management in a system comprising a first device and a second device managing the first device, the method comprising:

specifying at least one piece of management node information in the first device as a response to a message received from the second device, and

transmitting at least one piece of management node information specified by the first device from the first device to the second device as a response to at least one piece of management node information being specified in the first device.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one piece of information on at least one management node is specified in the second device in accordance with the message received from the first device.

3. A method according to claims 1, wherein the specification of the information on the at least one management node and transmitting it is carried out as a response to a management message received from the second device.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the management message received from the second device is a unidirectional provisioning message.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the information on the at least one management node comprises at least the name or the location of the node in the management structure.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the information on the at least one management node specified in the first device is transmitted to the second device in the establishment message of a device management session.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one transmission setting is set in the first device for specifying the transmission of the information on the at least one management node;

and

information is transmitted to the second device in accordance with the transmission setting.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein a first temporary data storage is arranged in the first device, in which first temporary data storage the information to be transmitted in accordance with the first transmission setting is specified, and a second data storage is arranged, in which second data storage the information to be transmitted in accordance with the second transmission setting is specified;

and

information to the second device is transmitted from the first data storage in accordance with the first transmission setting and from the second data storage in accordance with the second transmission setting.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first device is a client device conforming to the OMA device management standard, the second device is a device management server conforming to the OMA device management standard, and the method is applied to specifying nodes in a OMA device management tree.

10. A device management system comprising a first device and a second device managing the first device, wherein the first device is configured to specify at least one piece of management node information as a response to a message received from the second device, and

the first device is configured to transmit at least one piece of management node information specified by the first device to the second device as a response to at least one piece of management node information being specified in the first device.

11. A data processing device configured to function as the client device in device management and to specify information on at least one management node as a response to a message received from the management server, wherein the data processing device is configured to transmit information on the at least one management node, specified by the data processing device, to a management server as a response to information on at least one management node being specified in the data processing device.

12. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the data processing device is configured to specify information on the at least one management node and to transmit it as a response to a management message received from the management server.

13. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the information on the at least one management node comprises at least the name and the location of the node in the management structure.

14. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the data processing device is configured to transmit the information on the at least one management node, specified in the data processing device, to the management server in the establishment message of a device management session.

15. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein at least one transmission setting is set in the data processing device for specifying the transmission of the information on the at least one management node, and

the data processing device is configured to transmit information to the management server in accordance with the transmission settings.

16. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the data processing device is a client device conforming to the OMA device management standard.

17. A data processing device configured to function as the management server in device management, wherein the data processing device is configured to check at least one piece of information on at least one management node, specified by the client device as a response to a message received from the data processing device, from a message received from the client device, and

the data processing device is configured to update, on the basis of the checking, management information maintained in the data processing device.

18. A computer program product loadable to the memory of a data processing device, wherein the computer program product comprises a computer program code, which, when executed in the processor of the data processing device configured as the client device in device management, causes the data processing device to transmit to the management server information on at least one management node, specified in the data processing device as a response to a message received from the management server, as a response to the data processing device having specified the information on the at least one management node.