CONFIGURATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OVER NOTIFICATION PROCESSING IN OMA DM

• US 20100299418A1
• Filed: 04/02/2010
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Bhat, Kong Posh
• Application Number:
  US12/753,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20100299418A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A method and a device are configured to receive a signal from a server to perform administrative and configuration control. During Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) session, the device receives either an administrative or configuration signal from the server. The administrative signal may instruct the device to inhibit or allow a trigger processing capability. The configuration signal may instruct the device to apply a set of parameters to the device settings that are related to notification processing.

Claims

1. For use in a device during a remote management session with a server, a method comprising:

receiving an administrative signal from the server; and

disabling a trigger processing capability in the device when the administrative signal notifies the device to inhibit the trigger processing capability.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a configuration signal from the server; and

applying a set of parameters included in the configuration signal to the device settings that are related to controlling notification processing.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the device settings are related to controlling notification processing based on Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Push.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the remote management session is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) session, and wherein trigger processing comprises initiating the OMA DM session.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the set of parameters is applied to at least one of a session initiation protocol (SIP) configuration and user datagram protocol (UDP) configuration,

the SIP configuration comprises a port number, a temporary globally routable user agent uniform resource identifier (GRUU), and a public GRUU, and

the UDP configuration comprises a port number.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the administration signal and the configuration signal are included in a combined signal received from the server.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising modifying a management object based on the configuration signal.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein applying the set of parameters comprises configuring a set of corresponding nodes on a DM tree.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the administrative signal specifies at least one transport binding over which the device is to inhibit trigger processing, and wherein the at least one transport binding comprises at least one of wireless application protocol (WAP), session initiation protocol (SIP), and user datagram protocol (UDP).

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the management session is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) session with a server, and wherein the trigger signal is a notification message based on OMA Push that prompts the device to initiate the OMA DM session.

10. For use in a device capable of conducting a remote management session with a server, the device configured to:

receive an administrative signal from the server; and

inhibit a trigger processing capability in the device when the administrative signal notifies the device to inhibit the trigger processing capability.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the device is further configured to:

receive a configuration signal from the server; and

apply a set of parameters included in the configuration signal to the device settings that are related to controlling notification processing.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the device settings are related to controlling notification processing based on Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Push.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the remote management session is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) session, and wherein trigger processing comprises initiating the OMA DM session.

14. The device of claim 11, wherein:

the set of parameters is applied to at least one of a session initiation protocol (SIP) configuration and user datagram protocol (UDP) configuration,

the SIP configuration comprises a port number, a temporary globally routable user agent uniform resource identifier (GRUU), and a public GRUU, and

the UDP configuration comprises a port number.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the administration signal and the configuration signal are included in a combined signal received from the server.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the device is further configured to modify a management object based on the configuration signal.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the device is further configured to configuring a set of corresponding nodes on a DM tree when applying the set of parameters.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the administrative signal specifies at least one transport binding over which the device is to inhibit trigger processing and wherein the at least one transport binding comprises at least one of wireless application protocol (WAP), session initiation protocol (SIP), and user datagram protocol (UDP).

19. A method comprising:

receiving a signal at a device;

determining whether the signal is a trigger signal;

ignoring the trigger signal when the device is inhibited from processing the trigger signal; and

processing the trigger signal and initiating a management session when the device is set to process the trigger signal.