Defining nodes in device management system

• US 8,219,664 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2005
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Sahinoja, Mikko, Piispanen, Jussi
• Primary Examiner(s): Elchanti, Hussein
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anwari, Maceeh
• Application Number:
  US11/043,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20060212558A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,722 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for defining the nodes of a management structure used in device management in a device management system. In the arrangement, case sensitivity information is associated with at least one node to define whether to distinguish between upper-case and lower-case letters. At least one node is defined according to the case sensitivity information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

checking case sensitivity information associated with at least one node of a device management structure, said case sensitivity information defining whether to distinguish between upper-case letters and lower-case letters in data associated with one or more nodes of the device management structure, and

defining at least one node of the device management structure according to the case sensitivity information,

wherein the device management structure comprises information, associated with a managed device, managed with a device management protocol between a device management client and a device management server.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said checking comprises checking the case sensitivity information from a device description of the managed device, said device description comprises the properties of at least one node in the device.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said checking comprises checking the case sensitivity information from the device management structure, the case sensitivity information being defined in the device management structure.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

generating a management command in the device management server, with node information defined according to the case sensitivity information, and

transmitting the management command to the device management client.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the at least one node is defined according to OMA device management standard.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the checking of the case sensitivity information is performed in response to a need to create a new node or to refer to a node already in the device management structure, the name of the node is defined in accordance with the case sensitivity information by either distinguishing between the upper-case and lower-case letters, or not distinguishing between them.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said checking comprises:

checking the case sensitivity information of a first node in response to a need to check the case sensitivity information of a second node

being defined according to the case sensitivity information associated with the first node.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

referring to an already stored node or adding a new node to the device management structure according to the case sensitivity information.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the node is defined in the device management structure according to a management command received from the device management server.

10. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the at least one node is defined according to OMA device management standard.

11. A device management system comprising:

at least a device management server, including a memory; and

at least one device management client, including a memory storing a management structure, to be managed, the device management server being configured to manage via a device management protocol the at least one device management client by checking the management structure which comprises information associated with the device management client and at least one node, wherein at least one node is associated in the device management system with case sensitivity information defining whether to distinguish between upper-case and lower-case letters, and

the device management system is configured to define at least one node of the management structure according to the case sensitivity information.

12. A data processing device comprising:

a memory storing information associated with a device management structure; and

a processor configured to;

check the case sensitivity information associated with at least one node of the device management structure, said case sensitivity information defines whether to distinguish between upper-case and lower-case letters in data associated with one or more nodes of the device management structure, and

define at least one node of the device management structure according to the case sensitivity information,

wherein the device management structure comprises information, associated with a managed device, managed with a device management protocol between a device management client and a device management server.

13. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to check the case sensitivity information from a device description of the managed device, said device description comprises properties of at least one node in the device management structure.

14. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to check the case sensitivity information from the device management structure, the case sensitivity information being defined in the device management structure.

15. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to check the case sensitivity information in response to a need to create a new node or refer to a node already in the device management structure, the name of the node being defined in accordance with the case sensitivity information by either distinguishing between the upper-case and lower-case letters, or not distinguishing between them.

16. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to check the case sensitivity information of a first node in response to a need to check the case sensitivity information of a second node, said second node being defined according to the case sensitivity information associated with the first node.

17. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the data processing device is configured to serve as the device management client, and

the processor is configured to refer to an already stored node or to add a new node to the device management structure according to the case sensitivity information.

18. A data processing device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the processor is configured to define the node in the device management structure according to a management command received from the device management server.

19. A data processing device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the data processing device is a device management client according to the OMA device management standard.

20. A data processing device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the data processing device is a mobile station.

21. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the data processing device is configured to serve as the device management server and the processor is further configured to:

generate a management command with node information defined according to the case sensitivity information, and

transmit the management command to the device management client.

22. A data processing device as claimed in claim 21, wherein the data processing device is a device management server according to the OMA device management standard.

23. A data processing device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the data processing device is configured to serve as the device management client, and

the processor is configured to refer to an already stored node and to add a new node to the device management structure according to the case sensitivity information.

24. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a computer program that is downloadable into the memory of a data processing device, wherein the computer program comprises a computer program code which, when executed in the processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

check the case sensitivity information of at least one node of a device management structure, said case sensitivity information defining whether to distinguish between upper-case and lower-case letters in data associated with one or more nodes of the device management structure, and

define at least one node of the device management structure according to the case sensitivity information

wherein the device management structure comprises information, associated with a managed device, managed with a device management protocol between a device management client and a device management server.