Method and system for establishing a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server for connecting to a wireless network

• US 8,457,609 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2012
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Tyhurst, Timothy Richard, Omar, Salim Hayder
• Primary Examiner(s): DOAN, PHUOC HUU
• Application Number:
  US13/565,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20120295607A1
• Time in Patent Office: 306 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/418, 709/217, 370/350, 370/324, 713/168
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• 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 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A method and system for establishing a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server for connecting to a wireless network are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, an Internet browser receives a request to establish a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server. A device identifier and device capability data is received from the mobile communication device. Service data for the mobile communication device is received from a mobile data administration server in accordance with the device identifier and device capability data, which is then stored in a memory of the mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A method for establishing service relationships for wireless data communications, the method comprising:

receiving at a web-based device management application a first request to establish a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server;

obtaining a device identifier and device capability data from the mobile communication device;

sending the device identifier and device capability data and a second request to establish the service relationship from the web-based device management application to a mobile data administration server;

receiving at the web-based device management application service data generated for the mobile communication device from the mobile data administration server in response to the second request;

sending the service data from the web-based device management application to the mobile communication device for storing in a memory of the mobile communication device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving an acknowledgement message from the mobile communication device when the service data is stored;

sending an acknowledgement message to the mobile data server when the service data is stored; and

commencing service to the mobile communication device when the acknowledgement message is received by the mobile data server.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

changing a status of a private encryption key from a pending state to an active state when the acknowledgement message is received by the mobile data server.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein a scripting engine of the web-based device management application communicates with the mobile communication device through a scripting-language capable device controller.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the web-based device management application includes a scripting engine for executing a scripting language, and wherein the first request is received via a user interface element of a web page including a script within the scripting language which is displayed within the web-based device management application.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the service records are generated in accordance with services specified by a user account profile associated with the device identifier, wherein each service record comprises a service identifier of the mobile data server.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the service records are generated by the mobile data administration server in accordance with services specified by a user account profile associated with the device identifier, the device capability data and IT policy data associated with the user account profile.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the service data comprises one or any combination of service records, a private encryption key and IT policy data.

9. A data processing system, comprising:

a processor;

a data interface coupled to the processor and configured for communicating with a mobile communication device and for exchanging data with the mobile communication device through a communications protocol;

a communications subsystem coupled to the processor;

a web-based device management application configured to receive a first request to establish a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server, to receive a device identifier and device capability data from the mobile communication device in response to the first request, to send the device identifier and device capability data and a second request to establish the service relationship between the mobile communication device to a mobile data administration server, to receive service data for the mobile communication device from the mobile data administration server in response to the second request, to send the service data from the web-based device management application to the mobile communication device, and to store the service data in a memory of the mobile communication device.

10. A computer readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon for implementing a web-based device management application when executed by a processor, the web-based device management application configured to perform a method for establishing service relationships for wireless data communications, the method comprising:

receiving a first request to establish a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server;

obtaining a device identifier and device capability data from the mobile communication device;

sending the device identifier and device capability data and a second request to establish the service relationship to a mobile data administration server;

receiving service data generated for the mobile communication device from the mobile data administration server in response to the second request;

sending the service data to the mobile communication device for storing in a memory of the mobile communication device.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10 further comprising:

receiving an acknowledgement message from the mobile communication device when the service data is stored;

sending an acknowledgement message to the mobile data server when the service data is stored; and

commencing service to the mobile communication device when the acknowledgement message is received by the mobile data server.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11 further comprising:

changing a status of a private encryption key from a pending state to an active state when the acknowledgement message is received by the mobile data server.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 10 wherein a scripting engine of the web-based device management application communicates with the mobile communication device through a scripting-language capable device controller.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13 wherein the web-based device management application includes a scripting engine for executing a scripting language, and wherein the first request is received via a user interface element of a web page including a script within the scripting language which is displayed within the web-based device management application.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 10 wherein the service records are generated in accordance with services specified by a user account profile associated with the device identifier, wherein each service record comprises a service identifier of the mobile data server.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15 wherein the service records are generated by the mobile data administration server in accordance with services specified by a user account profile associated with the device identifier, the device capability data and IT policy data associated with the user account profile.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 10 wherein the service data comprises one or any combination of service records, a private encryption key and IT policy data.