Mobile device with a management forest in a device management network
First Claim
1. A system supporting management of device management information in a plurality of mobile electronic devices, the system comprising:
- two or more device management authorities for communicating with the plurality of mobile electronic devices and via a gateway with a service provider server employing a broker, a bootstrap provisioning server, and a customer care server, to create and manage associated device management trees in the mobile electronic device, wherein the two or more device management authorities are server computers; and
each of the plurality of mobile electronic devices comprising an associated device management tree for each of the two or more device management authorities.
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Abstract
A mobile handset network employs a device management server/gateway to manage a plurality of management trees in a mobile electronic device such as mobile handset or personal digital assistant. Each of the management trees in the mobile electronic device may be associated and managed by a different management authority in the device management (DM) network such as, for example, a device manufacturer DM-server, a network operator DM-server, and a service provider DM-server. Each of the management authorities in the mobile handset network are capable of provisioning, replacing, modifying and/or deleting the associated one of the plurality of management trees in the mobile device, by employing a device management client resident in the mobile electronic device.
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1. A system supporting management of device management information in a plurality of mobile electronic devices, the system comprising:
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two or more device management authorities for communicating with the plurality of mobile electronic devices and via a gateway with a service provider server employing a broker, a bootstrap provisioning server, and a customer care server, to create and manage associated device management trees in the mobile electronic device, wherein the two or more device management authorities are server computers; and each of the plurality of mobile electronic devices comprising an associated device management tree for each of the two or more device management authorities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A mobile electronic device comprising:
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two or more device management clients, each device management client for managing objects in a device management forest comprising a plurality of associated device management trees each corresponding to different device management entities, wherein the device management entities are server computers, and wherein the associated device management trees are independent of one another and are not subtrees; two or more credentials, each credential associated with one of the two or more device management clients; and each device management client capable of one or more of accessing, updating, creating, deleting, and modifying objects in the associated device management trees based upon communication with an associated one of two or more device management servers using the associated one of the two or more credentials. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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