METHOD OF RECEIVING, STORING, AND PROVIDING DEVICE MANAGEMENT PARAMETERS AND FIRMWARE UPDATES TO APPLICATION PROGRAMS WITHIN A MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

The present invention is a method for the efficient persistent storage of Device Management (DM) information on a mobile device. More specifically, the present design provides methods for applications to access and update this information consistent with the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) DM standard. The present invention provides a method for retrieving firmware update packages, saving the package as specified by the OMA Firmware Update Management Object standard, and triggering the update process to apply the package by an update agent.