SYSTEM FOR UPDATING SOFTWARE IN A WIRELESS DEVICE

摘要

A system (10) and method for managing the deleting and reloading of software application components on a wireless device, such as a cellular telephone (12), personal digital assistant (18), pager (20), or other computer platfor m (22). The wireless device has one or more resident executable software applications wherein each application has one or more application components and application-associated data, such as software licenses and user-specific data. The wireless device selectively deletes one or more application components (86, 88) of the resident software applications without loss of th e application-associated data to clear resources on the wireless device (92), and selectively prompts an application download server across a wireless network to transmit deleted application components needed to be re-installed on the wireless device (94) to execute the application.