Intel Corporation

Casey Bahr

Patrick L Reilly

An Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OA&M)provides security for managed resources on a wireless client deviceat many levels of granularity, from the entire device, to subsystems, to software and hardware components, services and applications, down to individual attributes.

Client side security management for an operations, administration and maintenance system for wireless clients

Client-side security management for an operations, administration, and maintenance system for wireless clients

Security management for wireless clients

In one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless platform may be managed by an operations, administration, and maintenance system which may include a configuration manager, a performance manager, an accounting manager, a fault manager, an event manager, and a notification manager.

Managing a wireless platform

A system permits trail capabilities of upgrade features for a wireless client, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), without intervention of a remote service provider. The software for running a plurality of advanced features is preloaded, in a disabled state, onto the client prior to sale. The first time the user attempts to access the advanced feature a fault condition is triggered since this feature does not theretofore exist. The fault management system initiates a fault recovery routine in attempt to recover from the fault. This routine actually comprises the code that places the preloaded software in an enabled state thus beginning the trial period and allowing the user an opportunity to use and evaluate the advanced feature. Managed objects (MOs) associated with the feature monitors usage of the feature and such that the feature can be disabled when a threshold usage has been reached and the trial period is over.

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Hillsboro, OR, United States of America

Casey Bahr