Patent ID: 9696977
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for allocating an identifier (ID) of a software component by a Device Management (DM) client, the method comprising: receiving a download package from a DM server, wherein the download package includes deployed component information and a package identifier, and wherein the deployed component information is used for uniquely identifying software components after the software components are installed in the DM client; executing the download package and installing the software components in the DM client; generating a deployed component ID for each of the software components according to the deployed component information, after the download package is executed, wherein the deployed component ID is not inherited from the package identifier; and allocating the deployed component ID to each of the software components; wherein the deployed component information is used by the DM client for distinguishing each of the software components, and wherein the software components installed in the DM client are updated, removed, activated, or deactivated by the DM server based on the deployed component information.