Patent ID: 8958776
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for facilitating mobile-station assignation of a mobile-station policy setting for a member identity identifying a member of an enterprise, said apparatus comprising: a policy setting determiner adapted to receive group membership information associated with said member identity and identifying each group to which the member identity is associated, said policy setting determiner configured to determine whether the member identity is associated with more than one group, and if so, to determine whether the group membership information of the more than one group contains a dissimilar policy setting, said policy setting determiner further configured to determine, a correct policy setting for said member identity such that, when the member identity is associated with more than one group, determining a first-group policy setting conflicts with a second-group policy setting, the correct policy setting is selected on an hierarchical basis and is a function of the rank of groups having dissimilar policy settings; and an assignor configured to make the mobile-station policy assignation of the mobile-station policy setting for a mobile station associated with said member identity in said enterprise based on determination by said policy setting determiner of the correct policy setting.