Patent ID: 7343408

Claim:
A method for remotely managing a wireless device over a telecommunications network comprising a server and the wireless device, the method comprising the steps of: establishing from the server to the wireless device a communicative connection between the server and the wireless device over a signaling channel of the telecommunications network, wherein the communicative connection is established based on a threshold condition; transmitting a command from the server to the wireless device over the signaling network, wherein the wireless device executes commands including: enabling access to user-specific data used by application software on the wireless device requiring user interaction locally on the wireless device, enabling the application software, erasing at least a portion of the user-specific data, transmitting new application software and new user-specific data to the wireless device, querying a current state of the wireless device, and reconfiguring the application software, disabling access to user-specific data used by application software on the wireless device requiring user interaction locally on the wireless device, and disabling the application software; executing the command at the wireless device after verifying at the wireless device that a signature sent by the server that is an origin of the command and signature of the device are in agreement; and transmitting information relating to execution of the command at the wireless device from the wireless device to the server.