Patent ID: 7627767

Claim:
A method for remotely securing data, including personal data, in a wireless device in a communications network, the method comprising: receiving a request for securing the data in the wireless device; generating a message including request data for communication to the wireless device; determining a registration status of the wireless device in the communications network; if the registration status of the wireless device is active, then sending the message to the wireless device for securing the data; if the registration status of the wireless device is inactive, then storing the message in a pending messages database until the registration status of the wireless device is active; and executing an application program, wherein the application program is operative for: receiving the message; parsing the message for the request data, the request data including identification data; determining whether the identification data in the received message matches identification data resident in the wireless device; if the received identification data matches the identification data resident in the wireless device, then retrieving the data in the wireless device and sending a return message by accessing a memory in the wireless device and initiating commands to make a copy of the data on the memory, the return message including the data retrieved from the wireless device; determining whether the request data includes a request to purge the data stored in the wireless device; if the request data includes a request to purge the data stored in the wireless device, the application program executing a delete command from a menu in the wireless device to purge the data from the wireless device based on the request data, wherein the return message further includes an acknowledgement that the data is purged from the wireless device; and if the request data does not include a request to purge the data stored in the wireless device, the application program refraining from executing the delete command.