Patent ID: 8560653

Claim:
A method of managing a plurality of mobile computing units (MU) within a mobile device management (MDM) system, comprising: establishing a connection between a MU and the MDM system, the MDM system managing the MU and including a plurality of management instructions within an operating environment; detecting, by the MDM system, that the MU is incapable of operating as a managing MU because it lacks a mobile management interface (MMI); authenticating a user of the MU as an administrator authorized to perform the plurality of management instructions; deploying, by the MDM system, the MMI to the MU when the user is authenticated as the administrator, thereby changing a status of the MU to a managing MU, wherein the MMI application executing on the managing MU communicates with the MDM system to gain access to the plurality of management instructions; presenting, via the MMI on the managing MU, information obtained from the MDM system, regarding at least one other MU in the plurality of MUs; receiving, by the MDM system, a management instruction indicating a management operation that the user wishes to perform from the MMI on the managing MU; performing, by the managing MU, the requested management instruction; and displaying, on the managing MU, results of the requested management operation.