Patent ID: 7604162

Claim:
A method of management of terminal devices characterized by including: receiving monitoring tasks issued by a management side based on a device management (DM) protocol, wherein the monitoring tasks are adapted to indicate a terminal device to monitor applications which are installed or updated on the terminal device via a non-DM mode; installing the monitoring tasks to a device management (DM) tree in the terminal device for monitoring the terminal device under offline conditions; monitoring and acquiring original application information on the terminal device through querying and analyzing an application table or system logs; monitoring and acquiring current application information on the terminal device through querying and analyzing a current application table or current system logs, and then removing the application information installed via a DM mode from the acquired current application information; comparing the original application information with the current application information installed via the non-DM mode; recording and reporting the installed or updated applications information via the non-DM mode of the terminal device to the management side based on the DM protocol, after establishing communication with the management side; and carrying out management commands issued by said management side on the basis of said installed or updated applications information via the non-DM mode of the terminal device for preventing adverse impact of the events on the terminal device.