Patent ID: 7369846

Claim:
A method for operating a mobile station comprising: during the operation of the mobile station within a network, determining and storing a set of performance-related data in the mobile station, said performance-related data comprising information that represents both normal and abnormal conditions in the network and in the mobile station; responsive to a triggering event, transmitting the set or a sub-set of the performance-related data to a computer for analysis; and receiving at the mobile station a message for informing a user of the result of the analysis, wherein the triggering event is comprised of a receipt by the mobile station of an encrypted message to transmit the set or sub-set of the performance-related data, and further comprising decrypting the received message using an associated public key stored in the mobile station and transmitting the set or the sub-set of the performance-related data only in response to correctly decrypting the encrypted message, further wherein the public key stored in the mobile station is one of a set of public keys stored in the mobile station, wherein individual members of the set of public keys are associated with applications executable by the mobile station in cooperation with at least one of an encrypted command and an encrypted data set received from the wireless network that are decrypted by the mobile station using one of the set of public keys.