Patent ID: 7974613

Claim:
A handheld electronic device comprising: non-volatile memory having stored therein one or both of firmware and software; at least one processor operably coupled to the non-volatile memory, wherein the at least one processor, during operation, at least: wirelessly receives, from a remote server via a communication network, device capability information associated with an application resident on the electronic device according to a device management protocol standard; stores the device capability information as a non-standard sub-node of a defined standard device management object in a device management tree in the non-volatile memory, wherein the non-standard sub-node is logically associated with the application; and enables or disables the resident application, a previously enabled feature of the resident application, and functionality of the handheld electronic device based upon the device capability information, wherein the device capability information includes quantification and identification of handheld electronic device resources used by the resident application, and an indication associated with the resident application being a standard application.