Patent ID: 7865483

Claim:
A method for managing a Device Management (DM) object, the method comprising: detecting whether a memory card is mounted in a mobile communication terminal; analyzing a DM object device in the memory card when memory card is mounted in the mobile communication terminal; checking whether the DM object exists in the mobile communication terminal, wherein at least one DM object exists in a form of a DM tree; selectively performing user confirmation when the DM object has not been stored in the mobile communication terminal; copying the DM object of the memory card into the mobile communication terminal according to the user confirmation; transmitting the DM object in the mobile communication terminal in form of the DM tree to a DM server; receiving, from the server, information including a DM command for managing the DM object, a condition for performing the DM command, an updated DM object, wherein the information is stored in the mobile communication terminal in the form of the DM tree including a condition node corresponding to the condition, a commands node corresponding to the DM command, a Smart Card node indicating whether to copy the information into the memory card, and a gating node indicating whether to report the DM server; checking whether the condition for performing the DM command is matched; performing the DM command to copy the updated DM object into the memory card when the condition is matched; comparing the DM object in the memory card with the DM object in the mobile communication terminal; and coping the DM object in the memory card into the mobile communication terminal.