Patent ID: 7165173

Claim:
A mobile station that communicates with a plurality of base stations in a wireless network and receives at least one of a software program, a software correction patch and provisioning data from a server associated with said wireless network, said mobile station comprising: an RF transceiver that receives wireless messages from said plurality of base stations and converts said received wireless messages to a plurality of Internet protocol (IP) packets; an encryption controller that converts said IP packets from an encrypted format to a decrypted format according to at least one of: IP Sec tunneling protocol; Secure Shell (SSH) tunneling protocol; Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS); and point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP); and a data burst message protocol controller that converts said decrypted IP packets to at least one data burst message, wherein said mobile station accesses at least one of said software program, said software correction patch and said provisioning data via a public IP network and automatically applies at least one of said software program, said software correction patch and said provisioning data.