Patent ID: 8195124

Claim:
A method of managing time sensitive application privileges on a wireless device, comprising: receiving a request to execute an application having a time sensitivity requirement at the wireless device, a date/time maintained at the wireless device not being synchronized with a date/time maintained at a wireless network with which the wireless device is associated; retrieving a date/time result from a source; associating a corresponding confidence factor with the date/time result, wherein the corresponding confidence factor indicates a degree to which the source of the date/time result is trusted to provide authentic date/time information; and determining execution of the application based on the date/time result and the corresponding confidence factor, wherein the application has a plurality of functional modes each corresponding to one of a plurality of confidence requirements, and executing the respective one of the plurality of functional modes based on a match between a confidence factor associated with the date/time result and a respective one of the plurality of confidence requirements.