Patent ID: 8510819

Claim:
A method for securing a mobile device comprising: generating a time-sensitive server identity token (TSIT) at a server, the TSIT having an associated time stamp; sending the TSIT to the mobile device; generating a collection of time-based keys at the mobile device, each key representing a specific time within a period of time before the TSIT was received from the server; verifying that the TSIT was provided by the server if the TSIT matches one of the collection of time-based keys providing authentication information from the mobile device to the server in response to verification of the TSIT at the mobile device; establishing a secure communications session between the mobile device and the server after authenticating the server to the mobile device; and subsequently providing status information from the mobile device to the server; providing a list of at least one security action from the server to the mobile device; and processing the list of at least one security action at the mobile device such that each of the at least one security action is provided to one of a local queue for storage and a client software of the mobile device for execution.