Patent ID: 8083140

Claim:
A system for over-the-air provisioning, comprising: a processor; an over-the-air server application stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executed by the processor, is configured to: request and receive a log of completed provisioning tasks from an over-the-air client on a mobile terminal, manage an over-the-air provisioning session with the over-the-air client to complete a provisioning task that is segmented into a plurality of workflow steps, wherein for each of the plurality of workflow steps the over-the-air server application is configured to send an action request to the over-the-air client and to await receipt of an acknowledgment of the action request from the over-the-air client, and wherein the provisioning task is one of a task to install and activate a new electronic transaction card on the mobile terminal via the over-the-air client or a task to change a configuration parameter of the over-the-air-client, stop the over-the-air provisioning session when the acknowledgment for the action request of one of the plurality of workflow steps is not received from the over-the-air client within a first time period, and attempt to restart the over-the-air provisioning session after waiting a second time period when the over-the-air provisioning session has been stopped.