Patent ID: 8571612

Claim:
A method of managing mobile devices comprising: identifying one or more mobile host devices and creating a working set of the identified mobile host devices; communicating user input data from a mobile management device to a management computer over a communication network; determining whether communicated user input data includes at least a request for a list of the mobile host devices in the working set, and generating response data based at least in part on the identified mobile host devices in the working set and communicating the response data to the mobile management device; determining whether communicated user input data includes a command function for configuring at least one mobile host device in the working set; in response to determining that communicated user input data includes a command function, executing the command function at the management computer for at least one mobile host device in the working set; and selectively communicating configuration data from the management computer to the at least one mobile host device in the working set over the communication network to configure the mobile host device.