Patent ID: 8122174

Claim:
A method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device, the method comprising: at the server after receiving a network registration request from the mobile electronic device, accessing a device registry linking resources managed by the server with mobile electronic devices currently tracked by the server to determine whether the mobile electronic device is in the device registry; if the mobile electronic device is in the device registry, determining whether a resource is approved to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device from the server, otherwise, if the mobile electronic device is not in the device registry, awaiting a request from the mobile electronic device for the resource and evaluating the request; and determining whether either the resource has already been provisioned to the mobile electronic device or the mobile electronic device has been designated to be provisioned with the resource from an alternative source from the server; and if so, not approving the resource to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device, otherwise providing a data transmission to the mobile electronic device from the server, the data transmission containing text and a link to the resource that can be extracted by the mobile electronic device and used to access the resource and if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device, the data transmission contains an indicator that the resource is new; and at the mobile electronic device receiving the data transmission at the mobile electronic device; incorporating the text and the link from the data transmission into a graphical user interface (GUI) generated on a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device; if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device providing an indicator on the GUI that the resource is new; and retrieving the resource from the server when the link is activated through the GUI.