Patent ID: 8041346

Claim:
A method for establishing a service relationship between a mobile communication device and a mobile data server for wireless data communications, wherein the mobile communication device is connected to a computer through a communications protocol, the method comprising: displaying a web page including a scripting language within an Internet browser on the computer, the Internet browser including a scripting engine for executing the scripting language; providing a scripting-language capable device controller for interfacing communications between the scripting engine and the mobile communication device in accordance with the communications protocol connecting the computer and mobile communication device; receiving by the Internet browser a first request to establish the service relationship between the mobile communication device and the mobile data server via a user interface element of the web page; receiving a device identifier and device capability data by the scripting-language capable device controller from the mobile communication device in response to the first request; sending the device identifier and device capability data from the scripting-language capable device controller to the scripting engine of the Internet browser; sending the device identifier and device capability data and a second request to establish the service relationship between the mobile communication device from the Internet browser to a mobile data administration server in communication with the computer via a communications network; receiving service data for the mobile communication device from the mobile data administration server by the Internet browser in response to the second request; sending the service data from the Internet browser to the scripting-language capable device controller; sending the service data from the scripting-language capable device controller to the mobile communication device through the communications protocol; and storing the service data in a memory of the mobile communication device.