Patent ID: 8208900

Claim:
A machine implemented method for configuring a wireless device, the method comprising: receiving a request, from the wireless device, to create a configurable profile, the request being received by a data processing system of an enterprise; creating, in response to the request, the configuration profile for the wireless device, the configuration profile being designed to configure the wireless device for communication with one or more data processing systems of the enterprise, and wherein the creating includes signing the configuration profile to allow the wireless device to authenticate the configuration profile, and the communication is a secure communication in which sender and receiver are authenticated to each other, security of the secure communication is configured by the configuration profile, the request is generated by one of a web browser program, an e-mail program or a media management program and wherein the configuration profile comprises at least one of a policy for use of the wireless device or a restriction on the use of the wireless device which effectively disables a feature of the wireless device, and the configuration profile is configured to have an updatable root of trust certificate and wherein the configuration profile comprises an identity which comprises an encrypted certificate and an encrypted key of a private key/public key pair; and transmitting the configuration profile to the wireless device with a connectionless network protocol.