Patent ID: 7953836

Claim:
A terminal for executing a management operation, wherein the terminal comprises a device management agent unit and a device capability management agent unit, wherein the device management agent unit is adapted to operate a target operation node in a device capability management object as instructed in a management operation command received by the device management agent unit; and the device capability management agent unit is adapted to execute a device capability management operation corresponding to the operation for the target operation node performed by the device management agent unit, wherein the device capability management operation is adapted to transit status of a device capability of the terminal; wherein the device capability management agent unit comprises: a validity determining unit adapted to determine whether the device capability management operation corresponding to the operation for the target operation node performed by the device management agent unit is valid; a device capability management operation executing unit adapted to execute the device capability management operation when the device capability management operation is determined as valid by the validity determining unit; wherein the validity determining unit comprises: an obtaining unit adapted to obtain information on current status of the device capability, information on an initiator of the management operation command and information on the device capability management operation corresponding to the operation for the target operation node performed by the device management agent unit; a status identifying unit adapted to identify the current status of the device capability of the terminal from the information on the status of the device capability provided by the obtaining unit; an initiator identifying unit adapted to identify whether the initiator is a device management server or a user of the terminal from the information on the initiator of the management operation command provided by the obtaining unit; a management operation identifying unit adapted to identify the device capability management operation corresponding to the operation for the target operation node performed by the device management agent unit from the information on the device capability management operation provided by the obtaining unit; an authority determining unit adapted to determine whether the device capability management operation corresponding to the operation for the target operation node performed by the device management agent unit is valid according to the obtained determining conditions comprising the information provided by the status identifying unit, the initiator identifying unit and the management operation identifying unit; the device capability management operation executing unit adapted to execute the device capability management operation when the device capability management operation is determined to be valid by the authority determining unit.