Patent ID: 8060074

Claim:
A mobile device management system, comprising: at least one virtual instance mobile device, wherein each virtual instance mobile device corresponds to a unique one of at least one physical mobile device, wherein each of the at least one physical mobile devices comprises one or more hardware components, an operating system and one or more applications, wherein each virtual instance mobile device comprises an operating system and one or more applications corresponding to the operating system and the one or more applications of the corresponding unique one of the at least one physical mobile device, a hardware emulation component configured to emulate hardware components of the corresponding physical mobile device, and a software emulation component corresponding to software components of the corresponding physical mobile device and is executable within the context of the hardware emulation component; and wherein the operating system and the one or more applications of the virtual mobile instance are executable in a computer runtime environment that includes a hardware emulation component operative to emulate the one or more hardware components of the physical mobile device; a synchronization component configured to synchronize data between the at least one virtual instance mobile device with the corresponding at least one physical mobile device respectively; a data store configured to store data obtained from the at least one physical mobile device; and a management component configured to remotely manage the at least one physical mobile device by loading the corresponding at least one virtual instance mobile device into the computer runtime environment for execution, and cause the at least one virtual instance mobile device to be executed in the computer runtime environment in order to remotely manage the corresponding at least one physical mobile device respectively by loading and executing the hardware emulation component of the virtual instance mobile device and then executing the software emulation component of the virtual instance mobile device within the context of the hardware emulation component.