Patent ID: 8874091

Claim:
Method of operating a mobile device capability management device in a mobile communication network with respect to at least one mobile device served by the mobile communication network, wherein a mobile device capability is represented as a first mobile device profile in the mobile device capability management device and as a second mobile device profile in the mobile device, the method implemented by the mobile device capability management device comprising the steps: receiving, at the mobile device capability management device, a mobile device capability change information (CHAN) with respect to a capability change of the mobile device, wherein the mobile device capability change information (CHAN) contains a qualitative parameter indicating a degree of change to a management tree of the second mobile device profile and a quantitative parameter indicating amount of effective changes to the management tree of the second mobile device profile; and assessing, at the mobile device capability management device, the need to update the first mobile device profile on the basis of a mobile device capability management policy and the received mobile device capability change information.