Patent ID: 7532882

Claim:
A method of automatically configuring access control for a mobile device communications system: receiving access control information regarding remote resources utilized by an application, downloading to the mobile device an application file associated with said application, installing and setting-up the application on the mobile device based upon the application file, and modifying access control rules in accordance with the access control information, the access control rules providing a basis for deciding which communications to allow and which communications to block between the application and the remote resources, said modifying occurring after it has been confirmed that downloading of the application file will proceed or installing is complete, wherein said modifying further comprises modifying server access control rules in accordance with the access control information, and said modifying server access control rules further comprises sending a message to a server access update module, and responsive thereto the server access update module implementing the modification of the server access rules, and wherein receiving comprises receiving the access control information within a descriptor file, and reading the access control information from the descriptor file.