Patent ID: 8185090

Claim:
A method for provisioning content in a device management system to facilitate provisioning of mobile devices with contents of non-applicable formats independently of storage media in the device management system in a mobile network infrastructure, comprising: providing a mobile device having a terminal and a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card, providing the device management system with a device management application and repositories, the device management application checking capabilities of the mobile device from one or more repositories of the device management system with respect to the SIM card and provisioning content format, the device management application retrieving a provisioning content from the SIM card of the mobile device, the device management application determining that the retrieved provisioning content is in a format not supported by the terminal of the mobile device having the SIM card, the device management application converting the retrieved provisioning content into an applicable format supported by the terminal for provisioning the terminal, sending the converted provisioning content, retrieved from the SIM card of the mobile device, to the terminal, and provisioning the terminal with the converted provisioning content.