Patent ID: 7584201

Claim:
A method comprising: maintaining information on a mobile client; receiving an indication that the mobile client device has been lost or stolen; in response to the received indication, transmitting a backup command to the mobile client device over a wireless mobile network; transmitting a copy of the information from the mobile client device to a mobile-device data management server over the wireless mobile network automatically and without user interaction in accordance with the backup command, wherein a user of the mobile client device is locked from accessing the information and is locked from cancelling or modifying the backup command; in response to the received indication, transmitting a delete command to the mobile client device over the wireless mobile network from the mobile-device data management server independently from the backup command, wherein deleting the information comprises executing a secure delete by overwriting the information with a random binary sequence, and wherein the deleting the information further comprises deleting the information in a priority sequence defined by the delete command, wherein the information comprises sensitive data, less-sensitive data, and application(s) and the priority sequence requires deletion of the sensitive data before the less-sensitive data, and deletion of the less-sensitive data before the application(s); and deleting the information from the mobile client device automatically and without user interaction in accordance with the delete command, wherein the user of the mobile client device is locked from accessing the information and is locked from cancelling or modifying the delete command.