Patent ID: 8700757

Claim:
A method for a terminal to execute a management operation in a communication system which employs an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) device management solution, comprising: operating, by the terminal, a target operation node in a device capability management object as instructed in a management operation command received by the terminal; wherein the terminal provides a device management tree, and the device capability management object is organized on the device management tree as a node, and triggering, by operation of the target operation node, execution of a corresponding device capability management operation; determining that the device capability management operation is valid, wherein the process of determining that the device capability management operation is valid comprises: determining that the device capability management operation is applicable to a current status of a device capability of the terminal, and determining that an initiator of the management operation command has an authority to transit the current status of the device capability; and transiting, by the device capability management operation, a status of the device capability of the terminal from the current status to a target status indicated in the device capability management operation, wherein the initiator of the management operation command is determined to be a device management server, which has the authority, or a user of the terminal, which has the authority issued by the device management server; the device capability management operation is to enable the device capability of the terminal; and the current status of the device capability of the terminal is disable or kept disable, which is applicable according to the device capability management operation; if the device capability management operation is determined to be valid, the method further comprises: transiting, by the device capability management operation, the status of the device capability of the terminal from disable to enable.