Patent ID: 8565726

Claim:
A method for providing policy from an integrated policy server to a mobile device, the mobile device having policy compliance capabilities, the method comprising: identifying the mobile device; identifying a policy in the integrated policy server applicable to the mobile device based on the identity of the mobile device, the policy including one or more policy elements; identifying one or more of the policy elements based on the policy compliance capabilities of the mobile device; determining whether the mobile device is in compliance with the policy based on the identified policy elements; and when the mobile device is not in compliance with the policy: decomposing the policy into the one or more policy elements; mapping the one or more policy elements to one or more device-specific policy elements compatible with the mobile device; transforming the one or more policy elements to the one or more device-specific policy elements compatible with the mobile device; grouping the device-specific policy elements according to one or more policy transports to form grouped device-specific policy elements, wherein the grouped device-specific policy elements are grouped to minimize the number of policy transports; and supplying the grouped device-specific policy elements to the corresponding one or more policy transports for transmission to the mobile device.