Patent ID: 8479290

Claim:
A communication method, comprising: (A) monitoring packet-based traffic in a mobile-communications network to identify, as a malicious wireless terminal, a wireless terminal that exhibits specified behavior; (B) changing a subscriber profile maintained by the network for the wireless terminal to a quarantine state in response to the identification; (C) allowing the wireless terminal to operate in the quarantine state under the changed subscriber profile; and (D) treating the wireless terminal via a link with a remediation manager to disable a cause of the specified behavior, wherein step (D) comprises: (D1) downloading remediation software from the remediation manager to the wireless terminal; (D2) initiating a memory and/or system scan at the wireless terminal using the remediation software; (D3) repairing or reinstalling any corrupted software detected by the scan; (D4) terminating any active malicious processes detected by the scan; (D5) deleting or quarantining any malware detected by the scan; and (D6) restoring the system and/or the memory of the wireless terminal to a specified operational state.