Patent ID: 8412176

Claim:
A method, comprising: selecting, at a base station, at least one of a transmission power level or a transmission power distribution for a broadcast over a broadcast channel of a first wireless communication medium, wherein the selection is based upon at least one of a range associated with a base station and a topology proximate the base station so that mobile units outside a predetermined geographic area receive the broadcast at a received power that is less than a selected threshold so that mobile units outside the predetermined geographic area do not implement modifications to their configuration profiles without user intervention; and broadcasting, from the base station over the broadcast channel using said at least one transmission power or transmission power distribution, information indicating a modification to at least one configuration profile of at least one mobile unit, wherein the configuration profile is associated with the first communication medium; wherein the modification is implemented by said at least one mobile unit without user intervention in response to said at least one mobile unit determining that it has received the broadcast at a received power level that is above the selected threshold, and wherein the base station broadcasts said information using at least one of the transmission power level or the transmission power distribution selected so that only mobile units within a predetermined geographic area receive the information at the received power level that is above the selected threshold.