Patent ID: 8260885

Claim:
A method for bootstrapping an electronic communication device in a communications network, comprising the steps of: providing a smartcard management system configured to update a smartcard of the device with basic device management parameters, wherein the basic device management parameters are user name and/or password and necessary general packet radio service (GPRS) connectivity data to facilitate the device management session; receiving a detection message from a detection source that a new combination of device and subscriber is detected by the communications network; in response to the detection message, sending a notification message with basic device management parameters and subscriber identification to an operator's business system, notifying the operator's business system that the new combination of device and subscriber has been detected; and sending, by the operator's business system in response to the notification message, an order message to the smartcard management system, having credentials to communicate with the smartcard of the device, to update the smartcard of the device with the basic device management parameters.