Patent ID: 7292846

Claim:
In a radio communication system defining a communication network having a mobile node forming a portion thereof, the communication network managed by a network manager, an improvement of apparatus for the mobile node for facilitating retrieval of capability indicia of the mobile node, the capability indicia representative of a dynamically alterable mobile node capability defined by objects maintained thereat, said objects being related to one another in a device management (“DevMan”) tree according to an object map of the DevMan tree, said apparatus comprising: a detector configured to receive a request message from said network manager for a root directory of said DevMan tree maintained at said mobile node; a retriever operatively connected to said detector, said retriever being responsive to detection of said request message by said detector for retrieving said object map of said DevMan tree maintained at said mobile node; and a response generator operatively connected to said retriever for generating to said network manager in a single response message a description of said object map of said DevMan tree.