Patent ID: 7840687

Claim:
A method comprising: discovering wirelessly, by a mobile station, a remotely disposed bootstrapping server equipped to provide information relating to a location of a provisioning server equipped to provide provisioning service to mobile stations; transmitting wirelessly, by the mobile station over a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network, a bootstrap request using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to the bootstrapping server, requesting bootstrap information to bootstrap the mobile station to receive provisioning service from a provisioning server associated with the bootstrapping server, the bootstrap request including information about the mobile station, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the bootstrap request such that the bootstrap request is configured to be transmissible through one or more firewalls operating on the mobile station; and receiving wirelessly, by the mobile station over the WiMax network, bootstrap response from the bootstrapping server in response to the transmitted bootstrap request, the bootstrap response including information relating to the location of the provisioning server or credentials to connect to the provisioning server.