Client Side Security Management for an Operations, Administrations and Maintenance System for Wireless Clients

Abstract

An Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OA&M) 16 provides security for managed resources on a wireless client device 10 at many levels of granularity, from the entire device, to subsystems, to software and hardware components, services and applications, down to individual attributes.

1 - 25 . (canceled) 
     
     
         26 . A method, comprising:
 securing access to managed objects within one or more managed object databases in a wireless device at different levels of granularity; and   setting policies for authentication and encryption for access to the managed objects in the one or more managed object databases.   
     
     
         27 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to each of the one or more managed object databases to which a policy object is associated. 
     
     
         28 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to a specific managed object database. 
     
     
         29 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that represent an entire managed resource. 
     
     
         30 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that may represent a subset of a managed resource. 
     
     
         31 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed objects. 
     
     
         32 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific attributes of managed objects. 
     
     
         33 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the security management comprises a layered system for to the management of platform resources. 
     
     
         34 . The method of  claim 33 , wherein the platform resources to be managed on the wireless device are instantiated in software as Managed Objects. 
     
     
         35 . The method of  claim 26 , further comprising providing a security policy that allows for an adjustment of authentication and encryption security policies. 
     
     
         36 . The method of  claim 26 , further comprising defining and maintaining configuration data. 
     
     
         37 . The method of  claim 36 , further comprising capturing and delivering platform events at the wireless device. 
     
     
         38 . The method of  claim 37 , wherein a platform event comprises an instantaneous change to a managed object. 
     
     
         39 . The method of  claim 36 , further comprising an account management module to record billing information and to communicate session detail records at the wireless device. 
     
     
         40 . An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
 securing access to managed objects within one or more managed object databases in a wireless device at different levels of granularity; and   setting policies for authentication and encryption for access to the managed objects in the one or more managed object databases.   
     
     
         41 . The article of manufacture of  claim 40 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to each of the one or more managed object databases to which a policy object is associated. 
     
     
         42 . The article of manufacture of  claim 40 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to a specific managed object database. 
     
     
         43 . The article of manufacture of  claim 40 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that represent an entire managed resource. 
     
     
         44 . The article of manufacture of  claim 40 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that may represent a subset of a managed resource. 
     
     
         45 . The article of manufacture of  claim 40 , wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed objects.