An Agent and Profile Management System for mobile users and service providers

With the development of mobile devices, people can execute many applications on their personal devices. However, many limitations of the mobile devices, e.g., CPU, memory, power supply, etc., make them impossible to be completely the same as the desktop PCs. In this paper we present an integrated management architecture for thin-client purpose called Agent and Profile Management System (APMS). The users only need to download a simple service agent to their mobile device and install it, and then the service agent will connect to the corresponding service provider send a request to the back-end server After receiving the request, the back-end server will execute appropriate processes and return a response to the mobile device. Most of the procedures are accomplished on the server side. Therefore, the workload of mobile devices is relatively low and the cost of mobile devices can be effectively reduced.