US Patent 7653032 Applying wireless network connection profiles using windows management instrumentation

A device includes a wireless communication port to allow the device to communicate with a wireless network. The device also has at least two wireless network profiles and a distributed device management interface to manage the wireless network profiles. The device management interface is established by defining at least one wireless network adapter class and providing properties for the wireless network adapter class. A setting class is defined for wireless network adapter configurations and the wireless network adapter is associated with a wireless provider.