Managing user customizations of pre-provisioned contexts

A system for seamlessly updating connection parameters, the system comprising:

• a host machine comprising at least one processor, volatile storage, and persistent storage;
• a communications device operable to communicate with the host machine and capable of connecting to a communication network;
• a device driver that enables communication between the host machine and the communication device as well as calculates a unique identifier for the connection parameters and passes the unique identifier to the host machine and the communications device;
• the volatile storage storing a first subset of the connection parameters and the unique identifier in association with one another;
• the persistent storage storing a second subset of the connection parameters and the unique identifier for the connection parameters in association with one another, the second subset comprising at least one changed parameter created from changes made by a user to at least one original parameter of the first subset;
• a first software module stored in the persistent storage on the host machine that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to initialize an attempt to connect to the communications network;
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• a second software module stored in the persistent storage on the host machine that, when executed by the at least one process, causes the at least one processor to, when an operator of the communications network updates the connection parameters stored on the communications device with new connection parameters:
• determines whether the new connection parameters are public, where new connection parameters determined to be public are stored in the persistent storage, and where new connection parameters not determined to be public are not stored in the persistent storage.

A tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable code instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a host machine comprising a communications device, cause the host machine to carry out a method comprising:

• copying a first subset of the connection parameters from the communications device to the host machine;
• calculating a unique identifier for the connection parameters;
• storing and associating with one another in volatile memory of the host machine the first subset of the connection parameters and the unique identifier;
• storing and associating with one another in persistent storage of the host machine a second subset of connection parameters and the unique identifier, said second subset comprising at least one changed parameter created from changes made to at least one original parameter of the first subset by a user of the host machine;
• when an operator of the communications network updates the connection parameters stored on the communications device with new connection parameters,
• determining which of the new connection parameters are public and which of the new connection parameters are private;
• storing the new connection parameters determined to be public in the persistent storage, and where new connection parameters not determined to be public are not stored in the persistent storaqe.