M2M SERVICE ENABLEMENT OVER ACCESS NETWORKS
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1. A method of subscription configuration at a network service control layer entity in an access network, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a device connected to the access network, a registration request containing a subscription identifier;
determining, in accordance with the received registration request, a service provider associated with the device;
transmitting, on behalf of the device, a registration request to a determined service provider; and
modifying a subscription configuration associated with the device in the access network in accordance with a received response to the transmitted registration request.
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Abstract
Upon attachment of a machine-to-machine (M2M) device to a network, the access network determines which service provider to connect the device to. During an initial attachment process, the device can be configured so that it only will connect to a defined M2M service provider.
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1. A method of subscription configuration at a network service control layer entity in an access network, the method comprising:
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receiving, from a device connected to the access network, a registration request containing a subscription identifier; determining, in accordance with the received registration request, a service provider associated with the device; transmitting, on behalf of the device, a registration request to a determined service provider; and modifying a subscription configuration associated with the device in the access network in accordance with a received response to the transmitted registration request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An access network Machine-to-Machine service control layer entity comprising:
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a network interface for communicating with a connected machine-to-machine device and a machine-to-machine service provider; a processor for executing instructions; and an instruction repository for storing instructions that when executed cause to processor to receive, over the network interface, a registration request containing a subscription identifier from the machine-to-machine device, determine that the received registration request is associated with the machine-to-machine service provider;
transmit a registration request to the service provide on behalf of the device over the network interface, and modify a subscription configuration associated with the device in the access network in accordance with a response to the transmitted registration request received over the network interface.
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12. A method of proxying communications between a machine-to-machine device connected to an access network and a machine-to-machine service provider, at a network service control layer entity in the access network, the method comprising:
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receiving a data transmission from the device containing a subscription identifier; selecting the machine-to-machine service provider from a plurality of machine-to-machine-service providers; upon determining that the selected machine-to-machine service provider does not make use of an interworking function, creating a binding uniquely associating the device with the data transmission and selected machine-to-machine service provider; transmitting, to the selected service provider, a message determined in accordance with the received data transmission; receiving a response to the transmitted message; and transmitting to the device uniquely associated with the received response by the created binding, a response to the received data transmission. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. An access network Machine-to-Machine service control layer entity comprising:
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a network interface for communicating with a connected machine-to-machine device and a machine-to-machine service provider; a processor for executing instructions; and an instruction repository for storing instructions that when executed cause to processor to select the machine-to-machine service provider in accordance with a subscription identifier contained in a data transmission received over the network interface from the machine-to-machine device, create a binding uniquely associating the device with the data transmission and the selected machine-to-machine device upon determining that the selected machine-to-machine service provider does not make use of an interworking function, transmit to the selected service provider a message determined in accordance with the received data transmission, transmit a response to the received data transmission determined in accordance with a response received over the network interface from the service provider, the transmitted response sent over the network interface and sent to the device.
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