Machine type communication preregistration

• US 9,185,673 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2010
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shaheen, Kamel M.
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, HOANG-CHUONG Q
• Application Number:
  US12/954,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20110134841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,812 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 455/433, 455/435.1, 455/435.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events

Abstract

A method and apparatus for machine type communication (MTC) preregistration are provided. The methods provide single or periodic preregistrations and may be machine to machine (M2M) application function (AF) or device (MTC user equipment based). The devices in the system may be divided into groups and accessed by on a group Internet Protocol (IP) address. Two wake up cycles may be provided, one for control and one for uploading information (a reporting cycle). During the control cycle, the devices may wake up and listen to the control channel for any paging messages. Depending on the paging information, individual devices or the entire group may access the system. In the reporting cycle, all the devices may wake up and access the system to connect to the M2M system to upload data.

Claims

1. A method for using a machine to machine (M2M) application that is for interfacing with a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of wireless/transmit receive units (WTRUs) that are organized into one or more groups by one of a group identifier or a cell identification, the method comprising:

receiving in the M2M application a request to initiate a machine type communication (MTC) preregistration for two or more wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) in the one or more groups of WTRUs that enables the two or more WRTUs to obtain radio resources;

transmitting a service request from the M2M application to the wireless communications network to perform the MTC preregistration for the two or more WRTUs in the one or more groups of WTRUs, that comprises (i) one of the cell identification or the group identification for the two or more WTRUs;

(ii) a cycle based IP activation/deactivation request; and

(iii) a time window defining when the two or more WTRUs awakes to communicate with the wireless communications network; and

receiving an acknowledgement, in an application function of the M2M application, from the network indicating the completion of MTC preregistration for the two or more WTRUs in the one or more groups of WTRUs.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the service request is transmitted periodically.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the MTC preregistration enables the two or more WTRUs to use an account-based uniform resource identifier/uniform resource location (URI)/(URL) to upload data to a M2M server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the M2M application receiving a trigger to initiate the MTC deregistration with the network for the two or more WTRUs, wherein the trigger includes receiving a signal from one of the two or more WTRUs.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a trigger at the M2M application to release an IP address and release radio resources for the two or more WTRUs, wherein the trigger includes receiving a signal from one of the two or more WTRUs.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a trigger to initiate a reporting cycle for the two or more WTRUs; and

performing a reporting cycle.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a trigger to initiate a cycle control cycle for the two or more WTRUs; and

performing a control cycle.

8. A machine to machine (M2M) application function (AF) apparatus, for interfacing with a wireless communications network comprising a server and a plurality of wireless/transmit receive unites (WTRUs) that are organized into one or more groups by one of a group identification or a cell identification, comprising:

a processor configured with executable instructions to

(i) receive a request to initiate a machine type communication (MTC) preregistration for two or more wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs);

(ii) generate a service request to transmit to the network to perform the MTC preregistration for the two or more WTRUs in the one or more groups of WTRUs;

that comprises (1) one of a cell identification or a group identification for the two or more WTRUs;

(2) a cycle based IP activation/deactivation request; and

(3) a time window defining when the two or more WTRUs awakes to communicate with the wireless communications network; and

(iii) receive an acknowledgement from the network indicating the completion of MTC preregistration for the two or more WTRUs in the one or more groups of WTRUs, wherein MTC preregistration enables the two or more WTRUs to obtain radio resources.

9. The M2M AF apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor contains executable instructions for transmitting the service request to the network periodically.

10. The M2M AF apparatus of claim 8, wherein the MTC preregistration enables the two or more WTRUs in the group of WTRUs to use an account based uniform resource identifier/uniform resource location (URI)/(URL) to upload data to a M2M server.

11. The M2M apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a trigger to initiate an MTC deregistration with the network for the two or more WTRUs in the group of WTRUs, wherein the trigger includes the reception of a signal from one of the plurality of WTRUs.

12. The M2M AF of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a trigger to release an IP address and release radio resources for the two or more WTRUs, wherein the trigger includes the reception of a signal from one of the plurality of WTRUs.

13. The M2M AF of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a trigger to initiate a reporting cycle for the two or more WTRUs;

and to perform a reporting cycle.

14. The M2M AF of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to receive a trigger to initiate a control cycle for the two or more WTRUs;

and to perform a control cycle.