Soracom, Inc.

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Kenta Yasukawa

Takeshi Matsumura

Toshikane Oda

Johan Hjelm

Shingo Murakami

Shinta Sugimoto

Daichi Funato

Ken Tamagawa

Takashi Oguma

Motokatsu Matsui

Yuta Shimizu

Martin Gerdes

Bo Xing

Taiki Kawakami

Martin Svensson

Stefan Avesand

Akio Katayama

Mikael Woxblom

Andrew Ton

Richard Gold

A control apparatus for a gateway functioning as the endpoint of a core network in a mobile communication system is provided. The gateway includes a first server configured to receive data from a user apparatus and one or more second servers configured to transfer the data received by the first server to an external network. The control apparatus performs an operation of changing performance of the one or more second servers, an operation of monitoring a processing status of the one or more second servers, and an operation of selecting, from the one or more second servers in accordance with the processing status of the one or more second servers, a second server as a transfer destination of the data received from the user apparatus by the first server.

Control apparatus for gateway in mobile communication system

A method for remotely managing a device involving receiving an initial setting request including a device ID of a device together with an identification number for connecting to a cellular network or a corresponding ID via the cellular network from the device on which the identification number is stored, obtaining a customer ID corresponding to the identification number based on the identification number or the corresponding ID, generating a credential for the device using the customer ID and the device ID, and transmitting initial setting information including the credential or corresponding authentication information to the device.

System and method for remotely managing devices

A connection management apparatus of a relay system specifies, when terminal identification information for identifying a target terminal is acquired from a client terminal, a first relay apparatus that relays communication, and specifies connecting information for the client terminal to connect to the first relay apparatus. The connection management apparatus stores the specified connecting information and the terminal identification information in a storage in association with each other, and notifies the client terminal of the specified connecting information. When the specified first relay apparatus receives access based on the connecting information from the client terminal, the specified first relay apparatus relays the communication between the client terminal and the target terminal on the basis of the terminal identification information associated with the connecting information.

Relay method, relay apparatus, and relay system

A communication system for providing a wireless terminal with access to a network, the wireless terminal storing an identification number for accessing a first network, the communication system being configured to receive a connection initiation request from the wireless terminal while the wireless terminal is located in a second service area of a second network, the second service area being different from a first service area of the first network; select, in response to the connection initiation request, a gateway of a third network connected to the second network; and send a gateway ID of the selected gateway toward the second network. A method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program are also disclosed.

Communication system and communication method

Transmitting or receiving data between IoT device and external server on IP network, with a first server receiving signaling data including a message over a cellular network from the IoT device, the signaling data transmitted to a telephone number of the first server, a second server identifying a destination of the message or data corresponding to the message based on the signaling data, the signaling data includes a destination identifier being a numeral or a symbol with predetermined digits or digits less than the predetermined digits, different from the telephone number, and indirectly representing the destination of the external server on the IP network, the destination is specified with reference to a correspondence between destination identifiers includable in the signaling data and URLs of external servers, and the second server transmits the message or data corresponding to the message to the destination by an HTTP request over IP network.

Apparatus, method and program for transmitting and receiving data to and from IOT device

A server for providing a token to a mobile terminal includes a network interface and a processing unit coupled to the network interface. The processing unit is configured to receive from the mobile terminal a request asking for the token, to obtain subscriber identification information of the mobile terminal, to obtain a token which includes a user profile associated with the subscriber identification information and to which an electronic signature is added, and to transmit the token to the mobile terminal.

Server for providing a token

Relay method, relay system, and relay program

A second network which communicates with a communication system for providing access to a network other than a first network, via the second network, to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing the first network is stored, configured to: receive a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal to send the connection initiation request to the communication system, receive a gateway ID of a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network, selected on the communication system based on a network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request, wherein the gateway is within a third network other than the first network, and establish a communication path between the gateway on U-plane designated by the gateway ID.

A communication system for providing access to a network via a second network to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing a first network is stored, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal; a selection unit for selecting a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network based on an obtained network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request; and a sending unit for sending a gateway ID of the selected gateway on U-plane toward the second network.

An apparatus for transmitting and receiving data to/from an IoT device to accelerate the spread of IoT. The IoT devicegenerates a message to be transmitted, and transmits, via SMS, the message to the phone number of a first server, which is stored in the IoT device. The first servernotifies the IoT terminal, as needed, of having received SMS data including the message, and thereafter delivers the SMS data to a second server. The second serverspecifies a destination with reference to associations between destination identifiers includable in the SMS data and destinations. The second servertransmits, to a third external server, a portion obtained by excluding the destination identifier from the message or the whole message including the destination identifier.

Apparatus, method and program for transmitting and receiving data to and from IoT device

An object of embodiments of the present invention is to establish a secure connection from a device to a private network, to which the device belongs, when the device may be located remotely from the private network. This is achieved by locating a server in the private network while reusing existing authorization mechanisms in the network. A target resource is in this private network and a device located outside the private network can access the target resource by using the server and a proxy agent which intermediates a request from the device by using a one time session URL.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenta Yasukawa