Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Luis Miguel Almaraz Valdes

Emiliano Merino Vazquez

Nuria Esteban Vares

Beatriz Maroto Gil

Marta Montejo Ayala

Ruth Guerra

Julia Berlanga Izquierdo

Maria Ruth Guerra

A wireless communication device, WCD, is associated with multiple Machine Type Communication (MTC) applications, each application corresponding to a respective MTC Service Provider (SP) network that identifies it using a corresponding 'external identifier'. The involved MTC SP networks use the same common identifier to request a wireless communication network, WCN, used to access the WCD to undertake certain configuration actions with respect to the WCD. The WCD may belong to a group of WCDs, in which case the common identifier is an external group identifier. The WCN advantageously determines which MTC SP network is the 'requesting provider' for a given requested configuration action, and it restricts the configuration action within the WCN to the requesting provider.

Method and apparatus for managing machine type communication devices in an access network

A wireless communication device, WCD (), is associated with multiple Machine Type Communication (MTC) applications (), each application () corresponding to a respective MTC Service Provider (SP) network () that identifies it using a corresponding 'external identifier'. The involved MTC SP networks () use the same common identifier to request a wireless communication network, WCN (), used to access the WCD () to undertake certain configuration actions with respect to the WCD (). The WCD () may belong to a group of WCDs (), in which case the common identifier is an external group identifier. The WCN () advantageously determines which MTC SP network () is the 'requesting provider' for a given requested configuration action, and it restricts the configuration action within the WCN () to the requesting provider.

The present invention concern methods and apparatuses for handling public identities in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network. A CSCF node receives information indicating a set of distinct public identities, within a range of a wildcarded public identity, which set of distinct public identities are not in the same Implicit Registration Set (IRS) as the wildcarded public identity. The information is received from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) node. The CSCF node stores the information indicating the set of distinct public identities, which are not in the same IRS, in the CSCF node for allowing matching of an originating request to the information indicating the set of distinct public identities, which are not in the same IRS. Alternatively, the CSCF node forwards the information indicating the set of distinct public identities, which are not in the same IRS, to another CSCF node, for allowing matching of an originating request to the information indicating the set of distinct public identities, which are not in the same IRS.

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Luis Miguel Almaraz Valdes