Zte (usa) Inc.

Zte Corporation

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Zteit Usa, Inc.

Zte San Diego, Inc.

Rajesh Bhalla

Yonggang Fang

Xiaowu Zhao

Mary Chion

James Jiang

Ting Lu

Wenfeng Zhang

Yuanfang Yu

Arghya T Mukherjee

Gopal K Dommety

Hua Mary Chion

Hsia R Yu

Sudhakar R Padala

In a machine to machine (M2M) system, resource management is performed by M2M devices by creating resources, announcing resources, retrieving information from an announced resource, deleting an announced resource, on behalf of the devices themselves, or on behalf of another device. In some embodiments, resource management protocols are further provided to include a child resource attribute that provides efficiency of protocol signaling by inheriting certain features if a parent resource from which the child resource attribute is derived.

Resource and attribute management in machine to machine networks

Techniques for facilitating Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications include providing an M2M system that implements one or more pre-defined M2M Application Programming Interface (API) profiles, providing a network interface for the M2M system, receiving a profile query over the network interface, and responding with information about the implemented one or more-pre-defined M2M API profiles.

Communication between machine-to-machine service layers and transport network

A Group Communication Service Enabler (GCSE) controls the formation of a group service and access by mobile devices to the group service based of geographic region restriction associated with the group service. A mobile device may be able to override the geographic restriction. As mobile devices join and leave the group service and roam from cell to cell, the wireless resources used by the group service are adjusted by creating or modifying transmission the associated multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS).

Group communication with configurable geographic service area

A communication network handles group management of two different types of groups of user devices. The first type of group is an application server managed group and is used for communication to/from application servers external to the network. The second type of group is a mobile network operator managed group and is used for group communication of network-specific messages to user devices.

Group communication function for delivering group communication messages in communication networks

In a machine to machine (M2M) communication system, a request for a service targeted to a common service entity (CSE) with a CSE-ID is received from an underlying network, a M2M device which is associated with the CSE ID for the service request is identified using a M2M external identifier (M2M-Ext-ID). Provisioning operations for a pre-provisioned M2M-Ext-ID and a dynamic M2M-Ext-ID are performed at different domains from each other.

Enabling different device triggering aspects in a machine to machine communication system

In a machine to machine (M2M) system, an M2M node is identified by a first machine identification, the first machine identification being specific to an underlying communication network via which the M2M node is communicatively accessible, and a second machine identification, the second machine identification being specific to an M2M application layer by which other M2M application layer entities can communicate with the M2M node. A mapping between the first machine identification and the second machine identification is used for facilitating communication with and triggering of the M2M node.

Techniques for mapping machine to machine communication to different underlying networks

In a machine to machine (M2M) communication system, a common service entity hosts a registration for a remotely hosted application entity, stores a point of access address corresponding to the remotely hosted application entity, and thereby facilitates M2M communication between the remotely hosted application entity and another M2M node. The communication may be performed over the Mca interface.

Extending connectivity in a machine to machine communication system

Techniques, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. In one implement, wireless communication systems can provide one or more mechanisms to reduce reverse overhead control signaling by adaptively transmitting overhead control information.

Reverse link signaling techniques for wireless communication systems

In a machine to machine (M2M) communication network comprising M2M application servers and M2M nodes such as M2M devices and gateways, applications that are specific to different M2M Service Providers (SPs) may be hosted. Different services are provided by different M2M Service Providers, while being hosted on a single Home Gateway, by the use of sensing and actuation equipment for different services. The home gateway may typically be owned by a home owner while some equipment may be services-specific and not owned by the home owner. Interfaces are provided enabling individual services providers to independently control resources allocated to their services hosted on the M2M node.

Method and apparatus for supporting multiple M2M service providers on an M2M node

Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for implementing a framework for an address determination technique for IPv4 addressing of MTC devices behind NATs in wireless networks. In one aspect, a method includes determining address for machine type communications (MTC) devices behind Network Address Translators (NATs) in a wireless communication network. The determining includes assigning a private address to an MTC device attached to the wireless communication network, and determining mapped public transport address.

Methods and apparatus for determining address of a machine type communication device in a wireless network

A target gateway operating in a target wireless network receives a request for transferring wireless service of a wireless device from a source access network to the target access network. The target gateway sends a handover initiate message comprising key information including an uplink key to a source gateway operating in the source access network. In response to the handover initiate message, the target gateway receives a handover acknowledgement message that includes user session information including session reference identifiers (SR-IDs) associated with multiple Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the wireless device. Subsequently, the target gateway forwards a packet of uplink communication by encrypting using the uplink key to a gateway server.

Internetworking techniques for transferring packets between source and target serving gateways

Techniques for facilitating wireless communications include receiving a registration request (such as a mobile internet protocol MIP registration request, and transmitting, based on the received registration request, an accounting message indicating support of an accounting mode. The accounting mode may, for example, include performing accounting for a mobile station at a packet data serving node (PDSN) that is serving the mobile station.

Methods and apparatus for accounting at home agent (HA) / local mobility agent (LMA) for CDMA2000 systems

Techniques, apparatuses, and systems include mechanisms for interworking circuit service fallback. In one implementation, a system for wireless communications can include one or more first base stations forming a first radio access network to provide wireless communications based on a first wireless technology; one or more second base stations forming a second radio access network to provide wireless communications based on a second wireless technology which is different from the first wireless technology, and an interworking service (IWS) module that is configured to provide the interworking between the first and second radio access networks for communications to a wireless device served by the system via either the first wireless technology or the second wireless technology, and uses a signal adaptation protocol to encapsulate messages in communicating with a wireless device served by the system. Other implementations are also provided in this document.

Interworking circuit service fall back

Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for handling femto-cell hand-in requests can include operating a macro-cell base station to provide wireless service to wireless devices in a geographical coverage area; receiving, from a wireless device, a message indicative of the wireless device's reception of a base station radio signal, the message including a base station identifier; controlling multiple femto-cell base stations that are assigned to the base station identifier to communicate with the wireless device and to report a reception of a radio signal from the wireless device; and transferring the wireless device from the macro-cell base station to a femto-cell base station of the multiple femto-cell base stations that reports a reception of the radio signal from the wireless device. The multiple femto-cell base stations can provide wireless service in different nonadjacent portions of the geographical coverage area.

Virtual groups for femto-cell hand-in

Techniques for enabling handoff for multiple packet data network connection include selecting, when roaming from a current access network (AN) supporting multiple concurrent packet data network (PDN) connections to a handover target AN not supporting multiple concurrent PDN connections, a single PDN connection, from among multiple active PDN connections, for operation in the handover target AN and exchanging messages to register the single PDN connection in the handover target AN.

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