Telecommunications network and method of transferring user data in signaling messages from a communication unit to a data processing centre

摘要

The invention relates to a system and method of transferring user data from a communication module to a data processing center over a telecommunications network. A signalling message is wirelessly received from the communication module in the telecommunications network. The signalling message contains the user data that is subsequently transferred to the data processing center. By inserting the user data in the signalling message(s), it is possible to rapidly transmit data to the telecommunications network, while resources can be saved since it not required to establish a complete circuit-switched or packet-switched connection between the communication module and the telecommunications network. The user data may comprise application data of a program run by the communication module, e.g. alarming data, measurement data or derivatives thereof.

主权项

1. A method of transferring data from a communication module to a machine-to-machine server over a telecommunications network, the method comprising:
receiving a wireless signalling message from said communication module at a signalling termination node of the telecommunications network, said received wireless signalling message having inserted in it non-signalling application data generated for a machine-to-machine function by the communication module, wherein wireless signalling messages of the telecommunications network are of a message type specified for carrying signalling data for managing connections in the telecommunications network; retrieving said non-signalling application data from the received wireless signalling message; and terminating further transmission of the received wireless signalling message and transferring said retrieved non-signalling application data to said machine-to-machine server.