COORDINATED GROUPING FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP BASED SERVICES

摘要

A system is disclosed for the coordinated grouping of devices for receipt of network layer group based services. A service layer system such as an SCS generates a request to generate a group of devices to receive network layer services. The request is received at a network layer system such as, for example, an MTC-IWF. Network layer systems such as, for example, an HSS, identifies a manner of communicating the requested service to identified devices and communicates with the devices to provision the devices so as to be included in the requested group. The network layer systems communicate an identifier to the service layer system which the service layer may subsequently use to request execution of the service by the identified group of devices.

主权项

1. In a communications network adapted to provide machine to machine communication, a method of group management comprising:
a service layer system determining to create a group of devices for receiving network layer services; the service layer system transmitting a request to create the group of devices; a first core network node receiving the request to create the group of devices; the first core network node generating and transmitting a request to provision a service for the group of devices; and the first core network node generating and transmitting to the service layer system an indication that the group of devices has been created.