ESTABLISHING NETWORK CONNECTIVITY FOR TRANSMITTING NETWORK TRAFFIC TO OR FROM MACHINE DEVICES

摘要

A machine management system provides a system and method for communicating user data with a device connected to a network. The device may register for service by the network, causing the machine management system to establish a special communications path through the network when it is determined that the device is a machine device. Thereafter, user data transmitted by the machine device (or transmitted to the machine device) may be communicated using the special communications path. In certain embodiments, the special communications path may be established such that existing network elements are not involved in the transmission of communications with the machine devices, thereby minimizing the impact on implementing the system and method on existing network elements, alleviating the burden of serving these machine devices using existing network elements and permitting the implementation of device-specific services for machine devices.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a user equipment (UE) device; an eNodeB communicatively connected to the UE device via a radio access network (RAN); and a machine management system (MMS) communicatively connected to the eNodeB via an S1-MME interface, wherein the UE device transmits an uplink non-access stratum (NAS) message to the eNodeB over the RAN, the uplink NAS message encapsulating an uplink user data message and including one or more device identifiers of the UE device and a header field indicating that the uplink NAS message contains the encapsulated uplink user data message; wherein the eNodeB receives the uplink NAS message and forwards to the MMS based on the at least one of the one or more device identifiers over the S1-MME interface; wherein the MMS receives the uplink NAS message, determines that the uplink NAS message encapsulates the uplink user data message based on the header field, performs de-encapsulation to retrieve the uplink user data message, and forwards the uplink user data message via a network interface to a network.