Patent ID: 9451594
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method at a network node that is associated with a service provider network, said method comprising: receiving a notification sent from an access network in response to a wireless device establishing a data session with the access network for communicating with the service provider network; reading an external identifier and a service provider network identifier from the notification, where the external identifier is assigned by the access network for use by the service provider network in identifying the wireless device to the access network and where the service provider network identifier identifies the wireless device within the service provider network with respect to a service; binding the external identifier to the service provider network identifier; and subsequently triggering communication with the wireless device via the access network by determining the external identifier that was bound previously to the service provider network identifier and sending trigger signaling toward the access network that indicates the external identifier; wherein the service provider network comprises a Machine Type Communication (MTC) network, wherein the service provider network identifier is a Services Capability Layer ID (SCL-ID) associated with an MTC application implemented in the wireless device, and wherein binding the external identifier to the service provider network identifier comprises binding the external identifier to the SCL-ID, for subsequent use by the service provider network in triggering communications with the wireless device through the access network.