Patent ID: 9743216
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A communication method for machine-type communication (MTC) between an MTC server and MTC equipments, comprising: broadcasting a target content request related to an application by the MTC server; receiving, by the MTC server, availability information related to the target content from only those candidate MTC equipments which satisfy the target content request; selecting any one or more MTC equipments from the candidate MTC equipments based on the availability information; establishing a session connection with each of the selected MTC equipments; receiving contents uploaded by the selected MTC equipments; determining, by the MTC server, that it is needed to establish a new session connection when the content uploaded by any one of the selected MTC equipments does not satisfy the target content request, or upon receiving, during the content upload, unavailability notification from any one of the selected MTC equipments that does not satisfy the target content request; and when the MTC server determines that it is needed to establish a new session connection: releasing the current session connection with any MTC equipments determined to need a new session connection and executing the broadcasting step to the session connection establishment step.