Patent ID: 9596596
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, in a machine-to-machine proxy node, of communication comprising: receiving a machine-to-machine access communication request from a requesting entity in a packet based network, the access communication request including a device specific identifier associated with a device located in a mobile network; translating the device specific identifier, the translated identifier being associated with the packet based network; transmitting, to the requesting entity, a device status relating to the device located in the mobile network, the device status defined by the translated identifier; maintaining a mapping table, the mapping table including a plurality of entries, each entry including the device specific identifier associated with the mobile network and a corresponding translated identifier associated with the packet based network; and transmitting, to the requesting entity, a session notification informing the requesting entity of any device status changes in the mapping table relating to the device located in the mobile network; the translating including: if the translated identifier is not retrieved,