Patent ID: 8924544
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A device for performing sessionless reporting, the device comprising: a memory for storing code of a Device Management (DM) Client and a Sessionless Report Configuration Management Object (MO), the Sessionless Report Configuration MO comprising a data structure including one or more nodes; a processor for executing the code of the DM Client stored in the memory; a transceiver for sending and receiving information for the DM Client; and the DM Client for sending one or more sessionless reports, each using DM protocol, to a DM server with which the DM Client does not have an established DM session, and, while awaiting acknowledgement of the one or more sessionless reports from the DM Server in a subsequent DM Session, for controlling sessionless reporting based on criteria specified in at least one node included in the Sessionless Report Configuration MO, wherein the sessionless reports are not comprised in an establishment of a DM session and comprise at least one of a report using a Session Alert Code other than a code indicating Server Initiated Management and a code indicating Client Initiated Management, a report not containing Device Information (Devinfo) data, a report comprising status blocks containing both a Session Identifier (ID) and a Command ID, a report comprising a timestamp value indicating a time at which the sessionless report was issued, a report indicating an overall severity level, and a report containing a Correlation Tag comprising a string value generated by the DM Client and guaranteed to be unique within the DM Client.