Patent ID: 8818946

Claim:
A method for the management of information related to groups of machine to machine (M2M) applications, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining by the M2M Application Server (M2M-AS) information related to a group of M2M applications, the information comprising a group identity and identities of a plurality of M2M applications that belong to the group; updating by the M2M-AS an XML Data Management Server (XDMS) server with the group's identity and with the identities of the plurality of M2M applications that belong to the group receiving from a requestor a request at the M2M-AS for a group membership of one of the plurality of M2M applications, the one M2M application being other than the requestor, and the request comprising an identify of the one of the plurality of M2M applications; interrogating the XDMS server for obtaining one or more identities of groups the one of the plurality of M2M applications is part of, using the identity of the one of the plurality of M2M applications; obtaining from the XDMS server the one or more identities of groups the one of the plurality of M2M applications is part of; and sending from the M2M-AS to the requestor, which is different than the one M2M application, the one or more identities of groups the one of the plurality of M2M applications is part of.