Patent ID: 8797856

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a network gateway and from a machine to machine (M2M) device, a connection request to access a network; detecting, by the network gateway, a failure of at least one of a plurality of other network devices, the at least one of the plurality of other network devices being required to create a connection to the network for the M2M device; responsive to determining, by the network gateway and based on the failure, that the connection request will fail or has failed, creating, by the network gateway, a response to the connection request, the response including an indication that the M2M device is to be blocked, by one or more of the plurality of other network devices, from accessing the network; and transmitting, by the network gateway and to one or more of the other network devices, the response to the connection request, the response including one or more parameters that identify a duration for which the one or more of the other network devices are to block the M2M device from accessing the network and an identification of the M2M device.