Patent ID: 8897227

Claim:
A method for managing terminal states or terminal events in a Machine-to-Machine, Machine-to-Man or Man-to-Machine (M2M) service, comprising: transmitting, by a terminal or a terminal gateway, state or event information of itself to a state or event management unit; determining, by an M2M service platform, a service interaction operation with the terminal or the terminal gateway according to the state or event information of the terminal or the terminal gateway in the state or event management unit; and performing the service interaction operation, between the M2M service platform and the terminal or the terminal gateway, according to the state or event information, wherein when the terminal is CS online, the interaction is performed through SMS, USSD or MMS; when the terminal is PS online, the interaction is performed through IP; wherein the state or event management unit is set in the M2M service platform, or is set separately; setting, when the state or event management unit is set separately, an interface on the state or event management unit for receiving and storing state or event information reported by the terminal or a terminal gateway, and for providing a function of adding, inquiring about, modifying and deleting state or event information for the M2M service platform.