Patent ID: 8838806

Claim:
A method for setting up and/or maintaining a connection between a machine-to-machine (M2M) device and a mobile communication network, wherein setting up means establishing the connection between the M2M device and the mobile communication network, the method comprising: receiving by a network node of the mobile communication network an indication specifying that the device is an M2M device and being sent by the M2M device; and controlling via the network node a setting up and a maintaining of the connection based on the indication routing, via the network node, a request for setting up the connection to a second network node of the mobile communication network based on the indication, wherein the second network node transmits to the network node information that the second network node is responsible for connections between M2M devices and the mobile communication network, when connecting the first and the second network node, and the network node routing the request for setting up the connection to the second network node based on the information received from the second network node such that the connections between the M2M device and the mobile communication network are handled by the second network node.