METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION

• Main Authors: ANDREAS U SCHMIDT, YOGENDRA C SHAH, CHA INHYOK, MICHAEL V MEYERSTEIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 27.07.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of an existing M2M method system that protection of radio of standby configuration discriminator is lacking, information of a high reliability state of a M2M adaptive device is not utilized in authentication, registration, and provisioning of the M2M adaptive device, safe change of a subscription operator is not guaranteed for the M2M adaptive device, safe updating of software and firmware or reconfiguration of the M2M adaptive device is not provided, and further, unauthorized change to the M2M adaptive device is not detected and there is no reaction to the unauthorized change.SOLUTION: Safe provisioning of machine to machine (M2M) and a method and apparatus for communication are disclosed. A temporary private discriminator or temporary connection discrimination (PCID) is also disclosed for uniquely discriminating a machine to machine equipment (M2ME). Further, the method and apparatus used when validating, authorizing, and provisioning M2ME are also disclosed. A validation procedure includes autonomous validation, semi-autonomous validation, and remote validation that are disclosed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 【課題】既存のＭ２Ｍ方法体系は、予備構成識別子の無線の保護を欠き、Ｍ２Ｍ対応機器の認証、登録、およびプロビジョニングにおいてＭ２Ｍ対応機器の高信頼状態の情報を利用せず、加入オペレータを安全に変更することをＭ２Ｍ対応機器に保証せず、安全なソフトウェアおよびファームウェアの更新またはＭ２Ｍ対応機器の再構成を提供せず、Ｍ２Ｍ対応機器への不正変更を検出せず、その不正変更に反応しない。【解決手段】機械対機械（Ｍ２Ｍ）の安全なプロビジョニングおよび通信を行うための方法および機器を開示する。機械対機械機器（Ｍ２ＭＥ）を一意に識別するための、一時的プライベート識別子または仮接続識別（ＰＣＩＤ）も開示する。さらに、Ｍ２ＭＥを検証し、認証し、プロビジョニングする際に使用するための方法および機器も開示する。検証手順には、開示する自律的検証、半自律的検証、および遠隔的検証が含まれる。【選択図】図７