Electronic device subscription

Abstract

Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present technique provide methods, apparatuses and systems for controlling device resource subscriptions by an LwM2M server, comprising receiving at said LwM2M server a registration request message from a LwM2M client device, the message comprising an enumeration of a plurality of subscribable elements of an object hierarchy of the device; storing, using the LwM2M server, an association between the device and the plurality of subscribable elements; and sending from the LwM2M server to the LwM2M client device a subscription message comprising a unitary compressed expression representing plural ones of said plurality of subscribable elements associated with said device.

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