Abstract: The present invention provides a method, an apparatus and computer program product relating to provisioning external identifiers. The present invention includes receiving a request including an interworking function address, a subscriber identifier, a device identifier and at least one application identifier, generating, by the interworking function or by a home subscriber server, at least one external identifier based on the received subscriber identifier, device identifier and at least one application identifier.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, an apparatus and computer program product relating to provisioning external identifiers. The present invention includes receiving a request including an interworking function address, a subscriber identifier, a device identifier and at least one application identifier, generating, by the interworking function or by a home subscriber server, at least one external identifier based on the received subscriber identifier, device identifier and at least one application identifier.

Abstract: A method is provided in which both device application and service capability portions of a machine-to-machine (M2M) device can be authenticated to the M2M platform. First, the service capability portion of the M2M device is authenticated at an M2M platform; at this stage, the M2M device enters a partially authenticated state. Next, the device application portion is authenticated at a network application of a M2M system. The M2M platform is informed of the authentication of the device application in order for the M2M device to move from the partially authenticated state to a fully authenticated state.