US Patent 11323948 Device management for NB-IoT devices

A NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) device is transitioned from using non-Internet Protocol (IP) communication to using IP communication for device management. A service capability server (SCS) of a core network may receive data from an NB-IoT device via non-IP communication. The SCS may send a command to the NB-IoT device via the non-IP communication to trigger the NB-IoT device to transition to using IP communication to communicate with the SCS. Subsequently, the SCS may command the NB-IoT device to perform one or more device management functions via the IP communication.