Apparatus, System and Method for Mobile Terminal Data Analysis and Distribution Utilizing Internal Proxies

• US 20130183926A1
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company LLC (MOOD Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Arbitron Mobile OY
• Inventors: Verkasalo, Hannu, Karjalainen, Juha, Lindberg, Tero
• Application Number:
  US13/722,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20130183926A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/405
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A mobile terminal for providing life observations by monitoring data being transmitted to/from the terminal. A mobile terminal proxy works in conjunction with a data collection engine and platform connection settings to detect at least on data object type and forward information relating to the data type to the data collection engine. Various observation logic and triggering rules may be implemented for the data collection. A server arrangement may further utilize context and behavior modeling using observations from plural mobile terminals and guiding the mobile terminals for future observations.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, configured to generate observations, comprising:

a processor;

a wireless transceiver operatively coupled to the processor, said transceiver being configured to receive and transmit data in the mobile terminal;

a mobile terminal proxy, activated by the processor, wherein the proxy is configured to monitor the data for at least one predetermined data object;

a data collection engine, operatively coupled to the proxy, for receiving the at least one data object from the mobile terminal proxy, wherein the data collection engine receives the at least one data object via at least one of an active and passive trigger.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one data object comprises computer-based content having at least one of text, images, video, and audio, and wherein the proxy is configured to collect information regarding the content.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the information is derived from at least one of request destination, headers, parameters and message body content that is collected from at least one of requests and responses received in the proxy.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a data input module, communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the data input module provides data to the wireless transceiver.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a decoder, operatively coupled to the processor, wherein the decoder decodes ancillary code embedded in audio received in the mobile terminal.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to extract audio signatures for audio received in the mobile terminal.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the proxy is further configured to detect events on the mobile terminal

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the events comprise at least one of a mobile terminal status, configuration, and operating condition.

9. A method for generating observations in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

detecting data at a wireless transceiver operatively coupled to a processor, said transceiver being configured to receive and transmit data in the mobile terminal;

monitoring the data for at least one predetermined data object via a mobile terminal proxy activated by the processor;

receiving the at least one data object from the mobile terminal proxy to a data collection engine, wherein the data collection engine receives the at least one data object via at least one of an active and passive trigger.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one data object comprises computer-based content having at least one of text, images, video, and audio, and wherein the proxy is configured to collect information regarding the content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the information is derived from at least one of headers, parameters and message body content that is collected from at least one of requests and responses received in the proxy.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the data is deceived in the wireless transceiver via a data input module operatively coupled to the processor.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising decoding ancillary code embedded in audio via a decoder operatively coupled to the processor.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising extracting an audio signature from audio received in the mobile terminal.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of detecting events on the mobile terminal via the proxy.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the events comprise at least one of a mobile terminal status, configuration, and operating condition.

17. A method for generating observations in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

monitoring data in a mobile terminal data observation logic comprising at least one observation interface and a proxy, wherein data is monitored in the mobile terminal utilizing at least one of an active and passive trigger;

forwarding the monitored data from the proxy to a processing layer, wherein the processing layer performs a conversion operation on the monitored data; and

forwarding the converted monitored data to a data collection engine, wherein the data collection engine processes and stores the converted monitored data.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the monitored data comprises computer-based content having at least one of text, images, video, and audio, and wherein the proxy is configured to collect information regarding the content using the observation interface.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the information is derived from at least one of headers, parameters and message body content that is collected from at least one of requests and responses received in the proxy.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising the step of detecting events on the mobile terminal via the proxy, wherein the events comprise at least one of a mobile terminal status, configuration, and operating condition.