System and Method for Capturing Data Sent by a Mobile Device

• US 20150347487A1
• Filed: 08/07/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MobileGuard, LLC
• Original Assignee: MobileGuard, LLC
• Inventors: Cohan, Todd Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,785,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2291 User-Defined Types; Storage management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0263 Rule management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/30 for supporting lawful interception, monitoring or retaining of communications or communication related information circuit switched telephony call monitoring H04M3/2281
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing capture, archival, and analysis of data sent by mobile devices over a carrier network, with the systems and methods not requiring the installation of any additional software on the mobile devices, the systems and methods also providing for alerts to be generated based on the content of the data.

Claims

1. A method for capturing data originating from at least one device comprising the steps of:

at least one device sending data over a network;

retrieving from at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device; and

archiving the data sent over the network by the at least one device in at least one database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one device includes at least one mobile phone and the network is a carrier network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving from the at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device is performed directly by an application programming interface (API).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one network element includes at least one of a short message service center (SMSC), multimedia message service center (MMSC), or a messaging server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving from the at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device is performed over a secure web connection by a server located remotely from the at least one network element.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of analyzing the data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of analyzing the data includes determining at least one of a presence of key words in the data, a presence of key phrases in the data, a sender of the data, a recipient of the data, a time the data is sent, or a time the data is received.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of sending an alert based on at least one of the presence of key words in the data, the presence of key phrases in the data, the sender of the data, the recipient of the data, the time the data is sent, a location of the at least one device, or the time the data is received.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of analyzing the data includes determining the most common words or the most common phrases present in the data for a predefined time period.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes at least one of short message service (SMS) messages, multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages, voice data, web browsing data, social media data, email data, location data, global positioning system (GPS) data, or mobile payment data and automobile statistics data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving from at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device includes retrieving the data in the form native to the at least one device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving from the at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device is performed in real-time.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of authorizing the step of retrieving from the at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device, wherein the step of authorizing the step of retrieving from at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device includes:

a user of the at least one device receiving a message on the at least one device, wherein the message includes at least one of an authorization link or an instruction to send a combination of characters to a specified destination;

the user activating the activation link or sending the combination of characters to the specified destination to authorize the step of retrieving from the at least one network element the data sent over the network by the at least one device.

14. A system for capturing data originating from at least one device comprising:

at least one device operable to send data over a network;

at least one network element operable to receive data from the at least one device;

an application programming interface (API) operable to retrieve data from the at least one network element; and

a database operable to store and/or archive the retrieved data.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising an analytics engine operable to analyze the retrieved data by determining at least one of a presence of key words in the data, a presence of key phrases in the data, a sender of the data, a recipient of the data, a time the data is sent, or a time the data is received.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the analytics engine is further operable to send an alert based on at least one of the presence of key words in the data, the presence of key phrases in the data, the sender of the data, the recipient of the data, the time the data is sent, a location the data was sent from, a location where the data is received, or the time the data is received.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the API is operable to retrieve data from the at least one network element in a form native to the at least one device.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the analytics engine is further operable to determine the most common words or the most common phrases present in the data for a predetermined time period.

19. A method for capturing data originating from at least one device comprising the steps of:

at least one sender device sending data over a carrier network to at least one recipient device;

an application programming interface (API) retrieving from the carrier network the data sent over the carrier network by the at least one sender device by accessing a carrier network element over a secure web connection through at least one firewall;

archiving the data sent over the carrier network by the at least one device in at least one database server and/or at least one hot server; and

an analytics engine analyzing the data sent over the carrier network;

wherein the data is in a form native to the at least one sender device;

wherein the data includes at least one of a short message service (SMS) message or a multimedia message service (MMS) message;

wherein the at least one sender device and the at least one recipient device do not include any additional software applications to implement the steps of the method.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of the analytics engine analyzing the data sent over the carrier network includes the analytics engine determining at least one of a presence of key words in the data, a presence of key phrases in the data, a sender of the data, a recipient of the data, a time the data is sent, or a time the data is received, and further comprising the step of sending an alert based on at least one of the presence of key words in the data, the presence of key phrases in the data, the sender of the data, the recipient of the data, the time the data is sent, a location of the at least one sender device at the time the data is sent, a location of the at least one recipient device at the time the data is received, or the time the data is received.