SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND REPORTING SURREPTITIOUS USAGE

• US 20160381027A1
• Filed: 06/29/2016
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Location Sentry Corp.
• Original Assignee: Location Sentry Corp.
• Inventors: MITCHELL, Ryan James, SPIEGELBERG, Craig E.
• Application Number:
  US15/196,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20160381027A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1425 Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0209 in terminal devices terminal devices per se H04W88/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0264 by selectively disabling software applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system and method for determining access and use of sensor and communication peripheral subsystems on a wireless device using resource consumption for the purpose of notifying and securing user privacy.

Claims

1. A mobile device operable to communicate with at least one of a wired network and wireless network, the mobile device comprising:

a processor;

at least one transceiver coupled to the processor;

at least one sensor coupled to the processor; and

memory coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions that upon execution cause the processor to;

execute an operational procedure analysis of resource consumption of at least one application on the mobile device that accesses peripheral subsystems of the mobile device; and

log the resource consumption.

2. The device as in claim 1, wherein the peripheral subsystem includes the at least one sensor.

3. The device as in claim 1, wherein the peripheral subsystem includes a transceiver.

4. The device as in claim 1, wherein the resource consumption is power consumption.

5. The device as in claim 1, wherein the resource consumption is CPU usage.

6. The device as in claim 1, wherein the resource consumption is internal cache use and updating.

7. A method comprising:

monitoring resource consumption of an application running on a plurality of devices connected to a central database;

collecting information about the resource consumption of the application running on each of the plurality of devices over a period of time to build a historic behavior profile for the application;

comparing, for any one device of the plurality of devices, the application'"'"'s resource consumption to the historical behavior profile; and

determining if the application, running on the one device of the plurality of devices, is behaving consistently with the application'"'"'s historic profile.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising deactivating the application if the application'"'"'s behavior is not consistent.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the resource consumption is power consumption.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the resource consumption is CPU usage.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the resource consumption is internal cache use and updating.