System and method for logging and reporting mobile device activity information

• US 9,819,753 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2012
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Smith Micro Software Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Location Labs (Gen Digital Inc.)
• Inventors: Hernandez, Sarah, Talbot, Andrew, Ozer, Mitchell Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Nealon, William
• Application Number:
  US13/351,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20130143521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,129 Days
• Field of Search: 4554566, 455419, 455418, 455405, 709203, 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/28 with meter at substation or with calculation of charges at terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/58 based on statistics of usage or network monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/70 Administration or customization aspects; Counter-checking correct charges
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/72 by the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/90 using Intelligent Networks [IN] or Advanced Intelligent Networks [AIN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0176 Billing arrangements using internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for logging and reporting mobile device information is provided. The method includes receiving device activity information corresponding to use of a particular mobile device via a client executed on the particular mobile. The activity information is sorted based on at least one predetermined criterion, and the sorted activity information is reported to a user. The invention further provides a computer activity monitoring and reporting system.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for logging and reporting mobile device information comprising:

receiving device activity information corresponding to use of a particular mobile device via a client executed on the particular mobile device;

sorting the activity information based on at least one predetermined criterion;

for each of a plurality of days determining if the activity information corresponds to a predetermined period of time on the respective day;

providing a display to a user showing a plurality of graphical indications respectively corresponding to at least one of the plurality of days; and

providing an indication of an alert to the user for each of the plurality of days for which the activity information corresponds to the predetermined period of time, wherein the alert is graphically displayed in conjunction with a respective indication of a day to show an association between the alert and the respective indication of the day.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving sorting instructions from the user; and

defining the at least one predetermined criterion based on the sorting instructions.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying contacts corresponding to the particular mobile device; and

reporting to the user contact identifying information corresponding to contacts identified within the predetermined period of time.

3. A computer-implemented method for logging and reporting mobile device information comprising:

receiving device activity information corresponding to use of a particular mobile device via a client executed on the particular mobile device;

sorting the activity information based on at least one predetermined criterion;

for each of a plurality of predetermined time slots in a day, determining from the activity information at least one of a total duration of phone calls or a total number of electronic messages which occurred; and

providing a display to a user showing a plurality of graphical indications respectively corresponding to at least one of a plurality of days or a plurality of time slots in a day and reporting to the user the at least one of the total duration of phone calls or the total number of electronic messages which occurred at each of the plurality of predetermined time slots in the day, the time slots and the at least one of the total duration of phone calls or the total number of electronic messages depicted graphically in the display to report the sorted activity information to the user.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, the method further comprising:

for a particular time slot, enabling a user-actuatable tool in visible proximity to the display reporting to the user the at least one of the total duration of phone calls or the total number of electronic messages, the user-actuatable tool configured to enable and disable functionality of the particular mobile device during the particular time slot;

receiving an instruction from the user to enable or disable functionality of the particular mobile device via the user-actuatable tool during the particular time slot; and

providing a command to the client to enable or disable the functionality of the particular mobile device pursuant to the instruction during the particular time slot.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the activity information corresponds to communications performed via the mobile device with a plurality of contacts, the method further comprising:

determining a communication level of the plurality of contacts;

generating rankings of the plurality of contacts based on their respective communication levels; and

providing a display to the user showing the rankings of the plurality of contacts.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising determining the communication level based on at least two forms of communication.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising determining the communication level of the plurality of contacts based on a first factor corresponding to a first form of communication and a second factor corresponding to a second form of communication.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the at least two forms of communication comprise phone communications and electronic messages.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising determining the communication level of the plurality of contacts based on a first factor corresponding to phone communications and a second factor corresponding to electronic messages.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the activity information corresponds to at least one of phone call records or electronic messaging records:

determining from the activity information at least one of a total duration of phone calls which occurred during a predetermined period of time or a total number of electronic messages which occurred during the predetermined period time; and

reporting to the user the at least one of the total duration of phone calls which occurred during the predetermined period of time or the total number of electronic messages which occurred during the predetermined period time.

5. A computer-implemented method for logging and reporting mobile device information comprising:

receiving device activity information corresponding to use of a particular mobile device via a client executed on the particular mobile device;

sorting the activity information based on at least one predetermined criterion; and

for each of a plurality of days determining if the respective day corresponds to the at least one predetermined criterion;

providing a display to a user showing a plurality of graphical indications respectively corresponding to the plurality of days to report the sorted activity information to the user; and

providing an indication of an alert to the user for each of the plurality of days corresponding to the at least one predetermined criterion, wherein the alert is graphically displayed in conjunction with a respective indication of a day to show an association between the alert and the respective indication of the day.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, the method further comprising:

determining if the activity information corresponds to a predetermined period of time; and

reporting to the user that the activity information corresponds to the predetermined period of time.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, the method further comprising:

determining if the activity information corresponds to a previously unrecorded contact; and

reporting to the user that the activity information corresponds to the previously unrecorded contact.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, the method further comprising:

for each of the plurality of days determining if the activity information corresponds to a predetermined period of time on the respective day; and

providing the indication of the alert to the user for each of the plurality of days for which the activity information corresponds to the predetermined period of time.

6. A computer-implemented method for logging and reporting mobile device information comprising:

receiving device activity information corresponding to use of a particular mobile device via a client executed on the particular mobile device;

sorting the activity information based on at least one predetermined criterion;

for each of a plurality of predetermined time slots during at least one day, determining from the activity information an activity level; and

providing a display to a user showing a plurality of graphical indications respectively corresponding to the plurality predetermined time slots and graphically reporting to the user the activity level at each of the plurality of predetermined time slots in the at least one day to report the sorted activity information to the user.