METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING DATA ON APPLICATION-LEVEL ACTIVITY AND OTHER USER INFORMATION TO ENABLE REAL-TIME MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REPORTING ABOUT USER OF A MOBILE DATA NETWORK

• US 20120221570A1
• Filed: 05/08/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ribbon Communications Securities Corp. (Ribbon Communications, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Umber Systems Incorporated (Ribbon Communications, Inc.)
• Inventors: KALAVADE, Asawaree
• Granted Patent: US 8,958,313 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A method and apparatus for storing data on application-level activity and other user information to enable real-time multi-dimensional reporting about a user of a mobile data network. A data manager receives information about application-level activity from a mobile data network and stores the information to provide dynamic real-time reporting on network usage. The data manager comprises a database, data processing module, and analytics module. The database stores the application-level data for a predetermined period of time. The data processing module monitors the data to determine if it corresponds to a set of defined reports. If the data is relevant, the processing module updates the defined reports. The analytics module accesses the database to retrieve information satisfying operator queries about network usage. If the operator chooses to convert the query into a defined report, the analytics module creates a newly defined report and populates it accordingly.

Claims

1. A data manager device for receiving information from multiple collector devices about application-level data activity on said mobile data network so as to provide dynamic real-time reporting about usage of said mobile data network, said data manager device comprising:

a database for storing received application-level data for a predetermined amount of time;

a data processing module for receiving information from said multiple collector devices and storing said received data in said database, said data processing module determining which of said received data corresponds to a set of defined reports and storing said corresponding data into data structures stored on said data manager, wherein said data correspond to said set of defined reports, each defined report including a combination of one or more of demographic information about users of said mobile data network, information identifying destinations for user data requests on said mobile data network, and estimated physical location information about users of said mobile data network, wherein data that is determined to correspond to defined reports is used to populate said reports in real time for viewing by an operator; and

an analytics module for accessing said database to satisfy operator queries about usage of said mobile data network, said analytics module being responsive to operator commands to modify said set of defined reports to incorporate an operator query as a newly-generated defined report so that subsequently said data processing module populates said new report in real time.