MOBILE NETWORK REPORTING AND USAGE ANALYTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD AGGREGATED USING A DISTRIBUTED TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM

• US 20130159395A1
• Filed: 12/10/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Backholm, Ari, Bott, Ross, Luna, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,021,021 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/083 for increasing network speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/062 related to network traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0258 controlling an operation mode according to history or models of usage information, e.g. activity schedule or time of day
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Mobile network reporting and usage analytics system and method are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method generating a report for a network operator, which may be implemented on a system, including tracking optimization efficiency for traffic in a wireless network, generating the report to be provided to the network operator based on the optimization efficiency and performing functions related to traffic optimization and management in the wireless network effectuating in traffic alleviation in the wireless network measured by the optimization frequency. The optimization efficiency can include efficiency information associated with different mobile applications and user-related information in a wireless network.

Claims

1. A method of providing a report to a mobile network operator by distributed aggregation of data, the method, comprising:

tracking, by a client-side proxy on a mobile device, optimization efficiency for traffic at the mobile device;

determining, by the client-side proxy on the mobile device, battery consumption data of the mobile device;

wherein, the client-side proxy further performs functions related to battery consumption reduction at the mobile device also effectuating in traffic alleviation measured by the optimization frequency.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the client-side proxy further performs functions related to functions related to traffic optimization and management in a wireless network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the client-side proxy determines optimization efficiency information specific to individual applications on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, the optimization efficiency and/or the battery consumption data of the mobile device is included in the reports provided to the mobile network operator.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the optimization efficiency is determined from amount of data communicated.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, the optimization efficiency is determined from, radio state changes.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, the optimization efficiency is determined from radio connection time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, the optimization frequency is determined from connections or signaling at the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, the traffic for which the optimization efficiency is tracked includes mobile network traffic and Wifi traffic.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein, the distributed aggregation of the data further includes data aggregated by a server-side proxy remote from the client-side proxy.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, the server-side proxy and the client-side proxy are components of a distributed proxy and/or cache system;

wherein, each individually or in conjunction performs traffic management and optimization functions.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein, the server-side proxy receives the data from the client-side proxy and generates the report to be provided to the mobile network operator.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein, the server-side proxy generates the report to be provided to the mobile network operator by aggregating data aggregated from client-side proxies of multiple mobile devices.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein, the server-side proxy determines statistical metrics using the data aggregated from the multiple mobile devices.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein, the statistical metrics includes, one or more of, trending information using information aggregated from the multiple mobile devices and ranking information using information aggregated from the multiple mobile devices.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein, the server-side proxy determines ranking information using information aggregated from the multiple mobile devices.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein, the client-side proxy is native to an operating system of the mobile device.

18. The method of claim 2, wherein, the traffic management and optimization functions include management of polling, caching, and/or user behavior tracking.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising, providing the report to the mobile network operator;

wherein, the report is automatically provided periodically or queried by the mobile network operator.

20. A system for generating a report for a network operator, the system, comprising:

means for, tracking optimization efficiency for traffic in a wireless network;

wherein, optimization efficiency includes optimization efficiency information associated with different mobile applications;

means for, generating the report to be provided to the network operator based on the optimization efficiency including the optimization efficiency information associated with different mobile applications;

means for, performing functions related to traffic optimization and management in the wireless network effectuating in traffic alleviation in the wireless network measured by the optimization frequency.

21. The system of claim 20, further comprising, means for, performing functions related to battery consumption management at a mobile device on the wireless network.

22. The system of claim 20, further comprising, means for, determining, battery consumption of a mobile device on the wireless network.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein, the optimization efficiency is determined from one or more of, data traffic, signaling traffic, time connected for connections in the wireless network.

24. The system of claim 20, further comprising, means for, generating statistical data from the optimization efficiency for the wireless network.

25. The system of claim 20, further comprising, means for, generating statistical data from the optimization efficiency across multiple wireless networks serviced by multiple network operators.

26. The system of claim 20, further comprising, means for, generating trending reports and/or ranking reports from the optimization efficiency.