STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND PROMPTING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINAL INTERNET TRAFFIC

• US 20140301218A1
• Filed: 12/26/2012
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Beijing Netqin Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Beijing Netqin Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Zou, Shihong, Lin, Yu, Luo, Chao, Zhang, Yipeng
• Application Number:
  US14/129,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20140301218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1417 Advice of charge with threshold, e.g. user indicating maximum cost
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5064 Customer relationship management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/062 related to network traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/58 based on statistics of usage or network monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a statistical analysis and prompting method and system for mobile terminal Internet traffic. The method comprises: a mobile terminal obtaining mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data from an operator in real time; monitoring local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data in real time; performing synchronization processing on the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator and the local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data monitored in real time, to obtain real-time Internet traffic usage data; using the real-time Internet traffic usage data to calculate an estimated number of days with the traffic still being available, and prompting information regarding the estimated number of days to the user in real time. The effects of the present disclosure comprise that trend analysis can be performed on the data on the Internet traffic already used by the mobile terminal to obtain an estimated number of days for the remaining traffic, and the result can be prompted to the user in real time, so that the user can know the availability of the traffic in time, thereby achieving the objective of reasonably allocating and fully taking advantage of traffic resources.

Claims

1. A statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic, comprising the steps of:

a) a mobile terminal obtaining mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data from an operator in real time;

b) the mobile terminal monitoring local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data in real time;

c) the mobile terminal performing synchronization processing on the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator and the local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data monitored in real time, to obtain real-time Internet traffic usage data;

d) the mobile terminal using the real-time Internet traffic usage data to calculate an estimated number of days with the traffic still being available, and prompting information regarding the estimated number of days to the user in real time.

2. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data comprises a value indicating total traffic in a user package, a value indicating used traffic, a value indicating remaining traffic, and a settlement time.

3. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, wherein the step a) comprises:

the mobile terminal obtaining a short message including the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data returned from the operator by sending a short message to the operator.

4. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 3, further comprising:

the mobile terminal extracting the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data from text of the short message by using information extraction technology.

5. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 3, further comprising:

the mobile terminal obtaining the short message returned from the operator and submitting the short message to a server; and

the server extracting the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data from text of the short message by using information extraction technology, and returning the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data to the mobile terminal.

6. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, wherein the step b) comprises:

the mobile terminal monitoring mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data in real time by accessing a local system log of the mobile terminal in real time.

7. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, wherein traffic record on the mobile terminal can be inquired by the user.

8. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, further comprising:

the mobile terminal submitting traffic record information to a server, the server storing the traffic record information into a traffic record database;

wherein traffic record on the mobile terminal can be inquired by the user through logging on the server.

9. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 8, further comprising:

the traffic record information submitted to the server by the mobile terminal including record on traffic consumed by applications in a mobile terminal;

wherein the record on traffic consumed by various applications in the mobile terminal can be inquired by the user through logging on the server.

10. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization processing of step c) comprises:

determining real-time of the data based upon the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator, and updating the local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data monitored by the mobile terminal in real time to real-time Internet traffic usage data.

11. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 10, further comprising:

determining whether the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator is real-time;

if it is real-time data, determining that the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator is real-time Internet traffic usage data; and

if it is not real-time data, based upon a settlement time for the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator, adding the local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data monitored by the mobile terminal after the settlement time to the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator, so as to obtain real-time Internet traffic usage data.

12. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 10, further comprising:

determining a result of the synchronization processing;

if the synchronization processing is successful, completing a synchronization update; and

if the synchronization processing is not successful, determining that the estimated number of days obtained by the mobile terminal is a number of days remaining in a period, wherein the period is a time interval between adjacent settlement times.

13. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining the real-time Internet traffic usage data obtained by the mobile terminal;

if a value indicating used traffic for the mobile terminal is equal to or larger than a value indicating total traffic in a package and a value indicating remaining traffic is equal to or less than zero, the estimated number of days is zero;

if the value indicating remaining traffic obtained by the mobile terminal is equal to the value indicating total traffic in a package and the value indicating used traffic is equal to zero, a value indicating average used traffic is zero.

14. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 10, wherein after the mobile terminal obtaining a value indicating real-time remaining traffic, further comprising:

performing a statistical analysis of the amount of time during which the mobile terminal installs and uses the method;

if the amount of time is less than m days, determining the result of the synchronization processing;

if the amount of time is equal to or larger than m days and equal to or less than n days, the mobile terminal taking traffic used in the amount of time as used traffic and replacing the number of days used in the period with a number of days during which the mobile terminal installs and uses the method; and

if the amount of time is larger than n days, the mobile terminal taking the traffic used in the latest n days as used traffic and replacing the number of days used in the period with n,

wherein m and n meet 1≦

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15. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 10, further comprising:

the mobile terminal using real-time Internet traffic usage data to calculate a predicted number of days with the traffic still being available, including steps of;

the mobile terminal performing a statistics of a number of days used and a number of days remaining in the period for a package by using a period and a settlement time for the package;

dividing a value indicating used Internet traffic for the mobile terminal by the number of days used in the period for the mobile terminal to obtain a value indicating average used traffic; and

dividing the value indicating remaining Internet traffic for the mobile terminal by the value indicating average used traffic to obtain the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available.

16. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 13, further comprising:

determining a value indicating average used traffic obtained by the mobile terminal;

if the value indicating average used traffic for the mobile terminal is zero, the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available for the mobile terminal is the number of days remaining in the period; and

if the value indicating average used traffic for the mobile terminal is not zero, the mobile terminal using the real-time Internet traffic usage data to calculate the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available.

17. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 15, further comprising:

determining the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available using the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available and the number of days remaining in the period obtained by the mobile terminal;

if the number of days remaining in the period is less than the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available, the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available for the mobile terminal is the number of days remaining in the period; and

if the number of days remaining in the period is equal to or larger than the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available, the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available for the mobile terminal is the predicted number of days.

18. The statistical analysis and prompting method for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 16, further comprising:

determining the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available using the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available and the number of days remaining in the period obtained by the mobile terminal;

if the number of days remaining in the period is less than the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available, the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available for the mobile terminal is the number of days remaining in the period; and

if the number of days remaining in the period is equal to or larger than the predicted number of days with the traffic still being available, the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available for the mobile terminal is the predicted number of days.

19. A statistical analysis and prompting system for mobile terminal Internet traffic, comprising a communication module, a data inquiry module, a data monitoring module, an information extraction analysis module, a data processing module, a traffic record database, and a prompting module, wherein

the communication module is used by a user to communicate with the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal communicates with a server via the communication module;

the data inquiry module is used by the mobile terminal to inquire mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data from an operator in real time, obtain a short message returned from the operator, and submit the short message to the information extraction analysis module, the user inquiring traffic record on the local mobile terminal or the server via the data inquiry module;

the data monitoring module is used by the mobile terminal to monitor local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data in real time;

the information extraction analysis module is used to identify a type of the short message and extract traffic usage data from the short message;

the data processing module is used by the mobile terminal to perform synchronization processing on the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator and the local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data monitored in real time, in order to obtain real-time Internet traffic usage data, and use the real-time Internet traffic usage data to calculate an estimated number of days with the traffic still being available;

the traffic record database is used to save traffic record data for the mobile terminal; and

the prompting module is used to prompt information regarding the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available to the user in real time.

20. The statistical analysis and prompting system for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 19, further comprising a server, wherein the information extraction analysis module is deployed on the server, and wherein the server communicates with the mobile terminal via a network connection, receives the short message and extracts traffic usage data, and returns a data result to the mobile terminal.

21. The statistical analysis and prompting system for mobile terminal Internet traffic according to claim 19, wherein the data processing module comprises a synchronization processing sub-module and a calculating sub-module,

wherein the synchronization processing sub-module is used to perform synchronization processing on the mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data obtained from the operator and the local mobile terminal Internet traffic usage data monitored in real time;

and wherein the calculating sub-module is used to use the real-time Internet traffic usage data to calculate the estimated number of days with the traffic still being available.