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20140364131 | HIERARCHIES AND CATEGORIES FOR MANAGEMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for deploying and employing policies for wireless traffic optimization in a wireless network based on hierarchies are disclosed. One embodiment includes deploying a global policy set of the policies for wireless traffic optimization among mobile devices in the wireless network and deploying a first policy set of the policies among a first subset of mobile devices among the mobile devices. In one embodiment, the first subset of mobile devices meet a device-based criteria including one or more of, device type, device platform, or device model and any policy of the first policy set overwrites any policy of the global policy set in case of conflict when deployed on any of the first subset of mobile devices. | 12-11-2014 |
20150032890 | PARENTAL CONTROL OF MOBILE CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method of parental control of content on a mobile device includes monitoring traffic activities on a mobile device and detecting suspicious traffic. | 01-29-2015 |
20150052260 | INTELLIGENT CUSTOMER SERVICE/CALL CENTER SERVICES ENHANCED USING REAL-TIME AND HISTORICAL MOBILE APPLICATION AND TRAFFIC-RELATED STATISTICS COLLECTED BY A DISTRIBUTED CACHING SYSTEM IN A MOBILE NETWORK - Systems and methods of enhanced customer service for mobile carriers using real-time and historical mobile application and traffic or optimization data associated with mobile devices in a mobile network are disclosed. The data can be tracked by a client-side and/or a server-side reporting engine and usage analytics engine. Reports can also be generated by the system from the data and provided to the customer service/call center, such as trend charts showing optimization efficiency of traffic over a network and battery consumption vs. application load for a mobile device as a function of time. | 02-19-2015 |
20150149626 | SYSTEM OF REDUNDANTLY CLUSTERED MACHINES TO PROVIDE FAILOVER MECHANISMS FOR MOBILE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND NETWORK RESOURCE CONSERVATION - A method for providing fault tolerance in mobile traffic management services is provided. The method includes detecting, at a mobile device, that one component of multiple components for providing mobile traffic management services is non-operational, at capacity, or near capacity, identifying the mobile device serviced by the one component, retrieving information for the mobile device serviced by the one component, from a repository coupled to the one component and the multiple components, re-assigning the mobile device originally serviced by the one component to another one of the multiple components for servicing, and communicating with the another one of the multiple components for servicing communication requests of the mobile device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150230130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPORT TO A NETWORK OPERATOR BY DISTRIBUTING AGGREGATION OF DATA - A method and system are for generating a report for delivery to or access or query by a network operator by determining, by a server-side proxy, optimization efficiency for traffic in a wireless network, tracking, by the server-side proxy, user-related information in the wireless network, generating, based on at least one of the optimization efficiency and the user-related information, a report for delivery to or access by an operator of the wireless network, the report including an alert of viral take-up of a new application, and performing, by the server-side proxy, traffic optimization functions alleviating traffic in the wireless network. | 08-13-2015 |
20150382236 | HIERARCHIES AND CATEGORIES FOR MANAGEMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for deploying and employing policies for wireless traffic optimization in a wireless network based on hierarchies are disclosed. One embodiment includes deploying a global policy set of the policies for wireless traffic optimization among mobile devices in the wireless network and deploying a first policy set of the policies among a first subset of mobile devices among the mobile devices. In one embodiment, the first subset of mobile devices meet a device-based criteria including one or more of, device type, device platform, or device model and any policy of the first policy set overwrites any policy of the global policy set in case of conflict when deployed on any of the first subset of mobile devices. | 12-31-2015 |
20150382239 | MANAGING CACHE TO PREVENT OVERLOADING OF A WIRELESS NETWORK DUE TO USER ACTIVITY - System and method of detection and management of user interactions with foreground applications on a mobile device in distributed caching are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of mimicking, remote from the mobile device, timing characteristics of user activity with the mobile client, polling a content source for the mobile application based on the timing characteristics of the user interaction, on behalf of the mobile device and allowing responses cached on the mobile device for the user activity to be used until a change at the content source is detected, remote from the mobile device. | 12-31-2015 |
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20120197728 | SINGLE ACTION ACCESS TO CONTEXT SPECIFIC CONTENT AT A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for single action access to context specific content at a mobile device are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for user interface features, also referred to as “hot buttons” which can enhance a mobile user environment or mobile application by linking to real time or near real time information outside of one's social network to include selected web content, within a single dashboard. Hot buttons provide a place to surface dynamic outside of messaging and mobile application contexts. Since many large content providers earn revenue only from site visits by users, hot buttons can provide an ever-present link to the content site, while providing value over a simple URL, since selected context specific or relevant content is being pushed or aggregated dynamically to be accessed via the hot button. | 08-02-2012 |
20120271908 | SOCIAL CACHING FOR DEVICE RESOURCE SHARING AND MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods of social caching for device resource sharing and management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a local proxy which wirelessly accesses the physical storage of other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device, in response to detecting commonalities between the mobile device and the other device. The commonalities can include, for example, common interests in users of the mobile device and the other device | 10-25-2012 |
20120289239 | DEVICE RESOURCES SHARING FOR NETWORK RESOURCE CONSERVATION - Systems and methods for device resource sharing for network resource conservation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method can include, for example: detecting that multiple devices are attempting to access a same content source over a mobile network. The same content source can then be polled once in a single poll event and the content received in response to the single poll event of the one same content source is transmitted to one device of the multiple devices. The other devices of the multiple devices can receive the content from the one device, over a non-cellular connection. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE DEVICE TO USE PHYSICAL STORAGE OF ANOTHER DEVICE FOR CACHING - Systems and methods for a mobile device to use physical storage of another device for caching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile device is able to receive over a cellular or IP network a response or content to be cached and wirelessly access the physical storage of the other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device. | 11-15-2012 |
20130031191 | MOBILE DEVICE USAGE CONTROL IN A MOBILE NETWORK BY A DISTRIBUTED PROXY SYSTEM - Systems and methods of mobile device usage control in a mobile network by a distributed proxy system are disclosed. One embodiment includes, a proxy server remote from a mobile device that monitors, traffic activities, including inbound or outbound traffic, on the mobile device, receives, controlling information regarding usage of the mobile device and enforces the usage of the mobile device according to the controlling information. The controlling information can include usage limits or limitations to access to mobile applications potentially delivering inappropriate content and can be configured by a parent or supervising user of a user of the mobile device. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031599 | MONITORING MOBILE APPLICATION ACTIVITIES FOR MALICIOUS TRAFFIC ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for monitoring mobile application activities for malicious traffic on a mobile device are disclosed. One embodiment of a method which can be implemented on a system includes, monitoring application activities of a mobile application on the mobile device, detecting, from the application activities, suspicious activity, and/or blocking traffic from which the suspicious activity is detected. One embodiment includes creating a policy based on the information aggregated from the multiple mobile devices and/or broadcasting the policy to other mobile devices of the suspicious activity detected from the multiple mobile devices. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031600 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF POLICY INFORMATION REGARDING MALICIOUS MOBILE TRAFFIC IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Systems and methods for automatically generating and distributing policy information for malicious mobile traffic in a wireless network are disclosed. One embodiment of a method which can be implemented on a system includes, aggregating suspicious activity information detected across multiple mobile devices in a wireless network, generating policy information for malicious mobile traffic using the suspicious activity information, and/or distributing the policy information among the multiple mobile devices or other mobile devices in the wireless network. The policy information can, for example, be distributed to wireless operators, mobile network carriers, or application service providers. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031601 | PARENTAL CONTROL OF MOBILE CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods of parental control of content on a mobile device are disclosed. One embodiment includes, proxy server remote from a mobile device which monitors, traffic activities, including inbound or outbound traffic, on the mobile device and detects adult content from the traffic activities. The proxy server communicates identification of the suspicious traffic to a local proxy on the mobile device, such that the suspicious traffic containing the adult content is blocked from access to or from the mobile device. | 01-31-2013 |
20130145010 | Mobile Device And Method To Utilize The Failover Mechanism For Fault Tolerance Provided For Mobile Traffic Management And Network/Device Resource - A mobile device and method to utilize the failover mechanism for fault tolerance provided for mobile traffic management are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method, which may be implemented on a system or a mobile device which responsive to detecting a failed attempt to connect to a proxy server, determines whether the proxy server is reachable. In one embodiment, in response to determining that the proxy server is reachable, initiates a failover process by reconfiguring DNS routing rules. | 06-06-2013 |
20130159395 | MOBILE NETWORK REPORTING AND USAGE ANALYTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD AGGREGATED USING A DISTRIBUTED TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM - 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. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPORT TO A NETWORK OPERATOR BY DISTRIBUTING AGGREGATION OF DATA - System and method for generating a report to a network operator by distributed aggregation of data are disclosed. One embodiment includes determining, by a server-side proxy, optimization efficiency for wireless network traffic; tracking, by the server-side proxy, user-related information in the wireless network; based on the optimization efficiency and/or the user-related information, generating the report to be delivered to the network operator or queried by the network operator. In one embodiment, the server-side proxy performs functions related to traffic optimization and management in the wireless network effectuating in traffic alleviation in the wireless network measured by the optimization efficiency. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE DEVICE TO USE PHYSICAL STORAGE OF ANOTHER DEVICE FOR CACHING - Systems and methods for a mobile device to use physical storage of another device for caching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile device is able to receive over a cellular or IP network a response or content to be cached and wirelessly access the physical storage of the other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170348 | HIERARCHIES AND CATEGORIES FOR MANAGEMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for deploying and employing policies for wireless traffic optimization in a wireless network based on hierarchies are disclosed. One embodiment includes deploying a global policy set of the policies for wireless traffic optimization among mobile devices in the wireless network and deploying a first policy set of the policies among a first subset of mobile devices among the mobile devices. In one embodiment, the first subset of mobile devices meet a device-based criteria including one or more of, device type, device platform, or device model and any policy of the first policy set overwrites any policy of the global policy set in case of conflict when deployed on any of the first subset of mobile devices. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173756 | OPERATION MODES FOR MOBILE TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION AND CONCURRENT MANAGEMENT OF OPTIMIZED AND NON-OPTIMIZED TRAFFIC - Systems and methods of operation modes for mobile traffic optimization and management of concurrent optimized and non-optimized traffic are disclosed. One embodiment includes classifying and handling traffic sent to and from mobile device applications running on a mobile device, the method includes, analyzing, on the mobile device, requests from the mobile device applications for recurrent patterns; traffic having a recurrent pattern is optimizable traffic and traffic with an unidentifiable pattern is non optimizable traffic, managing the optimizable traffic to reduce an amount of wireless data and signaling traffic sent to and from the mobile device and/or routing the non optimizable traffic from the mobile device applications to a service provider. In one embodiment, upon determining a problem communicating with the server, request are routed from the one or more mobile device applications directly to a service provider, the routed traffic bypassing a client-side proxy. | 07-04-2013 |
20130178195 | DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF USER INTERACTIONS WITH FOREGROUND APPLICATIONS ON A MOBILE DEVICE IN DISTRIBUTED CACHING - System and method of detection and management of user interactions with foreground applications on a mobile device in distributed caching are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of mimicking, remote from the mobile device, timing characteristics of user activity with the mobile client, polling a content source for the mobile application based on the timing characteristics of the user interaction, on behalf of the mobile device and allowing responses cached on the mobile device for the user activity to be used until a change at the content source is detected, remote from the mobile device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130203433 | USER AS AN END POINT FOR PROFILING AND OPTIMIZING THE DELIVERY OF CONTENT AND DATA IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - System and method of using user as an end point for profiling and optimizing delivery of content and/or data in a wireless network are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of content consumption based resource allocation to a user in a wireless network. The method, which may be implemented on a system includes, tracking content consumption in sessions of mobile usage for a user, aggregating or computing statistical data related to the content consumption in the sessions of the mobile usage, and/or facilitating control of the resource allocated to the user in the wireless network based on the statistical data of the content consumption of the user's mobile usage. The sessions of mobile usage for the user can be tracked across multiple mobile devices. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205366 | DYNAMIC CATEGORIZATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR NETWORK ACCESS IN A MOBILE NETWORK - Systems and methods of dynamic categorization of applications for network use and access in a mobile network are disclosed. Using application profile information, applications can be categorized into one of multiple categories that define restrictions on the application's access to the wireless network or cellular network. One example of such categories is the concept of black, white and grey listings. The “white” listed applications may be always allowed access, “black” listed application may never or almost never be granted network access (e.g., application may be malware like or otherwise consumes large amounts of network/device resources), and grey listed applications may be granted access based on one or more criteria. | 08-08-2013 |
20130267209 | ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE FOR MOBILE CARRIERS USING REAL-TIME AND HISTORICAL MOBILE APPLICATION AND TRAFFIC OR OPTIMIZATION DATA ASSOCIATED WITH MOBILE DEVICES IN A MOBILE NETWORK - Systems and methods of enhanced customer service for mobile carriers using real-time and historical mobile application and traffic or optimization data associated with mobile devices in a mobile network are disclosed. The data can be tracked by a client-side and/or a server-side reporting engine and usage analytics engine. Reports can also be generated by the system from the data and provided to the customer service/call center, such as trend charts showing optimization efficiency of traffic over a network and battery consumption vs. application load for a mobile device as a function of time. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268656 | INTELLIGENT CUSTOMER SERVICE/CALL CENTER SERVICES ENHANCED USING REAL-TIME AND HISTORICAL MOBILE APPLICATION AND TRAFFIC-RELATED STATISTICS COLLECTED BY A DISTRIBUTED CACHING SYSTEM IN A MOBILE NETWORK - Systems and methods of intelligent customer service/call center services enhanced using real-time and historical mobile application and traffic-related statistics collected by a distributed caching system in a mobile network are disclosed. The data can be tracked by a client-side and/or a server-side reporting engine and usage analytics engine. Reports can also be generated by the system from the data and provided to the customer service/call center, such as trend charts showing optimization efficiency of traffic over a network and battery consumption vs. application load for a mobile device as a function of time. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275586 | MANAGING CACHE TO PREVENT OVERLOADING OF A WIRELESS NETWORK DUE TO USER ACTIVITY - System and method of detection and management of user interactions with foreground applications on a mobile device in distributed caching are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of mimicking, remote from the mobile device, timing characteristics of user activity with the mobile client, polling a content source for the mobile application based on the timing characteristics of the user interaction, on behalf of the mobile device and allowing responses cached on the mobile device for the user activity to be used until a change at the content source is detected, remote from the mobile device. | 10-17-2013 |
20130315161 | WIRELESS NETWORK TRAFFIC ROUTING THROUGH TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION AND TRACKING OF DESTINATION ADDRESS TO FACILITATE SERVICE PROVIDER BILLING - Systems and methods for wireless network traffic routing through traffic optimization and tracking of destination and/or origination addresses to facilitate service provider billing is disclosed. Since the distributed proxy system, which includes, for example, a proxy server and/or a local proxy on the mobile device, can intercept traffic to and/or from the mobile device, the intercepted traffic may or may not access the wireless network and/or reach the addressed destination. Thus, for outgoing and incoming requests directed from or directed to the mobile device, the distributed proxy system tracks and stores a destination address (e.g., a destination IP address). The proxy server can extract and store the origination address for each incoming communication for various mobile devices such that a service provider can bill or otherwise manage incoming communications to the mobile devices. | 11-28-2013 |
20130316675 | FACILITATION OF MOBILE OPERATOR BILLING BASED ON WIRELESS NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND TRACKING OF DESTINATION ADDRESS IN CONJUNCTION WITH BILLING POLICIES - Systems and methods for wireless network traffic routing through traffic optimization and tracking of destination and/or origination addresses in conjunction with billing policies to facilitate service provider billing is disclosed. Since the distributed proxy system, which includes, for example, a proxy server and/or a local proxy on the mobile device, can intercept traffic to and/or from the mobile device, the intercepted traffic may or may not access the wireless network and/or reach the addressed destination. Thus, for outgoing and incoming requests directed from or directed to the mobile device, the distributed proxy system tracks and stores a destination address (e.g., a destination IP address). The proxy server can extract and store the origination address for each incoming communication for various mobile devices and apply applicable billing policies such that a service provider can bill or otherwise manage incoming communications to the mobile devices. | 11-28-2013 |
20140113653 | OPTIMIZED AND SELECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF POLICY DEPLOYMENT TO MOBILE CLIENTS IN A CONGESTED NETWORK TO PREVENT FURTHER AGGRAVATION OF NETWORK CONGESTION - Systems and methods described herein employ techniques for optimized and selective management of policy deployment/delivery to mobile clients in a congested network to, for example, prevent further aggravation of network congestion. In order to address mobile network congestion it is necessary to be able to enforce network management policies on the devices which are specifically in the congested areas. This presents a challenge as the process of knowing and keeping track of where a device is geographically located within the network actually consumes network resources. There is a tradeoff between the accuracy with which you know a given devices location and the amount of resources required to gain this knowledge. Thus, it is crucial to have a way to determine the location of a device in the network with sufficient accuracy such that congestion management policies can be applied effectively while not unduly taxing the network with additional traffic. | 04-24-2014 |
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20150363244 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE EXTENSIONS TO THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMIZING AND MINIMIZING APPLICATION TRAFFIC - Methods and systems for providing APIs and API extensions to third party applications for optimizing and minimizing application traffic are provided. According to one aspect, a method for optimizing and minimizing application traffic in a wireless network includes defining an application programming interface (API) for controlling application traffic between an application client residing on a mobile device that operates within a wireless network and an application server not residing on the mobile device and using the API to optimize application traffic in the wireless network. | 12-17-2015 |
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