Measuring end user activity of software on a mobile or disconnected device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8995975-B2
Application number	US-201414271183-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 6, 2014
Priority date	Feb 5, 2008
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

A hardware and/or software facility measures end user activity associated with a software application or service on a mobile phone or other mobile device. The facility tracks and stores usage data associated with a mobile user's use of the application or service. When the mobile user initiates transmission of the usage data, the facility retrieves from the mobile phone or other mobile device a usage code representing the usage data. The facility relies on user transcription, text input-buffer insertion, or other indirect means of data transport to deliver the usage code from the mobile phone or other mobile device to an application developer, service provider, or another entity. The recipient extracts the usage data contained in the usage code, and may perform various data mining and analysis techniques on the usage data in order to evaluate how the application or service is used.

First claim

I claim:

1. A computing system for communicating information about user activity from a mobile device, the system comprising:
a component configured to store user activity data on the mobile device,
wherein the user activity data represents a record of multiple user interactions with an application or service of the mobile device;

a component configured to receive a command from a user of the mobile device to initiate communication of information about the stored user activit…

Assignees

• Nuance Communications Inc

Inventors

• Marshall Kevin B

Classifications

• H04W4/18 Primary

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• H04W24/08

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• H04W4/14

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• H04W4/12

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• H04W4/26

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