System and method for network traffic aggregation and analysis of mobile devices using socket wrappers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9106542-B2
Application number	US-201213594663-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2012
Priority date	Aug 24, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for per-application network traffic monitoring by extending socket functionality to include socket wrappers able to identify network traffic volume, applications responsible for the traffic, the network being loaded, and distinguish between internal device traffic and external network traffic. Network traffic shaping can then be carried out by managing an offending application's traffic. A disclosed method includes loading a call intercept library prior to loading any core libraries of an operating system, calling a socket wrapper, calling a socket by way of functions of at least one of the core libraries, and receiving at least one data packet, from a responding application external to the communications device, at the socket. The method may also include trapping a call, to read the at least one data packet; and releasing the call to the socket so the data packet is read by the destination application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication apparatus for monitoring applications, the communication apparatus comprising:
a network interface configured to receive a data packet from a network;
a memory for storing:
a plurality of core libraries; and
a call intercept library;

a processor for running:
a library load module configured to load the call intercept library and any of the plurality of core libraries, the call intercept library loaded before any of the plurality of…

Assignees

• Venkateshwaran Ramaswamy
• Craig David William
• Kolinko Eugene V
• Ivanov Alexander
• Qualcomm Innovation Ct Inc

Inventors

• Venkateshwaran Ramaswamy
• Craig David William
• Kolinko Eugene V
• Ivanov Alexander

Classifications

• H04L43/0882

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L69/162

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/0894 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/0876

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L43/028 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic