US 2017/0289283 A1 · AUTOMATED DPI PROCESS

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for tracking usage of applications on a mobile device that includes a virtual private network (VPN) application. The VPN application includes a rule dictionary to store a rule for each application that is executable on the mobile device. A rule comprises an identifier for the application and an associated regular expression. To create a rule, a new application is installed on the mobile device and executed to create network traffic. The network traffic from the new application is inspected and a regular expression that matches the new application is created and stored in the rules dictionary. Once the rule is stored, a usage of the application can be identified based on monitoring the network traffic and searching the rule dictionary to identify a matching application. Once a matching application is found, the usage metric of the application is updated.

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A method for tracking usage of applications on a mobile device, the method comprising:

storing, in a rules dictionary, a rule for each application of a plurality of applications that are executable on a mobile device, where each rule for an application comprises an identifier for the application and a regular expression that operates on network traffic caused by executing the application on the mobile device;
installing a new mobile application on the mobile device;
executing the new application on the mobile device to cause the new application to create network traffic;
inspecting the network traffic caused by the new application;
creating a regular expression that matched the network traffic created by the new application;
and
storing in the rules dictionary a new rule that comprises the regular expression created for the new application and an identifier for the new application.

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