Patent ID: 9405599
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method to detect uninstallation of an on-device meter application on a mobile device, the method comprising: identifying, at an application on the mobile device, a first notification that the on-device meter application is to be uninstalled, the first notification broadcast within the mobile device in response to a user instruction to uninstall the on-device meter application, the on-device meter application to monitor usage of the mobile device, the first notification not communicated external to the mobile device, wherein the first notification is received from a package manager; transmitting, with a transmitter on the mobile device and in response to the identification of the first notification, monitoring information to a remote data collector, the monitoring information stored in an event log by the on-device meter application, the monitoring information not transmitted to the remote data collector by the on-device meter application; and transmitting, with the transmitter on the mobile device, an uninstallation notification to the remote data collector, the uninstallation notification including an identifier to identify at least one of the mobile device associated with the uninstallation or a user of the mobile device.