Patent ID: 9426039
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a communication unit to communicate data to and from a server of a communication service provider, the communication unit comprising an antenna; a recognition unit to recognize applications that communicate data via the communication unit; an analyzing unit to analyze data of the applications, wherein the analyzing unit identifies features of data including synchronization data, necessary data and advertising data associated with the applications; a calculation unit to calculate a usage amount of data communicated to and from the server for the respective applications; and a control unit to control the mobile terminal by controlling data communicated through the antenna, based on usage amounts of data and the identified features, wherein the control unit is configured to categorize that an application is an advertising application based on a ratio of a usage amount of extracted data for advertising data to a usage amount of total extracted data for the application being equal to or greater than a threshold value, wherein the extracted data for advertising data are extracted from packets of the application, wherein the advertising application is a background advertising application when the usage amount of total extracted data for the application is extracted from background use packets, and wherein the advertising application is a foreground advertising application when the usage amount of total extracted data for the application is extracted from foreground use packets.