Patent ID: 9621432
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of monitoring devices deployed by third parties based on network activity, the method comprising: receiving, via one or more computing devices, network traffic between a plurality of deployed devices and respective host devices, the deployed devices being end-point devices that automatically transmit packets of data to respective host devices; aggregating the network traffic to create individual profiles for different groups of the deployed devices, the individual profiles including at least a packet size and a transmission frequency representative of a respective group of the deployed devices; identifying, from the network traffic, a deployed device of the plurality of deployed devices that transmits a packet of data outside of at least one of a threshold size variance of the packet size or a threshold frequency variance in the transmission frequency based at least in part on a respective profile for the deployed device from the individual profiles; and transmitting a notification to at least one of a service provider or a host device of the respective host devices that is associated with the deployed device, the notification identifying the packet of data as being outside of at least one of the threshold size variance of the packet size or the threshold frequency variance in the transmission frequency.