Patent ID: 8977240
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling and evaluating message traffic of a communication unit, which comprises the steps of: transmitting all messages of the message traffic via a first network unit within a mobile radio system, the first network unit deciding, with an aid of at least one item of useful information of the communication unit, whether one or more of the messages transmitted from the communication unit are to be forwarded to a second network unit for further processing, or are to be blocked; determining, via the first network unit with the aid of at least one item of the useful information assigned to the communication unit, whether a particular message of the message traffic is to be logged in a logfile by the first network unit; allocating at least one user identity to the communication unit; assigning each one of the at least one user identity with a specific set of the useful information, with the specific set of the useful information being used to control and evaluate at least one message transmitted from the communication unit or the message traffic of the communication unit to be logged; and allocating each of the at least one user identity to a respective one of a plurality of applications of the communication unit, and logging the message traffic at an application level in dependence on a content of individual messages of the message traffic, wherein the content of a first one of the individual messages of the message traffic is multimedia content, the content of a second one of the individual messages is control information, and the logging step includes logging the first one of the individual messages and excluding the second one of the individual messages from the logging.