Patent ID: 9020463
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06F,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to determine usage of a device, comprising: filtering, via a first application executed by a processor, a public debug log file stored in the device to obtain debug messages that are stored in the public debug log file by a plurality of second applications executed by the processor and representative of device usage information, the public debug log file including messages associated with performance of the second applications and the device, the public debug log file being included on the device to store messages and information for reviewing performance of the device and the second applications, the filtering of the public debug log file including: identifying an application title or a service title in a first one of the debug messages in the public debug log file; determining whether the first one of the debug messages is a message of interest based on the application title or the service title; identifying at least one of a uniform resource identifier or a uniform resource locator in a second one of the debug messages in the public debug log file; and determining whether the second one of the debug messages is a message of interest based on the content of the uniform resource identifier or the uniform resource locator; and sending, to an audience measurement entity server, a filtered log file based on the filtering of the public debug log file.