Patent ID: 8521843

Claim:
A method for performing usage tracking, the method comprising: determining a set of targeted wireless terminals selected from a plurality of wireless terminals; transmitting a notification to each targeted wireless terminal, each notification identifying one targeted wireless terminal as being a target for tracking and one or more applications to be tracked; receiving at least one response to the transmitted notifications, the response identifying a wireless terminal and indicating either an approval or a disapproval for tracking; transmitting tracking parameters to each one of the identified targeted wireless terminals whose responses to the notifications indicate approval, the tracking parameters identifying at least one upload window, each upload window indicting a unique time range for uploading tracking data to a server; and receiving the tracking data from the identified targeted wireless terminals whose responses to the notifications indicate approval within the time ranges indicated by the upload windows, the received tracking data including a plurality of tracking logs, each tracking log containing tracking information collected from the one or more applications.