Patent Document ID: 9703962
Application ID: 14510772

Base Claim:
1. A method of analyzing a device behavior in a computing device, comprising: monitoring, by a processor of the computing device, activities of a software application operating on the computing device to generate user-persona information that characterizes a user of the computing device, the generated user-persona information including information that characterizes the user's mood; using the generated user-persona information to select two or more device features; monitoring the selected two or more device features to collect behavior information; determining whether the user's mood is relevant to analyzing the behavior information collected by monitoring the selected two or more device features; and generating a classifier model that includes a plurality of one-level decision trees that each evaluate a device feature in relation to the user's mood in response to determining that the user's mood is relevant to analyzing the behavior information collected by monitoring the selected two or more device features; generating a behavior vector that correlates the behavior information for which the user's mood is relevant to the user's mood at the time the behavior information was collected; applying the generated behavior vector to the classifier model to generate an analysis result; and using the generated analysis result to determine whether the device behavior is non-benign.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein using the generated user-persona information to select the two or more device features comprises: selecting the two or more device features that are most relevant to determining whether the device behavior is not consistent with a pattern of ordinary usage of the computing device by the user.