US 12,236,443 B2
System and method for determining user engagement with an application
Kevin Perkins, Wildwood, MO (US); and Ashwini Kumar Kounduri, Redmond, WA (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/161,199.
Prior Publication US 2024/0257161 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0201 (2023.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 43/04 (2022.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01) [G06F 9/547 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining network traffic data for a period of time, the network traffic data including a plurality of host calls;
determining a host call sequence from the plurality of host calls, the host call sequence including one or more of the plurality of host calls;
obtaining an augmented dataset, the augmented dataset being based on a baseline dataset generated via a process of fingerprinting;
identifying an application corresponding to the host call sequence based on the augmented dataset; and
determining a number of users of the application for the period of time based on a number of times the host call sequence repeats in the network traffic data.