TECHNIQUE FOR MAINTAINING NETWORK SERVICE IDENTIFICATION RULES

摘要

Techniques for maintaining rules for identifying network services are presented. The network services exchange data packets with mobile terminals wirelessly connected to a network. The network receives reports from a subset of the mobile terminals. The reports indicate network services used by the reporting mobile terminals. Various corresponding methods including the network associating one or more first data packets with one of the network services based on the reports. The first data packets originate from, or are addressed to, the reporting mobile terminals. The network derives or adapts, based on data included in the first data packets, one or more rules for identifying the network service based on data included in second data packets. The second data packets are different from the first data packets.

主权项

1. A method of maintaining rules for identifying network services that exchange data packets with mobile terminals wirelessly connected to a network, which receives from a subset of the mobile terminals reports indicative of network services used by the reporting mobile terminals, the method comprising the following steps performed within the network:
associating one or more first data packets with one of the network services based on one or more of the reports, the first data packets originating from or being addressed to the reporting mobile terminals; and deriving or adapting, based on data included in the one or more first data packets, one or more of the rules for identifying the one of the network services based on data included in one or more second data packets, wherein the one or more second data packets are different from the one or more first data packets.