On-device attribution of network data usage

摘要

Embodiments attribute network data transfers to applications executing on a computing device. A data transfer service executes on the computing device to receive and process data transfer requests. The data transfer requests, populated by the applications, have identifiers attributed thereto to enable monitoring of the network data transfers per identifier. For example, network data transfers associated with different mail accounts of a mail program or different web sites of browser are attributed separately. Data usage statistics relating to the network data transfers for each identifier may be generated and presented to the user for review.

主权项

1. A system for tracking network data usage by a data transfer service executing on a mobile computing device, the system comprising:
a memory area associated with the mobile computing device, said memory area storing a plurality of applications executing on the mobile computing device, the memory area further storing a data transfer queue; and a processor programmed to:
allocate one or more identifiers to the plurality of applications;receive data transfer requests from the plurality of applications, a data transfer requests of the plurality of data transfer requests having attributed thereto one of the allocated identifiers associated with an application originating the data transfer request;add the received data transfer requests to the data transfer queue stored in the memory area;process the data transfer requests in the data transfer queue to perform the data transfer requests; andgenerate data usage statistics per identifier based on the performed data transfer requests.