Resource Consumption Estimation with Out of Norm Determination in Mobile Devices

摘要

A method estimates resource consumption between applications within and among a population of wireless mobile devices. Aggregating and analyzing samples for each member of the population of devices provides comparable individual results. Subsequently aggregating and analyzing only summary information for each member of the population of devices provides cluster, crowd, and global comparisons. An apparatus determines out of norm behavior of an individual within a crowd, or relative differences between two crowds.

主权项

1. A method to estimate if a first application substantially differs in resource consumption from a second application, the method comprising:
receiving, from each of a plurality of devices, a report of remaining resource availability measured at certain events in time; receiving, recorded at each event-time, a list of applications that have been active since the last measurement; for each first application on each device, estimating an average consumption for each first application; determining a mean, median, standard deviation of resource consumption for each resource of each of a subset of devices which have a selected first application in the list of applications that have been active since the last measurement; selecting the group of all devices in the population which have a selected first application in the list of applications; determining a mean, median, standard deviation of resource consumption for all devices in the population which have a selected first application in its respective list of applications recorded at each event-time; and ascribing the mean, median, standard deviation of resource consumption to the selected first application.