Apparatus, System and Methods for Portable Device Tracking Using Temporary Privileged Access

摘要

A computer-implemented system, apparatus and method for accessing a portable device to execute monitoring capabilities. The monitoring capabilities include packet detection, which in turn may be processed to produce media exposure data. The monitoring capabilities are installed using privileged access in order to obtain data from a kernel layer of the portable device, and the device is returned to an original state following installation, in order to comply with operating system requirements. Audio media exposure data may further be integrated with the packet-detected media exposure data.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring a portable device, comprising the steps of:
activating an access software component, embodied in a tangible medium, configured to access at least a kernel layer in the portable device; deactivating the access software component; configuring a software component, embodied in a tangible medium, to execute packet capturing on the portable device when the access software component is deactivated; and receiving and identifying packets captured by the software component; and processing the identified packets to produce media exposure data.