Mobile application identification in network traffic via a search engine approach
US9853876B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2014 |
| Grant date | Dec 26, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 23, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/2475
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for identifying a network application. The method includes analyzing metadata and source code of a network application to extract a set of application tokens, generating an index document of the network application based on the set of application code tokens, wherein the index document is included in a library of index documents corresponding to a number of network applications, extracting a set of packet header tokens from a packet header of a packet in a flow, comparing the set of packet header tokens to the set of index documents to generate a number of match scores, wherein each match score represents a similarity measure between the set of packet header tokens and one index document, and determining, based on a highest match score corresponding to a particular network application, that the flow is generated by the particular network application.
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