System and method for monitoring internet connections

• US 20050044181A1
• Filed: 08/20/2004
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jae Kyung
• Application Number:
  US10/921,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20050044181A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for protecting children or teenagers from a harmful website, the system comprises a computer configured to generating a request signal for a connection to a website, a server configured to output information of the website according to the request signal provided from the computer, and a monitoring terminal configured to receive the website information from the server, to display the website information, and to output a signal for controlling the connection to the website.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring Internet connections, the system comprising:

a computer configured to generating a request signal for a connection to a website;

a server configured to output information of the website according to the request signal provided from the computer; and

a monitoring terminal configured to receive the website information from the server, to display the website information, and to output a signal for controlling the connection to the website.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer comprises any one of an Internet (television) TV receiver, an Internet refrigerator, and a personal computer (PC).

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the request signal comprises an internet protocol (IP) address of the website.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the request signal comprises a phone number or an internet protocol (IP) address of the monitoring terminal.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is configured to store the website information in a memory.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is configured to determine, based on selected options included in the request signal, whether to provide information of all websites accessed by the computer or to provide information of a restricted website only, to the monitoring terminal.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the website information comprises a domain name of the website.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the website information comprises an age limit of the website.

9. A system for monitoring Internet connections, the system comprising:

a computer configured to generate a request signal for a connection to a website;

a server configured to determine whether the website to be accessed is a restricted website according to website information included in the request signal, and to output the website information according to a result of the determination; and

a monitoring terminal configured to display the website information received from the server, and to output a signal for controlling the connection to the website.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the server, based on contents of the website, is configured to determine whether the website to be accessed is the restricted website.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the server, based on pre-stored information of pre-selected list of websites, determines whether the website to be accessed is the restricted website.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the website information comprises an age limit of the website.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the server is configured to transmit the website information to the monitoring terminal when the website to be accessed is determined to be the restricted website.

14. A method for monitoring Internet connections, comprising the steps of:

generating a request signal for a connection to a website and transmitting the request signal from a computer to a server;

transmitting website information from the server to a monitoring terminal according to the request signal;

displaying the website information provided from the server by the monitoring terminal; and

controlling the website connection of the computer according to a command inputted by a user through the monitoring terminal.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the request signal comprises an internet protocol (IP) address of the website.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the request signal comprises a phone number or an IP address of the monitoring terminal.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the website information comprises a domain name of the website.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the website information comprises an age limit of the website.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises extracting the website information from data stream provided by the website.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the transmitting the website information from the server to the monitoring terminal comprises reading the pre-stored information of pre-selected list of websites from the server.

21. A method for monitoring Internet connections, comprising:

transmitting a request signal for a connection to a website from a computer to a server;

determining whether the website to be accessed is a restricted website according to the request signal;

transmitting the website information from the server to a monitoring terminal according to a result of the determination;

displaying the website information provided from the server by the monitoring terminal; and

controlling the website connection of the computer according to a user command inputted throgh the monitoring terminal.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the determining whether the website to be accessed is the restricted website comprises determining, based on contents of the website, whether the website to be accessed is the restricted website.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the determining whether the website to be accessed is a restricted website comprises determining, based on the pre-stored information of pre-selected list of websites, whether the website to be accessed is the restricted website.