IDENTITY-BASED CONTENT ACCESS CONTROL

• US 20150089668A1
• Filed: 09/25/2013
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Baldwin, James A., Medapati, Suri B., Sannomiya, Yoko, Varshavsky, Oleg S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,594,890 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1077 Recurrent authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media are described that are associated with performing identity-based access control for content. A content consumption device may be configured to control access to presented content based on identities of one or more content consumers that are physically proximate to the device. The content consumption device may be configured to perform facial and/or voice recognition on one or more content consumers to determine an identity for the one or more content consumers. The content consumption device may be configured to determine access permissions for the identified content consumers. At various times, access to a piece of content may change based on who is physically proximate to the content consumption device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions configured to cause a computing device, in response to execution of the instructions by the computing device, to:

identify, in association with presentation of a piece of content on the computing device, one or more content consumers that are physically proximate to the computing device;

determine one or more access permissions for the identified one or more content consumers; and

control access to the content based on the determined one or more access permissions.

2. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein identify one or more content consumers comprises perform facial recognition on the one or more content consumers.

3. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein identify one or more content consumers comprises perform voice recognition of the one or more content consumers.

4. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein identify one or more content consumers comprises identify a unique identity for a content consumer.

5. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein determine one or more access permissions comprises determine one or more age-based access permissions.

6. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein control access to the piece of content based on the determined one or more access permissions comprises deny access to the content.

7. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein determine one or more access permissions comprises determine access permissions associated with metadata describing the piece of content.

8. The computer-readable storage media of claim 7, wherein the metadata describing the piece of content describes one or more age ranges that are permitted to consume the content.

9. The computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein identify one or more content consumers comprises identify an age or an age range for a content consumer.

10. The computer-readable storage media of claim 9, wherein identify an age range for a content consumer comprises identify that a content consumer is below or is likely to be below an age threshold described by the metadata describing the content.

11. The computer-readable storage media of claim 10, wherein control presentation of the content comprises deny access to the piece of media content based on the identify that a content consumer is below or is likely to be below a predetermined age threshold described by the metadata describing the content.

12. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the computing device to:

receive an override command after denial of access to the piece of content; and

allow access to the piece of content based on the received override command.

13. The computer-readable storage media of claim 12, wherein receive an override command comprises receive an override command from a content consumer identified to have permission to override denial of access to the content.

14. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the computing device to receive the one or more access permissions from an authorized content consumer.

15. The computer-readable storage media of claim 14, wherein receive the one or more access permissions from an authorized content consumer comprises:

authenticate a person physically proximate to the computing device as the authorized content consumer; and

receive the one or more access permissions from the authenticated person.

16. The computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein authenticate the person physically proximate to the computing device as the authorized content consumer comprises:

provide one or more words and/or numbers to the person for the person to read aloud;

capture audio of the person reading the one or more words and/or numbers; and

authenticate the person by performing voice recognition on the captured audio.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

one or more computing processors;

a player module configured to operate on the one or more computing processors to present a piece of content;

one or more facial and/or voice recognition modules configured to operate on the one or more computing processors to identify, in association with presentation of the piece of content, one or more content consumers that are physically proximate to the apparatus; and

an access control module configured to operate on the one or more computing processors to;

determine one or more access permissions for the identified one or more content consumers; and

control access to the content based on the determined one or more access permissions.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein identify one or more content consumers comprises perform facial recognition and/or voice recognition on the one or more content consumers.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein determine one or more access permissions comprises determine access permissions associated with metadata describing the piece of content.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the metadata describing the piece of content describes one or more age ranges that are permitted to consume the content.

21. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the access control module is further configured to operate on the one or more computing processors to:

receive an override command after denial of access to the piece of content; and

allow access to the piece of content based on the received override command.

22. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

presenting, by a computing device, a piece of content;

identifying, by the computing device, and in association with presentation of the piece of content, one or more content consumers that are physically proximate to the apparatus;

determining, by the computing device, one or more access permissions for the identified one or more content consumers; and

controlling, by the computing device, access to the content based on the determined one or more access permissions.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein identifying one or more content consumers comprises performing facial recognition and/or voice recognition on the one or more content consumers.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein determining one or more access permissions comprises determining access permissions associated with metadata describing the piece of content.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the metadata describing the piece of content describes one or more age ranges that are permitted to consume the content.