INTELLIGENT GOVERNANCE CONTROLS BASED ON REAL-TIME CONTEXTS

• US 20160232368A1
• Filed: 02/10/2015
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: MYSAK, John S., CLARK, Adam T., PAYTON, Aspen L., PETRI, John E., PFEIFER, Michael D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,591 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/908 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving, from a set of input devices, data of an environment surrounding a computing device, determining a current context of a discussion based on the data and a timing schedule specifying a list of planned contexts, receiving a request to perform an operation on the computing device, determining a context of the requested operation, determining a measure of relatedness between the contexts, and upon determining the measure of relatedness does not exceed a predefined threshold, restricting execution of the operation.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A system, comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

a memory containing a program, which when executed by the one or more computer processors, performs an operation comprising;

receiving, from a set of input devices, data of an environment surrounding a computing device;

determining a current context of a discussion based on the data and a timing schedule specifying a list of planned contexts;

receiving a request to perform an operation on the computing device;

determining a context of the requested operation;

determining a measure of relatedness between the contexts; and

upon determining the measure of relatedness does not exceed a predefined threshold, restricting execution of the operation.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operation comprises one of:

(i) accessing an application, (ii) accessing a feature of the application, (iii) accessing a network resource, (iv) submitting a search query, (v) accessing a result of the search query, and (vi) opening a document.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the operation comprises submitting a search query, wherein the context of the operation comprises a context of the query, wherein submission of the search query is restricted upon determining the context of the query does not match the current context.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the operation comprises accessing a result of the search query, wherein the context of the operation comprises a context of the result, wherein access to the result is restricted upon determining the context of the result does not match the current context.

12. The system of claim 8, the operation further comprising:

determining that the current context has changed to an updated context based on updated data received from the input devices;

receiving a second request to perform the operation on the computing device; and

upon determining the updated context matches the context of the operation, allowing execution of the operation on the computing device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein a first input device of the set of input devices comprises a microphone, wherein a second input device of the set of input devices comprises a camera, wherein speech captured by the microphone is converted to text to determine the current context, wherein image data captured by the camera is analyzed to determine the current context.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein restricting execution of the requested operation is further based on a set of rules, wherein the environment comprises at least one of:

(i) a classroom, (ii) a virtual classroom, and (iii) a testing center, wherein the set of rules specify;

(i) a set of restricted operations associated with the current context, and (ii) a set of permitted operations associated with the current context.

15. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code executable by one or more computer processors to;

receive, from a set of input devices, data of an environment surrounding a computing device;

determine a current context of a discussion based on the data and a timing schedule specifying a list of planned contexts;

receive a request to perform an operation on the computing device;

determine a context of the requested operation;

determine a measure of relatedness between the contexts; and

upon determining the measure of relatedness does not exceed a predefined threshold, restrict execution of the operation.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the operation comprises one of:

(i) accessing an application, (ii) accessing a feature of the application, (iii) accessing a network resource, (iv) submitting a search query, (v) accessing a result of the search query, and (vi) opening a document.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the operation comprises submitting a search query, wherein the context of the operation comprises a context of the query, wherein submission of the search query is restricted upon determining the context of the query does not match the current context.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the operation comprises accessing a result of the search query, wherein the context of the operation comprises a context of the result, wherein access to the result is restricted upon determining the context of the result does not match the current context.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer-readable program code is further executable to:

determine that the current context has changed to an updated context based on updated data received from the input devices;

receive a second request to perform the operation on the computing device; and

upon determining the updated context matches the context of the operation, allow execution of the operation on the computing device.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein a first input device of the set of input devices comprises a microphone, wherein a second input device of the set of input devices comprises a camera, wherein speech captured by the microphone is converted to text to determine the current context, wherein image data captured by the camera is analyzed to determine the current context, wherein restricting execution of the requested operation is further based on a set of rules, wherein the environment comprises at least one of:

(i) a classroom, (ii) a virtual classroom, and (iii) a testing center, wherein the set of rules specify;

(i) a set of restricted operations associated with the current context, and (ii) a set of permitted operations associated with the current context.