APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ADMINISTERING ONLNE CONTENT ACCESED BY A MINOR

• US 20160337371A1
• Filed: 04/15/2016
• Published: 11/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yearbooker, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Yearbooker, Inc.
• Inventors: Chung Davidson, Fanny, Davidson, Robert
• Application Number:
  US15/099,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337371A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0245 Filtering by information in the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1425 Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/37 Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods that allow a Parent or other designated guardian to screen, intercept and monitor messages sent to and sent from a child thereby allowing the parent to filter and approve communications involving a minor. Implementations may include a downloadable or pre-installed app, an API or other executable code.

Claims

1. Automated apparatus for facilitating control over content accessed by a minor using a digital communication device, the apparatus comprising:

a computer server in logical communication with a digital communications network and configured to be accessed by a network access device via the digital communications network; and

executable software stored on the computer server and executable on demand, the software operative with the computer server to cause the computer server to;

receive ParentScreen data certifying an adult as a Parent of an associated Child;

receive a digital transmission via the communication network addressed to the Child;

transmit the digital transmission addressed to the Child to the Parent;

receive an instruction from the Parent, said instruction comprising one of;

authorize the transmission to the Child and block the transmission to the Child; and

execute the received instruction.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server is additionally operative to log a history of communications to the Child.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server is additionally operative to log a history of instructions received from the Parent and relating to the Child.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server is additionally operative to calculate a volume of messages sent to the Child.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server is additionally operative to calculate a volume of messages sent to the Child from a particular Sender.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server is additionally operative to calculate a volume of messages sent to the Child from a particular Sender during a designated time period.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server is additionally operative to calculate a volume of messages sent to the Child from a particular Sender that has been blocked by the Parent.