METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING ACTIVITY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20170141978A1
• Filed: 01/31/2017
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Wong, Ling Jun, McCoy, Charles, Xiong, True
• Granted Patent: US 10,250,469 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

An apparatus and method for monitoring activity of a device. The method includes associating one or more monitoring devices with an electronic device. Rules that have been established to define acceptable content that can be accessed by the electronic device are accessed. Requested content, which is requested by the electronic device, is identified. The requested content is compared to the established rules. An alert condition is generated when the requested content violates the established rules. An alert signal is provided to the one or more monitoring devices based on the alert condition

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method for monitoring activity of a module of an electronic device comprising:

associating an electronic device with one or more activity modules;

establishing activity parameters for activities of the activity module;

identifying actuation of one or more of the activity parameters of the activity module;

generating an accumulation of identified actuations; and

providing the accumulation of identified actuations utilizing a pre-selected protocol.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

displaying various permutations of the accumulation of identified actuations.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

publishing accumulation of identified actuations for each activity module of an electronic device.

18. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

logging the accumulation of identified actuations,

wherein the logging is based on code module, event or priority.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:

sending a notification of the accumulation to one or more of the electronic devices.

20. The method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:

modifying the logging step utilizing settings.

21. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the logging further comprises:

logging an event for a period of time, based on the code module, event or priority.

22. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

integrating the activity module with an automation system.

23. The method as claimed in claim 22, wherein an electronic device, being operatively coupled to one or more activity modules, publishes a feed through a network connection with an event message, and

monitoring the event message to control additional modules or electronic devices.

24. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the feed includes an RSS feed.

25-27. -27. (canceled)