SUPERVISED ONLINE IDENTITY

• US 20170324743A1
• Filed: 04/03/2017
• Published: 11/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Nayshtut, Alex, Ben-Shalom, Omer, Li, Hong
• Granted Patent: US 10,375,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/37 Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications

Abstract

Technologies to facilitate supervision of an online identify include a gateway server to facilitate and monitor access to an online service by a user of a “child” client computer device. The gateway server may include an identity manager to receive a request for access to the online service from the client computing device, retrieve access information to the online service, and facilitate access to the online service for the client computing device using the access information. The access information is kept confidential from the user. The gateway server may also include an activity monitor module to control activity between the client computing device and the online service based on the set of policy rules of a policy database. The gateway server may transmit notifications of such activity to a “parental” client computing device for review and/or approval, which also may be used to update the policy database.

Claims

1. A gateway server to facilitate supervision of an online identity, the gateway server comprising:

a profile database to store access information to online services of a user of a client computing device, wherein the access information is inaccessible by the user of the client computing device;

a policy database to store a set of policy rules that define authorized activity between the client computing device and the online services;

an identity manager module to (i) receive a request for access to an online service from the client computing device, (ii) retrieve, in response to the request, access information to the online service from the profile database, and (iii) facilitate access to the online service for the client computing device using the access information; and

an activity monitor module to control activity between the client computing device and the online service based on the set of policy rules.