Windows frame, dialog box, keyboard, device access and user environment real time ASC file signal tracking and control system based upon user activity

• US 6,708,211 B1
• Filed: 10/21/1999
• Issued: 03/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tingley Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Evolutionary Vision Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Terry, Robert F., Tingley, Margie A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiley, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phuoc H.
• Application Number:
  US09/422,888
• Time in Patent Office: 1,608 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/227, 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems

Abstract

A method detects states that are activated by a user of a computer unit and includes: checking a set of values and/or characters in a memory area of the computer unit wherein each set of values correspond to a state activated by the user; and capturing each set of values to determine each state activated by the user. Each state corresponds to a Windows frame state and, alternatively, to a dialog box state.

Claims

1. A method of transferring in real-time a user profile from an administrator computer unit to a client computer unit in a network, the method comprising the steps for:

selecting a plurality of parameters to define a user profile for controlling the computer environment of a user of the client computer unit, the parameters including at least one of an alert condition, an alert type, and a description of an event;

formatting the user profile into an ASC command signal file; and

transferring the user profile from administrator computer unit to the client computer unit over the network to control the computer environment of the user of the client computer unit, the user profile initiating a user lock application stored in the client computer unit to halt user activity in the client computer unit without additional action taken by the administrator computer unit if the activity of the user violates the user profile.

2. An electronically-readable medium storing a program for permitting a computer to perform a method of transferring in real-time a user profile from an administrator computer unit to a client computer unit in a network, the method comprising the steps for:

selecting a plurality of parameters to define a user profile for controlling the computer environment of a user of the client computer unit, the parameters including at least one of an alert condition, an alert type, and a description of an event;

formatting the user profile into an ASC command signal file; and

transferring the user profile from the administrator computer unit to the client computer unit over the network to control the computer environment of the user of the client computer unit, the user profile initiating a user lock application stored in the client computer unit to halt user activity in the client computer unit without additional action taken by the administrator computer unit if the activity of the user violates the user profile.

3. A method of controlling in real time access to an external device coupled to a client computer unit in a network, the method comprising the steps for:

providing a user profile from an administrator computer unit to a client application in the client computer unit over the network, the user profile formatted into an ASC command signal file and defining the computer environment of a user of the client computer unit and the client application including a user lock application; and

based upon am activity of the user and the user profile, the user profile initiating the user lock application to halt user activity in the client computer unit without additional action taken by the administrator computer unit if the activity of the user violates the user profile.

4. An electronically-readable medium storing a program for permitting a computer to perform a method of controlling in real time access to an external device coupled to a client computer unit in a network, the method comprising the steps for:

providing a user profile from an administrator computer unit to a client application in the client computer unit over the network, the user profile formatted into an ASC command signal file and defining the computer environment of a user of the client computer unit and the client application including a user lock application; and

based upon an activity of the user and the user profile, the user profile initiating the user lock application to halt user activity in the client computer unit without additional action taken by the administrator computer unit if the activity of the user violates the user profile.

5. A method of halting in real time the user environment of a client computer unit in a network, the method comprising the steps for:

providing a user profile from an administrator computer unit to a client application in the client computer unit over the network, the user profile formatted into an ASC command signal file and defining the computer environment of a user of the client computer unit and the client application including a user lock application; and

the user profile initiating the user lock application to halt user activity in the client computer unit without additional action taken by the administrator computer unit if the activity of the user violates tie user profile.

6. An electronically-readable medium storing a program for permitting a computer to perform a method of halting in real time the user environment of a client computer unit in a network, the method comprising the steps for:

providing a user profile from art administrator computer unit to a client application in the client computer unit over the network, the user profile formatted into an ASC command signal file and defining the computer environment of a user of the client computer unit and the client application including a user lock application; and

the user profile initiating the user lock application to halt user activity in the client computer unit without additional action taken by the administrator computer unit if the activity of the user violates the user profile.