Internet use monitoring system

• US 8,671,192 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2012
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Covenant Eyes, Inc.
• Original Assignee: RCS Dynamics, LLC
• Inventors: DeHaas, Ronald J., Hammersley, Scott D, Rose, Collin J
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dustin
• Application Number:
  US13/565,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A system for monitoring Internet use of a selected computer user includes a remote server and a computer having a monitoring program voluntarily installed thereon by the user communicatively connected to the remote server. The monitoring program is configured to monitor various Internet access activity of the computer user and record the Internet access activity on the remote server. The Internet access activity includes access of at least one Internet protocol from the group consisting of newsgroups, file sharing programs, file transfer programs, chat rooms, peer to peer chats, and electronic mail activity. A method of using a monitoring system includes the steps of a computer user voluntarily installing a monitoring program on a selected computer, recording the Internet access activity, and providing the recorded information to a third party recipient. A report may be provided that includes a variety of information and may include a plurality of portions.

Claims

1. A system for reporting the contents of Internet access from a selected computer, comprising:

a remote server;

a computer communicatively connected to said remote server having a monitoring program installed thereon, said monitoring program configured to monitor Internet access activity of the computer user, record said activity on said remote server, said Internet access activity includes access to at least one Internet protocol from the group consisting of hyper text transfer protocol, network news transfer protocol, file sharing programs, file transfer protocol, chat rooms, peer to peer chats, and electronic mail; and

wherein said remote server is configured to generate a report of the Internet access activity of the computer user, and said report includes a plurality of portions, each of said plurality of portions contains a list of said recorded Internet access activity of one of said Internet protocols of the computer user, wherein said portions further include a computer link to connect to another portion of said report of the Internet access activity of the computer user, and wherein said report further includes a score assigned to each Internet access activity listed.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said report is accessible by a third party recipient.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said report displays said list of said recorded Internet access activity sorted by said score.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said report displays said list of said recorded Internet access activity sorted chronologically.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein a first of the plurality of portions of the report represents web site access activity of the computer user and a second of the plurality of portions of the report represents e-mail access activity of the computer user, the first and second portions of the report being linked to each other.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the report includes the Internet access activity of a selected computer user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the report is automatically sent to a third party recipient at predetermined time intervals.