Parent match

• US 9,203,845 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2010
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: REGO Payment Architectures, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Virtual Piggy, Inc.
• Inventors: Webber, Jo, Ittycheria, Pradeep
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrishamkar, Kaveh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wilcox, James J
• Application Number:
  US12/991,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20110185399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,915 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities

Abstract

A method of providing control preferences set by a person for a second person who is a prospective Internet user, the method comprising the steps of establishing a first account, the settings of the first account being stored in a database; establishing a second account, the settings of the second account being stored in the database; linking the first and second accounts such that control settings of the second account are determined through the first account; and viewing Internet content from the second account consistent with the control settings of the second account.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user, the method comprising:

establishing, by a first user at a first server computer, by logging into a parent match system hosted on the first server computer with a first login, a first account associated with the first login hosted in the parent match system on the first server computer, settings of the first account being stored in a database in the first server computer, the first user being associated with the first account;

establishing, by the first user via the first account in the parent match system hosted on the first server computer, a second account associated with a second user, settings of the second account being set only by the first user via the first account login and stored in the database, the first account comprising a first set of preferences, the second account and second user being different from the first account and first user;

linking the first and second accounts such that the settings of the second account are determined by the first user through the first account, the settings of the second account comprising a second set of preferences; and

viewing, from a content provider server computer, Internet content by the second user associated with the second account consistent with the settings of the second account that were determined by the first user through the first account,

wherein the settings of the second account include context sensitive word sets for selective contextual information to be delivered, the context sensitive word sets including one or more words that are acceptable for content within a selected context approved by the first user, such that the second user is allowed to read about the one or more words in an approved context, but is not allowed to read about the one or more words in a disapproved context, and

wherein the settings of the second account further include one or more of the following preferences;

selective ads to be delivered, selective categories and intensities of online video games to be delivered, selective cultural content to be delivered, sign-up information, a parent match profile to be copied to a service requester web system, reminders for the first user triggered by a predetermined event or metric, and a parent match profile may be set to expire at a predetermined time thereafter making access by the second user impossible.

2. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include a list of approved service requesters that may be viewed by the second user associated with the second account.

3. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the viewing Internet content further includes notifying the first user associated with the first account.

4. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 3, wherein the notifying the first user associated with the first account is performed by e-mail or short message service.

5. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein account information for the first and second accounts is stored in a secure database.

6. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first user associated with the first account and the second user associated with the second account uses a mobile device.

7. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the context sensitive word sets further include contextual information which is disapproved by the first user that is prohibited from being included in the Internet content.

8. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include allowing selective ads to be delivered.

9. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include allowing selective categories and intensities of online video games to be delivered.

10. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include allowing selective cultural content to be delivered.

11. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include sign-up information.

12. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include reminders for the first user triggered by a predetermined event or metric.

13. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the settings of the second account include allowing a parent match profile to be copied to a service requester web system.

14. The method of providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 13, wherein the parent match profile is set to expire at a predetermined time thereafter making access by the second user impossible.

15. A system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user having a non-transitory computer readable medium including a program and a computer executable program code, comprising:

a server computer; and

a database hosted on the server computer, the database configured to store information for a first account and a second account, the first and second accounts being established by a first user, the first and second accounts being different from each other, the first account being established by logging into a parent match system hosted on the server computer with a first login, the first account being associated with the first login hosted in the parent match system on the server computer, settings of the first account being stored in a database in the server computer, the first user being associated with the first account, the second account being established by the first user via the first account in the parent match system hosted on the server computer, the second account being associated with a second user, settings of the second account being set only by the first user via the first account login and stored in the database, the first account comprising a first set of preferences, the second account and second user being different from the first account and first user, the first and second accounts being linked such that the settings of the second account are determined by the first user through the first account, the settings of the second account comprising a second set of preferences; and

a display configured to display, at a location of the second user, Internet content selected the second user associated with the second account, the Internet content being associated with a content provider server computer, the Internet content being consistent with the settings of the second account determined by the first user through the first account,

wherein the settings of the second account include context sensitive word sets for selective contextual information to be delivered, the context sensitive word sets including one or more words that are acceptable for content within a selected context approved by the first user, such that the second user is allowed to read about the one or more words in an approved context, but is not allowed to read about the one or more words in a disapproved context, and

wherein settings of the second account further include one or more of the following preferences;

selective ads to be delivered, selective categories and intensities of online video games to be delivered, selective cultural content to be delivered, sign-up information, a parent match profile to be copied to a service requester web system, reminders for the first user triggered by a predetermined event or metric, and a parent match profile may be set to expire at a predetermined time thereafter making access by a second user impossible, are established through the first account such that a viewing of Internet content by the second user of the second account is consistent with the control settings of the second account, the control settings being established only by the first user.

16. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings include a list of approved service requesters that may be viewed by the second user associated with the second account.

17. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the first user associated with the first account is notified when the second user associated with the second account views Internet content.

18. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the first user associated with the first account is notified by e-mail or short message service.

19. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein account information for the first and second accounts is stored in a secure database.

20. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the first user associated with the first account and the second user associated with the second account uses a mobile device.

21. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the context sensitive word sets further include contextual information which is disapproved by the first user that is prohibited from being included in the Internet content.

22. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings of the second account include allowing selective ads to be delivered.

23. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings of the second account include allowing selective categories and intensities of online video games to be delivered.

24. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings of the second account include allowing selective cultural content to be delivered.

25. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings of the second account include sign-up information.

26. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings of the second account include reminders for the first user triggered by a predetermined event or metric.

27. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 15, wherein the control settings of the second account include allowing a parent match profile to be copied to a service requester web system.

28. The system providing control preferences for a prospective Internet user according to claim 27, wherein the parent match profile is set to expire at a predetermined time thereafter making access by the second user impossible.