Devices and methods for improving web safety and deterrence of cyberbullying
First Claim
1. A system and apparatus for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children, the system and apparatus comprising:
- one or more child software modules, a module installed on each child'"'"'s smart phone, each child software module configured to;
access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone'"'"'s other software applications, including at least two of the following;
a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application; and
send the extracted data to an analysis server;
the analysis server, configured to;
identify potentially harmful language, images, and websites by comparing the extracted data to existing databases of harmful words, harmful images or image types, harmful websites, and harmful applications;
automatically identify patterns in the potentially harmful language, images, and websites for which helpful works of authorship have previously been created and stored in an electronic library; and
provide immediate access to those works of authorship to parents by transmitting an electronic copy thereof or a link thereto to a parent portal for display adjacent to a warning based on harmful content that underlies those patterns of harmful content; and
the parent portal configured to;
receive results from the analysis server;
display the results organized by child;
provide both generalized smart phone usage data for each child and visual warnings when harmful results have been found by the analysis server, along with specific underlying data that triggered the warning; and
provide an interface for receiving input from a parent, the input comprising;
selections of which child'"'"'s data to view; and
selections of which types and how much of the data and analysis results to view for each child.
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Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children can include one or more child software modules. The module can be installed on each child'"'"'s smart phone. The module can access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone'"'"'s other software applications, including at least two of the following: a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application. The module can further send the extracted data to an analysis server. The module can also monitor location data. Moreover, the system can include an analysis server that can identify potentially harmful language, images, and websites. Further, the system can include a parent portal. The parent portal can receive results from the analysis server.
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17 Claims
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1. A system and apparatus for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children, the system and apparatus comprising:
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one or more child software modules, a module installed on each child'"'"'s smart phone, each child software module configured to; access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone'"'"'s other software applications, including at least two of the following;
a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application; andsend the extracted data to an analysis server; the analysis server, configured to; identify potentially harmful language, images, and websites by comparing the extracted data to existing databases of harmful words, harmful images or image types, harmful websites, and harmful applications; automatically identify patterns in the potentially harmful language, images, and websites for which helpful works of authorship have previously been created and stored in an electronic library; and provide immediate access to those works of authorship to parents by transmitting an electronic copy thereof or a link thereto to a parent portal for display adjacent to a warning based on harmful content that underlies those patterns of harmful content; and the parent portal configured to; receive results from the analysis server; display the results organized by child; provide both generalized smart phone usage data for each child and visual warnings when harmful results have been found by the analysis server, along with specific underlying data that triggered the warning; and provide an interface for receiving input from a parent, the input comprising; selections of which child'"'"'s data to view; and selections of which types and how much of the data and analysis results to view for each child. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computing system configured to access one or more databases in substantially real-time in response to input from a parent provided in an interactive user interface in order to determine information related to a user system and provide the determined information to the parent in the interactive user interface, the computing system comprising:
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a network interface coupled to a data network for receiving and transmitting one or more packet flows; a computer processor; and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instructions configured for execution by the non-transitory computer processor in order to cause the computing system to; access data from or about more than one of a smart phone'"'"'s software applications, including at least two of the following;
a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application; andidentify potentially harmful language, images, and websites by comparing the accessed data to existing databases of harmful words, harmful images or image types, harmful websites, and harmful applications; automatically identify patterns from the identified potentially harmful language, images, and websites for which helpful works of authorship have previously been created and stored in an electronic library; display results organized by child on a computing device; display generalized smart phone usage data for each child and visual warnings when harmful results have been found, along with specific underlying data that triggered the warning on the computing device; display an electronic copy of at least one of the works of authorship or a link thereto, the electronic copy thereof or the link being associated with a warning based on the pattern on the computing device; display an indication of a first controlled device associated with a first child of the parent, wherein the indication of the first controlled device is selectable by the parent in order to initiate analysis of a usage pattern of the first controlled device and provide results of the analysis to the parent in substantially real-time; provide an interface for receiving input from a parent, the input comprising; selections of which child'"'"'s data to view; and selections of which types and how much of the data and analysis results to view for each child; receive an identification of a selection by the parent of a second controlled device associated with a second child of the parent in the interactive user interface; access a database storing analysis data for the second controlled device associated with the second child of the parent; update user interface data such that the interactive user interface includes indications of at least a subset of determined high frequency contacts; and
transmit the updated user interface data to the computing device.
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16. A non-transitory computer storage medium having stored thereon a computer program, the computer program including executable instructions that instruct one or more analysis servers to at least:
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identify a smart phone associated with a child, the smart phone comprising one or more software modules configured to; access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone'"'"'s other software applications, including at least two of the following;
a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application; andsend the extracted data to the analysis server; automatically identify patterns in the potentially harmful language, images, and websites for which helpful works of authorship have previously been created and stored in an electronic library; provide immediate access to those works of authorship to parents by transmitting an electronic copy thereof or a link thereto to a parent portal for display adjacent to a warning based on harmful content that underlies those patterns of harmful content; and generate user interface data for the parent portal, the parent portal configured to; receive results from the analysis server; display the results organized by child; provide both generalized smart phone usage data for each child and visual warnings when harmful results have been found by the analysis server, along with access to specific underlying data that triggered the warning; and provide an interface for receiving input from a parent, the input comprising; selections of which child'"'"'s data to view; and selections of which types and how much of the data and analysis results to view for each child.
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17. A method for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children, the method comprising:
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identifying a smart phone associated with a child; accessing and extracting data from or about more than one of the smart phone'"'"'s other software applications, including at least two of the following;
a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application;sending the extracted data to one or more analysis servers; identifying potentially harmful language, images, and websites by comparing the extracted data to existing databases of harmful words, harmful images or image types, harmful websites, and harmful applications; automatically identifying patterns in the potentially harmful language, images, and websites for which helpful works of authorship have previously been created and stored in an electronic library; providing immediate access to those works of authorship to parents by transmitting an electronic copy thereof or a link thereto to a parent portal for display adjacent to a warning based on harmful content that underlies those patterns of harmful content; receiving analysis results corresponding to the extracted data from the one or more analysis servers; displaying the analysis results organized by child on the parent portal; providing on the parent portal both generalized smart phone usage data for each child and visual warnings when potentially harmful language, images, and website have been identified, along with access to specific underlying data that triggered the warning; providing an interface for receiving input from a parent, the input comprising; selections of which child'"'"'s data to view; and selections of which types and how much of the specific underlying data and the analysis results to view for each child.
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