Web filtering with integrated parental management and reporting
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1. A web filtering mechanism, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
a web filter executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the computer processor to filter a web content accessed by a minor user associated with an institution;
an urgency module executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the computer processor to detect a potential for harm to the minor user by examining a set of text associated with the web content; and
a push notification server executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the hardware processor to notify a parent of the minor user of the potential for harm;
an institutional policy dashboard executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the hardware processor to enable the institution to select a set of institutional web access policies sanctioned by the institution and enforced by the web filter;
a parental policy dashboard executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the hardware processor to enable the parent to override one or more of the institutional web access policies; and
an activity log for recording a geographic location for each web access undertaken by the minor user.
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Abstract
A system and method for web filtering, including: generating an institutional policy dashboard that enables an institution that issued a computing device to a minor user to select a set of institutional web access policies sanctioned by the institution; generating a parental policy dashboard that enables a parent of the minor user to select to a set of parental web access policies sanctioned by the parent; filtering web content accessed by the minor user via the computing device by enforcing the parental and the institutional web access policies; and reporting to the parent a set of web accesses undertaken by the minor user via the computing device.
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1. A web filtering mechanism, comprising:
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a hardware processor; a web filter executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the computer processor to filter a web content accessed by a minor user associated with an institution; an urgency module executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the computer processor to detect a potential for harm to the minor user by examining a set of text associated with the web content; and a push notification server executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the hardware processor to notify a parent of the minor user of the potential for harm; an institutional policy dashboard executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the hardware processor to enable the institution to select a set of institutional web access policies sanctioned by the institution and enforced by the web filter; a parental policy dashboard executing on the hardware processor and configured to enable the hardware processor to enable the parent to override one or more of the institutional web access policies; and an activity log for recording a geographic location for each web access undertaken by the minor user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for web filtering, comprising:
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filtering by a web filter a web content accessed by a minor user associated with an institution; detecting by an urgency module a potential for harm to the minor user by examining a set of text associated with the web content; and notifying by a push notification server a parent of the minor user of the risk of potential harm; generating an institutional policy dashboard that enables the institution to select a set of institutional web access policies sanctioned by the institution; generating a parental policy dashboard that enables the parent to override one or more of the institutional web access policies; and recording a geographic location for each web access undertaken by the minor user. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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