Monitoring digital images

• US 9,953,177 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2016
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Tessman, Gary, Lippert, Patrick D., Hayman, Timothy B.
• Primary Examiner(s): NANO, SARGON N
• Application Number:
  US15/345,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20170116429A1
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Digital images are monitored by enabling access to a digital image, receiving a notification associated with the digital image from a first user, and regulating access of the first user to the digital image based on the notification received from the first user.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring digital images, comprising:

receiving, using a hardware processor, from a first user device, a digital image;

receiving, using the hardware processor, via a user interface presented on a second user device, a notification that the digital image includes objectionable content;

in response to receiving the notification, initiating, using the hardware processor, an investigation that automatically determines a category of the objectionable content depicted in the digital image;

generating, using the hardware processor, a report based on the received notification, wherein the report includes an identifier of the digital image, an identifier of the first user device, and the category of the objectionable content associated with the notification;

updating, using the hardware processor, metadata associated with the digital image by inserting a status of the investigation;

inhibiting, using the hardware processor, the digital image from being presented on user devices including the first user device and the second user device based on the category of the objectionable content and based on the status in response to receiving a request from one of the user devices for the digital image; and

transmitting, using the hardware processor, a message to the first user device indicating that the digital image has been blocked.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, via the user interface presented on the second user device, text content entered by a user of the second user device relating to the notification that the digital image includes objectionable content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user devices are associated with users in a particular category of users.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising replacing the digital image with a replacement digital image corresponding to the digital image to be displayed on the user devices.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein inhibiting the digital image from being presented on the user devices comprises modifying metadata associated with the digital image.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing an indication that presentation of the digital image has been blocked in association with an identifier of an account associated with the first user device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the report to a third user device for review.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein copyright information associated with the digital image is stored in association with the identifier of the digital image.

9. A system for monitoring digital images, the system comprising:

a memory; and

a hardware processor that, when executing computer executable instructions stored in the memory, is programmed to;

receive, from a first user device, a digital image;

receive, via a user interface presented on a second user device, a notification that the digital image includes objectionable content;

in response to receiving the notification, initiating, using the hardware processor, an investigation that automatically determines a category of the objectionable content depicted in the digital image;

generate a report based on the received notification, wherein the report includes an identifier of the digital image, an identifier of the first user device, and the category of the objectionable content associated with the notification;

update metadata associated with the digital image by inserting a status of the investigation;

inhibit the digital image from being presented on user devices including the first user device and the second user device based on the category of the objectionable content and based on the status in response to receiving a request from one of the user devices for the digital image; and

transmit a message to the first user device indicating that the digital image has been blocked.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to receive, via the user interface presented on the second user device, text content entered by a user of the second user device relating to the notification that the digital image includes objectionable content.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the user devices are associated with users in a particular category of users.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to replace the digital image with a replacement digital image corresponding to the digital image to be displayed on the user devices.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein inhibiting the digital image from being presented on the user devices comprises modifying metadata associated with the digital image.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to store an indication that presentation of the digital image has been blocked in association with an identifier of an account associated with the first user device.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to transmit the report to a third user device for review.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein copyright information associated with the digital image is stored in association with the identifier of the digital image.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for monitoring digital images, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first user device, a digital image;

receiving, via a user interface presented on a second user device, a notification that the digital image includes objectionable content;

in response to receiving the notification, initiating an investigation that automatically determines a category of the objectionable content depicted in the digital image;

generating a report based on the received notification, wherein the report includes an identifier of the digital image, an identifier of the first user device, and the category of the objectionable content associated with the notification;

updating metadata associated with the digital image by inserting a status of the investigation;

inhibiting the digital image from being presented on user devices including the first user device and the second user device based on the category of the objectionable content and based on the status in response to receiving a request from one of the user devices for the digital image; and

transmitting a message to the first user device indicating that the digital image has been blocked.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises receiving, via the user interface presented on the second user device, text content entered by a user of the second user device relating to the notification that the digital image includes objectionable content.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the user devices are associated with users in a particular category of users.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises replacing the digital image with a replacement digital image corresponding to the digital image to be displayed on the user devices.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein inhibiting the digital image from being presented on the user devices comprises modifying metadata associated with the digital image.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises storing an indication that presentation of the digital image has been blocked in association with an identifier of an account associated with the first user device.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises transmitting the report to a third user device for review.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein copyright information associated with the digital image is stored in association with the identifier of the digital image.