INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT DETECTION METHOD FOR SENDERS

• US 20100268682A1
• Filed: 04/20/2009
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lewis, Sheena, Malkin, Peter K., Rhodes, Philippa M., Oduor, Kenya F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,473,443 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/54
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

Content detection for senders reviews and compares content for sending to one or more profile parameters of a recipient. The one or more profile parameters describe the characteristics of the recipient. Portions of the content determined to be inappropriate or offensive to the recipient based on the recipient'"'"'s profile parameters are tagged and the sender is alerted. Alternative suggestions to replace those portions in the content may be provided.

Claims

1. A computer system for detecting content, comprising:

an input device for inputting content to be sent to one or more recipients via a communications network;

a profile database having one or more profiles associated with at least one of the one or more recipients, each profile of the one or more profiles having at least one profile characteristic describing a respective recipient;

a reviewing module operable to determine at least one recipient profile characteristic associated with a recipient of the content from said one or more profiles;

a comparison module operable to scan the content, determine one or more criteria based on said at least one recipient profile characteristic, and identify one or more content items in the content meeting said one or more criteria; and

an alert module operable to raise an alarm in response to the comparison module identifying said one or more content items.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the comparison module further identifies the location of the one or more content items in the content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert module is further operable to provide said one or more criteria and an explanation for said one or more criteria.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert module further provides one or more alternative contents in place of using said one or more content items.

5. The system of claim 1, further including a transmission device that delivers the content to the one or more recipients.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the transmission device delivers a tangible rendering of the content.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the tangible rendering includes a printout or a recording or combination thereof.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the system is connected to a network.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more recipients are connected to the network, and the transmission device delivers the content to the one ore more recipients via the network.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said one or more criteria include one or more items considered to be offending to recipient of the content.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein a sender is enabled to mark said one or more profiles as private or shared.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said one or more profiles marked as private are not exposed to the recipient.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein said one or more profiles marked as shared are exposed to the recipient.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the recipient is enabled to edit one or more shared profiles.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the recipient edited shared profiles are received at the sender.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein in response to the recipient forwarding the content to another recipient, the comparison module and the review module are operable to be activated to review and compare the content based on one or more profile characteristics of the another recipient.

17. A method for detecting content, comprising:

determining by a processor at least one recipient profile characteristic associated with a recipient of electronic content, by retrieving one or more profiles stored in a profile database associated with one or more recipients;

determining one or more criteria based on said at least one recipient profile characteristic;

scanning the content;

identifying one or more content items in the content meeting said one or more criteria; and

raising an alarm in response to the identifying of said one or more content items.

18. The method of claim 17, further including:

providing one or more explanation for said one or more criteria.

19. The method of claim 17, further including:

providing one or more alternatives to use in the content in place of said one or more content items.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein said one or more criteria include one or more items considered to be offending to the recipient.

21. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for detecting content, comprising:

determining by a processor at least one recipient profile characteristic associated with a recipient of electronic content, by retrieving one or more profiles stored in a profile database associated with one or more recipients;

determining one or more criteria based on said at least one recipient profile characteristic;

scanning the content;

identifying one or more content items in the content meeting said one or more criteria; and

raising an alarm in response to the identifying of said one or more content items.

22. The program storage device of claim 21, further including:

providing one or more explanation for said one or more criteria.

23. The program storage device of claim 21, further including:

providing one or more alternatives to use in the content in place of said one or more content items.

24. The program storage device of claim 21, wherein said one or more criteria include one or more items considered to be offending to the recipient.