VERIFIED SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT

• US 20170177884A1
• Filed: 12/21/2015
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Musarubra US LLC (Musarubra US SellCo LLC)
• Original Assignee: McAfee, Inc. (McAfee, LLC)
• Inventors: Woodward, Carl D., Durand, Ryan, Grobman, Steven, Mehta, Kunal, Hunt, Simon
• Granted Patent: US 10,204,384 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4845 Toxicology, e.g. by detection of alcohol, drug or toxic products A61B5/4848 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2133 Verifying human interaction, e.g., Captcha
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/33 using wearable devices, e.g. using a smartwatch or smart-glasses

Abstract

In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, comprising: a psychological state data interface to receive psychological state data; one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware element, comprising a verification engine to: receive a requested user action; receive a psychological state input via the psychological state data interface; analyze the psychological state input; and bar the requested user action at least partly responsive to the analyzing.

Claims

1. A computing apparatus, comprising:

a psychological state data interface to receive psychological state data;

one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware logic element, comprising a verification engine to;

receive a requested user action;

receive a psychological state input via the psychological state data interface;

analyze the psychological state input; and

bar the requested user action at least partly responsive to the analyzing.

2. The computing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the requested user action is an attempt to interact with a social media network.

3. The computing apparatus of claim 1, wherein analyzing the psychological state input comprises determining that the user is intoxicated or psychologically compromised.

4. The computing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the verification engine comprises a trusted execution environment (TEE).

5. The computing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the verification engine is further to perform attestation on the psychological state input via the TEE.

6. The computing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the verification engine is further to attest a capability of a device communicatively coupled via the psychological state data interface to perform a psychological state measurement.

7. The computing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the verification engine is further to provide the requested user action to a DLP engine.

8. The computing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the computing apparatus further comprises second one or more logic elements comprising the DLP engine.

9. The computing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the verification engine is further to:

provide a second-tier verification; and

permit the requested user action at least partly responsive to the second-tier verification.

10. The computing apparatus of claim 9, wherein the second-tier verification is a cognitive ability test.

11. The computing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the cognitive ability test is designed to be more difficult for a person in a compromised psychological state than for a person not in a compromised psychological state.

12. The computing apparatus of claim 11, wherein the cognitive ability test is to include at least partly a datum known to the user but not publicly known.

13. One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums having stored thereon executable instructions to instruct a processor to:

communicatively couple to a psychological state data interface to receive psychological state data;

receive a requested user action;

receive a psychological state input via the psychological state data interface;

analyze the psychological state input; and

bar the requested user action at least partly responsive to the analyzing.

14. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 13, wherein the requested user action is an attempt to interact with a social media network.

15. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 13, wherein analyzing the psychological state input comprises determining that the user intoxicated or psychologically compromised.

16. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 13, wherein the instructions are further to provision a trusted execution environment (TEE).

17. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 16, wherein the verification engine is further to perform attestation on the psychological state input via the TEE.

18. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 17, wherein the verification engine is further to attest a capability of a device communicatively coupled via the psychological state data interface to perform a psychological state measurement.

19. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 13, wherein the instructions are further to provide the requested user action to a DLP engine.

20. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 13, wherein the instructions are further to:

provide a second-tier verification; and

permit the requested user action at least partly responsive to the second-tier verification, wherein the second-tier user verification is a cognitive ability test.

21. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 20, wherein the cognitive ability test is designed to be more difficult for a person in a compromised psychological state than for a person not in a compromised psychological state.

22. The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable mediums of claim 21, wherein the cognitive ability test is to include at least partly a datum known to the user but not publicly known.

24. The computing apparatus of claim 13, wherein first secured communication channel and second secured communication channel are attested channels.

23. A computing apparatus comprising:

one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware element, comprising a data loss prevention (DLP) engine to;

receive a requested user action;

receive a psychological state input for the requested user action via a first secured communication channel;

determine that the user is in a suitable psychological state to perform the requested user action; and

export the requested user action to a third-party device via a second secured communication channel.

25. A social media server, comprising:

a network interface;

first one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware element, comprising a trusted execution environment; and

second one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware element, comprising a verification engine to;

receive a trusted computing post candidate via the network interface, the post candidate being encrypted;

perform an attestation via the network interface and the TEE to a data loss prevention (DLP) engine, the DLP engine to verify that a user originating the post candidate is not psychologically compromised; and

decrypt and permit the post only if the attestation succeeds.