Access control to a set of apparatuses having screens
AssigneeUniversite Grenoble Alpes
InventorsIslam El Boudi, Nicolas Vuillerme
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Abstract
A system for controlling the use of screens by a user comprises a set of software modules each embedded in an apparatus of a set of apparatuses of the user. The set of apparatuses comprises screens, and a server connected to the apparatuses by a telecommunication network, wherein: the apparatuses are initially restricted to a first set of functions, and include determining behavioral information of the user and transmitting same to the server, and the server is adapted for granting an additional function according to the behavioral information, and for transmitting, to the software module of a selected apparatus, a message to enable the user to access the additional function.
Claims14
A system, comprising a hardware processor and a memory storing instructions, that when executed by the hardware processor performs operations comprising controlling a use by a user of apparatuses of a set of apparatuses having a screen, the set comprising information processing apparatuses embedding a software module and apparatuses not adapted to embed software modules and power-supplied by an electrical plug embedding a software module, and a server connected to said apparatuses by a telecommunication network, wherein:
- said apparatuses are initially restricted, at a beginning of a first time period, to a first set of functions, by means of said software modules and include means for determining behavioral information of said user and for transmitting said behavioral information to said server, and
- said server is adapted for granting an additional function among a second set of functions of said apparatuses based on said behavioral information, and for transmitting, to the software module of a selected apparatus of said set of apparatuses, a message to enable said user to access said additional function, said additional function being determined according to a degree of digital lifestyle of said user, the degree of digital lifestyle of said user representing an overall quantification of the user's use of the apparatuses with a screen of the set of apparatuses.
A method for controlling a use by a user of a set of apparatuses having a screen, the set comprising information processing apparatuses embedding a software module and apparatuses not adapted to embed software modules and power-supplied by an electrical plug embedding a software module, including:
- arranging a set of software modules, each embedded in an apparatus of a set of apparatuses having a screen of said user, and a server connected to said apparatuses by a telecommunication network,
- restricting initially said apparatuses, at a beginning of a first time period, to a first set of functions, by means of said software modules,
- determining, by means of said software modules, behavioral information of said user and transmitting said behavioral information to said server;
- and granting, by said server, an additional function among a second set of functions of said apparatuses based on said behavioral information, and transmitting, to the software module of a selected apparatus of said set of apparatuses, a message to enable said user to access said additional function, said additional function being determined according to a degree of digital lifestyle of said user, the degree of digital lifestyle of said user representing an overall quantification of the user's use of the apparatuses with a screen of the set of apparatuses.
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