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US 2015/0032890 A1Published application
Parental control of mobile content on a mobile device
OwnerRoss Bottinventor
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Abstract
A method of parental control of content on a mobile device includes monitoring traffic activities on a mobile device and detecting suspicious traffic.
Claims21
A method of parental control of content on a mobile device, the method, comprising:
- monitoring, traffic activities, including inbound or outbound traffic, on the mobile device;
- detecting, from suspicious traffic identified from the traffic activities, content identified from at least one of:
- black listed websites or black listed mobile applications;
- traffic activities generated upon click through activities tracked at the mobile device;
- content identified based on feedback from one or more users;
- content identified from identification of a potentially offending website or mobile application;
- content identified from a destination address or a source address;
- content identified based on a set of rules or policies;
- content identified as gambling content, adult content, violent content, pornographic content, or other age inappropriate content;
- and
- content identified as inappropriate content based on age, gender, or religion;
- wherein the suspicious traffic is identified from the traffic activities from its timing characteristics including time of day, access frequency, day of week or other patterns in timing of access;
- wherein, the content identified is detected from the traffic activities for websites and mobile applications on the mobile device;
- preventing the content identified from being accessed at the mobile device;
- in addition to preventing the content identified from being accessed at the mobile device, analyzing cached content stored in a local proxy at the mobile device;
- screening the cached content to determine if the cached content includes the content identified;
- and
- preventing the content identified in the cached content from being accessed at the mobile device.
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A mobile device which implements parental control of content access thereon, the mobile device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory having instructions stored thereon, which when executed causes the processor to:
- monitor traffic activities, including inbound or outbound traffic on the mobile device;
- detect, from the traffic activities, content identified from at least one of:
- black listed websites or black listed mobile applications;
- traffic activities generated upon click through activities tracked at the mobile device;
- content identified based on feedback from one or more users;
- content identified from identification of a potentially offending website or mobile application;
- content identified from a destination address or a source address;
- content identified based on a set of rules or policies;
- content identified as gambling content, adult content, violent content, pornographic content, or other age inappropriate content;
- and
- content identified as inappropriate content based on age, gender, or religion;
- use information about a request or a response in the inbound or outbound traffic to determine cacheability of the response to the request from the mobile device;
- prevent the content identified from being accessed at the mobile device;
- in addition to preventing the content identified from being accessed at the mobile device, analyzing cached content stored in a local proxy at the mobile device;
- screening the cached content to determine if the cached content includes the content identified;
- and
- preventing the content identified in the cached content from being accessed at the mobile device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.