AT507123B1 - PROCEDURE FOR CHILD-ORIENTED RESTRICTION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION CONTENT PROVIDED ON THE INTERNET - Google Patents

Abstract

In a method for child-friendly restriction of access to information content offered on the Internet, the following method steps are carried out: Reading out an Internet address or website entered by a user of a computer connected to the Internet for retrieving information content, characterized in that the following further method steps are carried out : • In a first check step (A1), it is checked whether the host name of the requested website is entered in a BAD HOST List (D1) as not suitable for children; • In a second test step (A2), it is checked whether the requested website is registered as non-child-friendly in a BAD WEBSITE list (D2); • A third check step (A3) checks whether the requested website contains at least one word that is not registered as child-friendly in a BAD WORD List (D3); • In a fourth test step (A4), downloading (6) of the information content from the requested website is performed if, as a result of the test steps one to three, the website is deemed child-appropriate and otherwise e is performed in the fifth test step; • In a fifth test step (AS), it is checked whether the requested website on a whitelist (D4) is registered as child-friendly and in this case allows downloading the information content from the requested website.

Description

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PROCEDURE FOR CHILD-FRIENDLY LIMITATION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION CONTENT OFFERED ON THE INTERNET

OBJECTIVE The object of the present invention is to provide a method for restricting children's access to information content on the Internet and thereby automatically generating a child-friendly Internet.

PRIOR ART In all known browsers there are in principle only two options. Either the child can only navigate between a few pages using command buttons, or the child is not allowed to do anything. Neither of the two options enables children to search for content online. The basic idea of the Internet is to make information quickly and easily accessible to everyone and this idea must also be at hand for children. The Internet is there for everyone, especially for children because they still have a lot to do and are very curious and inquisitive. The previous browsers often write that the best protection is when the parents are surfing the Internet. This is also not necessary in the present invention, since no “bad pages” can be called up.

The previous browsers:

A certain browser was programmed so that either only certain websites can be called up via command buttons or that the children have a good children's browser on the one hand, but if they open the previous Internet Explorer or similar they come to all other dubious sites at any time. Furthermore, it is easy to uninstall these previous protection software for children or simply switch it off. Furthermore, only products for Microsoft Windows are known and nothing for Mac, Linux or other distributions.

The document US 5,996,011 discloses a method for child-friendly restriction of access to information content offered on the Internet by reading out a website entered by a user of a computer connected to the Internet for retrieving information content, with the following method steps:

· Check whether the requested website is entered in a website blacklist as not suitable for children;

· Checking whether the requested website contains at least one word that is to be regarded as a keyword that is not suitable for children (“word-based content check);

· Downloading the information content from the requested website if, as a result of the above test steps, the website has been classified as child-friendly; otherwise:

· Check whether the requested website is registered as child-friendly on a whitelist and if so, downloading the information content from the requested website.

Methods with the above method steps - either as a single measure or in combination - are also known from WO 2001/98934 A2, US 2003/0163731 A1 and WO 1998/41913.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to a method for secure data transmission in the sense of protecting children from the Internet (for children).

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AT507 123 B1 2018-02-15 Austrian Patent Office [0012] “Broki is a platform-independent and a browser-independent tool that adapts to the system during installation or installation instructions are available to ensure initialization in the system and are as user-friendly as possible to have anything possible.

The Internet in the simplest sense of use works as follows;

You open the respective browser (for example: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari., Etc.) select the desired website via the address bar - (to make the invention imaginable I use the desired website) Google as an example, since most of them also use Google.

The desired search term is then entered in the search engine and the search engine searches the website using certain algorithms (searching for libraries) Google contains approximately 8 billion websites. The example search word is "sex appears on the search engine in just a few tenths of a second, almost 700 million pages of which approx. 97% are sex pages, 1% educational pages and 2% are divided into chats and pages that have nothing to do with it - mostly from the English" sex - Gender: Male, Female.

The above 97% are in no way suitable for children's eyes and in my opinion protection of minors applies everywhere - including on the Internet! Above all, you should protect the youngest from the fact that they have psychological consequences and get a wrong picture of sexuality and our children should be protected in any case, after all, protection of minors in “real life” is not for nothing.

Broki was programmed so that it adapts to any previously installed browser in the system (PC) - even if you have multiple browsers. Say you install BROKI and this “youth protection tool is active everywhere. Furthermore, BROKI is platform-independent, which means that no matter which operating system you have, with the appropriate BROKI version, it is child's play, in the truest sense of the word the software works on any system under any browser and is absolutely user-friendly.

How the previous protection tools for children work in terms of the Internet can be found in the "prior art.

BROKI has a multiple algorithm to protect the children from dubious sites. The basis for the algorithms is a proxy server [1], which passes the respective values on to the program or the browser.

The whole of all algorithms is called Broki agent. The five algorithms / test steps of the method according to the invention are described in more detail below.

1. ALGORITHM 1 (FIRST TEST STEP):

This controls every incoming web host from the Internet - in other words, the website www.patentamt.at is called up in the browser - as soon as a page is called up, the 1st algorithm is activated - this then looks in a database to see if the Host this page is already entered there - there is a primary database = "Blacklist contains all" bad web hosts (bad = not suitable for children's eyes and according to the protection of minors not allowed pages such as porn sites). The blacklist has in in each case the top priority! As soon as this check has been carried out (whether the web host already exists in this list) and the host is not in the list, it is recognized as “initially friendly.

If the host has been recognized as "bad", a configurable message appears in the respective browser (eg for schools - that an html page is being called up - "blocked by school or similar) and the website cannot be called up, because it was classified as unfriendly or bad.

Illustrative example:

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AT507 123 B1 2018-02-15 Austrian Patent Office [0025] The website www.sex.at is called up in the browser. The algorithm looks in the database whether the respective web host is already entered there. If so, it is not called and the configurable message is issued that this website is blocked. If the web host does not exist in the database, the second algorithm is activated.

2. ALGORITHM (SECOND CHECK STEP);

This controls the website name (for example: www.PATENTAMT.at) - that which is capitalized in this illustrative example is checked.

Here, the list of bad websites is looked at. If the website is already in this list, a message is displayed that this website is not accessed.

If it is not yet in the list, the third algorithm is activated.

Name “Patent Office compared via the word list whether this is a bad word.

If there is one, the website is not called up and a message is output in the browser for the user that the page is blocked.

An example:

Algorithm 1 has passed ... Website is "initially friendly. Sex is not necessarily a bad word (comes out in the 3rd algorithm.

The link is checked whether an entry of this website already exists, if not, the website remains “initially friendly and the 3rd algorithm is started.

Now the host and the website itself has already been recognized as Friendly ... now for the 3rd algorithm

3. ALGORITHM (THIRD CHECK STEP);

[0035] This deals with the content of the website. All content words and word groups are recorded as individual variables and checked with the second database or list. This contains all the words that are unsuitable for children according to the protection of minors, for example. "Anal," fuck, "hardcore porno etc. If the website contains such words or phrases in the content, it is not called up and a configurable message appears.

4. ALGORITHM (FOURTH CHECK STEP) This algorithm controls all variable factors of the website collected so far and inserts them into an algorithm and “calculates a probability whether the website is good or bad. This works as follows:

host control site control content control Result bath bath bath BATH bath bath friendly bath bath friendly friendly bath friendly friendly friendly Friendly

Basically, a simple decision is made here. If the web host, website or content has been recognized as bad in the course of bad words, the website is bad.

If the value is “bad”, the fifth algorithm is activated.

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5. ALGORITHM (FIFTH CHECK STEP);

The "Whitelist. The whitelist can be edited using appropriate security (password + user input) and a secure administration area.

Here, parents or headmasters or teachers can enter websites and or web hosts that would appear to be evil, but are suitable for learning content.

For example, Wikipedia "sex in this case, the content of the website would be evil and the page would not be accessible - if the host" wikipedia is on the whitelist, all content from Wikipedia will be allowed - of course, this works not only with host entries but also for individual website names.

Thus, all 5 algorithms are run through and the page was either classified as bad or friendly and called up accordingly at friendly or a configurable message was output at bad.

Additional services:

Since other programs for protecting children on the Internet can be uninstalled very easily, even as a non-administrator ... here BROKI offers a much higher level of security.

After BROKI has been installed, user data is recorded and administration passwords are generated. A comparison with a desired password ensures secure access to the BROKI administration area.

Here you can uninstall the program - for this you need a password repeatedly. If the proxy server is switched off, whether manually or due to errors in the operating system, access to the Internet is classified as absolutely unsafe and BROKI prevents the Internet from being able to be accessed.

All websites visited are saved (logged), and should a user desperately try to get to unauthorized sites, an email is sent first and then the respective legal guardian is informed by post.

Furthermore, BROKI also stores data in log files - in other words, EVERYTHING you do or call with BROKI is logged. This is kept strictly confidential and, since errors are also logged, this is used to improve BROKI and send corresponding updates.

[0049] BROKI updates itself automatically! - The database principle is stored locally and locally on a web host. The database contents are checked frequently during the day and updated with new entries in the host database. To ensure surfing with sufficient speed, this database is saved locally on the computer. Because if really many users request data from a single server, security is no longer guaranteed.

The local databases are encrypted several times and can only be used by BROKI itself.

A proxy server is a transmitter between the public and the internal network. It is equipped with an official address with which it participates in the Internet and translates internally (or vice versa) into the existing address. On the Internet, it also takes on a kind of buffering functionality. When a page is retrieved, the proxy server keeps it for a while so that it is available more quickly the next time it is loaded and does not have to be requested again from the Internet.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES [0052] Explanation and description of FIG. 1:

No. : description 1 The Internet as a whole, with all content 2 Internet service provider (Internet provider e.g. Telekom) 3 The Internet is forwarded to the end users via the ISP 4 Dial-in system for the respective user (e.g. modem .. router. Etc.) 5 enduser

[0053] Explanation and description of FIG. 2:

No. : description 1 The Internet as a whole, with all content 2 The basic idea "Net Information 3 Illegal downloads 4 pornography 5 Scam

[0054] This drawing is intended to illustrate the following:

The basic idea of the Internet was to make important information quickly and easily accessible to everyone. Over time, the Internet has become the main source of information for illegal downloads, pornography and a playground for fraudsters who shamelessly exploit the gullible users.

[0056] Explanation and description of FIG. 3:

No. : description 1 The Internet as a whole, with all content 2 Illegal downloads 3 pornography 4 Scam 5 BROKI agent (all algorithms) 6 The actual basic idea “Net Information 7 End users (e.g. children)

[0057] This graphic is intended to show the following:

The Internet has developed over time into a basket full of malicious content (illegality, pornography, fraud, etc.). The BROKI agent intercepts this evil content and transforms the Internet in such a way that it again corresponds to the basic idea of making the same information quickly and easily accessible to everyone - and BROKI thereby protects the children and sensibly implements the protection of minors on the Internet!

[0059] Explanation and description of FIG. 4:

No. : description V Is assumed: The internet connection is upright An operating system is installed A web browser is available The correct BROKI version has been installed (depending on the operating system)

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1 Stand alone device (PC) 2 Website wants to be surfed on 3 The BROKI software provides its own Broki proxy with all the necessary data for the 5 algorithms 4 BROKI AGENT (set of all 5th algorithms) A1 The host of the requested website is compared with the bad host list if it exists in the list = bad site if not “provisionally friendly D1 BAD HOST list = list of all bad hosts A2 The requested link (website) is checked with the bad website list, if it is available here = stature "bad otherwise status continues" provisionally friendly D2 BAD website list A3 Cotent of the website is checked for bad words, match me words in the bad word list - if there are bad words here, the page will be verified as "bad otherwise" D3 BAD WORD list A4 A “probability calculation is made of all data collected so far, whether the site is good or bad. How this works exactly can be found in the detailed description. A5 Whitelist, if a website is entered here, it automatically receives the stature friendly and can be surfed on. Pages can only be entered by auth. Persons. D4 Friendly Link List = "Whitelist 5 Decision Is the website good? YES = 6 NO = 7 6 YES website is displayed 7 NO Output of a configurable page as user information that this website is or has been blocked. + An entry (date, time, website) in the user history - with 10 entries = e-mail, with 50 = letter to the legal guardian

Then again a summary of the measures according to the invention. Broki creates absolutely child-friendly internet interactively. This is done using 5 algorithms.

[0061] 1. Algorithm = host control bad / friendly Alignment with bad host list [0062] 2. Algorithm = link control bad / friendly Alignment with bad link list [0063] 3. Algorithm = content control bad / friendly Alignment with bad word list [0064] 4. Algorithm = probability bad / friendly All variable factors are used to make a decision about bad or friendly. [0065] 5. Algorithm = whitelist Comparison with friendly host / link list, if a website or web host is entered here, this will be displayed in any case. (Can only be entered with the appropriate security level)

If the website has been verified as bad, it will not be called up. If the website is in the whitelist or has been recognized as friendly, you can surf to it.

Additional functions:

Local database principle = decentralized for each PC = Broki Server

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Uninstall - backup via password + secure admin area.

Reporting function to the legal guardians in the event of permanent attempts to surf bad sites first via e-mail then via postal letter, the proxy should be switched off = no access to the Internet website can be requested. Check + add to the white list

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Claims (4)

claims 1. Procedure for child-friendly restriction of access to information content offered on the Internet, the following procedure steps being carried out: • Reading out an Internet address or website entered by a user of a computer connected to the Internet to retrieve information content, • Checking (A2) whether the requested website is entered in a BAD WEBSITE list (D2) as not suitable for children; • Check (A3) whether the requested website contains at least one word that is entered in a BAD WORD List (D3) as not suitable for children; characterized in that the following further process steps are carried out: • Check (A1) whether the host name of the requested website is entered in a BAD HOST list (D1) as not suitable for children; • In a fourth test step (A4), the downloading (6) of the information content from the requested website is carried out if, as a result of the above three test steps, the website has been classified as child-friendly and otherwise a fifth test step is carried out; • In a fifth test step (A5), it is checked in a manner known per se whether the requested website is registered as child-friendly on a whitelist (D4) and in this case enables the information content to be downloaded from the requested website. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a user information about the test result is displayed on a screen of the computer if it was determined in the fifth test step that the requested website is not entered on the whitelist (D4). 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by checking whether the host is registered on a whitelist as child-friendly and, if necessary, enabling the downloading of all contents from this host. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the website whitelist and / or the host whitelist are configured as learning lists that can be edited by authorized persons.