METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMABLE INTERFACE FOR VERIFYING THE SECURITY LEVEL OF UNIVERSAL RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS EMBEDDED WITHIN A MOBILE APPLICATION

摘要

The present disclosure discloses a method of allowing Web View to verify the security level of a web content and inform the user with regards to the security and blocks web contents that are determined harmful or inappropriate. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the Web View checks a trusted data source to see if the visited web content has been labeled or flagged as safe or unsafe by initiating a connection to a trusted third-party database using a to determine whether or not the URL is associated with a domain that has been classified or labeled as safe or unsafe. The Web View then informs the user about the security level of the web content through a visual indicator or it can redirect the user to a warning page explaining why access to the site is prohibited, or it can block access without warning.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, the method implemented using a mobile device bi-directionally coupled with an electronic communications network (“the network”), and the mobile device comprising a processor coupled to a memory device, the method comprising:
the mobile device executing a mobile application that is adapted to both receive a universal resource identifier from the network and to apply the universal resource identifier exclusively within the mobile application to access a content from the network, wherein the mobile application is enabled to access the content from the network through a Web View of the mobile application; accessing a descriptive information associated with the universal resource identifier; rendering a sensory representation of the descriptive information via the mobile device; and enabling a user to alternatively access or not access the content via the mobile device after the rendering a sensory representation of the descriptive information.