DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING WEB SAFETY AND DETERRENCE OF CYBERBULLYING

摘要

Devices, systems, and methods for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children can include one or more child software modules. The module can be installed on each child's smart phone. The module can access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone's other software applications, including at least two of the following: a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application. The module can further send the extracted data to an analysis server. The module can also monitor location data. Moreover, the system can include an analysis server that can identify potentially harmful language, images, and websites. Further, the system can include a parent portal. The parent portal can receive results from the analysis server.

主权项

1. A system and apparatus for allowing parents to view and track smart phone activities of their children, the system and apparatus comprising:
one or more child software modules, a module installed on each child's smart phone, each child software module configured to:
access and extract data from or about more than one of the smart phone's other software applications, including at least two of the following: a texting application, a social media application, an image application that facilitates transmission or reception of images, and a web browser application; andsend the extracted data to an analysis server; the analysis server, configured to identify potentially harmful language, images, and websites by comparing the extracted data to existing databases of harmful words, harmful images or image types, harmful websites, and harmful applications; a parent portal configured to:
receive results from the analysis server;display the results organized by child;provide both generalized smart phone usage data for each child and visual warnings when harmful results have been found by the analysis server, along with the specific underlying data that triggered the warning;provide an interface for receiving input from a parent, the input comprising:
selections of which child's data to view; andselections of which types and how much of the data and analysis results to view for each child.