A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING GLOBAL NETWORK ACTIVITY

摘要

Disclosed is a system and a method for monitoring a subject's activity on a global communications network such as the Internet (107). The system comprises a client monitoring module (110) and an enterprise server (102) accessible over the global communications network by the client monitoring module (110). The client monitoring module (110) is established in the Windows Socket Layer (417) of the operating system of the subject's digital computer (108). The enterprise (102) is provided with a database of content (104) available on the network and corresponding topical categories of the content. Artificial intelligence is also provided to categorize on-the-fly content which is not present in the database (104). The method involves a supervisor establishing (526) an account and providing (524) a usage policy for each subject. Subsequently, when a subject requests (612) content from the global communications network (107), a copy of the request is routed (616) over the global communications network (107) to the enterprise server (102). The enterprise server (102) then determines (640) the content type and transmits (644) a code with the content type back to the client station which either allows (622) or disallows (630) the receipt of the requested content according to the subject's usage policy. Reports are also generated (530) by the enterprise server and are periodically transmitted (530) to the supervisor summarizing content requests made by the relevant subjects.