CENSORING BROWSER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET VIEWING

摘要

A censoring browser method and apparatus are provided for Internet viewing. A user profile (118A) including user selected censoring parameters (700) is stored. Data packet contents are received and compared with the user selecte d censoring parameters (700). Responsive to the comparison, the received data packet contents are processed and selectively displayed responsive to the us er selected censoring parameters (700). The user selected censoring parameters (700) includes user selected censored words and word fragments (702), and us er selected categories (706). Compared word and word fragments matching user selected censored words and word fragments (702) can be removed and selectively replaced with predefined characters or acceptable substitute wor ds (712). Tallies of weights for user selected categories are accumulated (614) and compared with used selected threshold values (612). A predefined message can be displayed (318) responsive to an accumulated tally exceeding a user selected threshold value (316) without displaying the received data packet contents.