JP2011135358A - Information processing device, information processing method, and filtering determination device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology capable of efficiently accessing a viewable content in a wider range while securing security in the viewing of the content. <P>SOLUTION: This invention relates to an information processing method which outputs a determination request of viewing propriety for the content specified by a user, and a condition for restricting the viewing to a filtering determination device when a content instead of the content is conditionally made viewable by determination result information from the filtering determination device, acquires an address of the conditionally viewable content from the determination result information, specifies the acquired address, outputs a content request to a content holding device, acquires information including the conditionally viewable content from the content holding device, and outputs information that the content is the conditionally viewable content to a display device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a filtering determination device that can efficiently access a wider range of viewable content while ensuring safety in viewing content.

  As an information processing apparatus having a function of acquiring and viewing content via a communication line such as the Internet, a television, a PC (personal computer), and the like are known. These information processing apparatuses may be shared by a plurality of people, and in particular, with regard to a television, the viewers are often a plurality of people including a wide age group.

  By the way, there are not a few contents whose viewing is restricted by conditions such as age among the contents acquired by the information processing apparatus (client) via the communication line. Therefore, a mechanism is used in which viewing restrictions are set on the client side, and contents that can be viewed are restricted according to the viewing restrictions.

  The technology disclosed in Patent Document 1 discloses a content output device. The content output device receives user attributes including user content viewing conditions from the user attribute acquisition unit via the communication unit. The content attribute management unit manages the attributes of the content received by the content receiving unit via the communication unit. The content output availability determination unit determines whether content can be output from the user attribute and the content attribute.

  Specifically, the content output device disclosed in Patent Document 1 includes a large-scale device that is used at home such as a television, a projector, an audio system, a PC, and a mobile phone, and that is viewed by a large number of people at the same time.

JP 2009-017013 A

  When the technique described in Patent Document 1 is applied to the above-described client, the content attribute and the user attribute are acquired at the client to determine whether the content can be output. However, there are a wide variety of viewing restrictions required by users. In addition, there are many content attributes, and it is thought that they will change in the future.

  Therefore, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, there are a variety of processes for determining whether or not content can be output, and an update that additionally supplements the determination contents for various contents that will increase in the future is necessary. However, installing such a function in a television, PC, etc. used in the home leads to an increase in manufacturing cost.

  In the technique described in Patent Document 1, it is premised that the attribute of the content is clarified. However, in the case of harmful content for the purpose of phishing or the like, the required purpose cannot be achieved because the content attribute is not disclosed by the content distribution side.

  On the other hand, on the content providing side, there are some that can change the content to be transmitted according to the viewing environment of the client, that is, the content can be separated so as not to be subject to viewing restrictions. By having such a mechanism, there is an advantage that more access can be realized on the content providing side. It is desirable for clients to be able to actively use a mechanism that can relax such restrictions because it leads to an increase in viewing opportunities.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an information processing apparatus capable of efficiently accessing a wider range of viewable content while ensuring safety in viewing the content, An object is to provide an information processing method and a filtering determination device.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a filtering determination device that includes a condition input unit that inputs a condition for restricting viewing of content, a request for determining whether or not to view content specified by a user, and a condition for restricting viewing. When the content that replaces the content is enabled to be viewed conditionally in the determination result information from the filtering determination device and the viewing permission determination requesting section, the conditional viewable content is determined from the determination result information. An address acquisition unit that acquires an address, a content request unit that specifies the acquired address and outputs a content request to the content holding device, and information including the conditional viewable content is acquired from the content holding device, Information indicating that the content is conditionally viewable content is displayed on the display device An information processing apparatus having a first output unit for outputting.

  In addition, the present invention outputs a request for determining whether or not to view the content specified by the user and a condition for limiting the viewing to the filtering determination device, and the content replacing the content is determined by the determination result information from the filtering determination device. If it is possible to view the content, the address of the conditional viewable content is acquired from the determination result information, the acquired address is specified, a content request is output to the content holding device, and the content holding device Information including the conditional viewable content is acquired from the information, and information indicating that the content is the conditional viewable content is output to a display device.

  Further, the present invention provides an input unit for inputting a determination request for whether or not content can be viewed and a condition for limiting viewing, and whether or not the content can be viewed by searching database information based on the determination request. And an output unit that outputs determination result information including a condition for allowing viewing when the content determination unit determines that the content replacing the content can be viewed with a condition. It is a filtering determination apparatus in which harmful / non-hazardous information and conditions for allowing viewing when harmful are stored.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently access a wider range of viewable content while ensuring safety in viewing the content.

The figure which shows typically operation | movement of the content viewing-and-listening system to which the information processing apparatus of 1st Embodiment is applied. The figure which shows the structure of a content viewing-and-listening system. The flowchart which shows the operation | movement of the outline of the system regarding content viewing. The figure which shows a viewing age restriction setting screen. The figure which shows the structure of a filter database. The figure which illustrates conditional viewable contents.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating an operation of a content viewing system to which the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment is applied. In this content viewing system, a client (information processing device) 300, a filtering determination server 320, and a content server 330 exchange information with each other to view content.

  When viewing the content with the client 300, if the viewing restriction is set for the client 300, the client 300 inquires of the filtering determination server 320 whether the content to be viewed corresponds to the viewing restriction.

  The filtering determination server 320 searches the database for the transmitted content, and returns to the client 300 whether or not the content that the user wants to view corresponds to viewing restrictions and whether or not the content can be viewed with conditions.

When the client 300 receives an answer from the filtering determination server 320 that it is viewable or conditionally viewable, the client 300 specifies the content to be viewed and requests the content server 330 for the content. The content server 330 distributes the content requested from the client 300. The client 300 displays the distributed content on the display unit 306.
On the other hand, when the client 300 receives a reply that viewing is impossible from the filtering determination server 320, the client 300 displays information indicating that display is impossible on the display unit 306.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a content viewing system for realizing the above-described operation. The client 300, the filtering determination server 320, and the content server 330 exchange information with each other via the network 310.

The client 300 includes a transmission / reception unit 301, a data analysis unit 302, a filter determination unit 303, a script processing unit 304, a GUI 305, and a display unit 306.
The transmission / reception unit 301 is an interface for exchanging information via the network 310. The data analysis unit 302 distributes information output destinations according to the processing content of the transmission / reception information. The filter determination unit 303 determines and processes the determination result transmitted from the filtering determination server 320. The script processing unit 304 analyzes a script (described later) included in the determination result transmitted from the filtering determination server 320. The display unit 306 has a function of displaying content and transmitted / received information and inputting an operation instruction from the user. The GUI 305 is an interface for obtaining a display on the display unit 306 and an operation instruction from the user via the display unit 306.

The filtering determination server 320 includes a transmission / reception unit 321, a distribution unit 322, a filter determination unit 323, a filter analysis unit 324, and a filter database 325.
The transmission / reception unit 321 is an interface for exchanging information via the network 310. The distribution unit 322 distributes output destinations according to transmission / reception information. The filter determination unit 323 determines whether or not the content can be viewed. The filter database 325 stores information regarding whether or not viewing is possible for each content. The filter analysis unit 324 appropriately collects information regarding availability of viewing for each content from the content server 330 and stores it in the filter database 325.

The content server 330 includes a transmission / reception unit 331, a processing unit 332, a content acquisition unit 333, and a content database 334.
The transmission / reception unit 331 is an interface for exchanging information via the network 310. The processing unit 332 distributes output destinations according to transmission / reception information. Content is stored in the content database 334. The content acquisition unit 333 extracts the content requested from the client 300 from the content database 334.

Next, the operation of the content viewing system will be described.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a schematic operation of the system related to content viewing.

  In step 500, when the user inputs an access request to the content that the user wants to view from the display unit 306, in step 501, the data analysis unit 302 confirms whether viewing restrictions are set on the client itself.

The user can set age restrictions, harmful site restrictions, etc. as viewing restrictions.
In age restriction, for example, the user sets an age for which viewing is restricted from the viewing age restriction setting screen shown in FIG. If the viewing limit age of the content to be viewed is higher than this set age, the content cannot be viewed.
When the harmful site restriction is set to be effective, viewing of content that is recognized as harmful such as phishing fraud content, adult content, and dating content is prohibited.

  If NO in step 501, that is, if viewing restrictions are not set, processing for requesting content (described later) is executed in step 511. In the case of Yes in step 501, that is, when there is a viewing restriction, in step 502, the data analysis unit 302 inquires of the filtering determination server 320 whether or not the content can be viewed.

  In the client 300, for each content, the address of the content server 330 that stores the content is recorded. The data analysis unit 302 transmits the content request describing the address and the viewing restriction content to the filtering determination server 320 via the transmission / reception unit 301. Note that the address of the filtering determination server 320 is registered in the client 300 in advance.

  The filtering determination server 320 receives the content request data by the transmission / reception unit 321 and outputs the data to the filter determination unit 323 via the distribution unit 322. The filter determination unit 323 accesses the filter database 325 and determines whether or not the corresponding content can be viewed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the configuration of the filter database 325.
The filter database 325 includes a basic configuration unit 400 and an additional configuration unit 410.

  The basic configuration unit 400 includes information necessary for determining only whether or not content can be viewed. A site name 401 indicates an address of a content server for identifying content. The genre 402 indicates the type of content. In the genre 402, for example, phishing content, adult content, dating content and the like indicating a harmful site are set in addition to blogs and shopping. The harmful designation 403 describes a determination result as to whether or not each content is harmful.

  The additional component 410 describes a condition (relaxation condition) for allowing viewing even if the basic component 400 is determined to be harmful. The relaxation condition number 411 describes how many conditions and methods can be used to avoid viewing restrictions for each content. The relaxed condition 412 describes a condition that allows viewing of content with relaxed content prohibited. For example, when “under 15 years old (12 years old)” is described, content under 15 years old (12 years old) is not viewable, that is, if the content is over 15 years old (12 years old) It shows that it is provided.

  The relaxable setting 413 describes a coping method for viewing relaxed content (conditional viewable content). The relaxation setting 414 describes the specific contents of the method written in the relaxation setting 413. For example, when “another URL” is written in the mitigation setting 413, it is necessary to request a conditional viewable content by designating another URL. The specific URL is described in the mitigation setting 414. Has been. Further, when “add identifier” is written in the relaxable setting 413, it is necessary to request a conditional viewable content by designating a new URL with an identifier added to the address (URL) of the site name 411. The specific identifier is described in the relaxation setting 414.

In step 503 of FIG. 3, the filter determination unit 323 performs harmful site determination.
The filter determination unit 323 extracts an address from the content request transmitted from the client 300 and checks whether the same address is described in the site name 401 of the filter database 325.

  If it is harmless in step 503, that is, if the same address as that of the content server is not described in the site name 401, or if the harmful designation 403 is harmless even if the same address is described, this content Is harmless, that is, viewing is possible, and the result transmission process (described later) in step 506 is executed.

  When harmful in step 503, that is, when the same address is described in the site name 401 and the harmful designation 403 is harmful, in step 504, the presence or absence of display conditions (relaxation conditions) is checked.

If none in step 504, that is, if there is no relaxation condition, this content is harmful and the result transmission process (described later) in step 506 is executed as viewing impossible.
If YES in step 504, that is, if there is a relaxation condition, in step 505, a script describing the processing corresponding to the contents of the relaxation condition is created, and the result transmission process (described later) in step 506 is executed. .

Here, the relaxation condition processing described in steps 504 and 505 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.
In the content viewing request requested from the client 300, it is assumed that the viewing limit of less than 15 years is set and the address indicated by the site name 401 matches the address of the content requested by the client 300. Data related to the address of the matched content is shown by being surrounded by a dotted line in FIG. The harmful designation 403 of the content is determined as harmful. However, the relaxation condition number 411 of the additional component 410 indicates that there are two relaxation conditions.

One of the relaxation conditions 412 corresponds to the current client who is less than 15 years of relaxation restriction. The mitigation setting 413 describes another URL, and the mitigation setting 414 indicates the URL. Therefore, the filter determination unit 323 determines that the content can be viewed as long as the content has a different URL described in the relaxable setting 413.
The other relaxation conditions 412 are those under the relaxation limit of 12 years, and the contents correspond to the current client. The mitigation possible setting 413 indicates that an identifier is added, and the mitigation setting 414 indicates an address to be added to the URL. Therefore, the filter determination unit 323 determines that the content of the URL to which the identifier described in the relaxable setting 413 is added can be viewed.
Note that the content indicated by the URL in the relaxation setting 414 has been determined in advance by the filter analysis unit 324 of the filtering determination server 320 to be regular content.

  Then, a script representing the content of the relaxation setting is generated from the corresponding relaxation condition content, for example, the relaxation condition number 411 of the additional configuration unit 410.

In step 506 of FIG. 3, the filter determination unit 323 transmits the determination result to the client 300.
If the content cannot be viewed, a response indicating that the content at the requested address cannot be viewed is transmitted. If the content can be viewed, a response indicating that the content at the requested address is viewable is transmitted. If conditional viewing is possible, determination result information including conditions for allowing viewing is transmitted. This determination result information includes an answer indicating that the content at the requested address can be viewed conditionally and a script.

  In the client 300 that has received the determination result from the filtering determination server 320, the data analysis unit 302 receives the received data from the transmission / reception unit 301 and passes the filter determination data to the filter determination unit 303.

In step 507, the filter determination unit 303 analyzes the content and determines whether the content is harmful.
If it is determined in step 507 that there is no harm, that is, the content can be viewed, in step 511, the content server 330 is requested to specify the original address and the content is requested. If it is determined in step 507 that the content is harmful, that is, the content cannot be viewed or the conditional viewing is possible, it is determined in step 508 whether there is a display condition (relaxation condition).

  If there is no relaxation condition in step 508, in step 509, a message indicating that viewing is not possible is displayed on the display unit 306, and the process ends.

If there is a relaxation condition in step 508, that is, if a script is transmitted from the filtering determination server 320, in step 510, the script processing unit interprets the contents of the script.
At this time, the script processing unit 304 may convert the script content into a display format, edit it, and display it on the display unit 306 via the GUI 305. For example, the harmful designation 403, the relaxation condition number 411, the relaxation condition 412, the relaxation setting 413, the relaxation setting 414, a message as to whether or not the user accepts the relaxation condition, and a plurality of relaxation conditions exist in the case of acceptance. Can display a message prompting the user to input which relaxation condition to select, a screen for the user to select the relaxation condition, and the like. In addition, on the screen for selecting relaxation conditions, a number representing a plurality of relaxation conditions may be selected. When there is one relaxation condition, the next process may be automatically performed without displaying on the display unit 306 and waiting for the user's judgment.
In step 511, when requesting conditional viewable content, the script processing unit 304 makes a content request to the content server 330 in accordance with the description of the script. That is, the address of the content included in the conditional viewable content request corresponds to the content of the additional configuration unit 410 of the filter database 325.

  In step 512, in the content server 330, the content acquisition unit 333 extracts the content at the designated address from the content database 334 and transmits it to the client 300 via the transmission / reception unit 331. At this time, the content server 330 adds the information indicating the type of content to be transmitted, for example, whether the content is conditional viewable content, and transmits it to the client 300.

Next, conditional viewable content stored in the content database 334 will be described.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating conditional viewable content.

  (1) of FIG. 6 represents a mode in which sub-contents that do not conform to viewing restrictions are excluded. The content 450 is content transmitted when there is no viewing restriction. This content 450 includes sub-contents A, B, C, and D. The sub-content D is content that does not meet viewing restrictions. On the other hand, the content 451 is a conditionally viewable content. In the content 451, the sub content D is deleted. The address of the content included in the above-described conditional viewable content request is an address that specifies the content 451.

  (2) of FIG. 6 represents a mode in which content that meets viewing restrictions is designated. The content database 334 includes a plurality of contents A, B, C, and D. Content A is content with no viewing restrictions, and content C is content that can be viewed with conditions. The content address included in the content request when there is no viewing restriction is an address that specifies the content A, but the address of the content included in the conditional requestable content request is an address that specifies the content C.

  In step 513 of FIG. 3, the client 300 receives the content and the additional information described above, and in step 514 displays the additional information edited together with the content on the display unit 306. The edited additional information includes the fact that the displayed content is a conditionally viewable content, the details of the adopted relaxation conditions, and the like. As a result, the user can recognize the type of content currently being viewed.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, when the content server has a mechanism for providing content whose viewing restrictions are relaxed, the relaxation condition is databased by the filtering determination server. Even when the client has a viewing restriction by accessing the content server via the filtering determination server, the client can view the content conforming to the viewing restriction.

  In other words, the filtering determination server presents the client with a method for accessing the viewing restriction relaxed content, so that the client can efficiently view a wider range of viewable content while ensuring safety. Can be accessed.

  Each function described in the above embodiment may be configured using hardware, or may be realized by reading a program describing each function into a computer using software. Each function may be configured by appropriately selecting either software or hardware.

  Furthermore, each function can be realized by causing a computer to read a program stored in a recording medium (not shown). Here, as long as the recording medium in the present embodiment can record a program and can be read by a computer, the recording format may be any form.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage.
Further, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component covering different embodiment.

    DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 300 ... Client, 301 ... Transmission / reception part, 302 ... Data analysis part, 303 ... Filter determination part, 304 ... Script processing part, 305 ... GUI, 306 ... Display part, 310 ... Network, 320 ... Filtering determination server, 321 ... Transmission / reception part 322, distribution unit, 323, filter determination unit, 324, filter analysis unit, 325, filter database, 330, content server, 331, transmission / reception unit, 332, processing unit, 333, content acquisition unit, 334, content database, 400 ... basic component part 401 ... site name 402 ... genre 403 ... harmful designation 410 ... additional component part 412 ... relaxation condition 413 ... relaxation setting 414 ... relaxation setting 415 ... site name.

Claims (6)

A condition input section for inputting conditions for limiting content viewing;
A viewability determination request unit that outputs a request for determining whether or not to view the content specified by the user and a condition for limiting the viewing to the filtering determination device;
When content that replaces the content in the determination result information from the filtering determination device is conditionally viewable, an address acquisition unit that acquires an address of the conditional viewable content from the determination result information;
A content requesting unit that specifies the acquired address and outputs a content request to the content holding device;
A first output unit that acquires information including the conditional viewable content from the content holding device and outputs information indicating that the content is conditional viewable content to a display device; Information processing apparatus. The address acquisition unit
The determination result information is output to the display device to prompt the user to select a conditionally viewable content to be viewed, and the address of the content selected by the user is acquired as the address of the conditionally viewable content. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1.   2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a second output unit configured to output, when the content viewing is prohibited by the determination result information from the filtering determination device, to the display device to that effect. Information processing device. A request for judging whether or not to view the content specified by the user and a condition for limiting the viewing are output to the filtering judgment device,
When content that replaces the content in the determination result information from the filtering determination device is conditionally viewable, obtain the address of the conditional viewable content from the determination result information,
Specify the acquired address, output the content request to the content holding device,
An information processing method, comprising: acquiring information including the conditional viewable content from the content holding device, and outputting information indicating that the content is conditional viewable content to a display device. An input unit for inputting a request for determining whether or not content can be viewed and a condition for limiting viewing;
Based on this determination request, the availability determination unit that searches the information in the database and determines whether the content can be viewed;
An output unit that outputs determination result information including a condition for allowing viewing when the availability determination unit determines that the content replacing the content can be viewed with conditions;
The filtering determination apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the database stores harmful / innocuous information for each content and conditions for allowing viewing when harmful.   6. The filtering determination apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the condition for permitting viewing includes an address of the conditional viewable content.

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