KR20050029428A - Method for internet access control of home pad and the home pad - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for controlling an Internet access of a home pad and the home pad thereof are provided to enable an authentication server to separately manage access limit attributes according to each user, and to maintain the managed attributes of the users whenever the users utilize the attributes, thereby supplying a custommade service. A home pad receives personal information from each user(S1), and performs an A/D conversion for images and voices of the users(S2). An authentication performer registers the images and the voices as user authentication information(S3). When an Internet access request is received, an Internet driver displays an Internet access window(S4,S5). The authentication performer activates a window for requesting the images and the voices to be inputted(S6). An image/voice processor processes the images/voices(S7,S8). The performer requests user authentication(S9), and retrieves whether an Internet security option file is received(S10). If so, the performer stores the file(S11). The driver accesses an Internet site(S12). An Internet monitor decides whether a site corresponding to a user security rank is requested(S13). If so, the monitor maintains an operation of the driver(S14).

Description

Method for Internet access control of home pad and the home pad

The present invention relates to a home pad of a home network, and more particularly, to an internet access control method and a home pad of a home pad operated by setting different Internet security options for each user accessing the home pad in a home network.

Home network consists of home pads, door phones, bathroom phones, kitchen TVs, etc. In the apartment complex, it can be composed of equipment such as CCTV, common entrance and parking control of each common area.

HomePad is the product of home network along with home server. Home pads are divided into two types, the hanging type on the living room wall and the wireless LAN type.

The mobile home pad can control various electronic products such as an air-conditioning washing machine anywhere in the house, and can also search the Internet and make video calls over the Internet. This makes it easy to use for homemakers and the elderly who are not good at handling PCs.

In addition, it can perform home automation functions such as automatically notifying security companies when thieves invade, or detecting a fire or gas leak and sounding an alarm.

Meanwhile, in today's society called the information society, the Internet has become an essential tool from education to work. The widespread use of the Internet, which allows us to connect with people and institutions around the world, transcending space and time, enables us to obtain a wide variety of information. In the diversification of information, some sites deal with information where the content of the information is desired to be released only to a specific group of users.

However, the open nature of the Internet, anyone can easily access the unspecified site and get information there. Of course, there are a lot of sites that are operated to get information on a certain qualification or a certain age by introducing a membership system, but in most cases, sites that are open to an unspecified majority are mainstream.

In particular, in the case of adult-only websites, even if the membership system for adults, youth can easily register as a member using the parent's information. In addition, since many adult sites disclose free adult information without deletion, there is an urgent need for measures to protect minors from such harmful information.

In general, in order to control access to a specific website, there is a method of blocking access when a user attempts to access a corresponding Internet site by installing a specific program having a harmful site list stored in the user's Internet terminal. In this method, when the user's ability to use the Internet terminal to be restricted to use the Internet is above a certain level, the blocking program is immediately disabled by removing the blocking program.

Even if it is not, if the database of the harmful site list installed in the program is not updated continuously and quickly, there is a disadvantage that it is impossible to restrict access to the newly generated harmful site.

In addition, the harmful site access blocking program installed and used in the conventional Internet terminal is always blocked in the Internet terminal once installed, there is an inconvenience in the connection restrictions when used by multiple users.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a method for controlling an internet access of a home pad and a home pad capable of performing internet security according to a user level in a home network.

Internet access control method of the home pad according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the step of receiving the user's image and voice input to the authentication server with the user authentication information, and when there is a request for Internet access from any user, Requesting input of user authentication information, transmitting user input information to the authentication server to request user authentication, receiving an Internet security option file corresponding to the user's level from the authentication server; A step of restricting access to the Internet site by grade is performed based on the Internet security option file received from the authentication server.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a home network for performing Internet access control of a home pad according to the present invention.

The wall type home pad or mobile home pad 10 is a touch screen type terminal that is made for the convenience of the user. The home automation function such as internet connection, intergenerational video call, and home appliance control can be conveniently used. Interface system. The home pad 10 should preferably be connected to access the Internet only after user authentication of the authentication server 20. To this end, the authentication server 20 is preferably provided in the Internet providing server (not shown) that provides the Internet service to the home pad (10). In addition, the home pad 10 and the authentication server 20 may be connected through the Internet, or may be connected through a local area network (LAN) interface.

The authentication server 20 manages a database that stores personal information (name, social security number, age, gender, occupation, etc.) and security level for the user who uses the home pad for each unit household, and the home pad user. When the authentication request is received from the system, the database provides information on the security level and provides contents related to interests of each user.

In order to block access to harmful sites of the Internet that anyone can easily access, the authentication server 20 sets a security level for accessing the Internet for each user who accesses the Internet through the home pad, and according to the age group and interests of the user. Restrict access to services and harmful sites you offer.

The authentication server 20 classifies Internet access classes, classifies each Internet site according to a class, receives images and audio for each user from the home pad 10, registers authentication information, and assigns a class corresponding to the user.

The authentication server 20 performs the user information registration operation only once and sets the Internet site security level for each user. In the case of this security level, the security level should be set considering the user's interest and age.

The authentication server 20 receives information on individual basic personal information and security level setting from all pad users in the household and manages the database.

In order to access the Internet from the home pad 10, the home pad user who has undergone the authentication operation performs the video and audio input process for authentication of the user before the home pad 10 is driven. Accordingly, the user inputs his or her voice and image information to the home pad 10. The home pad 10 transmits the received voice and image information to the authentication server 20 to request authentication. The authentication server 20 performs a procedure of authenticating its own information (a kind of login procedure). That is, if the user is registered from the authentication server 20 and downloads information such as a security file and a content provided in a customized manner to the security level of the home pad, the Internet service can be used.

The home pad 10, which has downloaded the information on the security level setting, is accessible only to sites accessible from the corresponding level.

For example, children and adolescents can focus on restrictions on computer use time and computer addiction prevention programs. Can be used to block access.

In addition to the blocking function, each user can provide customized contents by providing information such as news or news by focusing on the interests of the Internet.

2 is a block diagram of a home pad for performing Internet access control according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the home pad 10 includes an image and audio input unit 11, an image and audio processing unit 12, an authentication performing unit 13, a storage unit 14, and an internet driving unit 15. And the Internet monitoring unit 16. The home pad 10 includes components for manipulating home appliances in various home networks. However, the home pad 10 is omitted in the drawings and only the components related to the Internet access control are described.

The video and audio input unit 11 receives video and audio from a user of the home network.

The image and voice processing unit 12 converts the image and voice of the user input through the image and audio input unit 11 into an analog signal to a digital signal for transmission to the authentication server 20.

The authentication performing unit 13 transmits the user's image and voice processed by the image and voice processing unit 11 to the authentication server and requests registration as user authentication information. When there is a request for access to the Internet from any user, user authentication is performed. By requesting the input of the information, the user's input information is transmitted to the authentication server to request user authentication.

The storage unit 14 receives and stores the Internet security option file corresponding to the user's level from the authentication server 20.

The internet driver 15 connects the Internet site according to the user's input information based on the Internet security option set in the storage 14.

The Internet monitoring unit 16 monitors the Internet driving unit 15 based on the Internet security option file received from the authentication server 20 and restricts access to Internet sites by grade.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling an internet access of a home pad according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the home pad 10 first receives the user's image, voice, personal image information, etc. from each user who uses the home pad for each home through the image and voice input unit 11 (S1). The image and sound of the user input through the image and sound input unit 11 perform A / D conversion by the image and sound processing unit 12 (S2). At this time, a general image compression process is performed to transmit the image. When the image and voice data processing is performed in the image and voice processing unit 12, the authentication performing unit 13 transmits the image and voice of the user to the authentication server 20 to register as user authentication information (S3). Accordingly, the authentication server 20 stores the image and voice of the user received from the home pad 10 as user authentication information. At this time, the authentication server 20 sets a security level related to Internet access for each user and manages the user information. At this time, to set the security level can be set according to the security level-related regulations in the protocol set on the authentication server 20 itself, and manually set by receiving input from the user logged in as an administrator among the user using the home pad (10) Can be.

To this end, when the home pad 10 accesses the authentication server 20 to register a user, information about security level may be set.

On the other hand, when there is a request for internet connection from any user, the Internet driver 15 floats the Internet connection window on the home pad (S4, S5). When the Internet access window is displayed on the home pad by the Internet driver 15, the authentication execution unit 13 activates a request window for inputting the user's image and voice for authentication of the user (S6). When the user's image and voice are input through the image and audio input unit 11, the image and audio processor 12 processes the input user's image and audio (S7 and S8). The authentication performing unit 13 transmits the processed image and voice of the user to the authentication server 20 to request user authentication (S9). The authentication server 20 performs user authentication using the image and voice of the user input from the home pad 10 as authentication information according to a user authentication request of the home pad 10. The authentication server 20 searches the user information database stored in the video and audio of the user to find the security level for the corresponding user, and stores the Internet security option file corresponding to the security level in the home pad (10). To be sent). At this time, the Internet security options file may include a list of Internet sites that the user can access. In addition, Internet-related service information stored for each user in the authentication server 20 may be transmitted to the home pad 10 together with the Internet security option file.

The authentication performing unit 13 searches whether the Internet security option file according to user authentication has been received from the authentication server 20 with respect to the authentication request requested by the user (S10), and when the Internet security option file is received, the Internet security The option file is stored in the storage unit 14 (S11).

The Internet driver 15 accesses an Internet site according to the information input by the user with reference to the Internet security option file stored in the storage 14 (S12). On the other hand, the Internet monitoring unit 16 refers to the Internet security option file stored in the storage unit 14 while accessing the Internet site according to the user's input from the Internet drive unit 15 to determine the user's security level Limit in accordance with. That is, it is determined whether a request for a site belonging to the user's security level is requested (S13), and if the user's input is an Internet site belonging to the user's security level, the operation of the Internet driver 15 is maintained (S14). If the input is an Internet site out of the user's security level, the Internet driver 15 blocks the Internet access and outputs an error message (S15).

According to the present invention, by registering the user's video and voice in a separate authentication server in the home pad as the authentication information, and separately manages the access restriction properties for each user in the authentication server and the user's access restriction properties each time the user uses By maintaining this, it is possible to provide a customized service.

Accordingly, a guardian who has a teenager as a child invests a lot of effort and time to block the child's access to the Internet or block access to the bad site by using various methods. There is an effect that can lead to accessing only healthy sites.

In addition, if the user provides additional information such as news sites and related content services for each field of interest, various contents can be provided as an additional function of the home network product.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a home network for performing Internet access control of a home pad according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of a home pad for performing Internet access control according to the present invention.

3 is a flow chart of a method for controlling an internet access of a home pad according to the present invention;

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: home pad 11: video and audio input unit

12: image and sound processing unit 13: authentication performing unit

14: storage unit 15: Internet drive unit

16: Internet monitoring department

Claims (10)

Receiving the user's image and audio and registering the user authentication information in the authentication server; Requesting input of user authentication information when there is a request for access to the Internet from any user; Requesting user authentication by transmitting the input information of the input user to the authentication server; Receiving an Internet security options file corresponding to the user's rating from the authentication server; A home pad internet access control method comprising the step of restricting access to the Internet site by grade based on the Internet security option file received from the authentication server. The method of claim 1, wherein the authentication server, Classifying Internet access ratings and classifying each Internet site by rating; Receiving a user's image and audio from the home pad and registering authentication information to give a level corresponding to the user; Performing authentication by receiving an image and a voice of an arbitrary user from the home pad; A method of controlling Internet access of a home pad, the method comprising: transmitting an Internet security options file corresponding to an internet class to which a user who has passed authentication is transmitted to the home pad of the user. The method of claim 1, wherein the authentication server is connected to the Internet via a home pad. The method of claim 1, wherein the authentication server is connected via a LAN interface. The method of claim 1, The Internet security option file, the home pad Internet access control method including a list of sites that can be accessed by user class. The method of claim 5, The site list, at least one of the obscene, violent, suicide, bomb manufacturing site Internet access control method. The method of claim 1, The Internet security option file, the home pad Internet access control method comprising the user-specific content selection information. A video and audio input unit for receiving video and audio from a user of a home network; An image and audio processing unit for converting an image and audio of a user input through the image and audio input unit into an analog server for transmission to an authentication server; It transmits the user-specific image and voice processed by the image and voice processing unit to the authentication server and requests registration as user authentication information, and when there is a request for accessing the Internet from any user, it requests input of user authentication information, Authentication performing unit for requesting user authentication by transmitting the user's input information to the authentication server, A storage unit for receiving and storing the Internet security option file corresponding to the user's level from the authentication server; An internet driver for accessing an internet site according to user input information based on an internet security option set in an internet security option file stored in a storage unit; A home pad including an internet monitoring unit that monitors an Internet driver based on an Internet security option file received from an authentication server and restricts access to Internet sites by class. The home pad of claim 8, wherein the authentication server is connected through the Internet. The home pad of claim 8, wherein the authentication server is connected through a LAN interface.