RU177377U1 - DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE INTERESTS OF THE CHILD AND EVALUATING THE LEVEL OF THREATS TO THE CHILD ON THE INTERNET - Google Patents

Abstract

The technical solution relates to the field of information technology, intended for mobile telecom operators and providers that provide access to the Internet, as well as users of devices connected to the Internet. The technical result from the use of this technical solution is to increase the security of Internet use by a user of a certain age and gender group by assessing the level of threats of the content provided. This technical solution can be made in the form of a device for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet, containing integrated bus data: a unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats of the content provided on the Internet, configured to collect information about resources visited on the network, a processor that reads and runs machine instructions (programs) from blocks of permanent data storage, temporary storage of data, a block of permanent data storage, which is a permanent storage device , a temporary data storage unit, which is a random access memory device that provides temporary data storage, an interaction unit with network devices, which is a switch and provides interaction with other network devices, operating at the first (physical) and second (channel) levels of the OSI model, made with the ability to receive and transmit data from external devices via electronic messaging, a power circuit connected to the power supply. All of these elements are yatsya in a single constructive performance.

Description

FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY

The technical solution relates to the field of information technology, designed for mobile telecom operators and providers that provide access to the Internet, as well as users of devices that have an Internet connection.

BACKGROUND

According to a McAfee study, in 2011, 70% of teens found ways to get around “parental control,” so their parents were not aware of what the children were doing. For comparison, according to a study by the same company, in 2010 only 45% of teenagers aged 13 to 17 deceived their parents.

According to Kaspersky Lab research in 2013, children from Russia visited the following sites:

social networks (59.6%)

online shopping (9.1%)

pornography, eroticism (8.8%)

mail (5.7%)

illegal software (3.4%)

the rest: games, chats and forums, weapons, cruelty and violence, obscene language, gambling, payment systems, anonymous proxy servers, drugs.

Kaspersky Lab experts noted that among the rest of the countries, Russia leads in the number of children visiting social networks. Researchers also note that compared to previous years, the popularity of online stores has increased, and a category such as “Drugs” is successfully implemented in “Social Networks”, which are a universal platform for communication on this topic.

According to the same company, every third parent of the Russian Federation is interested in how exactly children spend time on the Web, which sites they visit and with whom they communicate, and despite the fact that on average 3.6 different electronic devices with network access per family and the ability to store large amounts of information.

As for Europe, according to a study conducted by EU Kids Online II in conjunction with the Internet Development Fund and the Department of Psychology of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, most of the children go online under the control of adults: 60% of European students use the Internet at school and as many children go online from home, from the common room, that is, under the supervision of their parents.

In Russia, according to the same study, 70% of children 9-10 years old and over 90% of schoolchildren over 13 years old use the Internet without the supervision of elders. According to Kaspersky Lab, children study the “forbidden resources” at the hours when the lessons have already ended and the parents have not yet come home from work, that is, from 15 to 17 hours.

Currently, the problem of detecting threats to a child on the Internet is practically not being solved; instead, filtering and blocking systems of content are used.

An approach with blocking or filtering resources leads to conflicts between children and parents, while the task of determining the interests of the child on the Internet is not solved.

The invention is known from the prior art RU 2336561, "FILTERING CONTENT WHEN WEB VIEWING", MICROSOFT CORPORATION (US), published on 10/20/2008. RU 2336561 describes the construction of systems and the implementation of options for filtering content during web browsing. A known method for filtering web content includes the activation of its own means of filtering web content on a user's work computer, including functionally independent from each other a block of web document identifiers library (evaluation buffer) and a block for analyzing and intercepting user requests, inverting a block for analyzing and intercepting user requests when entering at least one request command by a user of a web document to a block of a library of identifiers of web documents and blocking by a request analysis and interception block in user access to the requested Web document in the case of determining the unit identifiers of the library web documents requested web document as a prohibited access to the user. The web content filtering system known from RU 2336561 includes one or more user work computers equipped with a user and network interface, its own means of filtering the web content of the user's work computer, including web document identifier library block, analysis and interception block user requests. A unified resource locator (URL) can be used as data identifying sites with an undesirable topic. This invention seeks to limit existing parental control technologies by providing a system and method for rational and dynamic filtering of websites that a user, such as a child, can view on any personal computer.

Also known is the invention RU 2446460, “METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FILTERING WEB CONTENT”, Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISA RAS) (RU), published 03/27/2012. This invention includes the activation of its own means of filtering web content on a user's working computer, containing functionally independent from each other a block of a library of identifiers of web documents and a block for analyzing and intercepting user requests, inverting a block for analyzing and intercepting user requests when entering at least one commands for the user requesting a web document to the library block of web document identifiers and blocking by the analysis and interception block of the user’s requests for access to the requested mu web document in the event that the library block identifies the web document identifiers of the requested web document as being denied access to the user.

Using the above technical solutions, it is not intended to determine through analysis of the interests of a user belonging to a certain gender and age group on the Internet based on the web pages he visits, to determine the level of threats that these resources pose to him, and to inform his parents or guardians about his interests and possible threats to him through various communication channels.

ESSENCE OF TECHNICAL SOLUTION

The objective of the claimed technical solution is to eliminate the disadvantages inherent in existing analogues.

The technical result from the use of this technical solution is to expand the technical means to determine the interests of the child and assess the level of threats on the Internet.

This technical result is achieved by identifying the interests of a user belonging to a certain gender and age group on the Internet based on the web pages he visits, determining the level of threats these resources pose to him, and informing his parents about his interests and threats to him through various communication channels .

This technical solution can be made in the form of a device for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet, containing the combined common bus data: a unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats of the provided content on the Internet, configured to collect information about the resources visited in the aforementioned networks, a processor that reads and executes machine instructions (programs) from blocks of permanent data storage, temporary storage of data, block of permanent data storage, which is a permanent storage device, a temporary data storage unit, which is an online storage device that provides temporary data storage, an interaction unit with network devices, which is a switch and provides interaction with other network devices, working on the first (physical) and second (channel) levels of the OSI model, configured to receive and transmit data from external devices using electronic messaging, power supply circuit power supply unit.

The unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet is made with the possibility of averaging the assessment of the level of informational threats to the child on the Internet over a certain period of time.

Electronic messages are SMS messages and / or e-mail messages and / or user accounts and / or by PUSH notification.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an example of a scheme for collecting information through a proxy server.

FIG. 2 is an example of a scheme for collecting information through a sniffer.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNICAL SOLUTION

Below we will consider some terms that will be used later in the description of the technical solution.

Traffic analyzer, or proxy server, or sniffer - a network traffic analyzer, program or hardware-software device designed to intercept and subsequently analyze, or only analyze network traffic intended for other nodes.

Account (account) - a set of data about a user stored in a computer system, necessary for his identification (authentication) and providing access to his personal data and settings. To use an account (in other words, to log in under someone’s name), a username and password are usually required. Other additional information may also be required.

Internet users can perceive an account as a personal page, profile, account, storage location for personal and other information on a specific Internet resource.

In the described cases, the Internet user can be children of various gender and age groups: in particular in the Russian Federation: from September 1, 2012, after the federal law “On protecting children from information harmful to their health and development” comes into force, the following age classification has been introduced in Russia information products:

Information products for children under the age of six (0+)

Information products for children under six years of age may include information products containing information that is not harmful to the health and (or) development of children (including information products containing episodic non-naturalistic images justified by its genre and (or) plot) or a description of physical and (or) mental violence (with the exception of sexual violence) subject to the triumph of good over evil and expression of compassion for the victim of violence and (or) condemnation of violence).

Information products for children over the age of six (6+)

Information products permitted for circulation by children over six years of age may include information products provided for in Article 7 of this Federal Law, as well as information products containing justified by its genre and (or) plot:

1. short-term and unnaturalistic image or description of human diseases (with the exception of serious diseases) and (or) their consequences in a form that does not degrade human dignity;

2. a non-naturalistic image or description of an accident, accident, disaster or non-violent death without demonstrating their consequences, which may cause fear, horror or panic in children;

3. episodic images or descriptions of these actions and (or) crimes that do not induce the commission of antisocial actions and (or) crimes, provided that their admissibility is not justified and not justified and a negative, condemning attitude towards the persons committing them is expressed.

Information products for children over the age of twelve years (12+)

The informational products provided for in Article 8 of this Federal Law, as well as informational products containing justified by its genre and (or) plot, may be classified as permitted for circulation of information products for children over the age of twelve years:

1. episodic depiction or description of cruelty and (or) violence (with the exception of sexual violence) without a naturalistic depiction of the process of deprivation of life or mutilation, provided that compassion for the victim and (or) negative, condemning attitude to cruelty, violence (with the exception of violence used in cases of protecting the rights of citizens and the interests of society or states protected by law);

2. an image or description that does not prompt the commission of antisocial actions (including the consumption of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, beer and drinks made on its basis, participation in gambling, engaging in vagrancy or begging), occasional mention (without demonstration) of drugs means, psychotropic and (or) intoxication substances, tobacco products, provided that the admissibility of antisocial actions is not justified and not justified, a negative, condemning attitude is expressed adherence to them contains an indication of the danger of consumption of the specified products, means, substances, products;

3. episodes of unnaturalistic depiction or description of sexual relations between a man and a woman that do not exploit interest in sex and do not have arousing or abusive nature, with the exception of images or descriptions of sexual acts.

Information products for children over the age of sixteen years (16+)

Information products allowed for circulation by children over the age of sixteen years may include information products provided for in Article 9 of this Federal Law, as well as information products containing justified by its genre and (or) plot:

1. an image or description of an accident, accident, disaster, illness, death without a naturalistic display of their consequences, which may cause fear, horror or panic in children;

2. an image or description of cruelty and (or) violence (with the exception of sexual violence) without a naturalistic display of the process of deprivation of life or mutilation, provided that compassion for the victim is expressed and (or) negative, condemning the cruelty, violence (with the exception of violence applied in cases of protecting the rights of citizens and the interests of society or the state protected by law);

3. information on narcotic drugs or on psychotropic and (or) on intoxication substances (without their demonstration), on the dangerous consequences of their consumption with a demonstration of such cases, provided that a negative or condemning attitude to the consumption of such drugs or substances is expressed and an indication of the danger of their consumption;

4. separate swear words and (or) expressions not related to foul language;

5. do not exploit interest in sex and are not offensive in nature, the image or description of sexual relations between a man and a woman, with the exception of images or descriptions of actions of a sexual nature.

Information prohibited for distribution to children (18+)

1. Encouraging children to commit actions that pose a threat to their life and (or) health, including harming their health, suicide, promoting LGBT society culture;

2. capable of causing children to desire to use narcotic drugs, psychotropic and (or) intoxicants, tobacco products, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, beer and drinks made on its basis, take part in gambling, engage in prostitution, vagrancy or begging;

3. justifying or justifying the admissibility of violence and (or) cruelty or encouraging to carry out violent acts against people or animals, with the exception of cases provided for by this Federal Law;

4. denying family values and forming disrespect for parents and (or) other family members;

5. justifying unlawful behavior;

6. containing foul language;

7. Containing pornographic information.

In this technical solution, the technical result, consisting in increasing the security of Internet use by a user belonging to a certain age and gender group, by assessing the level of threats to the content provided, is achieved by determining the interests of a user belonging to a certain age and gender group on the Internet based on the web pages, determining the level of threats that these resources represent for him, and informing parents about his interests and threats to him through various channels communication. This technical solution can be made in the form of a device for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet, containing the combined common bus data: a unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats of the provided content on the Internet, configured to collect information about the resources visited in the aforementioned networks, a processor that reads and executes machine instructions (programs) from blocks of permanent data storage, temporary storage of data, block of permanent data storage, which is a permanent storage device, a temporary data storage unit, which is an online storage device that provides temporary data storage, an interaction unit with network devices, which is a switch and provides interaction with other network devices, working on the first (physical) and second (channel) levels of the OSI model, configured to receive and transmit data from external devices using electronic messaging, power supply circuit power supply unit.

As a means of exchanging information between the blocks in the device, a computer data exchange bus can act.

The blocks used in the device can be implemented using electronic components used to create digital integrated circuits. Not limited to, microcircuits can be used, the logic of which is determined during manufacture, or programmable logic integrated circuits (FPGA), the logic of which is set by programming. For programming, programmers and debugging environments are used that allow you to specify the desired structure of a digital device in the form of a circuit diagram or programs in special equipment description languages: Verilog, VHDL, AHDL, etc. Alternative FPGAs are: programmable logic controllers (PLCs), base matrix crystals ( BMK) requiring a factory production process for programming; ASIC - specialized custom large integrated circuits (LSI), which are much more expensive in small-scale and single-unit production.

Blocks can also be implemented using read-only memory devices (see O. Lebedev. Memory chips and their application. - M.: Radio and communications, 1990. - 160 p .; Large integrated circuits of memory devices: Reference / A.Yu. Gordenov et al. - M.: Radio and Communications, 1990. - 288 p.).

Thus, the implementation of all used blocks is achieved by standard means based on the classical principles of implementing the foundations of computer technology.

The unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats of the content provided on the Internet has the following functionality:

- sets up a scheme for collecting information about Internet resources visited by a child and sets information about the accounts of parents and / or guardians.

As a device through which a child visits Internet resources, there may be a personal computer with the ability to connect to Internet resources.

Depending on the available technical means and infrastructure (for example, from a particular telecom operator or provider), various schemes can be implemented to collect information about Internet resources visited by a child, including those not described in this section.

In a particular embodiment of the described technical solution, information about the Internet resources visited by the child is transmitted to the device for further analysis through the network application program interface (API), which provides flexibility in configuring various information collection schemes.

The following information collection schemes can be implemented: proxy server, sniffer, etc.

As an example of a scheme for collecting information through a proxy server, the circuit depicted in FIG. 1 (101 - users; 102 - proxy server; 103 - external Internet resources; 104 - analysis server; 105 - network API). This scheme can, for example, be used within some local network, for example, in schools. All devices connected to the local area network 101 gain access to the Internet 103 only through a proxy server. The proxy server 102 performs authentication, authorization, and traffic collection. The collected data is transmitted to the traffic analysis server 104 through the network API 105. Through the same API, the proxy server receives the credentials of user accounts (children) for authentication (matching traffic with a specific user). This scheme is more suitable for small networks.

Another possible embodiment of the circuit is shown in FIG. 2 (201 - users; 202 - external Internet resources; 203 - sniffer; 204 - analysis server; 205 - copy of traffic; 206 - network API) and differs in that traffic is collected not by a device installed directly to the channel break, but by a special hardware or software (sniffer 203) that analyzes the traffic copy 205. At the same time, the requirements for the performance and reliability of system components are reduced, which makes this scheme more suitable for large loaded networks (for example, subscriber networks of telecom operators and Internet providers) idlers). Under this scheme, traffic is collected as follows. A branch device (router) is configured to branch traffic of users to be monitored to a server with a sniffer installed (or to a specialized device that implements the same functions). After that, the sniffer begins to receive a copy of the incoming and outgoing traffic and extracts the necessary information about the visited Internet resources. A special sniffer software module accesses the analysis server via the network API in order to obtain user data to identify their traffic, pre-filter it and transfer the collected traffic to the system for subsequent analysis. Most trunk routers support traffic mirroring at the network or data link layer, which is sufficient to implement the above scheme.

The specific set of set parameters depends on the selected scheme for collecting information about the Internet resources visited by the child;

- collects information about Internet resources visited by a child in accordance with a customized information collection scheme, including at least the URL and / or IP address of the resource.

Traffic collection is carried out in accordance with the configured information collection scheme.

Traffic can be collected using a proxy server, a traffic sniffer on a network gateway, on a DNS server or on a device with which the child directly accesses the Internet (laptop, smartphone, tablet, personal computer, etc.) and others network communication device. By traffic collection is meant the allocation of domain names or IP addresses of Internet resources (pages and sites) accessed by a child.

The information collected about the child’s online resources is personalized, i.e. it corresponds with the account (account) of a particular user. The collected information about Internet resources visited by a specific user is placed in a database;

- determines the thematic affiliation of each resource visited and the hazard category of the content on these resources, using the above-mentioned collected information about the visited Internet resources.

The information collected is stored in a database, file or any other information store and / or correlated with the user account (account), while the information collected can either contain personal data or be impersonal and contain only user identifiers and resource categories.

In a particular embodiment of the described technical solution, a relational database is used to store information about resources visited by the child. Moreover, the database contains information on the categories of content on these resources in the form of a classified list of Internet resources and the categories assigned to them. Content categories can be “undesirable” (pornography, materials about weapons, sects, occultism, drugs, etc.) and “acceptable” (educational, informational resources, etc.). One resource can belong to several categories. Each category of resources has a certain characteristic associated with the degree of danger of the resource. This characteristic for a specific resource can also be changed forcibly (increased / decreased danger level) by the parent, for example, in a personal account via the web interface of the private implementation of the described method for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet;

- determines the threat level for each resource visited by correlating a certain thematic affiliation of each of the resources visited with the hazard categories of the content on these resources. An assessment is made of the threat level of a particular resource visited by a specific user. For this, categories of content and related “hazard levels” (some material values from a segment on the numerical axis) are considered. The hazard level of a category is initially set based on expert assessments. Subsequently, this level can be changed (personalized) depending on the opinion of parents supervising their child (for example, by changing the settings of the account in your personal account). The threat level of a particular resource is determined based on the list of categories to which this resource belongs, by averaging over the danger levels of these categories. Moreover, the assessment of the threat level of a particular resource can also be changed by parents in their personal account, based on their own opinions about the danger of this resource to the child. Information about the threat level of a specific resource accessed by the child is stored in the database;

- determines the assessment of the level of informational threats to a child on the Internet for a certain period of time, using the threat levels defined in the previous step for each resource visited.

Periodically, an assessment of the level of informational threats to a child on the Internet is calculated for a certain period of time (for example, for the last 1 minute). This assessment takes into account the threat levels of resources accessed by the child during the last period of time, as well as the frequency of access to these resources. Then, the resulting estimate is averaged with estimates of information threat levels calculated for previous periods of time (for example, for the last 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, etc.). As a result, an integrated assessment of the level of informational threats to a child on the Internet is calculated. An integrated assessment of the level of informational threats to a child on the Internet for a certain period of time is stored for a specific account in the database.

The power supply in the described device may be an electronic device that provides the conversion of alternating electric current to direct, with parameters necessary for powering other elements of the device to determine the interests of the child and assess the level of threats to the child on the Internet.

The processor may be an electronic unit or an integrated circuit (microprocessor) executing machine instructions (programs). The information processing unit reads and executes machine instructions (programs) from the blocks of permanent data storage, temporary data storage.

The permanent data storage unit can be a ROM (read only memory), flash memory, hard disks (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), optical drives. The temporary data storage unit is RAM - random access memory that provides temporary data storage. The unit for interacting with network devices with the ability to receive and transmit data can be a switch - an electronic device that provides interaction with other network devices, and operates at the first (physical) and second (channel) levels of the OSI model. One of the main functions of this unit is the transmission to at least one of the devices associated with the accounts of the parents and / or guardians of the child, messages about the level of informational threats to the child on the Internet.

Parents or other persons who monitor the activities of the child on the Internet have the opportunity to receive information about the levels of Internet threats to the child through their personal account. Using a personal account, parents can indicate the need for their notification of exceeding the acceptable level of threat through SMS mailing, e-mail or other means of transmitting electronic messages (for example, through a special application for mobile devices, etc.). In this case, after calculating the integral assessment of the level of information threats, when this assessment exceeds the established minimum threat level, parents are notified about this event. In addition, parents have the opportunity to refer to statistics on changes in the integrated assessment of the level of information threats, for example, through a personal account, which also provides information about a child’s visit to Internet resources with information about the categories of these resources and an assessment of the threat level of these resources .

It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that specific embodiments of a device for determining the interests of a child and assessing the level of threats to a child on the Internet have been described here for purposes of illustration, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope and essence of the scope of the technical solution.

Claims (3)

1. The device for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet, containing the combined common bus data: a unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats of the content provided on the Internet, configured to collect information about resources visited on the network, as well as determine the level threats for each resource visited and determining an assessment of the level of informational threats to a child on the Internet for a certain period of time, a processor reading and executing machine instructions ( programs) from blocks for the permanent storage of data, temporary storage of data, a block for the permanent storage of data, which is a permanent storage device, a block for temporary storage of data, which is a random access memory device that provides temporary storage of data, a unit for interacting with network devices, which is a switch and provides interaction with other network devices working at the first (physical) and second (channel) levels of the OSI model, made with the possibility of ü receiving and transmitting data from external devices using electronic messaging, a power circuit connected to the power supply. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the unit for determining the interests of the child and assessing the level of threats to the child on the Internet is configured to average the assessment of the level of informational threats to the child on the Internet for a certain period of time. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the electronic messages are SMS messages and / or e-mail messages and / or user accounts and / or by PUSH notification.

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