Browser Extension for Real-Time Malignant Content Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for detecting and tracking malignant digital content on networked environments, such as the Internet, are inefficient and resource-intensive, often failing to find relevant content in real-time due to bulk pre-harvesting limitations and the dynamic nature of online content.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for contemporaneous in-browser searching, viewing, tagging, and harvesting of digital content using a browser extension that interacts with a portal to determine the legitimacy of webpages, allowing for real-time identification and tagging of malignant content, and includes features like graphical user interfaces for user input and indicator generation within the browser window.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If bulk pre-harvesting of digital content is performed, then large amounts of content can be gathered, but the system becomes resource intensive and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveamount of digital content gatheredVSAvoidefficiency of content gathering

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary registration of digital content sources (URLs, data channels) in advance, creating a indexed database of content locations. This preliminary action enables subsequent real-time monitoring without requiring resource-intensive bulk harvesting operations, as the system already knows where to look for content changes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extracts only the essential information needed for monitoring (URLs, content identifiers, source metadata) from digital content sources, storing this extracted data in a separate registration database. This extraction approach avoids the need to store or process entire content volumes, improving efficiency while maintaining the ability to detect changes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Duration of action of stationary object

If bulk pre-harvesting of digital content is performed, then content can be gathered in advance, but the content may not be up-to-date as it changes after harvesting

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetime span of content availabilityVSAvoidcurrentness of digital content

Core Design Contradiction:

Duration of action of stationary objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous real-time monitoring of registered digital content sources through event-driven architecture. When content changes are detected (additions, modifications, deletions), the system immediately responds and updates the registration database, ensuring continuous availability of current content information without periodic bulk harvesting delays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes feedback loops where content monitoring triggers events that feed back into the registration database. This feedback mechanism ensures that any changes in digital content sources are immediately captured and recorded, maintaining up-to-date information about content availability and status without requiring re-harvesting.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If real-time monitoring of digital content is implemented, then content currentness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecurrentness of digital contentVSAvoidcomplexity of monitoring system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary registration database that sits between digital content sources and the monitoring system. This intermediary layer simplifies complexity by providing a standardized interface for content registration and change detection, allowing the monitoring system to work with structured data rather than directly processing complex content formats from multiple sources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The monitoring system is segmented into modular components: content source registration, real-time monitoring agents, event detection mechanisms, and database update processes. This segmentation allows each component to be independently optimized and managed, reducing overall system complexity while enabling sophisticated real-time monitoring capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10868827B2Browser extension for contemporaneous in-browser tagging and harvesting of internet content

Publication Date: 2020.12.15 OPSEC ONLINE LTD

AI summary

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for contemporaneous in-browser searching, viewing, tagging, and harvesting digital content in a networked environment, and for removing malignant content from the networked environment.