Communication Control Policy Correlation Across Platforms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional parental-control software is ineffective in blocking communications across multiple communication platforms, as users can still communicate through various mediums despite restrictions in one specific system.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that associates communication-control policies with contacts, allowing administrators to block or allow communications across multiple communication mechanisms by correlating aliases and applying policies regardless of the medium used, using a monitoring and correlation module to identify and manage communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional parental-control software blocks communication in a specific communication client, then control over that specific platform is achieved, but communication control becomes ineffective across other platforms and mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a universal communication control mechanism that operates across multiple communication platforms (instant messaging, email, social networking, voice over IP) by implementing a central monitoring module that intercepts and analyzes communications regardless of the specific platform used. This allows a single control policy to be applied universally across diverse communication channels.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary monitoring module that positions itself between the user and various communication platforms. This mediator captures communications from different sources, correlates aliases across platforms, and applies control policies without requiring separate control software for each communication mechanism.
2Adaptability or versatility
If communication control is implemented through multiple separate mechanisms, then broader platform coverage is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple communication control functions into a single integrated system. The monitoring module consolidates alias correlation, communication interception, and policy enforcement across different platforms into one unified structure, reducing the need for separate control mechanisms for each communication type.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring module is designed as a universal component that handles multiple communication protocols and platforms simultaneously. It correlates aliases across different communication mechanisms and applies a single set of control policies to all intercepted communications, simplifying the overall system architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method may associate a communication-control policy with a contact. The computer-implemented method may identify a first communication made via a first communication mechanism. The computer-implemented method may also identify a first alias associated with the first communication. The computer-implemented method may determine that the first alias is an alias of the contact. The computer-implemented method may apply the communication-control policy to the first communication, wherein the associating, the identifying the first communication, the identifying the first alias, the determining, and the applying may be performed by a communication-control computing system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.