Notification Server Using Semantic Clustering for Harmful Site Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack an effective method to prevent client terminals from accessing harmful sites, such as those with security risks, gambling, or obscenity, by failing to provide timely and accurate notifications to managers.

Innovation Solution

A notification service server that crawls text from accessed sites, clusters words based on semantic similarity, and verifies if the clusters match pre-selected harmful words, sending a warning message to a manager terminal if a threshold similarity is exceeded, along with encrypting terminal identification information for secure transmission.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If text analysis is performed on accessed sites to detect harmful content, then harmful sites can be identified, but the system lacks accuracy in distinguishing harmful from benign sites

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidfalse positive rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the text analysis process into multiple independent components: crawling unit for text extraction, word search unit for keyword matching, clustering unit for grouping similar words, and verification unit for final validation. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in one aspect of analysis, improving overall detection accuracy while reducing false positives through distributed validation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediate processing layers between raw text and final harmful site determination. The word clustering acts as an intermediary that groups semantically similar words, and the verification unit serves as an intermediary validation step that cross-checks findings against multiple criteria before triggering a harmful site alert, thereby reducing false positives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If comprehensive text crawling and analysis is performed on all accessed sites, then harmful content detection capability is improved, but system complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveharmful site detection capabilityVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the complex analysis task into four distinct functional modules: crawling unit, word search unit, clustering unit, and verification unit. Each module handles a specific aspect of the analysis, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while comprehensively analyzing site content through coordinated operation of these segmented components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements preliminary actions by pre-processing and clustering words before final verification. The clustering unit pre-groups semantically similar words into categories, and the verification unit pre-validates against multiple criteria before making a final determination. This preliminary processing reduces the complexity of the final decision-making process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If word clustering based on semantic similarity is implemented, then detection accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveword matching accuracyVSAvoidanalysis processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs word clustering as a preliminary action before final verification. By pre-grouping semantically similar words into clusters, the system reduces the search space for the verification unit, which only needs to validate against cluster representatives rather than individual words. This preliminary clustering improves accuracy while minimizing time loss through efficient pre-processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements partial clustering rather than exhaustive analysis of all possible word relationships. The clustering unit groups words based on semantic similarity thresholds, performing sufficient clustering to improve accuracy without exhaustively analyzing every possible word combination, thus balancing precision with processing efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11681779B1Notification service server capable of providing access notification service to harmful sites and operating method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.06.20 FRLIN TECH
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AI summary

Disclosed are a notification service server and an operating method thereof. The present invention presents a notification service server capable of providing an access notification service to harmful sites and an operating method thereof to support a manager to prevent a client terminal from accessing a harmful site.