Apple is trying to give more power to parents about their children using SMS messages.
A representation of how Apple's new patent would.(Credit: USPTO/Apple)The company yesterday reportedly secured patent covering the "systems, devices and methods", 7,814,163, from the u.s. patent and Trademark Office that a user to determine what kind of text-messaging content to be sent or received by a particular device.
According to the application, either completely block messages, or the "prohibited content" "to the receiving process be removed from the message before transferring or as part of." To filter the content, Apple said that he will use certain criteria as defined by a separate parental control application.
The application closes "objective reviews criteria or a user's age or grade level" to determine what kind of words and content text messages be authorized and what not. Whenever an SMS contains inappropriate content, are the applications "warn the user, the administrator or other persons given the presence of such a text."In other words, could children try, with a unfortunate text message their parents will find alarmed by the app.
Apple filing also indicates to use the patent more than only prevention of inappropriate communication application can abet. also as "teaching tool or study help" helping children with text-based communication, such as grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.The app would allow administrators send certain messages to students and ask you to respond with the right answer.If the message is not grammatically correct, is warned for example, the parent or administrator of the tool "lack of one such text."
"These embodiments that a certain number of Spanish words per day for a child learn Spanish in E-mails will contain, for example, might require," reads the patents abstract.
Apple applied for the patent in January 2008, could be on to something with this.
Inappropriate text messages Pew became known on Vormarsch.In which fact, research practice, hatte.Die last year, 30 percent of the 17-year receive sexually explicit images from others as Sexting, is a legal question for one, but it is also the parents that their children want to be involved in such practices, not beunruhigend.Obwohl it seems that Apple's patent relates text, could the service provided another line of Defense involved at least parents with one against their children in inappropriate communication arm.
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