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Granted Patent B2
US 8,990,671 · App. 13/423,128 · Granted Mar 24, 2015

Method and system of jamming specified media content by age category

Inventors: Amit Vishram Karmarkar (Palo Alto, CA); Richard R. Peters (Mill Valley, CA)
Assignee: Buckyball Mobile Inc.
G11B27/031G06F21/6218H04L63/104G11B27/105G11B27/3027G06F2221/2149
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Patent No.
US 8,990,671
App. No.
13/423,128
Granted
Mar 24, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a web page with a web browser in a computing device. A jamming trigger term is received from a database stored in the computing device. A targeted age group is also received. The jamming trigger term is located in the web page. An instruction is provided to an audio system of the computing device to play a sound wave at a frequency. The frequency is audible by the targeted age group but not an older age group according to a frequency audibility table. A web scrapping operation can be performed on the web page after the web page is downloaded by the web browser. The targeted age group can be persons eighteen years of age and younger and wherein the frequency comprises a twenty kilo-hertz value (20 kHz).

Claims (67)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a web page with a web browser in a computing device;

receiving a jamming trigger term from a database stored in the computing device;

receiving a targeted age group;

locating the jamming trigger term in the web page;

providing an instruction to an audio system of the computing device to play a sound wave at a frequency, wherein the frequency is audible by the targeted age group but not an older age group according to an audible range of frequencies based on age groups;

playing the sound wave with the computing device while the jamming trigger term remains available in the web page; and

modulating a volume of the sound wave such that the sound wave is intermittently audible by the targeted age group.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the web page comprises a streaming media element.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the database comprises a Web storage protocol that stores the jamming trigger term in the web browser.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the step of locating the jamming trigger term in the web page further comprises:

performing a web scrapping operation on the web page after the web page is downloaded by the web browser.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the targeted age group comprises persons eighteen years of age and younger and wherein the frequency comprises a substantially twenty kilo-hertz value (20 kHz).

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the targeted age group comprises persons eighteen years of age and younger and wherein the frequency comprises a substantially eighteen kilo-hertz value (18 kHz).

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the jamming trigger term is provided by a user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the audible range of frequencies based on age groups is provided by a table, and wherein the table comprises:

Frequency

Age Group

  8 kHz

All Ages

  10 kHz

60 & Younger

  12 kHz

50 & Younger

14.1 kHz

49 & Younger

14.9 kHz

39 & Younger

15.8 kHz

30 & Younger

16.7 kHz

24 & Younger

  20 kHz

18 & Younger.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing another instruction to the audio system to stop playing the sound wave if the web page is no longer displayed with the web browser.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining a digital media content;

obtaining targeted age-group category;

determining a sound wave frequency that is audible by the targeted age-group category, wherein the sound wave frequency is not audible by another age-group category;

obtaining a target attribute of the digital media content;

searching the digital media content for the attribute;

triggering a computing device used to provide the digital media content to a user to play a sound wave at the sound wave frequency if the target attribute is located;

playing the sound wave with the computing device while the jamming trigger term remains available in the web page; and

modulating a volume of the sound wave from a low volume to a current volume on a periodic basis.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the digital media content comprises a web page.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the digital media content comprises a digital audio file.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the digital media content comprises a video stream.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 ,

wherein the targeted age group comprises persons eighteen years of age and younger, and

wherein the sound wave frequency substantially comprises a value of twenty kilo-Hertz.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein target attribute of the digital media content comprises a restricted content as provided by a system administrator of the computing device.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the restricted content comprises a ratings category associated with the digital media content.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the restricted content comprises an unlicensed state of the digital media content.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the restricted content comprises a key word.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions for jamming specified media content based on age category, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

receiving a web page with a web browser in a computing device;

receiving a jamming trigger term from a database stored in the computing device;

receiving a targeted age group;

locating the jamming trigger term in the web page;

providing an instruction to an audio system of the computing device to play a sound wave at a frequency, wherein the frequency is audible by the targeted age group but not an older age group according to an audible range of frequencies based on age groups;

playing the sound wave with the computing device while the jamming trigger term remains available in the web page; and

modulating a volume of the sound wave such that the sound wave is intermittently audible by the targeted age group.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19 ,

wherein the targeted age group comprises persons eighteen years of age and younger,

wherein the sound wave frequency substantially comprises a value of twenty kilo-Hertz, and

wherein the sound wave is played during a voice-over-Internet Protocol service connection to a specified user identification.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2012
From: PETERS, RICHARD R; KARMARKAR, AMIT V
To: BUCKYBALL MOBILE INC.
Reel/Frame 028525/0121 →
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 61553912 · Oct 31, 2011
Provisional Application 61569272 · Dec 11, 2011
Related Publication 20130111312A1 · May 2, 2013