US 12,081,552 B2
Personal awareness system and method for personal safety and digital content safety of a user
Jeffrey B. Mitchell, Carmel, IN (US); and Schyler W. Manning, Fortville, IN (US)
Filed by Jeffrey B. Mitchell, Carmel, IN (US); and Schyler W. Manning, Fortville, IN (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/688,941.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/159,501, filed on Mar. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0294796 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 63/102 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0245 (2013.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A personal awareness system used for personal safety and digital content safety of a user comprising:
one or more of a monitor computing device for use by one or more of an observer, the one or more of the monitor computing device comprising a monitor microprocessor, a monitor memory, and a monitor communication interface, the monitor memory and the monitor communication interface are operationally related to the monitor microprocessor;
a mobile computing device comprising a device microprocessor, a device memory, one or more of a sensor, and a device communication interface, the device memory, the one or more of the sensor, and the device communication interface are operationally related to the device microprocessor, the mobile computing device is used by a user;
a network protection appliance comprising an appliance microprocessor, an appliance memory, and one or more of an appliance communication interface, the appliance memory, and the one or more of the appliance communication interface are operationally related to the appliance microprocessor, the network protection appliance is operationally related to a local area network, the one or more of the monitor computing device by way of the monitor communication interface, wherein the network protection appliance by way of the one or more of the appliance communication interface, the mobile computing device by way of the device communication interface, and one or more of a remote data processing resource data communicate with each other over a global communication network;
the appliance memory is encoded with instructions that when executed by the appliance microprocessor performs the steps of:
providing the user with digital content safety by:
receiving, from the one or more of the remote data processing resource, at the one or more of the appliance communication interface, a plurality of data intended for one or more of a destination computing device usable by the user or the mobile computing device;
determining at least one of a data attribute by interrogating the plurality of data to deduce type, kind, content, or received from location information;
determining a data block condition by comparing the at least one of the data attribute to one or more of a digital content filtering rule;
blocking the plurality of data from reaching the one or more of the destination computing device usable by the user or the mobile computing device when the data block condition is true; and
communicating the plurality of data to the one or more of the destination computing device usable by the user or the mobile computing device when the data block condition is false;
the device memory is encoded with instructions that when executed by the device microprocessor performs the steps of:
providing the user with personal safety by:
collecting a plurality of sensor data from the one or more of the sensor associated with the mobile computing device; and
communicating the plurality of sensor data to the one or more of the remote data processing resource;
the monitor memory is encoded with instructions that when executed by the monitor microprocessor performs the steps of:
receiving, from the one or more of the remote data processing resource, at the one or more of the monitor computing device an alert notification when predetermined one or more of an alarm condition occurs based, in part, on the plurality of sensor data, wherein personal safety of the user is monitored by the observer by way of the one or more of the monitor computing device;
providing the user with digital content safety by transitioning between:
when the device communication interface has data communication access with the network protection appliance on the local area network:
receiving when the data block condition is false, at the mobile computing device, the plurality of data associated from the one or more of the appliance communication interface;
or, when the device communication interface is absent data communication access with the network protection appliance on the local area network:
receiving, in a mobile network environment, the plurality of data intended for the mobile computing device, by way of the device communication interface, from one or more of the one or more of the remote data processing resource;
creating at least one of the at least one of the data attribute by interrogating the plurality of data to deduce type, kind, content, or received from location information;
determining, based on the at least one of the data attribute and the one or more of the digital content filtering rule the data block condition;
blocking the plurality of data from being operated on by the mobile computing device when the data block condition is true; and
allowing the plurality of data to be operated on by the mobile computing device when the data block condition is false;
wherein the personal awareness system protects personal safety of the user by monitoring mobile computing device sensor activity and protects online digital safety of the user by filtering digital content accessible to the user using the one or more of the digital content filtering rule by way of the network protection appliance in the local area network environment and by way of software encoded and executed on the mobile computing device in the mobile network environment.