Patents to Make Internet Safer for Children

Parents have long worried what type of content their children may be accessing on the internet.  But, thanks to three provisional patent applications filed by The Children’s Internet, Inc., parents can start to ease their worry.  A press release on Financial News USA states that although the patents were technically filed by The Children’s Internet Holding Company, they will soon officially be held by The Children’s Internet after a merger of the two.

The filed patents reportedly surround the filtering technology utilized by The Children’s Internet.  The company currently offers a service of pre-selected, pre-approved educational and entertaining web pages that can be accessed through a kid-friendly search engine.  Moreover, the company believes that this service is needed since a market research firm In-Stat, recently reported that the education and entertainment segments of electronic media are flourishing among children.

As stated by Richard J. Lewis III, the CEO of The Children’s Internet:

The internet can be a dangerous place and the proliferation of inappropriate content on the internet is problematic as many websites are simply not appropriate for children.  With the technology advancements we have recently filed provisional patents on, our security systems now uniquely and in a user friendly, real time way secure against inappropriate content and classify web sites according to appropriateness of content for age; in addition, we can now safely and uniquely use and retrieve intelligent email messages.

Hopefully, these new patents and technology will prevent inappropriate content from reaching children, but it all relies on parents actually using The Children’s Internet.