Patent ID: 9330274
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: intercepting, by a file-system driver, a file-system call associated with a media file, the file-system driver being configured to intercept file-system calls issued by multiple applications through which a child is capable of attempting to access the media file; determining, in response to the file-system driver intercepting the file-system call, whether the file-system call comprises an attempt to access a file that includes media content by checking whether a file extension of the media file identified by the file-system call matches a file extension included within a set of certain file extensions for at least one of e-book files, audio files, and video files; determining, in response to determining that the file extension of the media file identified by the file-system call matches a file extension included within the set of certain file extensions for at least one of e-book files, audio files, and video files, an attribute of the media file; identifying a parental-control policy associated with the attribute of the media file; applying the parental-control policy to the media file.