Patent ID: 8176079
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing a recursive classification of the contents of a URL, at least a portion of the method being performed by a server-side computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving, from an access-restriction module installed on an additional computing device, a request for a URL-classification list for a base URL; constructing the URL-classification list for the base URL, the URL-classification list comprising: providing, in response to the request, the URL-classification list for the base URL to the access-restriction module installed on the additional computing device to enable the access-restriction module to determine whether to permit a user to access the base URL by: upon determining that the URL-classification list does not contain any content categories that the user is not authorized to access, permitting the user to access the base URL.