Patent ID: 8201224
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for temporarily adjusting parental-control settings, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the computer-implemented method comprising: implementing parental-control software that comprises parental-control settings that control access to one or more features of a computing device used by a student, the parental-control software being configured to receive, from a school of the student, permissions for temporarily adjusting the parental-control settings in the parental-control software; authorizing a teacher of the student to temporarily adjust the parental-control settings; receiving, from the student's school, a set of permissions generated by the teacher of the student for temporarily adjusting a set of parental-control settings in the parental-control software from a base state to a temporary state, the temporary state being a state in which at least one restriction has been temporarily adjusted to enable the student to complete a school project associated with the set of permissions; receiving, with the set of permissions generated by the student's teacher, digital authentication that indicates that the set of permissions was generated by the student's teacher; using the digital authentication to verify that the set of permissions comes from a source authorized to temporarily change the parental-control settings; identifying the set of parental-control settings to be temporarily adjusted in the parental-control software implemented on the computing device used by the student; temporarily adjusting, based on the set of permissions generated by the student's teacher, the set of parental-control settings in the parental-control software from the base state to the temporary state to enable the student to complete the school project associated with the set of permissions; restoring the set of parental-control settings in the parental-control software to the base state.