Patent ID: 7444403

Claim:
A method for notifying a responsible person of a minor of an electronic communication sent or received by the minor and including content relating to sexual predatory behavior directed to the minor, comprising: specifying a the type of the sexual predatory behavior to detect whether the electronic communication relates to said type of the sexual predatory behavior wherein said type of the sexual predatory behavior includes one or more of the following: bullying behavior, offensive language, personal information solicitation or revelation, personal characteristics solicitation or revelation, meeting arrangement with a stranger, picture sharing with a stranger, or a combination thereof; parsing the electronic communication to generate a plurality of constituent tokens of the electronic communication; generating, in response to said tokens, a feature vector associated with the electronic communication, said feature vector indicating whether each one of a predefined set of one or more features relating to the type of the sexual predatory behavior is present in the electronic communication; and applying the generated feature vector to a probabilistic classifier relating to the type of the sexual predatory behavior to generate a rating for the electronic communication, wherein the probabilistic classifier trained on a content, anti-content, and close anti-content of the type of the sexual predatory behavior to identify said predefined set of one or more features, said rating indicating a probability that the electronic communication relates to the type of the sexual predatory behavior; categorizing the electronic communication as relating to the type of the sexual predatory behavior as a function of the rating; generating a report if the electronic communication is categorized as relating to the sexual predatory behavior, said report indicative of the sexual predatory behavior directed to the minor; and sending the report to the responsible person of the minor.