Patent ID: 7571229

Claim:
In a computer network having at least two computing devices in communication, a system for parental control audit reporting on the network, the system comprising: a data repository in each of the at least two computing devices in communication; an application programming interface (API) to log parental control audit data originated by an application to the data repositories, the audit data being associated with a unique identifier of a user, the application producing a request to log audit information including a request to log the audit data to a parental control channel from which the logged audit data is periodically transferred to a data repository on a receiving computing device; and a parental control audit process to report the logged parental control data, wherein the parental control audit process includes a process to aggregate the logged parental control data in each of the repositories, to receive a request to view the aggregated parental control data, to obtain the aggregated parental control data in response to the request, and to present the aggregated parental control data to the requester.