Posted on Wednesday, October 13 2010 @ 21:38 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DailyTech
reports Apple has been granted a patent for a censoring technology that can block messages with "objectionable language" and alert other people like parents or administrators.
The verbiage seems docile and welcome on some levels stating in the background info, "[Currently there is] no way to monitor and control text communications to make them user appropriate. For example, users such as children may send or receive messages (intentionally or not) with parentally objectionable language.”
The patent outlines an application that would allow the parent to determine words that a child using the phone can't send or receive texts that contain those words. The patent also outlines a way that the application could alert other people like parents or administrators in a business setting when patents with these objectionable words are sent using the phone.
