Intelligent governance controls based on real-time contexts

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016232245-A1
Application number	US-201514722521-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 27, 2015
Priority date	Feb 10, 2015
Publication date	Aug 11, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Method to perform an operation comprising receiving, from a set of input devices, data of an environment surrounding a computing device, determining a current context of a discussion based on the data and a timing schedule specifying a list of planned contexts, receiving a request to perform an operation on the computing device, determining a context of the requested operation, determining a measure of relatedness between the contexts, and upon determining the measure of relatedness does not exceed a predefined threshold, restricting execution of the operation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method, comprising:
receiving, from a set of input devices, data of an environment surrounding a computing device; determining a current context of a discussion based on the data and a timing schedule specifying a list of planned contexts; receiving a request to perform an operation on the computing device; determining a context of the requested operation; determining a measure of relatedness between the contexts; and upon determining the measure of relatedness does not exceed a predefined threshold, restricting execution of the operation.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation comprises one of: (i) accessing an application, (ii) accessing a feature of the application, (iii) accessing a network resource, (iv) submitting a search query, (v) accessing a result of the search query, and (vi) opening a document.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the operation comprises submitting a search query, wherein the context of the operation comprises a context of the query, wherein submission of the search query is restricted upon determining the context of the query does not match the current context.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the operation comprises accessing a result of the search query, wherein the context of the operation comprises a context of the result, wherein access to the result is restricted upon determining the context of the result does not match the current context.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that the current context has changed to an updated context based on updated data received from the input devices; receiving a second request to perform the operation on the computing device; and upon determining the updated context matches the context of the operation, allowing execution of the operation on the computing device.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a first input device of the set of input devices comprises a microphone, wherein a second input device of the set of input devices comprises a camera, wherein speech captured by the microphone is converted to text to determine the current context, wherein image data captured by the camera is analyzed to determine the current context.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein restricting execution of the requested operation is further based on a set of rules, wherein the environment comprises at least one of: (i) a classroom, (ii) a virtual classroom, and (iii) a testing center, wherein the set of rules specify: (i) a set of restricted operations associated with the current context, and (ii) a set of permitted operations associated with the current context.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Clark Adam T
• Mysak John S
• Payton Aspen L
• Petri John E
• Pfeifer Michael D

Classifications

• G06F16/367

  Ontology · CPC title

• G06F2221/2149

  Restricted operating environment · CPC title

• G06F16/3334

  Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries · CPC title

• G06F16/954

  Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing · CPC title

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title