JP5020306B2 - Server apparatus and service providing method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for protecting minors on the net.

  In recent years, the so-called social networking service (SNS) that supports the exchange between registered members by transmitting information such as characters on the website along with the spread of web access by mobile phones and information processing and communication technologies represented by the Internet. ) Is developed.

  On the other hand, as an example of misuse of electronic communication that can be easily contacted with strangers who can not see their faces, damage such as sex crimes against minors with insufficient judgment occurred, and operators such as Internet services have taken safety measures I'm working hard. As part of this, an example of restricting information transmission of minors based on a predetermined age such as 18 years old is also known in the SNS as described above (for example, Non-Patent Document 1).

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JP 2009-273562 A

  By the way, there is concern about the possibility of misrepresentation regarding the age registration on the website, so the driver's license and credit card identity verification methods often used when dealings are necessary are suitable for confirmation regarding adults. However, there was a problem that was not suitable for confirmation regarding minors. In the case of targeting minors, confirmation based on a student ID card or a copy of the student ID card is conceivable. However, it is difficult for both users and businesses to introduce the reality.

It should be noted that, based on the change of the audible range according to the age, a device that suppresses the hang-out of the youth using a high-frequency mosquito sound that can be heard only by the youth (for example, see Non-Patent Document 2 and Non-Patent Document 3) In the field of game devices, a technique for changing the behavior according to the age of the user (for example, see Patent Document 1) has been proposed, but the change of the audible range according to the age is improved for the protection of minors on the net. The technology to utilize is not known and such technology has been sought after.
In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a technique for improving minor protection on the net by easily and accurately authenticating that it is a minor.

Further, even when the age is confirmed by the change in the audible range, the conventional technique of Patent Document 1 is a simple configuration applied to the game field, and when applied to the field of protecting minors on the net, There is also a problem that further security is required in consideration of tolerance to avoidance measures by users.
Corresponding to this problem, another object of the present invention is to improve the security in the dating technique as compared with the prior art.

  Based on the above object, one aspect (1) of the present invention is a registration accepting means for accepting user registration with user information including age in a server device that provides a registered user with an information transmission network service. A ringing means for ringing a predetermined high-frequency sound in a predetermined pattern at the user terminal, a response receiving unit for receiving a response by an operation corresponding to the ringing pattern from the user terminal, and the ringing pattern received An age authentication unit that authenticates the age related to the user registration based on the response, a registration accepting unit, an information transmission unit that transmits information related to a terminal of the user registered as a user, and a user registration And restricting means for restricting the information transmission related to the user's terminal based on the age of the user.

  As an aspect that grasps the above aspect as a method, a registration reception that accepts user registration with user information including age in a service providing method in which a server device realized by a computer provides a registered user with a net service of information transmission A ringing step for ringing a predetermined high-frequency sound in a user terminal in a predetermined pattern; a response receiving step for receiving a response by an operation according to the ringing pattern from the user terminal; and the ringing pattern And a registration reception step including an age authentication step of authenticating the age related to the user registration based on the received response, and an information transmission step of performing information transmission related to the terminal of the user registered as a user And the information transmission related to the user's terminal based on the age of the user registration Characterized in that it comprises a limiting step of limiting to, the.

  In this way, at the time of service registration, by determining the relationship between the high-frequency sound pattern to be heard by the user and the response operation to be input accordingly, the user is easily and accurately authenticated as a minor. By restricting the transmission of information based on age, it becomes possible to suppress misuse of net services such as sexual crime damage to minors due to age misrepresentation and improve the protection of minors on the net. .

  According to another aspect of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the network service is a social networking service (SNS).

  As described above, by applying the present invention to the SNS, the reliability of the age in the SNS user registration is improved. The misuse that causes sexual crimes such as this is effectively suppressed, and the protection of minors on the Internet can be further improved.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the sounding unit (step) causes the high-frequency sound to sound by distributing and executing software that generates the waveform of the high-frequency sound to a user terminal. It is characterized by that.

  In this way, by making the software sent to the user's terminal generate the waveform of the high-frequency sound on the spot, the sound file is analyzed with another program or the like compared with the case where the sound file is distributed to the terminal. It is difficult to perform fraud such as seeing through, and the security in the dating technology can be improved compared to the past.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the response receiving unit (step) selects a response corresponding to the ringing pattern from a plurality of options displayed using a CAPTCHA image in the terminal. It is characterized by that.

  In this way, combining age confirmation due to changes in the audible range with image authentication using deformed characters, etc., makes it difficult for fraud aimed at breaking through authentication by automatic operation using a signal detection program, etc. Can improve security in the past.

  Note that categories different from the above-described aspects (programs for methods, methods for apparatuses, and the like) and more specific aspects described below are also included in the present invention.

  According to the present invention, there is provided a technique for improving protection of minors on the net by easily and accurately authenticating that they are minors.

The functional block diagram which shows the structure of embodiment of this invention. The figure which illustrates each information (data) in the embodiment of the present invention. The flowchart which shows the process sequence in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the web screen in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the web screen in embodiment of this invention.

  Next, modes for carrying out the present invention (referred to as “embodiments”) will be described with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that assumptions common to those already described in the background art and problems are omitted as appropriate.

[1. Constitution〕
In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1 (configuration diagram), information is transmitted to a user terminal T (also simply referred to as “terminal T”) used by a registered user via a communication network N (such as the Internet or a mobile phone network). The present invention relates to a server device 1 (hereinafter also referred to as “this device 1”) that provides a transmission network service. In the present embodiment, the network service is a social networking service (SNS).

  This apparatus 1 has a general computer configuration of at least an arithmetic control unit 5 s such as a CPU, a storage device 6 s such as an external storage device (HDD or the like) or a main memory, and a communication means 7 s ( LAN adapter, etc.). The terminal T is a PC (personal computer) equipped with a web browser B, a mobile phone terminal device, or the like. In addition to the computer configuration (5 to 7) according to the device 1, an input such as a mouse or an input key is used. It has a device 3 and a display device 4 such as a liquid crystal display panel. Communication between the apparatus 1 and the terminal T (indicated by broken arrows in the figure) is performed through the communication network N.

  Further, in the present apparatus 1, a predetermined computer program (not shown) stored (installed) in advance in the storage device 6s controls the arithmetic control unit 5s, whereby the elements (20, 30, etc.) shown in FIG. Is realized. Among these elements, the information storage means can be realized in any format such as various databases (also referred to as “DB”), files, data structures, variables such as arrays, and system setting values in the storage device 6s. Among these storage means, the numerical image storage means 35 is a means for storing a CAPTCHA image (for example, X1 to X5 in FIG. 5) in advance, and the user information storage means 55 is a user as illustrated in FIG. It is means for storing user information such as attributes for each registered user.

  Note that each means other than the storage means is a processing means that implements and executes the functions and operations of information processing described below. Further, in the terminal T, the web browser B controls the arithmetic control unit 5, and will be described later using hardware such as the input device 3, the display device 4, the storage device 6, the communication unit 7, and the audio circuit 11. Realize functional action.

[2. Action)
The flowchart of FIG. 3 shows an outline of processing executed on the terminal side (S11 to S16) and the apparatus side, that is, the server side (S21 to S31), for user registration in the present embodiment configured as described above.

[2-1. Start user registration]
That is, first, in the present embodiment, a user registration request (typically, an HTTP page request related to a URL of a predetermined user registration web page) is transmitted from the web browser B of the terminal T to the apparatus 1 (step S11). In the apparatus 1 that has received this user registration request (step S21), the registration accepting means 20 accepts user registration with user information including age (steps S22, S12, S13, S23).

  Specifically, the registration receiving means 20 of the apparatus 1 transmits a user information input screen as illustrated in FIG. 4 to the terminal T (step S22), and the web browser B displays this user information input screen at the terminal T. Displayed on the display device 4 and accepts input of user information including the age from the input device 3 (for example, FIG. 4) and transmits it to the device 1 (step S13), and the user information including the age is registered in the device 1 The receiving means 20 receives (step S23). Although the input of the age itself (for example, “13 years old”) may be requested, if the date of birth is registered as illustrated in FIG. 4, the age at that time can be easily and accurately calculated at any time thereafter. Therefore, the “age” in the present application may be the date of birth, or may be a numerical value, code or other information equivalent to this.

[2-2. (High-frequency sound)
And in this embodiment, when the registration reception means 20 receives user registration as mentioned above, the ringing means 30 rings a predetermined high frequency sound in a predetermined pattern in the user's terminal T (steps S25, S26, S14). ), The response accepting means 40 accepts a response by an operation according to the ringing pattern from the terminal T of the user (step S27).

  At this time, the method of causing the sounding means 30 to sound a high-frequency sound is arbitrary, and may be a method common to the prior art such as distributing an acoustic file of WAVE format, WMP format, MP3 format, etc. The high-frequency sound is generated by distributing and executing software for generating a waveform to the terminal T. Here, various variations are possible for the ringing pattern. For example, a high frequency sound of about 19 kHz to 17 kHz that can be heard only by young people may be divided into several times. In this case, whether the number of times and the presence or absence of ringing have been correctly heard is determined based on the number of user operations and the same timing, and if they are the same, the target person is determined to be about 17 years old or less to about 24 years old or less. Various embodiments are possible.

  As another example, for example, two high-frequency sounds as described above, and two predetermined high-frequency sounds such as two sounds having a frequency lower than that of 15 kHz to 13 kHz or less that can be heard in a relatively wide age. If the response by the user operation is “4 times”, a high frequency of 19 kHz to 17 kHz can be heard, and it is judged that it is a younger group. If the response is “twice”, it is judged that it is the other age. Such an aspect may be sufficient.

  As for the software that generates high-frequency sound waveforms, the format and timing can be freely selected. For example, scripts such as JavaScript, interactive video files for rich Internet content such as Silverlight and Flash, widgets and toolbars, etc. Such software, modules, plug-ins, and the like can be realized in any format, and software that generates such a high-frequency sound waveform is hereinafter referred to as a “ringing program”.

  As a specific processing procedure using such a ringing program, in the example of FIG. 3, if the age included in the received user information is 18 years or older, the registration receiving means 20 (step S24: “NO”). The received user information is registered as it is (step S30), and a user registration completion confirmation screen is transmitted to the terminal T (step S31) and displayed (step S16).

  On the other hand, when the age included in the received user information is less than 18 years (step S24: “YES”), the registration receiving unit 20 causes the ringing unit 30 to determine a ringing pattern such as the number of times (step S25). The sounding means 30 transmits the age authentication page data D (FIG. 1) including the sound program P to the terminal T (step S26), and a predetermined age authentication page (for example, FIG. 5) based on the age authentication page data D. Is displayed on the web browser B and the high-frequency sound is generated by executing the sound program P (step S14).

[2-3. Response acceptance and authentication decision]
Then, the web browser B of the terminal T receives a response from the operation corresponding to the ringing pattern from the input device 3 and transmits it to the device 1 (step S15), and the response receiving means 40 of the device 1 receives this response. Receive (step S27). Here, a specific mode in which the response receiving unit 40 receives a response from the terminal T via the web browser B is also free. For example, in the aspect of judging the coincidence with the time when the sound was actually sounded by including the time during which the mouse button was continuously depressed in the response, as in a hearing test for a health check, Although it is good, it is desirable to select a response corresponding to the ringing pattern from a plurality of options displayed using so-called CAPTCHA images X1 to X5, which are deformed characters such as alphanumeric characters and added noise elements such as dots. It is also possible to make it.

  For example, in the age authentication page illustrated in FIG. 5, the number of high-frequency sounds, that is, high-pitched sounds generated by the speaker or earphone of the terminal T corresponds to the number of corresponding times in the CAPTCHA images X1 to X5. A thing is selected with the mouse cursor C or the like. For such a CAPTCHA image, an image stored in advance in an appropriate storage means such as the numeric image storage means 35 is read into the web browser B by age authentication page data or the like and used for an age authentication page as shown in FIG. However, it may be configured to be generated when requesting an age verification page.

  Then, the age authentication means 50 authenticates the age related to the user registration based on the response received and received from the terminal T as described above and the corresponding ringing pattern. That is, the age authentication means 50 collates the response received and received as described above with the corresponding ringing pattern (step S27), and as a result, the number of rings included in the ringing pattern and the response If collation is OK, such as when the number of times to be represented is the same (step S28: “YES”), the received user information is registered as it is (step S30), and a user registration completion confirmation screen is transmitted to the terminal T (step S31). (Step S16).

  On the other hand, if the result of the collation (step S27) indicates that the collation is not OK (step S28: “NO”), the age authentication means 50 displays an error on the terminal T and terminates (steps S29, S16). A predetermined response different from the above case is performed. In addition, what is necessary is just to determine suitably according to the policy of the operator of this apparatus 1, and other circumstances about the specific content of the response | compatibility when it is not collation OK, for example, although user registration is received without an error, about the user It is conceivable that the network service is set to the function restriction mode until a predetermined age confirmation is performed separately.

[2-4. (Restrictions after user registration)
As a result of user registration with authentication as described above, the age included in the user information as exemplified in FIG. 2 (actually holding the date of birth and calculating the age from the date of the day at the time of determination) Including) is more reliable than the prior art. Then, when the information transmission means 60 performs information transmission (for example, profile browsing or message posting or transmission) related to the terminal T of the user registered as a user, the restriction means 70 determines the age in the user registration, that is, the user Based on the age included in the user information stored in the information storage means 55, the information transmission related to the terminal T of the user is restricted.

  For example, users under the age group are different from each other when, for example, browsing a profile or posting or sending a message between registered users as information transmission in the SNS, with age groups under 18 and 18 years of age being different from each other. An example of restricting information transmission between them is conceivable. In this case, the user with the login ID “ABC123...” Shown in FIG. 2 is 13 years old and the user with the login ID “XYZ567...” Is 36 years old. Transmission is limited.

[3. effect〕
As described above, in the present embodiment, at the time of service registration, by determining the relationship between the high-frequency sound pattern to be heard by the user and the response operation to be input accordingly, it is easy for the user to be a minor. By authenticating with high accuracy and restricting the transmission of information based on age, the abuse of online services such as sexual crime damage to children by adults due to age misrepresentation is suppressed, and minors on the Internet are protected. It becomes possible to improve.

  In particular, in this embodiment, by applying the present invention to the SNS, the reliability of the age in SNS user registration is improved. Can be used to effectively prevent abuse of sexual offenses such as prostitution, and the protection of minors on the Internet can be further improved.

  In addition, in this embodiment, by causing the software sent to the user's terminal to generate a waveform of high-frequency sound on the spot, the acoustic file is analyzed by another program or the like compared to the case where the acoustic file is distributed to the terminal. It becomes difficult to cheat such as piercing the ringing pattern, and the security in the technology for confirming the age can be improved as compared with the past.

  Furthermore, in this embodiment, by combining the confirmation of the age due to the change in the audible range with the image authentication using a deformed character or the like, it becomes difficult to perform fraud targeting an authentication break through automatic operation by a signal detection program or the like. Security in the verification technology can be improved compared to the past.

[4. Other embodiments]
In addition, said each embodiment is only an illustration, and this invention includes what is illustrated below and other embodiment other than that. For example, when authentication of the age as illustrated in FIG. 5 is repeated multiple times and the correct answer is continued, if the user registration at that age is permitted, the certainty can be further improved. Further, the elements of this apparatus such as each means shown in the above embodiment may be realized by other information processing mechanisms such as an electronic circuit based on a wired logic or the like without being limited to a computer control unit. Further, each configuration diagram, data diagram, flowchart diagram, and the like are merely examples, and the presence / absence of each element, its order, specific contents, and the like can be appropriately changed. For example, a configuration in which at least the numeric image storage means 35 is omitted in the present apparatus 1 is also conceivable.

  In addition, the apparatus of the present invention (the apparatus 1) may be realized by a plurality of server computers, and a configuration in which each storage unit is realized by a separate and independent server apparatus or system is also common. Further, depending on the function of the apparatus of the present invention (the apparatus 1), the configuration can be flexibly changed, for example, by implementing an external platform or the like by calling an API (application program interface) or network computing. Further, the present invention may be understood as the entire system including the terminal T, an information processing method or a computer program corresponding to the entire system.

1 Server device (this device)
3 Input device 4 Display device 5, 5 s Arithmetic control unit 6, 6 s Storage device 7, 7 s Communication unit 11 Audio circuit 20 Registration reception unit 30 Ringing unit 35 Number image storage unit 40 Response reception unit 50 Age authentication unit 55 User information storage unit 60 Information transmission means 70 Restriction means B Web browser C Mouse cursor D Age authentication page data N Communication network P Ringing program T User terminal (terminal)
X1-X5 CAPTCHA image

Claims (5)

In a server device that provides a registered user with an information transmission network service,
Registration acceptance means for accepting user registration with user information including age,
Ringing means for ringing a predetermined high-frequency sound in a predetermined pattern on the user terminal;
Response accepting means for accepting a response by an operation according to the ringing pattern from the terminal of the user;
Age authentication means for authenticating the age related to the user registration based on the ringing pattern and the received response;
A registration receiving means having
Information transmitting means for transmitting information related to a user terminal registered as a user;
Limiting means for limiting the information transmission related to the user's terminal based on the age of user registration;
A server device comprising:   The server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the network service is a social networking service (SNS).   The server device according to claim 1, wherein the sounding unit sounds the high-frequency sound by distributing and executing software for generating a waveform of the high-frequency sound to a user terminal.   The said response reception means makes it select the response according to the said ringing pattern from the several choices displayed using the CAPTCHA image in the said terminal, The Claim 1 characterized by the above-mentioned. Server device. In a service providing method in which a server device realized by a computer provides a network service for information transmission to registered users,
A registration acceptance step for accepting user registration with user information including age,
A ringing step for ringing a predetermined high-frequency sound in a predetermined pattern on the user terminal;
A response accepting step for accepting a response by an operation corresponding to the ringing pattern from the user terminal;
An age authentication step of authenticating the age according to the user registration based on the ringing pattern and the received response;
A registration reception step including:
An information transmission step for performing information transmission related to the terminal of the user registered as a user;
A limiting step of limiting the information transmission related to the user's terminal based on the age of the user registration;
A service providing method comprising:

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