KR20150145792A - System for controlling user terminal usage and providing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A utilization control system and a method for providing the same are disclosed. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for restricting use of a user terminal, the method comprising the steps of: restricting use of the target software installed in the user terminal or the user terminal itself The usage control system for performing the usage restriction includes a policy setting module for setting a control policy for the use restriction, a use restriction performing module for performing use restriction to conform to the control policy set by the policy setting module, An authentication module for authenticating an administrator who manages a use restriction of the user terminal through a predetermined authentication operation; and an authentication module for authenticating the administrator using the authentication module to prevent the use control software from being disabled The control module that performs the protection setting of the usage control software It includes.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing the same,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a usage control system and a method for providing the same, and more particularly, to a usage control system and a method for providing various types of software installed in a user terminal such as a smart phone or a user terminal .

Recently, various user terminals such as smart phones have been widely spread, and various side effects have appeared with convenience of living. One of the most common side effects is addiction, which can not be controlled by the use of the user terminal. Such addiction is particularly difficult to control, and has a great negative effect on the underage children who have not reached the growth of the brain. to be.

Various measures have been proposed to mitigate or prevent the poisoning of the user terminal. For example, a method by which an administrator (for example, a parent or a teacher) restricts access time of a user terminal or restricts access to specific software is widely used.

In order to use such a method, software (hereinafter referred to as 'use control software') for performing use control of the user terminal should be installed in the user terminal. However, a user who is skilled in using the user terminal may disable the use control software itself or may be disabled in various other ways, thereby easily escaping the control or limitation intended by the administrator.

In addition, in order to perform various access control to prevent the unauthorized deletion of the use control software, resources and software that are more expensive than the purpose of the use control software may be required.

In addition, the setting of the control policy of the usage control software should be changed only by the authorized administrator. In the case of authenticating the administrator through authentication such as a password or a certificate, when the user knows the password of the administrator, There is a problem that this is disabled. In order to solve this problem, a separate authentication device for authenticating an administrator has been used. In this case, there is a problem that an authentication device must be separately produced or purchased.

On the other hand, the user terminal is deviated from the meaning of a simple personal computing device and is recently used as a means of influencing the social access and exchange of users. Accordingly, when the use restriction of the user terminal is performed according to the intention of the manager, the user of the user terminal may experience a problem in accessing or exchanging with an acquaintance (e.g., friend or the like), or may receive an unintended misunderstanding Problems may arise.

Patent Document 1: JP-A-10-2003-0037370 Published Patent Application No. 10-2007-0038585

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a user terminal such as a smart phone (the term " user terminal " in the present invention means not only a portable device such as a smart phone, (Or a digital device that may be restricted in use to a user, such as a desktop type digital device or a wearable digital device), while removing (or disabling) the use control software installed in the user terminal And to provide a system and method that can be easily and cost-effectively prevented.

In addition to merely performing the use control, the user terminal such as a smart phone can be informed to the acquaintance that the use control is performed and the communication or the exchange can not be performed. In this case, The present invention also provides a system and method for increasing the use control effect of a user terminal by notifying the acquaintances of necessity of use control more actively and obtaining cooperation.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a usage control system for use in a user terminal, the usage control system comprising: Or limiting the use of the user terminal itself, comprising: a policy setting module for setting a control policy for the use restriction, the control policy being set by the policy setting module; An authentication module for authenticating an administrator who manages the use restriction of the user terminal through a predetermined authentication operation, and an authentication module that, if the authentication of the administrator is not successful through the authentication module If the usage control software is not disabled It may comprise a control module for performing a protection level using the control software.

In addition, the control module may be configured such that the management software installed in the user terminal, the management software is software that can set the software installed in the user terminal in a deletable or non-deletable state, Can be set.

In addition, the control module may set the management software as authentication-required software that can be used normally if the administrator's authentication is successful.

The control module monitors whether the authentication required software is executed and, when the authentication required software is executed, executes an authentication request service requesting authentication of the manager with priority over the authentication required software .

The usage control system may further include an acquaintance guidance module for transmitting guide information corresponding to the control policy to a terminal of an acquaintance set in an acquaintance relationship with the user of the user terminal.

Further, the acquaintance may be a person who is set in an affiliation relationship with the user through a predetermined communication software installed in the user terminal, and the acquaintance guidance module may acquire the acquaintance from the service software corresponding to the communication software or the communication software Extracts the information, and transmits the guide information to the terminal of the acquaintance based on the extracted information.

The acquaintance information module may transmit the guidance information to the acquaintance terminal if communication is requested from the acquaintance's terminal to the user terminal and the communication does not conform to the control policy, The guide information can be transmitted only in the case of the target software.

Also, the authentication module may store media information corresponding to the wireless communication medium of the manager capable of performing wireless communication with the user terminal, and may further include a wireless communication medium corresponding to the stored medium information, It can be determined that the authentication is successful.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a usage control system for use in a user terminal, the usage control system comprising: Comprising: a policy setting module for setting a control policy for the use restriction, and a control policy setting module for setting the control policy set by the policy setting module And a user interface module configured to transmit the acquaintance information of an acquaintance set as an acquaintance relation with the user via the predetermined communication software installed in the user terminal to the communication software or the communication software corresponding to the communication software Extracting it from the service system, It may be based on information submitted to include the connections guidance module for transmitting the guide information corresponding to the control policy.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a usage control system, the method comprising: providing a usage control software installed in a user terminal, The method comprising the steps of: limiting the use of the target software or the user terminal itself, the method comprising the steps of: managing software provided by the usage control software at the user terminal, The software being installed in the computer system can be set to an erasable state through software that can set the software to be erasable or non-erasable, and the use of the management software by the use control system as the software required for authentication .

The utilization control system providing method may further include transmitting guide information corresponding to a control policy for the use restriction to the terminal, the use control system being set as an acquaintance with the user of the user terminal .

In addition, the step of transmitting the guide information may include a step of, when communication is requested from the terminal of the acquaintance to the user terminal and the communication does not conform to the control policy, Can be transmitted.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a usage control system, the method comprising: providing a usage control software installed in a user terminal, The method comprising: setting a control policy for the use restriction, wherein the use control system is configured to set a control policy for the use restriction, The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of: performing use restriction so that the system conforms to the set control policy; and transmitting, by the use control system, Or < RTI ID = 0.0 > Extracted from the service system, and may be based on the extracted information includes the step of transmitting the guide information corresponding to the control policy.

The utilization control system providing method may be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded.

According to the technical idea of the present invention, the management software itself can be normally executed when a predetermined authentication is successful, while preventing arbitrary deletion or disablement of the use control software through management software provided in an OS of a user terminal such as a smart phone As a result, the unauthorized person can not change the setting of the management software, so that it is very simple and effective to prevent deletion or disabling of the use control software at low cost.

In addition to merely performing the use control, it is also possible to notify the acquaintance of the user terminal of the situation in which the use control is performed, so that the user does not suffer damage through the use control in a passive manner, So that it is possible to increase the use control effect of the user terminal.

Further, it is possible to perform security authentication using a separate physical device at a low cost by performing authentication of the administrator through a wireless communication medium (e.g., credit card, ID card, etc.) It is effective.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS A brief description of each drawing is provided to more fully understand the drawings recited in the description of the invention.
1 is a block diagram for explaining a schematic configuration of a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram for explaining an example of a control policy that can be set in a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram for explaining other software that the utilization control software for the usage control system according to the embodiment of the present invention uses to implement the technical idea of the present invention.
4 is a diagram for explaining a concept that can prevent deletion of usage control software using management software according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a concept of setting management software as authentication required software according to an embodiment of the present invention, thereby making it impossible to change the settings of the unauthorized self-management software.
6 is a diagram for explaining a concept of sharing usage control status with an acquaintance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The present invention is capable of various modifications and various embodiments, and specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. It is to be understood, however, that the intention is not to limit the invention to the specific embodiments, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various elements, but the elements should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

In this specification, the terms "comprises" or "having" and the like refer to the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof, But do not preclude the presence or addition of features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Also, in this specification, when any one element 'transmits' data to another element, the element may transmit the data directly to the other element, or may be transmitted through at least one other element And may transmit the data to the other component. However, when one of the components 'directly transmits data' to another component, it means that the data is transmitted to the other component without passing through another component.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a block diagram for explaining a schematic configuration of a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a predetermined usage control system 100 may be provided to implement a method for providing a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the utilization control system 100 may be included in a user terminal 10, and in this case, the utilization control system 100 may include hardware (not shown) And software driven by the user terminal 10 may be combined. 1, the usage control system 100 may be implemented as a separate device from the user terminal 10. In this case, the usage control system 100 may be implemented as a separate device, May transmit and receive various data and / or signals required to implement the technical idea of the present invention with the user terminal 10 through a wired / wireless network. For example, the usage control system 100 may be implemented as a separate device (e.g., USB) that can be connected to the user terminal 10, and the usage control system 100 may be connected to the user terminal 10 The technical idea of the present invention can be implemented.

On the other hand, the user terminal 10 may be any computing device capable of storing various kinds of software (or an application depending on the type) and executing the stored software. For example, the user terminal 10 may be a smart phone, a tablet PC, a laptop, a desktop, a mobile terminal, a PMP, a PDA, a wearable device, and the like.

The usage control system 100 may directly or indirectly perform communication with the terminal 200 of the user using the user terminal 10. And may perform direct communication with the terminal 200 of the user's acquaintance or may perform communication through the predetermined service system 300. [

1, the utilization control system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a control module 110, a policy setting module 120, a use restriction performing module 130, and an authentication module 140. [ . The usage control system 100 may further include an acquaintance guidance module 150 according to an embodiment. Also, depending on the implementation, the usage control system 100 may include the policy setting module 120, the usage restriction performing module 130, and the acquaintance guidance module 150. [

According to an embodiment of the present invention, some of the above-mentioned components may not necessarily correspond to components necessary for implementation of the present invention, and in accordance with an embodiment, the utilization control system 100 It goes without saying that more components may be included.

The utilization control system 100 may include hardware resources and / or software necessary for implementing the technical idea of the present invention, and it is understood that one means a physical component or one device no. That is, the utilization control system 100 may mean a logical combination of hardware and / or software provided to implement the technical idea of the present invention. If necessary, the utilization control system 100 may be installed in a separate apparatus, The present invention may be embodied as a set of logical structures for realizing the technical idea of the present invention. Also, the utilization control system 100 may mean a set of configurations separately implemented for each function or role for implementing the technical idea of the present invention. For example, the control module 110, the policy setting module 120, the usage restriction performing module 130, and the authentication module 140 and / or the acquaintance module 150 may be located in different physical devices And may be located on the same physical device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, software and software constituting each of the control module 110, the policy setting module 120, the use restriction performing module 130, and the authentication module 140 and / And / or hardware may also be located in different physical devices, and configurations located in different physical devices may be organically coupled to implement each of the modules.

In this specification, a module may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may refer to a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for executing the predetermined code, and it does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware But can be easily deduced to the average expert in the field of the present invention.

The control module 110 may be configured to control other configurations (e.g., the policy setting module 120, the usage restriction performing module 130, and the authentication module 140) and / Guidance module 150, etc.} and / or resources.

The policy setting module 120 may set a policy for the use restriction of the user terminal 10. [ The use restriction of the user terminal 10 may include not only the use restriction on the specific software installed in the user terminal 10 but also the use restriction on the user terminal 10 itself. The policy for the use restriction is called the control policy.

The specific software that is subject to use restriction is installed in the user terminal 10 and may be a basic application (or built-in software or application) already installed when the user terminal 10 is produced / Or it may be custom software or application downloaded or installed by the user corresponding to the user terminal 10. [

The use restriction on the user terminal 10 itself means that the usage time or usage amount (time) of the user terminal 10 itself and the usage time It may mean limiting usage in a way.

The control policy for the use restriction may be set by an administrator (for example, the user's parent, a teacher, etc.) who manages the user of the user terminal 10. [ In addition, setting and / or changing of the control policy can be performed only when the authentication module 140 authenticates the administrator as described later.

An example of the control policy set by the policy setting module 120 may be as shown in FIG.

2 is a diagram for explaining an example of a control policy that can be set in a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, as shown in FIG. 2A, the software installed in the user terminal 10 and subject to the use restriction, that is, the target software, can be controlled by the use time. For example, software 1 and software 2, which are target software, can be set as targets for use restriction. Of course, this target software can also be selected by the administrator. Or software 3 and 4 may be set as target software. Also, a limited usage amount (e.g., 4 hours) may be set by the administrator. In addition, a limited usage amount may be set differently for each target software. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2A, the policy setting module 120 may display a current usage amount for each target software by a user's request.

Depending on the implementation, it may be restricted to use only a limited amount of usage for the user terminal 10 itself.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 2B, the control policy for the use restriction may be controlled with the availability time or the unavailable time zone of the target software. In addition, the available time or the unavailable time for the entire apparatus may be controlled. For example, software 1 and 2 may be set to be available (or disabled) between 22:00 and 07:00, software 3 and 4 may be set to be available (or disabled) between 09:00 and 17:00 .

It will be readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that control of an Internet address (or domain, etc.) accessible to the user terminal 10 may be possible in a variety of other manners.

Referring again to FIG. 1, the use restriction performing module 130 may perform a control operation for limiting use of the target software or the user terminal 10 itself in accordance with the control policy, as described above. For example, when the target software that does not correspond to the control policy or the use request of the user terminal 10 is input from the user, another service or application is executed with priority in order not to execute the target software, or the target software is forcibly terminated Can be performed. It will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that there may exist other ways of preventing the target software from being used normally in various other ways.

In addition, the use restriction performing module 130 may perform control for use restriction on the use of the user terminal 10 itself. It is needless to say that the use restriction performing module 130 may be operated so that only a limited function or limited software execution can be performed in the case of the use restriction of the user terminal 10 itself. Of course, depending on the implementation, it may be desirable to screen lock, disable the function of the IO (Input / Output) device, or otherwise disable the use of the user terminal 10, May be performed. In some implementations, power off of the user terminal 10 may be performed.

The authentication module 140 may perform a function of authenticating an administrator. According to an exemplary embodiment, the authentication module 140 may perform various types of authentication using a conventional password, a public certificate, or biometric information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the authentication module 140 may include a wireless communication medium (e.g., a credit card, an ID card, or other wireless communication medium) (E.g., various RF communications such as NFC, Bluetooth, and the like), and perform authentication through the determination.

For this, the authentication module 140 may register media information (for example, identification information of media) corresponding to the wireless communication medium of the administrator in advance and perform wireless communication with the user terminal 10 for authentication Based on whether or not the medium corresponds to the registered medium information. In this case, authentication is performed only when the authentication using the information that the authorized administrator has to input for authentication (e.g., password, certificate password, secret pattern, etc.) is used, Can be high. Further, there is an effect that the own medium possessed by the manager can be used as an authentication tool without having to produce and / or purchase a separate authentication key for authentication.

It goes without saying that the authentication module 140 may perform the authentication as described above while communicating with wireless communication means (for example, an NFC chip, etc.) provided in the user terminal 10. [

The control module 110 may perform protection settings of the usage control software installed in the user terminal 10 to implement the technical idea of the present invention. The protection setting of the utilization control software may mean a series of processes for preventing the utilization control software from being disabled such as forcible termination at a time when the utilization control software should be arbitrarily deleted or executed by the user without permission or consent of the administrator. In this way, it is defined that the disabling of the utilization control software is disabled. If this protection setting is not performed, the user can arbitrarily disable the usage control software without the administrator's permission, and the user terminal 10 can be used regardless of the control policy, May be important for achieving the object of the invention.

It is generally known how to disable certain software (e. G., The usage control software) from being disabled. For example, the user terminal 10 performs monitoring on all requests output to the OS and performs access control on specific software by message hooking or kernel hooking to prevent the specific software from being disabled .

However, when the access control software performs the access control by itself, a large amount of hardware and software resources are consumed, and there is a problem that the development of such a function is expensive.

Therefore, according to the technical idea of the present invention, the protection setting of the usage control software can be simply performed through the function (or the software that performs such function) provided by the OS of the user terminal 10. [

Hereinafter, when the usage control software is implemented to be executed in the background in the user terminal 10, it is assumed that the usage control software is implemented so as to perform use restriction according to a set control policy unless deleted. Therefore, in this case, the protection setting for preventing the use control software from being disabled may mean that the use control software is controlled so as not to be unauthorizedly deleted.

To this end, the control module 110 may set the usage control software as deletion software using management software installed in the user terminal 10, when the usage control software is installed. In this specification, the management software may refer to software that can be selectively erased or deleted in a predetermined software installed in the user terminal 10. The management software may be a basic function provided by the OS of the user terminal 10. Through the management software, the OS may provide a function for preventing the user from deleting the software set to be erased at will. , The software (or a function) that provides a function called a device manager (or a device manager, a device administration API) may be the management software. It goes without saying that the name of the management software may be changed according to the type of the user terminal 10 and the type and version of the OS of the user terminal 10. [ In addition, the management software may be an independent application, but may also mean a function or class provided by a specific application (e.g., a device manager application).

Of course, depending on the implementation, the management software may not be provided in the OS of the user terminal 10. In this case, the management software may also be installed in the user terminal 10. For example, the management software may be installed in the user terminal 10 as a distribution subject of the usage control software. For example, the distribution entity may cause the management software to be downloaded to the user terminal 10 together with the usage control software. Depending on the implementation, the functionality of the management software may be implemented by the utilization control software. That is, the utilization control software may perform the functions of the management software as described above.

If the predetermined software is set to the non-erasable state by the management software, the software can not be deleted by the method in which the user arbitrarily deletes the software in the erasable state. That is, the deletion action requested to be performed when the software is deleted from the user terminal 10 (for example, by selecting an x-type delete icon displayed when the software icon is held down, Selection of a button, etc.) may not be performed, or deletion may not be performed even if a deletion action is performed. For example, when the deletion is performed through the deletion action, the user terminal 10 can notify the user that the software can not be deleted because the software can not be deleted through the management software. Also, an UI (e.g., a button, etc.) for the deletion action may be disabled in an application capable of deletion action such as an application manager.

Therefore, according to the technical idea of the present invention, access control of the utilization control software can be made simple through the management software.

Such an example will be described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4. Fig.

3 is a diagram for explaining other software that the utilization control software for the usage control system according to the embodiment of the present invention uses to implement the technical idea of the present invention. 4 is a diagram for explaining a concept of preventing deletion of usage control software using management software according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring first to FIG. 3, usage control software 20 for implementing a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be installed in the user terminal 10. The utilization control software 20 can perform the process for implementing the technical idea of the present invention using the management software 30 as described above, that is, the setting of the use control software 20 to the non-deletable state .

Also, as will be described later, the usage control software 20 communicates with the communication software 40 installed in the user terminal 10 to extract the information of the user of the user terminal 10, To transmit the guidance information corresponding to the control policy to the acquaintance of the user. That is, the guidance information corresponding to the control policy is information on whether the user terminal 10 is in the use restriction state, when the use restriction time is, and / To the acquaintance's terminal, guidance information including information on a situation of the use restriction corresponding to the guidance information. For this purpose, communication with the service system 300 corresponding to the communication software 40 may be performed. As a result, by transmitting the guidance information to the acquaintance by using the communication software 40, it is possible to prevent a misunderstanding that may occur due to the user's inability to respond to the acquaintances due to the use restriction. This will be described later.

The control module 110 may cause the usage control software 20 to be set to a deletion state via the management software 30 when the usage control software 20 is installed in the user terminal 10 . The control module 110 may be configured to automatically execute the management software 30 after the use control software 20 is installed or to provide a predetermined UI or link And the like can be provided.

The management software 30 may then provide a UI as shown in FIG. The UI displayed in FIG. 4 is merely an example, and various UIs capable of setting the use control software 20 in a non-deletable state may be possible.

The management software 30 may set the software installed in the user terminal 10 to a deletion state through a predetermined UI as shown in FIG. Of course, there may be software (e.g., software 2) that is already set to the erasable state.

The control module 110 may set the utilization control software 20 to the deletion status via the management software 30. [ According to an example, the control module 110 may call the management software 30 automatically or upon user's request when the usage control software is installed. Then, the utilization control software 20 may be set to an erasable state using the utilization control software using the called management software 30. Of course, at this time, the user may need further consent procedures.

Then, the use control software 20 can be set to the erasable state.

On the other hand, as described above, the protection setting performed by the control module 110 is not limited to simply setting the use control software 20 to the deletion state, and can further perform additional processes.

That is, the control module 110 may set the management software 30 as authentication required software for the protection setting of the use control software 20. [ The authentication required software may mean software that is set to be executed normally or can be used by a user only when a predetermined authentication is successful. As described above, by setting the management software 30 itself as authentication required software, more complete protection setting can be achieved. Otherwise, a user who is familiar with the function provided by the OS of the user terminal 10 may execute the management software 30 at a user's request, and then use the utilization control software 20 It is possible to switch to the deletion enabled state again. Then, the user can arbitrarily delete the use control software 20, and the use restriction desired by the administrator may not be performed.

Therefore, the protection setting according to the technical idea of the present invention not only includes setting the use control software 20 to the deletion state by the management software 30, but also the case where the management software 30 is set to the authentication required software And may further include a process.

The control module 110 can set the management software 30 as authentication required software automatically or after a user's confirmation process. If the authentication required software is set as the authentication required software, the authentication required software can be normally used if the authentication of the administrator is successful.

An example in which the control module 110 controls the execution of the authentication required software is shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a concept of setting management software as authentication required software according to an embodiment of the present invention, thereby making it impossible to change the settings of the unauthorized self-management software.

Referring to FIG. 5, the control module 110 determines which software (which may be a function, a service, or a class unit depending on the OS) is executed first in the user terminal 10 (S100). An average expert in the technical field of the present invention can easily know that a function capable of checking the identification information of the software executed first by OS can be known although the function may be different according to the OS.

Then, the control module 110 can check whether the software to be executed first is the authentication required software set by the control module 110 (S110). If it is authentication-required software, the control module 110 can execute the authentication request service in priority order of the authentication-required software. That is, the authentication request service may be executed on the upper layer screen of the authentication required software (S120). The authentication request service may be a screen requesting predetermined administrator authentication or various UIs.

Then, the control module 110 may determine whether the administrator authentication is successful through the authentication request service (S130). If the manager authentication is successful, the control module 110 can terminate the authentication request service. Then, the software having priority as the car, that is, the authentication required software may be executed again with the highest priority, or the execution may be resumed (S150).

As a result, according to the technical idea of the present invention, the control module 110 sets the use control software 20 to the deletion status via the management software 30, sets the management software 30 as authentication required software Thereby making it possible to prevent the use control software 20 from being deleted unless the administrator authentication is performed, that is, the administrator is authenticated.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3 again, the acquaintance information module 150 transmits guidance information to the user terminal 10 to solve a problem that may occur due to communication restriction with the acquaintance due to the restriction of use, To the terminal 200 of the user of the user.

For this, the acquaintance guidance module 150 may extract information of an acquaintance set as an acquaintance relation with the user through the communication software 40 installed in the user terminal 10. [ The acquaintance relationship may be different depending on the type of the communication software 40. [ The communication software 40 may include any type of software capable of communicating with a terminal of another person and storing information of the other person. For example, the communication software 40 may be dialer software, instant messenger software, or various other SNS software (applications). And the acquaintance may refer to a person who has a relationship in which the communication software 40 has a predetermined relation, such as a person having a contact stored therein, an acquaintance set with a friend, and the like.

The acquaintance guidance module 150 can extract the acquaintance information of the user through the API provided by the communication software 40. [ The acquaintance information module 150 may be stored in the user terminal 10 or may acquire the acquaintance information through a service system 300 (e.g., a service server 300) that provides the communication software 40. [

Then, the acquaintance guidance module 150 can transmit the guidance information based on the acquired acquaintance information.

The acquaintance information module 150 may uniformly transmit the guide information to only a part of the persons who have been informed at a predetermined time or selected by a predetermined criterion (for example, a recently communicated place). In this case, the person to whom the guide information is transmitted can confirm the guide information of the user irrespective of whether the user has actually communicated with the user, or whether or not there is a plan to perform communication. Therefore, if the user is planning to perform communication with the user, the user can understand that the communication is not performed at all, or that the user is in a restricted use state even after communication is not performed.

According to another embodiment, when the communication is requested from the terminal 200 of the acquaintance to the user terminal 10, the acquaintance guidance module 150 determines whether the use restriction is being made when the communication is requested, Only when the requested time is not at the time point when the requested time point does not match the control policy, the guide information may be transmitted to the friendly terminal. In this case, there is an effect that the guide information is transmitted to only the person who actually tried to perform communication, and is known.

The acquaintance guidance module 150 may transmit the guidance information to the acquaintance's terminal 200 directly or through the service system 300. [ And may transmit the guide information to the acquaintance's terminal 200 in various other ways. According to an exemplary embodiment, the guide information may be transmitted through conventional messaging such as SMS, MMS, or may be transmitted as a push notification message through the service system 300.

In particular, when the communication software 40 is targeted software whose use restriction is set by the policy setting module 120, the effect of transmitting the guidance information to the acquaintance's terminal 200 can be large. That is, when the communication software 40 is subject to use restriction and the acquaintance requests communication to the user terminal 10 via the communication software 40, The user may not be able to respond. In this case, there is an effect that unnecessary misunderstanding can be avoided in the case where there is no response after the acquaintance performs communication. According to an embodiment, the communication information may be transmitted only when the communication software 40 is the target software. That is, it is possible to prevent the case where the guide information is unnecessarily transmitted. Of course, the guidance information may be transmitted only when the communication software 40 is the target software and the point in time when the communication is requested does not conform to the control policy.

6 is a diagram for explaining a concept of sharing use restriction status with an acquaintance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the terminal 200 of the acquaintance can request communication to the user terminal 10 (S200). The communication may be performed through the communication software 40. [ The communication may be, for example, chat, messaging, and the like. It may be determined in advance whether the guide information should be fed back to the acquaintance's terminal 200 only when communication among various functions provided by the communication software 40 is performed. For example, in the case of posting on a bulletin board through the communication software 40, the guide information may not be fed back. If the predetermined type of communication, such as sending a note via the communication software 40, is performed, the guidance information may be fed back to the acquaintance's terminal 200.

When the communication request is performed, the acquaintance information module 150 installed in the user terminal 10 determines whether the user terminal 10 or the communication software 40 is in a usage restriction state And can transmit the guidance information to the terminal of the acquaintance only in a limited use situation, that is, only when it does not comply with the control policy.

Of course, depending on the implementation, the guidance information may be transmitted even when the user is able to respond, not in the use restriction state. Depending on the embodiment, even if the acquaintance does not make a communication request, May be transmitted.

In any case, since the guide information is selectively transmitted to the acquaintance, the user using the user terminal 10 can be socially disadvantaged even in the restricted use condition.

In accordance with an implementation, the usage control system 100 may include a processor and a memory for storing programs executed by the processor. The processor may include a single-core CPU or a multi-core CPU. The memory may include high speed random access memory and may include non-volatile memory such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory devices, or other non-volatile solid state memory devices. Access to the memory by the processor and other components can be controlled by the memory controller. Here, the program may cause the utilization control system 100 according to the present embodiment to perform the above-described utilization control system providing method when executed by a processor.

On the other hand, as described above, the technical idea of protecting and setting the utilization control software is not necessarily limited to the protection setting of the utilization control software. That is, any type of software (application) can be protected by setting the management software to the deletion status using the management software and setting the management software as the authentication required software.

The method of providing a usage control system according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the form of computer readable program instructions and stored in a computer readable recording medium. And can be stored in a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Program instructions to be recorded on a recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of software.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as a hard disk, a floppy disk and a magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROM and DVD, a floptical disk, And hardware devices that are specially configured to store and execute program instructions such as magneto-optical media and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The above-mentioned medium may also be a transmission medium such as a light or metal wire, wave guide, etc., including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal designating a program command, a data structure and the like. The computer readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as devices for processing information electronically using an interpreter or the like, for example, a high-level language code that can be executed by a computer.

The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

It is intended that the present invention covers the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents. .

Claims (14)

Wherein the use restriction of the user terminal is restricted by the usage control software installed in the user terminal and the use restriction of the user terminal includes restricting the use of the predetermined target software installed in the user terminal or the user terminal itself In a control system,
A policy setting module for setting a control policy for the use restriction;
A usage restriction performing module for performing usage restriction to conform to the control policy set by the policy setting module;
An authentication module for authenticating an administrator managing the use restriction of the user terminal through a predetermined authentication operation; And
And a control module that performs protection setting of the utilization control software so that the utilization control software is not disabled if the authentication of the manager is not successful through the authentication module.
The apparatus of claim 1,
Wherein the management software installed in the user terminal sets the use control software to a non-deletable state through the software that can set the software installed in the user terminal to be erasable or non-erasable.
3. The apparatus of claim 2,
And sets the management software as authentication-required software that can be used normally if the administrator's authentication is successful.
The control module according to claim 3,
Wherein the management server monitors whether or not the authentication required software is executed, and when the authentication required software is executed, executes an authentication request service requesting authentication of the manager with priority over the authentication required software.
The system according to claim 1,
Further comprising an acquaintance guidance module for transmitting guidance information corresponding to the control policy to a terminal of an acquaintance set in an acquaintance relationship with the user of the user terminal.
6. The method according to claim 5,
A person who is set in an affiliation relationship with the user through a predetermined communication software installed in the user terminal,
The acquaintance guidance module includes:
Extracts the acquaintance information from the communication software or a service system corresponding to the communication software, and transmits the guidance information to the acquaintance's terminal based on the extracted information.
6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,
And transmits the guidance information to the acquaintance terminal if communication is requested from the acquaintance's terminal to the user terminal and the communication does not conform to the control policy,
And transmits the guidance information only when the communication software is the target software.
The authentication system according to claim 1,
The medium information corresponding to the wireless communication medium of the manager capable of performing wireless communication with the user terminal is stored and the wireless communication medium corresponding to the stored medium information and the user terminal perform wireless communication, The use control system judges that it has done so.
Wherein the use restriction of the user terminal is restricted by the usage control software installed in the user terminal and the use restriction of the user terminal includes restricting the use of the predetermined target software installed in the user terminal or the user terminal itself In a control system,
A policy setting module for setting a control policy for the use restriction;
A usage restriction performing module for performing usage restriction to conform to the control policy set by the policy setting module; And
Extracting from the service software corresponding to the communication software or the communication software an acquaintance information of an acquaintance set as an acquaintance relationship with the user through the predetermined communication software installed in the user terminal, And an acquaintance information module for transmitting the guide information corresponding to the information.
Wherein the use restriction of the user terminal is restricted by the usage control software installed in the user terminal and the use restriction of the user terminal includes restricting the use of the predetermined target software installed in the user terminal or the user terminal itself A method of providing a control system,
The management software being provided from the user terminal, the management software being software that can set the software installed in the user terminal in an erasable or non-erasable state; And
And the use of the management software by the use control system is set to the authentication required software.
11. The method according to claim 10,
And transmitting the guidance information corresponding to the control policy for the use restriction to the terminal, the use control system being set as an acquaintance with the user of the user terminal.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting the guide information comprises:
Wherein the utilization control system transmits the guidance information to the terminal of the acquaintance when communication is requested from the acquaintance terminal to the user terminal and the communication does not conform to the control policy.
Wherein the use restriction of the user terminal is restricted by the usage control software installed in the user terminal and the use restriction of the user terminal includes restricting the use of the predetermined target software installed in the user terminal or the user terminal itself A method of providing a control system,
The usage control system setting a control policy for the usage restriction;
Performing usage restriction such that the usage control system conforms to the set control policy; And
Wherein the utilization control system extracts from the service system corresponding to the communication software or the communication software an acquaintance information of an acquaintance set in an acquaintance relation with the user through a predetermined communication software installed in the user terminal, And transmitting guidance information corresponding to the control policy based on the guidance information.
A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for performing the method according to any one of claims 10 to 13 is recorded.

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