IBM Patents Predator Identification

and now remove the "child" element of this patent and you obtain a plain surveillance tool.It's the kind of stuff big corporations produce, not curious about implementation.

I don't see anything 'patentable' here.
Hope there is more behind it than just a flow chart outlining common sense actions to inappropriate behavior.

"such as an attack by another avatar, rude gestures by another avatar, stalking"

Can I sue an Avatar ?
Do we deport misbehaving avatars ?

based on this, big corporations are predators of people

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So I can be arrested for attacking a child's avatar?
Maybe they should stay out of PvP, then.

ok time to stop ganking ppl in wow we might get sued also no more pvp stupid patents are stupid, this is why america is going to the dogs, every ridiculose idea gets patented the you can sue someone after to get a nice settlement just couse you got a paper for some wague thing that is considerd common sense

Corporations are psychopath (there are some films on that).
"sensors measuring the child's heart rate and breathing rate, a electrical resistance measurement of the child's skin," wow... Now IBM, repeat with me: we don't know anything about how to educate childs, we only know that parents are scared and we want to make money of it.
Patent things that work please, not simple ideas o needs of society that you don't know how to deal with (sorry but if the patent it's so abstract... why don't they include satellite monitoring, camera tracing through security cameras and all the likes invented / imagined for cold war spies...

i wonder why the mention of "avatar" any service that uses avaters... (second life etc) bans children (under 16). thus it seems that this patent was filed under the process of why not?.
...we now know how IBM gets the number one spot for patents issued... patent every idea, good or not.

they are and have been for a very long time...one good example is google

IBM = Patent troll
it was good but now it's looking for patents

i wonder what will happen when there are no more patents to patent

Then they will probably patent the null patent!

then?

A. This sounds more like catching a bully than a predator. Predators pretend to be other children or teenagers, and use deception, not threats and harassment.

B. Analyzing a child's facial expression by camera and heart rate/voice by various sensors is intrusive and not something parents would employ to keep their kids safe, more likely they'll just keep the kids off the computer instead.

HAL = IBM

Think about it.

Lol and i thought this was something to be used for identifying and recording wildlife...you know, to aid in conservation of endangered predators...

How about just keeping children off the internets? Nothing more annoying than playing an online game and hearing children arguing over voice chat the whole time. I say until you're 18, you are only around to read books, or play outside. The internet is no place for kids.

Fixed that for you.

soooo are they patenting the way we play SIMS? do they predict humans LIVING in the internet soon and planning ahead to take complete control? oh shit...IBM is skynet....

anyone else scared of this if it ever gets implemented? some of these things wouldn't even be on the client side, but between the client and the person they are talking to. i was on pain meds a bit back, vicoden 7.5/750 and am looking for an alternative, so if i talk with people online about it, and what possible alternatives i have without acetaminophen in them, i am potentially raided by atf for this.

or lets go this one, if you are in a bar, pick up a woman, take her home, sex, and a week or so latter, you find out she got in with a fake id, do you know there are currently laws that have presidents set that even if they don't look under age, even if they are somewhere where you should still be able to assume age is over 18, you are still held responsible and can and will most likely be charged with statutory rape, if not anything more severe?

i point that out because what did everyone do before they were 21 on the internet? i know i faked my age in to the 50-60 range more than once, my 14 year old brother does the same thing. are we going to be held liable because a kid may be on the otherside of an avatar that we have no way of knowing if its fake or not?

i -1 = h etc.

Oh boy...whatever happened to parenting? Oh, that's right. No one raises their own children, anymore. They allow technology and all of these "self-help" books to do it for them. Common sense is unnecessary in today's world.

/sarcasm

I would just get off the internet if it gets to this point of invading your privacy. I don't even play those avatar games but see how someone could be wrongfully accused just by trying to win a game. Just have age limits that can play withing the same game. Problem solved.

Wow IBM, just wow. This is one of the worst patents I've ever heard of and we've all seen some ridiculous patents. At least this one has little chance of becoming a patent trolling legal problem with other companies although it really doesn't help my, nor any other intelligent person's impression of IBM.

Besides that, how can you patent taking action against a predator of any kind? That is just retarded. If someone I know has a problem with a predator and I/they call the police or another authority will we get sued by IBM? I really don't think this patent is sanctioned even by the very constitution of the USA and should have been stopped anyway.

That doesn't stop anyone these days. It won't be long before a company tries to patent breathing.

I patent all that with "real" instead of "virtual";

Thanks to new standards introduced by iCrap we will soon hear of patents on the most absurd of things. I have said it before Apple and its insincere standards of competition are a threat to the march of technology. The sooner iCrap follows con-artist Steve Jobs, the sooner we will see new light in technology.

Unless you live in a specific part of Africa, or a rather cold climate - you don't need to be concerned with predators. Humans are more sparse in extreme climates, which is the last bastion for any real predators that would feed on us. Its estimated that something like a mere 35% of earth is uninhabited by man, and that is almost all Antarctica.

There are about 300 pages of technical crap that are submitted, go check it out because this is the kind of thing that is going to make being a paedophile on the internet a non-starter.
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If predator behaviour is spotted you can get an AG waiver to track the IP and have a quiet chat with them, if the software has registered a false positive then no harm done, if however the cops turn up and there is a porn dungeon and a dead 7 year old in the basement then that's one less scumbag in the world.

What? Didn't get you at all bro!

Anyway, I live in India, and We have everything: tigers and lions to bears, snakes, leopards, eagles...and they interact frequently with humans, and nearly all of them are endangered.

It's a very real problem in most of the world, my friend.

Where did you say you lived again?
The Jungle Book?
Is that you Mowgli?

i'm not, but jungle book was based on an Indian village boy, so...animals are the same