BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

1. Field of the Disclosure

This disclosure relates generally to a network filtering service system for two or more wireless users. This disclosure also relates generally to a network filtering service process for two or more wireless users.

2. Related Art

Many companies provide mobile devices and wireless service to their employees in order for these employees to have telecommunication capability to accomplish and/or enhance their job function. These companies want to increase efficiency of the employees by providing the mobile devices and wireless service. However, employees may have a tendency to use the mobile devices and wireless service for non-company related activities. This can be detrimental as it reduces employee efficiency and/or productivity. Moreover, employees may use the mobile devices and wireless service for non-company related activities that are either illegal or, if disclosed, would be detrimental to the company. For example, viewing or transmitting child pornography. Additionally, employees may use the mobile devices and wireless service for non-company related activities in a manner that distracts them from their job function in a manner that may be hazardous. For example, using the mobile devices during driving, operation of heavy machinery, or the like. As the company may be paying for the wireless service, extraneous use of the wireless service by the employee may result in additional cost to the company.

Accordingly, there is a need for companies to be able to control functionality and/or limit functionality of mobile devices and/or wireless services to increase employee efficiency and productivity, reduce costs, and/or reduce potential hazards.

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

The foregoing needs are met, to a great extent, by the disclosure, with a process and system for implementing wireless services that include network filtering.

In one or more aspects, a process of filtering a wireless service provided to at least one wireless device from a wireless network includes receiving identification of the at least one wireless device in a filtering server from an administrator, receiving filtering instructions from the administrator in the filtering server, receiving a request for an internet resource from at least one wireless device, comparing the request for the internet resource to the filtering instructions to determine whether the requested internet resource is allowable in view of the filtering instructions or not allowed based on the filtering instructions, providing the internet resource to the wireless device if the requested internet resource is allowable based on the filtering instructions, and denying the internet resource to the wireless device if the requested internet resource is not allowed based on the filtering instructions.

In another aspect, a wireless network system filtering a wireless service provided to at least one wireless device from a wireless network includes a filtering server configured to receive identification of the at least one wireless device from an administrator, the filtering server further configured to receive filtering instructions from the administrator, the filtering server further configured to receive a request for an internet resource from at least one wireless device, the filtering server further configured to compare the request for the internet resource to the filtering instructions to determine whether the requested internet resource is allowable in view of the filtering instructions or not allowed based on the filtering instructions, the filtering server further configured to provide the internet resource to the wireless device if the requested internet resource is allowable based on the filtering instructions, and the filtering server further configured to deny the internet resource to the wireless device if the requested internet resource is not allowed based on the filtering instructions.

There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, certain aspects of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof may be better understood herein, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional aspects of the disclosure that will be described below and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.

In this respect, before explaining at least one aspect of the disclosure in detail, it is to be understood that the disclosure is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The disclosure is capable of aspects in addition to those described and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein, as well as the abstract, are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception upon which this disclosure is based may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the disclosure. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the disclosure.

