Country-Specific Content Rating OR Generic Content Rating 2023

Country-specific content rating is a method of presenting content based on general content ratings is covered by the patent that was made public. Accessing content, such as TV shows, movies, books, music, videos, news stories, websites, etc. from numerous different nations, regions, or other groups piques searchers’ interests.

Each nation, territory, or organization may have its own rating system for material that may be inappropriate for a particular age range or contain material (such as violence or pornography). To filter information, it can be difficult to comprehend the rating systems used in various nations.

Keep reading this article from SEO Agency to learn more about content ratings based on the country.

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New approaches, platforms, and media should be made available for displaying content based on a general rating

General Content Ratings

It’s easy, the provision techniques, platforms, and media for the presentation of content based on general content ratings.

Providing content based on general content ratings is done in the following ways:

Getting search results that match a search phrase
Calculating the content scores for each country in the search results received
Transforming the country-specific content ratings using a hardware processor into the generic content ratings linked to the search results
Based on the generic content ratings attached to the search results and the user-selected generic content ratings restriction, determining that at least one search result is to be blocked; in response to the determination that at least one search result is to be blocked.
Deleting at least one search result from the search results to produce modified search results, which then get shown; obtaining a selection of content from the modified search results that were then presented.
Calculating the selected item’s country-specific content ratings
Based on the generic content ratings associated with the chosen content and the user-selected generic content ratings restriction, converting the country-specific content ratings is prohibited.
Deciding that the chosen content won’t be blocked, resulting in the display of the chosen content.

A method is provided for the presentation of content based on general content ratings

General Content Ratings & Content Marketing

The software includes a processor that can:

Receive search results in response to a search query;
Find country-specific content ratings connected to the received search results; and
Create generic content ratings linked to the search results by converting the country-specific content ratings.
Based on the generic content ratings attached to the search results and a user-selected generic content ratings restriction, determine that at least one search result is to be blocked.
The decision to block at least one search result
To create modified search results, remove at least one search result from the search results.
Ensure that the modified search results are displayed.
Get a selection of content from the modified search results that are displayed.
Choose a generic content rating for the selected material and use the user-selected generic content rating restriction to determine that the selected content is not to be blocked based on the generic content rating for the selected content and the country-specific content ratings associated with the selected content.
Deciding that the chosen content should not be blocked and that it should instead be presented
When a processor executes the disclosed subject matter

Make the processor carry out a procedure for submitting content depending on a general content rating

The procedure consists of:

Receiving search results in response to a search query;
Identifying country-specific content associate ratings with the received search engine results;
Converting the country-specific content ratings to generic content associate ratings with the search results;
Deciding that at least one search result is to be blocked based on the generic content associate ratings with the search results and a user-selected generic content rating restriction
Reacting to the determination
Deleting at least one search result from the results in order to provide updated results
Resulting in the display of the updated search results
Selecting material from the search results that have been updated and are provided
Deciding on a country-specific content rating for the chosen content
Transforming the country-specific content rating into the chosen item’s generic content rating
Based on the generic content rating assigned to the selected content and the user-specified generic content rating
Restriction, deciding that the selected content will not be prohibited.
Deciding that the chosen content won’t be blocked
Causing the chosen material to be shown Systems, procedures, and platforms for displaying material based on a general rating.

Provided are techniques, platforms, and media for delivering material based on a general rating

General Content Ratings

The process includes:

Search results are received, and country-specific content ratings are assigned to the results.
Changing the content ratings linked with the search results from being country-specific to being general
Relying on the generic content ratings as well as a user-selected generic content rating restriction, deciding that at least one search result needs to be restricted; in response to a search result needing to be blocked.
Removing the search result from the results and replacing it with modified results
Resulting in the display of the updated search results
Obtaining a selection of content from the search results displayed
Deciding on a country-specific content rating for the chosen content
Changing the regional content rating to a global content rating
Deciding that the generic content rating and the user-chosen generic content rating limitation do not warrant blocking the selected content
Causing the chosen material to be shown

Providing Methods For Displaying Content in Light Of A General Content Rating

The systems described herein can accept content (such as search results, media content, books, websites, and any other suitable content) from various nations, regions, and groups and change the related specific content rating to a generic content rating.

A user-selected generic content rating restriction can be determined by the processes. Based on the user-selected generic content rating limitation and the generic content rating that corresponds to the received content, they can decide whether to block the received content. The mechanisms may cause the content to be shown on a user’s device if they discover that the content has not been stopped.

A country’s or region’s use of a rating system may be linked to a specific content rating. Additionally, the particular content grade can be linked to any appropriate group (a specific association that produces movies, a creator of a particular channel on a video sharing service, and any other group).

A user interface shown by a user device other than the user device on which the material is to be delivered can be used to indicate the user’s chosen generic content rating restriction. In some of these implementations, a specific user account may be linked to the user-selected general content rating restriction. It can be used to restrict access to material from any other user device that has been associated with the user account.

Using A General Content Rating To Present Content

Hardware can include computers from several nations and regions, including:

American content server
server for European content
server for Korean content
a data server
network for communications
User tools
American content server

A communication network delivers media material to the user device. Any appropriate type of content, including search results, electronic books, television shows, movies, cartoons, sound effects, audiobooks, and streaming live content (such as streaming radio shows, live concerts, and other suitable types of streaming live content), can be provided by content servers.

Any appropriate entity can produce material and upload it to content servers. Content that is provided by content servers may be paid for in connection with a content rating that can specify the suitable audience age range and the existence of problematic material. It is possible to exclude any content servers and include content servers that are appropriate for other compatible nations, regions, and groups instead.

What is the Server’s Role in Determining the Type of Content?

generic content rating

1) Data Server

A data server can be used for any number of useful tasks, including translating a country-specific content rating to a generic content rating and maintaining user-selected generic content rating limits that show what gets prohibited and what gets unblocked. In order to identify whether certain content is restricted, a data server can translate a country-specific content rating into a generic content rating, as explained below.

The data server can receive a user-selected generic content rating restriction (for instance, from a user interface as shown in and explained below in conjunction with FIG. 4) and utilize that information to decide whether specific content is restricted.

2) Any proper mix of wired and wireless networks can be a communication network.

An appropriate communication network can be any of the following, for instance: the Internet, mobile data networks, satellite networks, local area networks, wide area networks, telephone networks, cable television networks, WiFi networks, WiMax networks, and others.

3) Any device that is capable of receiving and presenting material can be included as the user device.

The user device can be a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, portable media player, or any other qualified mobile device. It can also be an entertainment system for a vehicle (such as a car, boat, plane, or another compatible vehicle).

A desktop, a set-top box, a television, a streaming media player, a game console, or any other compatible non-mobile device can be used as the user device.

Although the content servers for the United States, Europe, Korea, and data servers are shown separately, any of these servers can be joined to form a single device. Additionally, each device’s appropriateness can be used, even though there is only one of each of the following: a data server, a European content server, a Korean content server, and a United States content server.

Any suitable number and sort of these devices can be employed, even though just one user device is used to avoid overcomplicating the figure.

Any suitable hardware can be used to implement a US content server, European content server, Korean content server, data server, and the user device. Using the appropriate general-purpose or specialized computer, machines can be implemented.

An example of how a special-purpose computer might be used is to create a server. Any compatible hardware can be used with any such general-purpose computer. A hardware CPU, memory, storage, an input device controller, an input device, display or audio drivers, display and audio output circuitry, communication interface(s), an antenna, and a bus can all be found in such hardware, according to FS.

4) Any applicable hardware processor.

Such as a microprocessor, microcontroller, digital signal processor(s), dedicated logic, and other suitable circuitry for managing a general-purpose computer or a specialized computer, can be included in the hardware processor.

5) Any acceptable memory and storage unit

Especially those that can be used as memory and storage unit 204 for the purpose of storing programs, data, media material, and other pertinent information. For instance, random access memory, flash memory, hard disk storage, optical media, and appropriate memory can all be a part of memory and storage 20.

6) Any acceptable circuitry that can control and receive input from input devices

Especially those that can serve as the input device controller. A touch screen, buttons, a voice recognition circuit, a microphone, a camera, an optical sensor, an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, a near field sensor, and any other type of input device can all be used as input devices. As an illustration, an input device controller can be circuitry for getting information from these and other types of input devices.

7) Any acceptable circuitry for controlling and driving output to display/audio output circuitries

They can be used as display/audio drivers. Circuitry for driving an LCD, a speaker, an LED, or any other type of output device, for instance, can be a component of display/audio drivers 210.

8) Any suitable circuitry for interacting with communication networks can serve as the communication interface(s).

Examples of interfaces include wireless communication circuitry, network interface card circuitry, and any other suitable sort of communication network hardware.

Other Examples

The antenna may be appropriate for connecting to a network and may be dropped when not required.

Any effective communication method between two or more components can serve as the bus.

The hardware can also comprise any other relevant parts.

Interfaces That Limit How Search Results Are Displayed When applying generic content ratings to content, be specific!

Before displaying any user interfaces, a Personal Identification Number (PIN) and a password may be requested, regardless of the nation linked to the material. A user device other than the one used to transmit search results and other material can display the user interfaces.

A user interface on a user device can transmit a user-selected general content rating restriction that is then stored in connection with a specific user account. The content shown on additional user devices linked to the user account will subsequently be subject to the user’s chosen generic content rating restriction. The data server may store information that is received from the user interfaces.

Content Titles Affect

Under some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, receiving choices of countries from which country-specific content ratings get converted to generic content ratings get shown. The user interface may have options for a title and a nation.

Any title that describes the user interface’s content may be used as the title. Relevant text, pictures, icons, graphics, animations, and auditable content can all be included in the label.

Take note of where the Title is located in the user interface.

It is used as an illustration, and the title may be positioned wherever it is most appropriate.

Options for countries can include both countries and regions, like countries.

Although only five countries’ in-country possibilities are displayed, any suitable number of countries and regions (such as one, two, five, ten, twenty, or fifty) and regions can be included. Options available inside a nation may be categorized at any time and may also be categorized by continent.

When a specific continent is chosen, such as North America, options for that continent’s countries, such as Canada, the United States, and Mexico, may be displayed.

Country options include content rating systems specific to a nation and geographic regions specific to any other appropriate entity’s rating system (e.g., a specific network, a specific channel of a video sharing service, and any other suitable entity).

Selection inputs relating to each country’s in-country options, such as selection inputs, can also be included in country options. Radio buttons, checkboxes, drop-down menus, and other suitable user interface controls can be included in selection inputs.

A User Interface For A Rating Restriction Applied To Content From Countries Selected In The User Interface For A User-Selected Generic Content

The user interface may have options for a title and rating!

Any title that describes the user interface’s content may be used as the title. The label may contain any necessary text, graphics, animations, icons, photos, and other material. An example of where the title might be placed is in the user interface, where it could be placed anywhere that is practical. The label may be overlooked.

Generic rating limits, such as these, might be part of a rating option. Although there are five rating constraints listed in the rating options, any reasonable number of restrictions can be used (e.g., one, two, four, eight, or any other suitable number).

Any appropriate content restriction criterion can match the general rating constraints.

The generic rating restrictions may specify the earliest recommended age to view content within a particular rating as well as general age recommendations for viewing the content within a specific rating (e.g., “suitable for younger children,” “suitable for older children,” “suitable for teenagers,” and any other suitable general age recommendations).

No content limits and predetermined content restrictions are also possible rating options.

Selection inputs, such as those corresponding to each content rating restriction in the rating options, can also be included in the rating options. Radio buttons, checkboxes, drop-down menus, and other suitable user interface controls can be included in selection inputs.

Any additional information that is pertinent may be presented in the user interface in a way that is appropriate.

When a content rating restriction lists a general age recommendation, such as “suitable for older children,” the user interface can show a specific age range, such as “children over ten years old,” to show that the specific content rating restriction has been selected (by being clicked or tapped) and indicated (such as, with a cursor).

Another illustration is the user interface’s ability to display the categories of content (such as nudity, violence, and any other appropriate categories of content) that would be blocked if a specific content rating restriction was chosen.

Showing Country-Specific Content Ratings From A User-Selected Generic Rating Restriction Provided By User Interface Gets Displayed Under The Subject Matter in a User Interface for Blocked and Unblocked Content

If it is discovered that a certain generic content rating has been chosen via the user interface, the user interface may then be displayed. As seen, the user interface may have a title and a list of content ratings for various nations.

Any title that indicates the user interface may be used as the title. The label can identify a nation based on a collection of content ratings for that nation. The label may contain any necessary text, graphics, animations, icons, photos, and other material. The label may be omitted, and the title may be located anywhere that is practical.

Any appropriate content ratings appropriate to a given country, such as country-specific content ratings, may be included in a group of country-specific content ratings. Although the user interface displays five country-specific content ratings, any relevant number (for example, one, two, five, ten, and any other suitable number) can be incorporated.

Furthermore, any relevant sort of content, including television shows, films, books, radio programs, music, search results, and any other suitable type of content, can be rated according to the country-specific content standards.

In some implementations, a generic content rating indicator may be used to signify a user-selected generic content rating restriction. Restrictive content indicators (such as indicators) that display whether the content associated with each country-specific rating would be barred in accordance with the user-selected generic content rating restriction can be included in a group of country-specific content ratings.

If the related content is going to be blocked or unblocked (as in the hands), an icon and associated text with the restricted content indicators can let you know (as in indicators). Any appropriate text, icon, image, graphic, animation, and other pertinent content are all acceptable types of indicators. Any reasonable method can be used to ascertain if content with a country-specific rating would be prohibited if the generic content rating was chosen (s).

Indicators may be selectable, allowing a user to choose and deselect a country-specific content rating, overriding the decision made by the algorithm.

A user interface that allows users to choose whether or not to block more specific sorts of content for a certain classification (such as “TV-G,” “TV-14,” and any other appropriate content rating).

When it is determined that a specific country-specific content rating has been chosen from a list of available country-specific content ratings, the user interface may then be shown (e.g., tapped and clicked). A rating chosen indicator can be used to display the detailed country-specific content rating that has been established in the user interface. The user interface may also have a title and a collection of content categories, as shown.

Any title that describes the user interface’s content may be used as the title, and it may also contain any necessary text, photos, icons, graphics, animations, or other appropriate information. The user interface’s placement of the title is used as an example and can be placed in any suitable spot with or without the title.

Any type of unacceptable content can be included in the group of content types, including content types that relate to such content as coarse language, sexual content, and violence. Although a group of content categories displays three different forms of problematic content, any suitable number (such as one, five, or ten, or any other suitable number) can be added.

Objectionable content can be related to religious values (e.g., content that depicts members of specific religious groups or that some religious organizations find offensive), cultural values (e.g., content that shows different lifestyles), or any other forms of content. The group of content categories’ content types can have an appropriate level of detail. Examples of content types include “dream violence,” “gun violence,” and other specialized forms of violence.

Within the category of content types, specific types of undesirable content may be linked to selectable indicators like indicators. Regardless of the associated content rating, choosing a certain hand can result in the associated offensive type of content being banned (as in the case of indicators) or unblocked (as in the case of needles). When the user interface is displayed, for instance, the default value of hands might be either blocked or unblocked.

A method for displaying content depending on a generic content rating restriction chosen by the user

The method can be partially implemented on user devices and data servers.

When a search query is received, the process can start. Any appropriate searching domain can be associated with the search query. The search term can be compared to a lookup for a certain kind of content (television programs, videos, music, movies, audiobooks, books, news articles, and any other suitable type of content). The search term may be used to look up websites.

Based on the received question, the procedure might ask for and get search results. The search query as well as any relevant files (e.g., audio files, video files, and other suitable files). The search results may include information on a country connected to a particular piece of material. This country may be connected to the server hosting the content, the country from where the content was developed and uploaded, or any other acceptable country.

The search results may include content ratings (such as “TV-G,” “TV-MA,” and any other appropriate content ratings) for the items of material that are displayed. The content rating may relate to a certain nation or area (a country in which the content got created and uploaded to a server and any other suitable country). The search results may show that some sorts of undesirable content are present (violence, sexual content, etc.). The country that is linked with the content rating might also be mentioned in the rating.

The method has the ability to transform the content ratings linked to the obtained search results into general content ratings. The procedure can find that the generic content rating is “appropriate for all ages” in cases when a country-specific content rating is a United States content classification of “TV-G.” A country-specific content rating can be changed to a generic content rating using any appropriate data and technique(s). To change a content rating that is country-specific into a generic content rating, the procedure can employ a table that is kept on a data server.

Any appropriate method (for example, using Extensible Markup Language, or “XML,” tagging, using a database, and any other suitable method) can be used to record a mapping between a specific country-specific content rating and a generic content rating. For instance, a data server can use XML tags to contain an indication of an age restriction for a country-specific rating. An XML element like” can be used to hold, as an example, a specific country-specific rating and a corresponding generic age restriction.

Based on the “contentAgeHint” parameter, for example, the procedure can determine a general age restriction that corresponds to the country-specific rating. The appropriate generic rating may be established using the generic age restriction. By sending an indicator of the country-specific content rating (such as “TV-G” and any other content rating) to the data server, the procedure is able to query the data server. It may be given a generic content rating indicator (such as “appropriate for all ages”).

Based on a generic content rating limitation that the user has chosen, the procedure can determine if the received search results are prohibited (e.g., obtained by user interface). The method can identify the user-selected generic content rating restriction by asking the data server before choosing whether the received search results are to get restricted.

The method can determine whether the content rating restriction specified by the user is more or less stringent than the general content rating linked to the search result (s). Let’s say that the user-selected generic content rating restriction specifies that only material appropriate for young children (i.e., kids of any age) will be displayed. The procedure can decide that search results for material appropriate for older kids and teenagers (for example, kids over ten) would be blocked.

The procedure may enable the presentation of search results for content that would otherwise be banned in accordance with the user’s chosen generic content rating limitation. For instance, it would be blocked if it was found that the text and photos in the search results do not contain content.

The process can decide that the search results are to be presented if it is found that a particular search result corresponds to a movie that would be blocked (for example, because it contains nudity and violence), but that the text and images corresponding to the search result do not contain objectionable content.

Before displaying a particular search result, the procedure may decide that some of it have to be updated. Based on the idea’s content rating, the procedure can decide that an image linked to a certain search result shouldn’t be displayed. The procedure can decide whether or not to display the search result without the image.

In cases where the user has chosen generic content rating restrictions that go beyond age limits (rules based on the presence of violence, sexual content, and any other type of objectionable content, rules based on religious and cultural values, and any other suitable kind of restrictions as received by user interface), the procedure can make use of any data that identifies whether the content connected to a received search result meets the user’s preferences.

Based on a tag associated with the content, a description associated with the rating pertaining to the content, an analysis of language connected to the search result, and any other pertinent information, the process can decide if the material comprises objectionable content.

It is established that no search results are eliminated; the procedure may result in the presentation of the search results. Any acceptable user device can be used to display the search results. The search results can be displayed in a reasonable manner in a variety of places, including on websites, in applications that correspond to media streaming services, and in other places as well.

If search results are eliminated, the procedure may eliminate the results before presenting the adjusted group of search results.

A selection of content from the search results may be sent to the procedure. The chosen material can be any relevant sort of content, such as a book, a news item, a website, or any other suitable type of media content (such as a television program, a movie, a video, music, an audiobook, and any other suitable type of media content). A user device used to display the search results may be able to receive the content selection.

A sign of the chosen content can be obtained in any appropriate way, depending on whether a specific link, icon, or image in the search results has been clicked or touched, whether a specific piece of content has been selected using the remote control, and depending on any other pertinent information.

The procedure can change a rating for the chosen content that is country-specific into a more general rating. By using a mapping kept on the data server, the procedure can use any appropriate data and technique(s) to change the country-specific content rating into a generic content rating. By sending an indicator of the country-specific content rating (such as “TV-G” and any other content rating) to the data server and querying it, the process can determine the generic content rating and can then receive an indicator of the corresponding generic content rating (such as “suitable for all ages”).

Based on the determined generic content rating, the procedure might decide if the chosen content is prohibited. The procedure can assess whether a user-chosen generic content rating restriction is more or less stringent than the generic content rating with the selected content (for example, stated using the user interface as shown in and described above). Let’s say it turns out that the generic content rating restriction selected by the user is stricter than the generic content rating assigned to the chosen range. The procedure can then determine that the chosen content will be blocked.

Additionally and alternatively, the procedure can decide whether the prohibited status of the chosen material is dependent on any other pertinent information, such as the day of the week and the hour of the day. The procedure can decide that content with a specified generic content grade should only be prohibited on certain days of the week (such as Monday through Friday and any other specific days of the week) and during certain hours of the day (before 10 p.m., between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., and any other particular times of the day). A user interface allows users to specify the days of the week and hours of the day when content is banned (not shown).

It is decided that the chosen content won’t be restricted. The procedure may result in the presentation of the chosen content. The procedure can make the chosen content accessible on any user device and at any convenient moment. The procedure can make a chosen movie or television program appear on television, a desktop computer, a mobile device, or any other suitable user device. One of the content servers may have the chosen content downloaded to a specific user device as a result of the process.

It is established that if the chosen content is blocked, the process may cease. The procedure may result in the presentation of a user interface (not shown) that requests a PIN and a password; following confirmation of the PIN and password, the process may result in the delivery of the restricted content.

It should be clear that at least some of the above-mentioned blocks are not restricted to the order and sequence seen in and described in the figure, and that they can be executed or performed in any order or sequence. Where suitable or necessary, actions can be carried out simultaneously to speed up processing. Additionally, several of the previously mentioned are left out.

Any acceptable computer-readable medium can be utilized to store the instructions needed to carry out the procedures and functions described here. Both temporary and permanent media are capable of being read by computers. Non-transitory computer-readable media, for instance, can be magnetic (like hard disks, floppy disks, and any other suitable magnetic media), optical (like compact discs, digital video discs, Blu-ray discs and any other acceptable optical media, semiconductor media (such as flash memory, electronically programmed read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmed read-only memory (EEPROM), and any other suitable semiconductor media), and other applicable, tangible material.

Signals on networks, cables, conductors, optical fibers, circuits, any acceptable medium that is transient and devoid of any sense of permanence during transmission, and any suitable medium intangible media are other examples of transitory computer-readable media.

Users may choose whether programs or features collect user information (such as data about a user’s social network, social actions or activities, profession, preferences, or current location) in situations where the systems described here collect personal information about users or make use of personal data.

Additionally, specific data may undergo processing steps before being kept or used in order to eliminate personally identifiable information. A user’s identity may be altered so that no personally identifiable information about the user can be discovered, or a user’s geographic location may be generalized when location data is received (such as at the city, state, or ZIP code level) so that a user’s specific region cannot be discovered. Therefore, the user has some discretion over how a content server uses the information it collects about them.

Although the invention has been described and illustrated in the illustrative implementations that have come before, it is understood that the present disclosure has been made only by way of illustration and that many changes in the specifics of how the invention is performed can be made without departing from the story’s spirit and scope, which are only limited by the claims that follow. The revealed implementations’ features can be merged and rearranged in different ways.

Ratings of Generic Content based on Location