The US Patent and Trademark office recently approved a patent that Apple had submitted back in 2008. The patent is for something that is being described as a “Text-based communication control for personal communication device.” In short, if you don’t understand the jargon, this is basically an application that would control the content of text messages arriving and going from your communication device like the iPhone. Although it might be called whatever Apple has called it, it is in essence, basically an anti-sexting application.

In the patent application, Apple adds that as of now, there is no way to monitor and control text communication. This is a cause of concern for parents who have handed over phones to their kids and are worried about the kinds of messages they receive or send. The patent application has detailed the way everything works. A parental control application, which uses the patent scans messages coming to the device and evaluates the text in the message. After that, if it finds any “offensive” words, depending on the way it is configured, it either alerts the administrator who has configured the application or simply deletes the offending text and if needed, the entire message.

Apple believes that the feature could be used to not only block objectionable text but can also be used in an educational environment to encourage proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation based on the user’s designated skill level. What do you think of this feature? Would you like to see it being implemented? Let us know in the comments below!

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Source: TechCrunch

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