Selective display of private user information
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving a communication at a customer premise equipment device;
identifying a property of the received communication, wherein the property of the received communication comprises either a packet identifier defined for application gateway messages or a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the packet identifier is added to the communication by a headend device, and wherein the packet identifier is parsed from the communication by the customer premise equipment device;
comparing the parsed packet identifier to one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected are stored at the customer premise equipment device;
determining whether the identified property matches a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected;
if the identified property does not match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, outputting information associated with the communication to a display; and
if the identified property does match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, refraining from outputting, to a display, information associated with the communication until a valid passcode is received.
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Abstract
Methods, systems and computer readable media described herein may facilitate the automatic identification of a need for additional authentication based on a received private message or PID, the urgency of a received private message, thus determining whether an immediate alert is output to a user, and/or a determination whether a protected message is to be archived for later retrieval via authentication. A device may be configured (e.g., by user input) to control selective decoding and display of messages (e.g., private messages), registration and configuration of blacklists, and/or defining criteria for determining urgency of a received message. Device configurations may be dynamically changed or updated according to user preferences and user treatment of received messages.
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Citations
17 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving a communication at a customer premise equipment device; identifying a property of the received communication, wherein the property of the received communication comprises either a packet identifier defined for application gateway messages or a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the packet identifier is added to the communication by a headend device, and wherein the packet identifier is parsed from the communication by the customer premise equipment device; comparing the parsed packet identifier to one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected are stored at the customer premise equipment device; determining whether the identified property matches a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected; if the identified property does not match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, outputting information associated with the communication to a display; and if the identified property does match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, refraining from outputting, to a display, information associated with the communication until a valid passcode is received. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus comprising:
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one or more interfaces configured to be used to receive a communication; and one or more modules configured to; identify a property of the received communication, wherein the property of the received communication comprises either a packet identifier defined for application gateway messages or a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the packet identifier is added to the communication by a headend device, and wherein the packet identifier is parsed from the communication; compare the parsed packet identifier to one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected are stored at the apparatus; determine whether the identified property matches a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected; if the identified property does not match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, output information associated with the communication to a display; and if the identified property does match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, refrain from outputting, to a display, information associated with the communication until a valid passcode is received. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform the operations comprising:
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receiving a communication at a customer premise equipment device; identifying a property of the received communication, wherein the property of the received communication comprises either a packet identifier defined for application gateway messages or a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the packet identifier is added to the communication by a headend device, and wherein the packet identifier is parsed from the communication by the customer premise equipment device; comparing the parsed packet identifier to one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected, wherein the one or more packet identifiers defined for messages that are to be protected are stored at the customer premise equipment device; determining whether the identified property matches a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected; if the identified property does not match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, outputting information associated with the communication to a display; and if the identified property does match a packet identifier defined for messages that are to be protected, refraining from outputting, to a display, information associated with the communication until a valid passcode is received. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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