Safeguarding confidential information during a screen share session

• US 10,586,071 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2017
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kochura, Nadiya, Lu, Fang
• Primary Examiner(s): Zarrineh, Shahriar
• Application Number:
  US15/821,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20190163927A1
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: 726 30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30

Abstract

A method for safeguarding confidential information during a screen share between two computing devices each having a screen. The method includes receiving, from a first computer, a request to share content of one or more applications displayable on a screen of a second computer. The method further includes summarizing the content to be displayed by the one or more applications, and transmitting, by the first computer, the summarized content to be shared by the one or more applications with the second computer. In exemplary embodiments, the summarized content may be password protected. The method may further include prompting, by the second computer, a password entry and displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content based on a password match.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for safeguarding confidential information during a screen share session between two computing devices each having a screen, comprising:

receiving, from a first computer, a request to share content of one or more applications displayable on a screen of a second computer;

summarizing the content to be displayed by the one or more applications;

transmitting, by the first computer, the summarized content to be shared by the one or more applications with the second computer;

expanding the summarized content to full content during a screen share with the second computer;

reverting the full content back to the summarized content upon detecting a user is away from the second computer; and

replacing the summarized content with a code name when the second computer is engaged in a different screen sharing session,

wherein the code name is based on a communication history between the first computer and the second computer.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the second computer, the summarized content shared by the one or more applications; and

displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the summarized content is password protected, and further comprising:

prompting, by the second computer, a password entry; and

displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content based on a password match.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a user of the first computer an option to select a context menu to expand the summarized content to full content, or to contract the full content back to the summarized content.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the first computer, a first computer user input to display the content in place of the summarized content; and

displaying, by the second computer, the content.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein summarizing the content of the one or more applications is based on:

determining that the received content of the one or more applications comprise confidential content; and

summarizing the confidential content.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein summarizing the content of the one or more applications is based on:

determining, by natural language processing, that the received content of the one or more applications comprise confidential content,

wherein the confidential content comprises any one of a personal name, address, bank information, telephone number, date of birth, and social security number, or any combination thereof; and

summarizing the confidential content.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the first computer, the summarized content to be shared by the one or more applications with the second computer based on a user at the second computer indicating it is acceptable to share.

9. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible storage device having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor of a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first computer, a request to share content of one or more applications on a displayable screen of a second computer;

summarizing the content to be displayed by the one or more applications;

transmitting, by the first computer, the summarized content to be shared by the one or more applications with the second computer;

expanding the summarized content to full content during a screen share with the second computer;

reverting the full content back to the summarized content upon detecting a user is away from the second computer; and

replacing the summarized content with a code name when the second computer is engaged in a different screen sharing session,

wherein the code name is based on a communication history between the first computer and the second computer.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, by the second computer, the summarized content shared by the one or more applications; and

displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

providing a user of the first computer an option to select a context menu to expand the summarized content to full content, or to contract the full content back to the summarized content.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, by the first computer, a first computer user input to display the content in place of the summarized content; and

displaying, by the second computer, the content.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein summarizing the content of the one or more applications is based on:

determining that the one or more received content of the one or more applications comprise confidential content; and

summarizing the confidential content.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein summarizing the content of the one or more applications is based on:

determining, by natural language processing, that the received content of the one or more applications comprise confidential content,

wherein the confidential content comprises any one of a personal name, address, bank information, telephone number, date of birth, and social security number, or any combination thereof; and

summarizing the confidential content.

15. A computer system, comprising:

one or more computer devices each having one or more processors and one or more tangible storage devices; and

a program embodied on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program having a plurality of program instructions for execution by the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising instructions for;

receiving, from a first computer, a request to share content of one or more applications displayable on a screen of a second computer;

summarizing the content to be displayed by the one or more applications;

transmitting, by the first computer, the summarized content to be shared by the one or more applications with the second computer;

expanding the summarized content to full content during a screen share with the second computer;

reverting the full content back to the summarized content upon detecting a user is away from the second computer; and

replacing the summarized content with a code name when the second computer is engaged in a different screen sharing session,

wherein the code name is based on a communication history between the first computer and the second computer.

16. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, by the second computer, the summarized content shared by the one or more applications; and

displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content.

17. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

providing a user of the first computer an option to select a context menu to expand the summarized content to full content, or to contract the full content back to the summarized content.

18. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, by the first computer, a first computer user input to display the content in place of the summarized content; and

displaying, by the second computer, the content.