System and method for a user interface device with adaptive obfuscation

• US 10,643,363 B1
• Filed: 11/26/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Curfuffles, LLC
• Original Assignee: Curfuffles, LLC
• Inventors: Hartl, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Ryan R
• Application Number:
  US16/199,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20200167980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/36 Level of detail
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2358/00 Arrangements for display data security

Abstract

Systems and methods for adaptive obfuscation may include a user interface device, a hardware processor, and memory communicatively connected to the hardware processor. The user interface device may include a first hardware display with a first active display area, a first mirrored display area, and a first input area. The hardware processor may be configured to provide operations including receive a plurality of objects including first and second objects having respective first and second character sets with a predefined character length, select an obfuscation scheme defining an obfuscation condition, and obfuscate the first and second character sets according to the selected obfuscation scheme, and display the first character set in the first active display area and the second character set in the first mirrored display area.

Claims

1. A system for adaptive obfuscation, the system comprising:

a first user interface device having a first hardware display with a first active display area and a first input area;

a hardware processor; and

a memory communicatively connected to the hardware processor to provide operations including;

receive a plurality of objects including a first object having a first character set with a predefined character length;

select, by the hardware processor, an obfuscation scheme defining an obfuscation condition according to at least one of an obscured condition, a partially obscured condition, and a revealed condition;

obfuscate, by the hardware processor, the first character set to the obscured condition according to the selected obfuscation scheme; and

display, by the first hardware display, the first character set in the first active display area, the first character set being in the obscured condition.

2. The system of claim 1, the first user input device further including a transceiver in communication with a network, and the operations further comprising:

receive, by the transceiver, an external input; and

at least one of;

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character set from the obscured condition to a partially obscured condition based on at least one of the obfuscation scheme and the external input; and

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character set from the obscured condition to a further obscured condition based on at least one of the obfuscation scheme and the external input.

3. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

display, by the first hardware display, a first prompt for a first selection for the first character of the first character set;

receive, by way of a first user input into the first input area of the first hardware display, the first selection for the first character; and

determine, by the hardware processor, that the first selection is a correct selection matching the first character or an incorrect selection not matching the first character.

4. The system of claim 3, the operations further including:

in response to the correct selection,

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character to the revealed condition; and

display, by the first hardware display, the first character in the revealed condition; and

in response to the incorrect selection,

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character from the obscured condition to a further obscured condition according to the obfuscation scheme; and

display, by the first hardware display, the first character in the further obscured condition.

5. The system of claim 3, the operations further including:

determine whether the first character set includes any remaining obfuscated characters; and

at least one of;

in response to at least one character of the first character set being in the obfuscated or partially obfuscated condition, display, by the first hardware display, a second prompt for a second selection for a second character of the first character set; and

in response to none of the characters of the first character set being in the obfuscated or partially obfuscated condition, provide, by the first hardware display, access to a target display area.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the first hardware display includes a first mirrored display area, and the plurality of objects includes a second object having a second character set with the predefined character length, and further comprising a second user interface device having a second hardware display with a second active display area, a second mirrored display area, and a second input area, the operations further comprising:

in response to the incorrect selection, receive, by the second user interface device, the first and second objects having the obfuscation condition according to the first user interface device; and

display, by the second hardware display, the first character set in the second mirrored display area and the second character set in the second active display area while the first user interface device displays the first character set in the first active display area and the second character set in the first mirrored display area.

7. The system of claim 6, the operations further comprising:

display, by the second hardware display, a third prompt for a third selection for a third character of the second character set;

receive, by way of a second user input into the second input area of the second hardware display, the third selection for the third character; and

determine, by way of the hardware processor, that the third selection is a correct selection matching the third character or an incorrect selection not matching the third character.

8. The system of claim 7, the operations further including:

in response to the correct selection for the third character, at least one of;

display, by the second hardware display, the third character in the revealed condition; and

further adapt, by the hardware processor and on the first hardware display, the first character set according to the obfuscation scheme;

or

in response to the incorrect selection,

receive, by the first user interface device, the first and second objects having the obfuscation condition according to the second user interface device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the obfuscation scheme includes a plurality of adaptation factors, and the operations further including:

dynamically adapt, by the hardware processor, the obfuscation scheme according to the plurality of adaptation factors in response to at least one of the first, second and third selections.

10. A user interface device comprising:

a hardware processor;

memory in communication with the hardware processor;

a first hardware display with a first active display area and a first input area, the hardware processor providing operations comprising;

receive a plurality of objects including a first object having a first character set with a predefined character length;

select, by the hardware processor, an obfuscation scheme defining an obfuscation condition according to at least one of an obscured condition, a partially obscured condition, and a revealed condition;

obfuscate, by the hardware processor, the first character set to the obscured condition according to the selected obfuscation scheme; and

display, by the first hardware display, the first character set in the first active display area, the first character set being in the obscured condition.

11. The user interface device of claim 10, further comprising a transceiver in communication with a network, wherein the operations further include:

receive, by the transceiver, an external input; and

at least one of;

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character set from the obscured condition to a partially obscured condition based on at least one of the obfuscation scheme and the external input; and

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character set from the obscured condition to a further obscured condition based on at least one of the obfuscation scheme and the external input.

12. The user interface device of claim 10, further comprising:

display, by the first hardware display, a first prompt for a first selection for the first character of the first character set;

receive, by way of a first user input into the first input area of the first hardware display, the first selection for the first character; and

determine, by the hardware processor, that the first selection is a correct selection matching the first character or an incorrect selection not matching the first character.

13. The user interface device of claim 12, the operations further including at least one of:

in response to the correct selection,

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character to the revealed condition; and

display, by the first hardware display, the first character in the revealed condition; and

in response to the incorrect selection,

adapt, by the hardware processor, the first character from the obscured condition to a further obscured condition according to the obfuscation scheme; and

display, by the first hardware display, the first character in the further obscured condition.

14. The user interface device of claim 12, the operations further including:

determine whether the first character set includes any remaining obfuscated characters; and

at least one of;

in response to at least one character of the first character set being in the obfuscated or partially obfuscated condition, display, by the first hardware display, a second prompt for a second selection for a second character of the first character set; and

in response to none of the characters of the first character set being in the obfuscated or partially obfuscated condition, provide, by the first hardware display, access to a target display area.

15. The user interface device of claim 12, wherein the first hardware display is of a first user and includes a first mirrored display area associated with a second user interface device of a second user, the second user interface device having a second hardware display with a second active display area, a second mirrored display area, and a second input area, the plurality of objects include a second object having a second character set with the predefined character length, and the operations further comprise:

in response to the incorrect selection, receive, by the second user interface device of the second user and from the first user interface device of the first user, the first and second objects having the obfuscation condition according to the first user interface device; and

display, by the second hardware display of the second user, the first character set in the second mirrored display area and the second character set in the second active display area while the first user interface device of the first user displays the first character set in the first active display area and the second character set in the first mirrored display area.

16. The user interface device of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

display, by the second hardware display, a third prompt for a third selection for a third character of the second character set;

receive, by way of a second user input into the second input area of the second hardware display, the third selection for the third character; and

determine that the third selection is a correct selection matching the third character or an incorrect selection not matching the third character.

17. The user interface device of claim 16, the operations further including at least one of:

in response to the correct selection for the third character, at least one of;

display, by the second hardware display, the third character in the revealed condition; and

further adapt, by the hardware processor and on the first hardware display, the first character set according to the obfuscation scheme; and

in response to the incorrect selection,

receive, by the first user interface device, the first and second objects having the obfuscation condition according to the second user interface device.

18. The user interface device of claim 16, wherein the obfuscation scheme includes a plurality of adaptation factors, and the operations further including:

dynamically adapt, by the hardware processor, the obfuscation scheme according to the plurality of adaptation factors in response to at least one of the first, second and third selections.

19. A method for adaptive obfuscation, the method comprising:

providing a first user interface device having a hardware processor, a memory communicatively connected to the hardware processor, a first hardware display with a first active display area and a first input area, and a second hardware display with a second active display area and a second input area;

receiving a plurality of objects including a first object having a first character set with a predefined character length;

selecting, by the hardware processor, an obfuscation scheme defining an obfuscation condition according to at least one of an obscured condition, a partially obscured condition, and a revealed condition;

obfuscating, by the hardware processor, the first character set to the obscured condition according to the selected obfuscation scheme; and

displaying, by the first hardware display, the first character set in the first active display area, the first character set being in the obscured condition.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first user interface device is of a first user, the second user interface device is of a second user, the first user interface device includes a first transceiver in communication with a network, the second user interface device includes a second transceiver in communication with the first transceiver by way of the network, and the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the first transceiver of the first user, an external input from the second transceiver; and

at least one of;

adapting, by the hardware processor and on the first hardware display, the first character set from the obscured condition to a partially obscured condition based on at least one of the obfuscation scheme and the external input; and

adapting, by the hardware processor and on the first hardware display, the first character set from the obscured condition to a further obscured condition based on at least one of the obfuscation scheme and the external input.