Filtering data requiring confidentiality in monitor mirroring

• US 20060200066A1
• Filed: 02/27/2006
• Published: 09/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Fischer, Axel
• Granted Patent: US 8,347,395 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for monitor mirroring in the display of data requiring confidentiality is disclosed, including a computer system, an identification unit that identifies the data requiring confidentiality, and a filter unit that filters the identified data requiring confidentiality, so that only the filtered data and data not requiring confidentiality are shown on the monitor. The screen content of the monitor can thereupon be mirrored onto a further monitor.

Claims

1. A method for monitor mirroring of a computer system in the display of data sets that include data requiring confidentiality, the method comprising:

identifying data requiring confidentiality from the data sets that are to be displayed;

filtering the data requiring confidentiality before the data are displayed;

displaying the filtered data on at least one monitor; and

performing the monitor mirroring with the filtered data.

2. The method as defined by claim 1,

wherein the filtering includes at one of least the following:

deleting, anonymizing, pseudonymizing the data requiring confidentiality, or combinations thereof.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein the monitor mirroring includes the mirroring of a first monitor onto a plurality of second monitors.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the filtering or the identifying is done automatically.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein filtering is operable to be deactivated.

6. The method as in claim 1 wherein the data requiring confidentiality involve medical data.

7. The method as in claim 6, wherein the data is in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format.

8. The method as in claim 1, wherein the displayed filtered data are stored in memory.

9. The method as in claim 1, wherein the identification is controlled via a data structure of the data sets.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the filtering or the identifying is done automatically.

11. The method as in claim 10, wherein filtering is operable to be deactivated.

12. The method as in claim 11 wherein the data requiring confidentiality involve medical data.

13. The method as in claim 10, wherein the identification is controlled via a data structure of the data sets.

14. An apparatus for monitor mirroring in the display of data sets that include data requiring confidentiality, comprising:

an identification unit, operable to identify data requiring confidentiality from a quantity of data sets that are to be displayed;

a filter unit, operable to filter the data requiring confidentiality before the data are displayed;

a first monitor being associated with a computer system, and a second monitor, each monitor being capable of displaying the filtered data; and

a mirroring module, operable to execute the monitor mirroring using the filtered data,

wherein the filter unit is located downstream of the computer system and upstream of the monitors.

15. The apparatus as in claim 14, wherein the filter unit is located upstream of a graphical interface of the computer system.