INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140150117A1
• Filed: 01/30/2012
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamahara, Hisanori
• Granted Patent: US 9,202,030 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2105 Dual mode as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2123 Dummy operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment

Abstract

To reduce a fear in that another person notices limitation of a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to a user, a page generation unit identifies a publicly-displayable range of information on the user based on control information, which is information different from a password and is identified based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device. The page generation unit limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the page generation unit.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

control information identification means for identifying control information, which is information different from a password, based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device;

publicly-displayable range identification means for identifying a publicly-displayable range of information on a user based on the control information; and

limiting means for limiting a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the publicly-displayable range identification means.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the publicly-displayable range identification means identifies a first information element from among one or more information elements on the user, and

wherein the limiting means limits, to the identified first information element, the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2,

wherein to each of the one or more information elements, a secrecy level representing a degree of secrecy of the information is set,

wherein the control information identification means identifies the secrecy level, and

wherein the publicly-displayable range identification means identifies an information element having set thereto a secrecy level representing secrecy that is lower than secrecy represented by the identified secrecy level.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the limiting means limits a range of information displayed on the screen provided to the user.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, further comprising:

control means for controlling information included in the screen provided to the user so that alternative information is arranged instead of information limited to be excluded from the screen.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when a condition that the password input to the input device includes a character string set in advance by the user is satisfied, the limiting means limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when any one of a plurality of passwords associated with different ranges of information is input to the input device, the limiting means limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within a range of information associated with the any one of the plurality of passwords input to the input device.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of passwords have the same number of characters.

9. The information processing system according to claim 8, wherein at least parts of keys used to input characters at the same positions from a top of the plurality of passwords match with each other.

10. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control information identification means identifies the control information based on an input interval of characters included in the password or a time period calculated based on a time when an input of the password is enabled and a time when a character included in the password is input.

11. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

authentication means for authenticating the user by using the password input to the input device,

wherein the limiting means limits a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided when the user is successfully authenticated by the authentication means so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the publicly-displayable range identification means.

16. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the limiting means limits a range of information displayed on the screen provided to the user.

17. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein when a condition that the password input to the input device includes a character string set in advance by the user is satisfied, the limiting means limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen.

18. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein when any one of a plurality of passwords associated with different ranges of information is input to the input device, the limiting means limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within a range of information associated with the any one of the plurality of passwords input to the input device.

12. An information processing method, comprising:

a control information identification step of identifying control information, which is information different from a password, based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device;

a publicly-displayable range identification step of identifying a publicly-displayable range of information on a user based on the control information; and

a limiting step of limiting a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified in the publicly-displayable range identification step.

13. An information processing device, comprising:

publicly-displayable range identification means for identifying a publicly-displayable range of information on a user based on control information, which is information different from a password and is identified based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device; and

limiting means for limiting a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the publicly-displayable range identification means.

14. (canceled)

15. A non-transitory storage medium having a program stored thereon, the program causing a computer to function as:

publicly-displayable range identification means for identifying a publicly-displayable range of information on a user based on control information, which is information different from a password and is identified based on content of an operation performed in a password input field with an input device; and

limiting means for limiting a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range identified by the publicly-displayable range identification means.