METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR APPLICATION INTERACTION

• US 20140317579A1
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC (UnitedHealth Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mckesson Financial Holdings Limited (McKesson Corp.)
• Inventors: Dickerson, Robert Scott
• Application Number:
  US14/010,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20140317579A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/867
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2358/00 Arrangements for display data security

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for enabling an application view, such as a current application view that contains personal or otherwise sensitive information to be protected with a screensaver in an instance in which a current application view is relegated to the background, minimized or the like, relegated to the background and/or the like. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises receiving a deactivation notification for an application being displayed in a foreground of a device visible view. The method of this embodiment may also include determining that at least a portion of the current view of the application comprises sensitive information. The method of this embodiment may also include adding a screensaver view to an application view stack top, wherein the screensaver view is operable to at least partially obscure the sensitive information in at least a portion of the current view.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a deactivation notification for an application being displayed in a foreground of a device visible view, the deactivation notification providing an indication that the application is to be pushed to the background;

determining, using a processor, that at least a portion of the current view of the application comprises sensitive information; and

adding a screensaver view to an application view stack top, wherein the screensaver view is operable to at least partially obscure the sensitive information in at least a portion of the current view.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

causing the application to be pushed to the background.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an activation notification for the application, the activation notification providing an indication that the application is to be pushed to the foreground.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

displaying the screensaver view in the foreground of the device visible view; and

displaying the current view in the device visible view by popping the screensaver view off of the application view stack.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising determining whether to perform a cached data refresh.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining that the application was in the background for a duration that exceeds a predetermined threshold; and

causing a challenge to be displayed in the foreground, wherein the challenge requires at least one of a correct password or personal identification number for authentication.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

performing a cached data refresh in an instance in which the challenge is satisfied; and

displaying the current view in the visible area.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the deactivation notification is received from an operating system.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the current view is the screen at the application view stack top.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the screensaver view is at least one of a redacted current view or a predesigned screensaver.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein sensitive information is determined based on at least one of the current view being classified as sensitive by the application, the current view containing sensitive information based on a word search or screen scrape or the current view being identified as sensitive by the user.

12. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least;

receive a deactivation notification for an application being displayed in a foreground of a device visible view, the deactivation notification providing an indication that the application is to be pushed to the background;

determine that at least a portion of the current view of the application comprises sensitive information; and

add a screensaver view to an application view stack top, wherein the screensaver view is operable to at least partially obscure the sensitive information in at least a portion of the current view.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the memory including the computer program code is further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

cause the application to be pushed to the background.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the memory including the computer program code is further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive an activation notification for the application, the activation notification providing an indication that the application is to be pushed to the foreground.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the memory including the computer program code is further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

display the screensaver view in the foreground of the device visible view; and

display the current view in the device visible view by popping the screensaver view off of the application view stack.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the memory including the computer program code is further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to determine whether to perform a cached data refresh.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the memory including the computer program code is further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

determine that the application was in the background for a duration that exceeds a predetermined threshold; and

cause a challenge to be displayed in the foreground, wherein the challenge requires at least one of a correct password or personal identification number for authentication.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the memory including the computer program code is further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:

perform a cached data refresh in an instance in which the challenge is satisfied; and

display the current view in the visible area.

19. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the current view is the screen at the application view stack top and wherein the screensaver view is at least one of a redacted current view or a predesigned screensaver.

20. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to configure an apparatus to at least:

receive a deactivation notification for an application being displayed in a foreground of a device visible view, the deactivation notification providing an indication that the application is to be pushed to the background;

determine that at least a portion of the current view of the application comprises sensitive information; and

add a screensaver view to an application view stack top, wherein the screensaver view is operable to at least partially obscure the sensitive information in at least a portion of the current view.