Systems and methods for dynamically concealing sensitive information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11849256-B2
Application number	US-202217868948-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2022
Priority date	Aug 20, 2020
Publication date	Dec 19, 2023
Grant date	Dec 19, 2023

Abstract

Systems and methods for dynamically concealing sensitive information in a shared screen session of a video conference are disclosed. The system may establish communication with one or more computing devices active in a video conference in which each computing device may switch between a screen share mode and a video mode. The system may determine that one or more articles of sensitive information are visible in a graphical user interface associated with a first computing device of the plurality of computing devices. The system may receive a first signal from the first computing device that indicates a first intent of a host associated with the first computing device to switch the screen share mode which includes sharing the first graphical user interface with the one or more computing devices during the video conference. In response to the first signal, the system may execute one or more privacy actions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the system to:
establish communication with one or more computing devices participating in a video conference;
monitor a first graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a first computing device of the one or more computing devices for one or more articles of sensitive information;
receive a first signal from the first computing device indicating a first intent to switch from a video mode to a screen share mode of the video conference, wherein the screen share mode comprises sharing at least a first portion of the first GUI with at least a second computing device of the one or more computing devices during the video conference; and
responsive to receiving the first signal:
detect at least a first article of the one or more articles of sensitive information on the first GUI by determining a first template field within the first GUI exceeds a similarity threshold associated with one or more predetermined template fields; and
execute one or more privacy actions comprising causing at least the second computing device of the one or more computing devices to display the video mode in place of the first GUI.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the one or more computing devices may switch between the screen share mode and the video mode of the video conference.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein detecting at least the first article of the one or more articles of sensitive information on the first GUI comprises identifying one or more templates having at least one template field containing the one or more articles of sensitive information.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein identifying the one or more templates having at least one template field containing the one or more articles of sensitive information is conducted by a machine learning model.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first signal comprises an audio queue based on one or more utterances of a user of the first computing device, and the instructions are further configured to cause the system to:
receive data indicative of the audio queue from the first computing device; and
detect one or more keywords indicative of the first intent.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more privacy actions are determined based in part on user security preferences.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein detecting at least the first article of the one or more articles of sensitive information on the first GUI comprises generating a second GUI that conceals at least the first article of the one or more articles of sensitive information, and wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the system to:
receive a second signal from the first computing device indicating a second intent to reveal at least the first article of the one or more articles of sensitive information to at least the second computing device of the one or more computing devices;
generate, for display on at least the second computing device, a third GUI that reveals at least the first article of sensitive information while keeping a remainder of the one or more articles of sensitive information concealed;
monitor the third GUI for at least a second article of sensitive information;
responsive to detecting the second article of sensitive information in the third GUI, disable the screen share mode of the third GUI with at least the second computing device of the one or more computing devices;
generate a fourth GUI based on concealing the second article of sensitive information in the third GUI; and
provide the fourth GUI for display on at least the second computing device of the one or more computing devices.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more articles of sensitive information comprise a social security number, a credit card number, a bank account number, a password, a private message, or combinations thereof.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein detecting at least the first article of the one or more articles of sensitive information on the first GUI comprises:
parsing a data entry in the first template field; and
identifying one or more sequences of characters in the data entry.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein executing the one or more privacy actions is responsive to identifying the one or more sequences of characters in the data entry.

11. A system comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the system to:
receive, from a first computing device in a video conference with at least a second computing device, a first signal for the first computing device to screen share a first graphical user interface (GUI) with at least the second computing device;
monitor the first GUI for one or more articles of sensitive information;
detect the one or more articles of sensitive information in the first GUI by determining a first template field within the first GUI exceeds a similarity threshold associated with one or more predetermined template fields; and
responsive to detecting the one or more articles of sensitive information in the first GUI:
disable a screen share view comprising the first GUI from being displayed on at least the second computing device; and
cause at least the second computing device to display a non-screen share view in place of the screen share view of the first GUI.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein causing at least the second computing device to display the non-screen share view happens in substantially real-time in response to disabling the screen share view.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the system to:
receive a second signal from the first computing device to display the one or more articles of sensitive information in the screen share view; and
cause at least the second computing device to display the screen share view in place of the non-screen share view of the first GUI.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein detecting the one or more articles of sensitive information in the first GUI is based on identifying, via a machine learning model, one or more templates having at least one template field containing one or more articles of sensitive information.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first signal comprises data generated in response to the first computing device receiving an input from a user of the first computing device.

16. A method comprising:
receiving, from a first computing device in a video conference with at least a second computing device, a first signal for the first computing device to screen share a first graphical user interface (GUI) with at least the second computing device;
monitoring the first GUI for one or more articles of sensitive information;
detecting the one or more articles of sensitive information in the first GUI by determining a first template field within the first GUI exceeds a similarity threshold associated with one or more predetermined template fields; and
responsive to detecting the one or more articles of sensitive information in the first GUI:
disabling a screen share mode comprising the first GUI with at least the second computing device; and
causing at least the second computing device to display a non-screen share mode in place of the first GUI.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein det

Assignees

• Capital One Services Llc

Inventors

• Truong Anh
• Farivar Reza
• Goodsitt Jeremy Edward
• Key Kate
• Pham Vincent
• Rafferty Galen
• Walters Austin

Classifications

• H04N7/152 Primary

  Multipoint control units therefor · CPC title

• H04L63/168

  above the transport layer · CPC title

• H04L2209/16

  Obfuscation or hiding, e.g. involving white box · CPC title

• H04N7/15 Primary

  Conference systems · CPC title

• G06F3/1454

  involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay · CPC title