Adaptive content masking during web conferencing meetings

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12088649-B2
Application number	US-202117445546-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 20, 2021
Priority date	Aug 20, 2021
Publication date	Sep 10, 2024
Grant date	Sep 10, 2024

Abstract

Adaptive content masking is provided. Content visibility customizations are applied to a view of shared information by respective participants during screen sharing in a web conferencing meeting using content visibility control settings. Content visibility is adjusted via adaptive learning based on frequency and type of screen sharing previously completed between a content presenter and respective participants of the web conferencing meeting. Content masking is applied adaptively based on monitoring the shared information and correlating the shared information with respective participants by retrieving meeting information prior to the web conferencing meeting and retrieving screen capture attributes from metadata of the web conferencing meeting that are mapped to the shared information being displayed on screens corresponding to respective participants.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for adaptive content masking, the computer-implemented method comprising:
applying, by a computer, content visibility customizations to a view of shared information by respective participants during screen sharing in a web conferencing meeting using content visibility control settings, wherein the content visibility control settings comprise predefined content visibility control settings and system-generated content visibility control settings, wherein the predefined content visibility control setting are defined prior to starting a presentation, wherein the predefined content visibility control settings include one or more rules identifying information that is never to be shared in any presentation to any participants;
adjusting, by the computer, content visibility via adaptive learning based on frequency and type of screen sharing in one or more prior web conference meetings previously completed between a content presenter and respective participants of the web conferencing meeting; and
applying, by the computer, content masking adaptively based on the content visibility control settings and based on monitoring the shared information and correlating the shared information with respective participants by retrieving meeting information prior to the web conferencing meeting and retrieving screen capture attributes from metadata of the web conferencing meeting that are mapped to the shared information being displayed on screens corresponding to respective participants, wherein the content masking is applied dynamically in real time based on changes in roles of presenter and participants.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
rendering, by the computer, content in a web conferencing application by modifying and controlling the shared information during the web conferencing meeting;
generating, by the computer, the system-generated content visibility control settings with respect to the shared information based on context of the web conferencing meeting and participants of the web conferencing meeting; and
controlling, by the computer, access to application navigation and web browsing on a client device of the content presenter by the participants during control sharing in the web conferencing meeting using the content visibility control settings.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
transferring, by the computer, a set of applications shown on a screen of a client device corresponding to the content presenter to another screen automatically so the set of applications cannot be seen by participants of the web conferencing meeting based on predefined content visibility control settings.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
retrieving, by the computer, an agenda corresponding to the web conferencing meeting and details corresponding to participants of the web conferencing meeting;
retrieving, by the computer, the predefined content visibility control settings for the web conferencing meeting;
retrieving, by the computer, a set of content visibility restriction settings created by a content presenter for the web conferencing meeting;
retrieving, by the computer, a current project of the content presenter and details of applications corresponding to the current project;
retrieving, by the computer, data from electronic calendar entries of the content presenter corresponding to the current project; and
retrieving, by the computer, a list of applications installed on a client device used by the content presenter for the web conferencing meeting.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising:
generating, by the computer, the system-generated content visibility control settings for the web conferencing meeting based on at least one of the agenda corresponding to the web conferencing meeting, the details corresponding to the participants of the web conferencing meeting, the predefined content visibility control settings, the set of content visibility restriction settings created by the content presenter for the web conferencing meeting, the current project of the content presenter, the details of the applications corresponding to the current project, the data from the electronic calendar entries of the content presenter corresponding to the current project, or the list of applications installed on the client device of the content presenter.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:
selecting, by the computer, which portions of a screen of a client device corresponding to the content presenter are invisible to participants during the web conferencing meeting using the set of content visibility control settings for the web conferencing meeting; and
selecting, by the computer, which pop-up notifications on the screen of the client device corresponding to the content presenter are invisible to the participants during the web conferencing meeting using the set of content visibility control settings for the web conferencing meeting.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
controlling, by the computer, visibility of confidential content included in the shared information to participants of the web conferencing meeting by masking the confidential content with a content masking shape to conceal the confidential content from a specific set of participants during the web conferencing meeting using the system-generated content visibility control settings for the web conferencing meeting, while a remaining set of participants view the confidential content during the web conferencing meeting.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 further comprising:
determining, by the computer, whether a request by a participant of the specific set of participants not able to view the confidential content to view specific content is granted based on at least one of the system-generated content visibility control settings or an input from the content presenter;
responsive to the computer determining that the request by the participant to view the specific content is not granted based on at least one of the system-generated content visibility control settings or the input from the content presenter, notifying, by the computer, the participant that the request to view the specific content is denied; and
responsive to the computer determining that the request by the participant to view the specific content is granted based on at least one of the system-generated content visibility control settings or the input from the content presenter, sharing, by the computer, the specific content with the participant.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
recording, by the computer, participant feedback received during the web conferencing meeting in a knowledgebase for adaptive learning.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
disabling, by the computer, a set of functionalities of a client device corresponding to the content presenter so that participants of the web conferencing meeting cannot utilize the set of functionalities during control sharing in the web conferencing meeting.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the computer utilizes a deep convolutional neural network to identify and capture confidential content shown on a screen of the content presenter at any given time during the web conferencing meeting.

12. A computer system for adaptive content masking, the computer system comprising:
a bus system;
a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device stores program instructions; and

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Asthana Avinash
• Kwatra Shikhar
• Pandey Diwesh
• Bose Tathagato

Classifications

• H04L63/102

  Entity profiles · CPC title

• G06N5/02

  Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation · CPC title

• H04L63/104

  Grouping of entities · CPC title

• G06N3/02

  Neural networks · CPC title

• H04L63/101

  Access control lists [ACL] · CPC title