Privacy-preserving collaborative whiteboard using augmented reality
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAllison Irvin, Filiz Isabell Kiral, Lenin Mehedy, Nicholas Waywood
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Abstract
Providing a method for secure collaboration amongst professionals so that the contents of a collaborative work session are only seen and accessed by those professionals who are authorized to view the contents. A privacy-preserving whiteboard device, along with a set of Augmented Reality (AR) Headsets that are securely and communicatively connected to the privacy-preserving whiteboard device are used to ensure the confidentiality of the contents of the collaboration session.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method (CIM) comprising:
- providing a first privacy-preserving whiteboard device, with the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device having a capability to communicatively connect to a first Augmented Reality (AR) Headset;
- receiving, from a first user, a request to pair the first AR Headset that is respectively associated with the first user for a first work session to the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device;
- pairing, by an authentication module of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, the first AR Headset to the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device so that the first AR Headset is registered as a first authorized user of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device during the first work session;
- subsequent to the pairing of the first AR Headset to the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, recording, by the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, a first audio content created by the first user and a first visual content created by the first user, with the first visual content only being displayed to authorized users of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device;
- storing, by the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, the first audio content and the first visual content;
- sending, by the authentication module of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, a permission access key to a second user, the permission access key authorizing the second user as a second authorized user of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device;
- using, by the second user, the permission access key as the second authorized user to gain access the privacy-preserving whiteboard device;
- and
- accessing, by the second user, the first audio content created by the first user and the first visual content created by the first user, with a zoom level of the first visual content created by the first user being in a form that is configurable by the first user and the second user, and with the first audio content being customizable by the second user in order to meet auditory requirements of the second user.
A computer program product (CPP) comprising:
- a machine readable storage device;
- and
- computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions and data for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following:
- receiving, from a first user, a request to pair the first AR Headset that is respectively associated with the first user for a first work session to the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device,
- pairing, by an authentication module of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, the first AR Headset to the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device so that the first AR Headset is registered as a first authorized user of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device during the first work session,
- subsequent to the pairing of the first AR Headset to the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, recording, by the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, a first audio content created by the first user and a first visual content created by the first user, with the first visual content only being displayed to authorized users of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device,
- storing, by the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, the first audio content and the first visual content,
- sending, by the authentication module of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, a permission access key to a second user, the permission access key authorizing the second user as a second authorized user of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device,
- using, by the second user, the permission access key as the second authorized user to gain access the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, and
- accessing, by the second user, the first audio content created by the first user and the first visual content created by the first user, with a zoom level of the first visual content created by the first user being in a form that is configurable by the first user and the second user, and with the first audio content being customizable by the second user in order to meet auditory requirements of the second user;
- wherein the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device has a capability to communicatively connect to a first Augmented Reality (AR) Headset.
A computer system (CS) comprising:
- a processor(s) set;
- a machine readable storage device;
- and
- computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions and data for causing the processor(s) set to perform operations including the following:
- receiving, from a first user, a request to pair the first AR Headset that is respectively associated with the first user for a first work session to the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device,
- pairing, by an authentication module of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, the first AR Headset to the first privacy-preserving whiteboard device so that the first AR Headset is registered as a first authorized user of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device during the first work session,
- subsequent to the pairing of the first AR Headset to the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, recording, by the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, a first audio content created by the first user and a first visual content created by the first user, with the first visual content only being displayed to authorized users of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device,
- storing, by the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, the first audio content and the first visual content,
- sending, by the authentication module of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device, a permission access key to a second user, the permission access key authorizing the second user as a second authorized user of the privacy-preserving whiteboard device;
- using, by the second user, the permission access key as the second authorized user to gain access the privacy-preserving whiteboard device;
- and
- accessing, by the second user, the first audio content created by the first user and the first visual content created by the first user, with a zoom level of the first visual content created by the first user being in a form that is configurable by the first user and the second user, and with the first audio content being customizable by the second user in order to meet auditory requirements of the second user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.