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US 11,902,237 B2Granted
Security and prevention of information harvesting from user interfaces
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsItzhack Goldberg, Bruce A. Kahn
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Abstract
Securing information within a user interface can include mapping, using a processor, an electronic mail address to an avatar, wherein the mapped electronic mail address and the avatar are stored within a data storage device, and generating, using the processor, a user interface including a message correlated with the electronic mail address. The user interface displays the avatar of the electronic mail address in place of at least one of a name for the electronic mail address or the electronic mail address.
Claims6
A computer-implemented method of securing information, comprising:
- displaying, within a user interface of an email client, a message body field of a message to be composed;
- receiving, within a recipient field of the user interface, an input from a user;
- internally storing the input and not displaying the input within the recipient field during the receiving;
- displaying, within the recipient field, a plurality of avatars corresponding to the input;
- receiving, within the recipient field of the user interface, a selection of one of the plurality of avatars as corresponding to the recipient of the message;
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- sending, to an electronic mail address mapped to the selected one of the plurality of avatars, the message, wherein
- the user interface is configured to display, within the recipient field, the avatar of the electronic mail address in place of at least one of a name for the electronic mail address or the electronic mail address.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.