Secure communication tool for use alongside non-secure communications
AssigneeRhinogram Inc.
InventorsBo Ferger, Rob Whelan
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Abstract
A method of communicating through a less secure messaging system provides an option of masking messages sent from a second party to a first party so that they are unreadable when received by the first party. For some embodiments, it may be that they are visible, but unreadable, other embodiments, not visible. In either case, an authorization may be provided by the first party to make the masked messages readable messages, for many embodiments until a session rule makes the readable message a masked message again.
Claims22
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising software instructions for execution on an electronic device of a second party to implement a secure communication tool for use in exchanging secure messages between the electronic device of the second party and an electronic device of a first party within a less secure messaging system, the less secure messaging system comprising a messaging application configured to exchange unsecured messages, wherein the secure communication tool is configured to cooperate with the messaging application to enable communications of the secure messages over the less secure messaging system, the secure communication tool comprising:
- a user interface element configured to display a user-selectable send option on the electronic device of the second party, wherein the user-selectable send option, when selected by the second party, is configured to enable the electronic device of the second party to send a secure message to the electronic device of the first party over the less secure messaging system using the messaging application;
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- one or more access controls configured, in response to the second party selecting the user-selectable send option, to create the secure message, wherein the secure message contains at least one portion that is masked to be unreadable on the electronic device of the first party until after the first party has provided an authorization to enable the at least one masked portion to be displayed as a readable message on the electronic device of the first party.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising software instructions for execution on an electronic device of a first party to implement a secure communication tool for use in exchanging secure messages between an electronic device of a second party and the electronic device of the first party within a less secure messaging system, the less secure messaging system comprising a messaging application configured to exchange unsecured messages, wherein the secure communication tool is configured to cooperate with the messaging application to enable communications of the secure messages over the less secure messaging system, the secure communication tool comprising:
- a user interface element configured to receive an authorization from the first party on the electronic device of the first party, wherein the authorization is associated with at least one masked portion of a secure message that has been received by the electronic device of the first party over the less secure messaging system from the electronic device of the second party;
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- one or more access controls configured, in response to the first party providing the authorization, to convert the at least one masked portion of the secure message into a readable message for display on a screen of the electronic device of the first party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.