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US 2014/0157121 A1Published application
Preventing malicious observance of private information
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLi Jun Jiang, Rui Lin, Hao Meng Wang, Qin Zhao
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Abstract
A technique for preventing malicious observance of private information includes receiving an instruction of entering a mode of inputting private information; determining a correspondence between actual inputs and expected inputs; receiving an actual user input; and converting the actual input into an expected input as private information inputted by the user according to the correspondence. This security technique can prevent discovery of the private information of a user through observation.
Claims5
A method comprising:
- determining a correspondence between visible input cues presented via a graphical user interface and input values, wherein each of the visible input cues indicate a value other than the corresponding input value;
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- in response to selection of any one of the visible input cues via the graphical user interface,
- determining the input value that corresponds to the selected visible input cue;
- generating at least one of an audio output and a tactile output that indicates the corresponding input value instead of visually presenting the corresponding input value.
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