Device, System, and Method of Obfuscating an Un-obfuscated Visual Content Displayed on a Mobile Device
AssigneeKairos Social Solutions, Inc.
InventorTailim Song
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Abstract
A message is received via a first mobile device. The message is sent from a second mobile device. The message contains unobfuscated visual content. The un-obfuscated visual content is displayed on a screen of the first mobile device. A detection is made via the first mobile device that a first user of the first mobile device made one or more engagements with the first mobile device. Based on the detecting, a determination is made that the first user is attempting to screenshot the un-obfuscated visual content via the first mobile device. In response to the determining, the un-obfuscated visual content displayed on the screen of the first mobile device is obfuscated.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, via a first mobile device, a message sent from a second mobile device, wherein the message contains on-obfuscated visual content;
- displaying the un-obfuscated visual content, on a screen of the first mobile device;
- detecting, via the first mobile device, one or more engagements with the first mobile device from a first user of the first mobile device;
- determining, based on the detecting, that the first user is attempting to screenshot the un-obfuscated visual content via the first mobile device;
- and
- obfuscating, in response to the determining, the un-obfuscated visual content displayed on the screen of the first mobile device.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a first mobile device, a message sent from a second mobile device, wherein the message contains un-obfuscated visual content;
- displaying the unobfuscated visual content on a screen of the first mobile device;
- detecting, via the first mobile device, one or more engagements with the first mobile device from a first user of the first mobile device;
- determining, based on the detecting, that the first user is attempting to save the un-obfuscated visual content as an electronic file to an electronic memory of the first mobile device;
- and
- preventing, in response to the determining, the first mobile device from saving the un-obfuscated visual content as the electronic file to the electronic memory of the first mobile device.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a first mobile device, a message sent from a second mobile device, wherein the message contains un-obfuscated visual content;
- displaying the un-obfuscated visual content on a screen of the first mobile device;
- determining that a person is attempting to screenshot the un-obfuscated visual content via the first mobile device, or that a person is attempting to record a picture or a video of the un-obfuscated visual content via a camera that is external to the first mobile device;
- and
- obfuscating, in response to the determining, the un-obfuscated visual content displayed on the screen of the first mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.