Privacy-preserving user-experience monitoring
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJoseph W. Ligman, Marco Pistoia, Gegi Thomas, Stephen P. Wood
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Abstract
A method of operating a mobile device includes displaying a user interface as an image, the user interface being composed of a plurality of widgets, storing a privacy policy identifying at least one of the widgets, capturing a screenshot image corresponding to the screenshot image, excluding the at least one of the widgets from the screenshot image to create a modified screenshot image, and transmitting the modified screenshot image over a network to a monitoring server.
Claims16
A method of operating a mobile device comprising:
- displaying a user interface as an image, said user interface being composed of a plurality of widgets;
- storing a privacy policy identifying at least one of said widgets;
- capturing a screenshot image corresponding to said screenshot image;
- excluding said at least one of said widgets from said screenshot image to create a modified screenshot image;
- and
- transmitting said modified screenshot image over a network to a monitoring server.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, said program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:
- display a user interface as an image, said user interface being composed of a plurality of widgets;
- store a privacy policy identifying at least one of said widgets;
- capture a screenshot image corresponding to said screenshot image;
- exclude said at least one of said widgets from said screenshot image to create a modified screenshot image;
- and
- transmit said modified screenshot image over a network to a monitoring server.
A computer network comprising:
- a mobile device running an application capturing and modifying a screenshot image using privacy policy to generate a modified screenshot image;
- a computer network;
- and
- a monitoring server in signal communication with said mobile device over said computer network, wherein said monitoring server provides said privacy policy to said mobile device and receives said modified screenshot image from said mobile device, and wherein said privacy policy identifies a plurality of widgets of a user interface to be excluded from said screenshot image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.