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US 9,003,551 B2Granted
System and method for obscuring displayed information
AssigneeSap SE
InventorTimo Hoyer
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Abstract
A method includes obtaining information from an application to display to a user of a device having a screen from which information may be viewed by more than one person, generating a cover to selectively obscure sensitive information contained in a portion of the screen displaying the information, and receiving user input to selectively invoke or remove the cover relative to sensitive information to obscure display of the sensitive information on the screen.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- obtaining information from an application to display to a user of a device having a screen from which information is viewable by more than one person;
- generating a cover for a portion of the screen to selectively obscure sensitive information placed in the portion of the screen by the application, wherein the cover is a user interface object addable on top of the application and that is positionable and sizeable by user interaction via the user interface object to cover a desired portion of the screen;
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- receiving user input to selectively invoke or remove the cover relative to the portion of the screen to obscure display of the sensitive information on the screen placed in the portion of the screen by the application.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a computer readable storage device coupled to provide code to the processor;
- an application stored on the computer readable storage device to generate information for display on a display device, the information including sensitive information to be positioned in a selected portion of the display device;
- a cover module stored on the computer readable storage device to generate and control a cover positioned in the selected portion of the screen to selectively obscure the sensitive information, wherein the cover is a user interface object addable on top of the application and that is positionable and sizeable by user interaction via the user interface object to cover a desired portion of the screen.
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A computer readable storage device having instructions to cause a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
- obtaining information from an application to display to a user of a device having a screen from which information is viewable by more than one person;
- generating a cover for a portion of the screen to selectively obscure sensitive information placed in the portion of the screen by the application;
- and
- receiving user input to selectively invoke or remove the cover relative to the portion of the screen to obscure display of the sensitive information on the screen, wherein the cover is a user interface object addable on top of the application and that is positionable and sizeable by user interaction via the user interface object to cover a desired portion of the screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.