Patent ID: 11902237
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method of securing information, comprising:
displaying, within a user interface of an email client, a message body field of a message to be composed;
receiving, within a recipient field of the user interface, an input from a user;
internally storing the input and not displaying the input within the recipient field during the receiving;
displaying, within the recipient field, a plurality of avatars corresponding to the input;
receiving, within the recipient field of the user interface, a selection of one of the plurality of avatars as corresponding to the recipient of the message; and
sending, to an electronic mail address mapped to the selected one of the plurality of avatars, the message, wherein
the user interface is configured to display, within the recipient field, the avatar of the electronic mail address in place of at least one of a name for the electronic mail address or the electronic mail address.