Patent ID: 11870824
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for controlling access to presentation content to be presented to a plurality of participants in a virtual meeting, said method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, the presentation content, wherein the presentation content comprises restricted information pertaining to one topic and has a security level with respect to the one topic;
after said receiving the presentation content, identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more first participants of the plurality of participants in the virtual meeting who will be provided access to the presentation content during the virtual meeting and one or more second participants of the plurality of participants in the virtual meeting who will be denied access to one or more portions of the presentation content containing one or more portions of the restricted information during the virtual meeting, said identifying being based on access factors comprising: (i) a security level of the one topic and (ii) a security clearance level of each participant of the plurality of participants with respect to the one topic;
in response to said identifying the one or more first participants and the one or more second participants, providing, by the one or more processors, entry by the one or more first participants to a safe zone within the virtual meeting, wherein the presentation content is presented in the safe zone to the one or more first participants during the virtual meeting and the one or more portions of the presentation content containing the restricted information is denied to the one or more second participants during the virtual meeting, wherein the one or more first participants in the safe zone have full access to all content presented in the virtual meeting and not presented in any other safe zone within the virtual meeting, wherein one or more techniques are used to deny the one or more second participants access to the restricted information during the virtual meeting, and wherein the one or more techniques include (i) watermarking of the restricted information, (ii) shading of the restricted information, (iii) screen blurring to disable clarity of visibility of a display screen used to display the restricted information to one or more second participants, or (iv) combinations thereof.