Patent ID: 11869126
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
during a video conferencing session between a first device and a plurality of receiving devices, capturing a first display of the first device for screen sharing, the first display comprising a window on the first device, a file on the first device, an application on the first device, or an entire screen of the first device;
performing character or image recognition of the first display to identify one or more images or one or more characters in the first display;
determining, using stored data identifying restricted images or characters, that the one or more images or one or more characters is restricted for display;
in response to the determining that the one or more images or the one or more characters is restricted for display:
causing display of a user interface depicting an option to obscure at least a portion of the first display;
receiving via the user interface a selection of a first receiving device of the plurality of receiving devices; and
augmenting the image of the first display to obscure the one or more images or one or more characters; and

transmitting the augmented first display to the first receiving device of the plurality of receiving devices, and transmitting the unaugmented first display to a second receiving device of the plurality of receiving devices to a first device of the plurality of receiving devices, and transmitting the unaugmented first display to a second device of the plurality of devices.