Patent ID: 8863008
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for automatic censoring of a graphical user interface (GUI) screen of a computer, the method comprising: receiving a censoring trigger by a censoring module of the computer; identifying information present in the GUI screen of the computer by an object recognition module; comparing, by the censoring module of the computer, the identified information with a set of preferences stored in a censoring preferences module to automatically determine a first piece of the identified information to be removed from the GUI screen of the computer; displaying a list of the identified information to a user; receiving a selection from the user of a second piece of the identified information from the list; removing the first piece of the identified information and the second piece of the identified information from the GUI screen of the computer by the censoring module; adding the second piece of information to the set of preferences in the censoring preferences module; receiving a censoring trigger by the censoring module, wherein the censoring trigger comprises a screen share of the GUI screen, and wherein the screen share comprises sharing a region of the GUI screen of the computer that is less than the entire GUI screen of the computer; and removing from the GUI screen a third piece of information corresponding to the second piece of information by the censoring module based on the adding of the selected piece of information to the set of preferences in the censoring preferences module, wherein the first piece of the identified information is removed from the screen share based on information that was identified in the GUI screen by the object recognition module and that is located in a portion of the GUI screen of the computer outside of the shared region.