Patent ID: 7464268
Filing Date: 2008-12-09
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for customizing the privatizing of instant messages, comprising: detecting a marking of selected information in an instant message as displayed in a chat window as sensitive data; encrypting the sensitive data; converting the encrypted sensitive data into XML compliant privately tagged data; sending the privately tagged data over a communications network to at least one recipient's processing device; parsing received data streams for the privately tagged data; determining whether the at least one recipient's processing device has accepted a decryption key by accessing a certificate authority for a list of keys associated with a selected recipient; if accepted, decrypting the privately tagged data utilizing the decryption key and creating a text message including the decrypted privately tagged data; if not accepted, creating the text message including the non-privately tagged data without the privately tagged data; sending the text message to a display device of the at least one recipient's processing device for recipients that have accepted the decryption key; upon finding the selected recipient among the list, determining whether the key has been accepted by the selected recipient; utilizing an accepted key to decrypt the encrypted privately tagged data; offering a decryption key to a selected recipient for decrypting the privately tagged data; notifying a certificate authority of acceptance of the decryption key; storing information on the decryption key and recipient; storing information on decryption keys in a certificate authority by updating records in the certificate authority when a change occurs in at least one of decryption keys, owners of decryption keys, or recipients of decryption keys; notifying the owner of the decryption key of the refusal of the decryption key by any of the selected recipients; receiving the privately tagged data by selected recipient's processing device and communicating to selected recipients a decryption key for decrypting the privately tagged data; and decrypting the privately tagged data into a text message and displaying the text message on a display device coupled to the selected recipient's processing device.