Patent ID: 9026952
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of apprising a user operating a computing device that an application displaying content within a window on a display of the computing device is capturing a privacy-sensitive data stream, the method comprising: detecting when the application begins receiving a data stream captured by a camera, a microphone, a location sensor or an accelerometer of the computing device; at least partly in response to detecting that the application has begun receiving the data stream from the camera, the microphone, the location sensor or the accelerometer, causing display of a graphical icon on or adjacent to the window of the application on the display, the displayed graphical icon to visually represent the data stream received by the application; determining that the displayed graphical icon is obscured on the display of the computing device; and at least partly in response to the determining, blocking the application from receiving the data stream captured by the camera, the microphone, the location sensor or the accelerometer.