Patent ID: 10311251

Abstract:
The embodiments herein provide a method and system for masking personally identifiable elements in a captured multimedia content and communicating through an integrated messaging system. The method comprises capturing multimedia content, automatically or manually identifying and selecting content or coordinates of the personally identifiable elements for modification manually, automatically or semi-automatically, modifying the identified elements through a disfiguring or masking process selected from a group consisting of blurring, pixelating, pixel manipulation, modulating, deleting, hiding, applying several layers to an image or frame, superimposing an image or character, audio processing, and altering multimedia information, and displaying the modified multimedia on the second computing device. The modification is done internally at sender end, or externally at a central server or at a receiver end device. The multimedia content is modified and stored for sharing with another user at a later time. One or more elements of the multimedia content are modified.