Patent ID: 8397294

Claim:
A method for a computing device communicating security information, the method comprising: receiving online content from a server connected to the computing device via a network connection; displaying the received online content on a display of the computing device, the displayed online content identifying one or more content fields; detecting content received via a user interface of the computing device in the one or more content fields, wherein the content received via the user interface corresponds to one or more types of information; determining whether the content received via the user interface comprises protected information based on one or more criteria stored in one or more data stores accessible to the computing device, wherein the one or more criteria comprises a weight of sensitivity corresponding to the one or more types of information, and wherein a measure of protected information is determined based on the weight of sensitivity and an amount of the content received via the user interface; determining whether the network connection between the computing device and the server is encrypted; and when the network connection is not encrypted displaying a visual indication on the display in response to determining that the measure exceeds a protected information threshold.