Patent Document ID: 9405934
Application ID: 14328906

Base Claim:
1. A method for hiding sensitive data in a plain text environment, comprising: recognizing a starting key entered by a user in the plain text environment, wherein the starting key indicates to a working system that text input subsequent to the starting key that is entered by the user is to be hidden according to a specified hiding method; receiving subsequent plain text, the working system carrying out the hiding method on the plain text so that input plain text is not displayed on a user display in the plain text environment at a time that the plain text is being entered by the user; recognizing an ending key, ending the hiding method and displaying on the user display subsequently input plain text being entered by the user in the plain text environment; and recognizing in the plain text a plain text character indication of a user group wherein a member of the user group is allowed to view the plain text subsequent to the starting key conditionally on a recognizing of the indication.

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Claim 2:
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , including reading, in a plain text environment by a working system, including; recognizing the starting key in a plain text environment, wherein the starting key indicates to the working system that data subsequent to the starting key is hidden according to a specified hiding method; unhiding the subsequent data by the working system carrying out an inverse hiding method on the data; and recognizing the ending key and ending the inverse hiding method and reading subsequent plain text.