Patent Document ID: 8966645
Application ID: 13686468

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: evaluating, via a processor without use of any configured password, text entry context information associated with text entry within an inter-user communication application; determining that the evaluated text entry context information identifies a text string entered by a user as a potential password inadvertently entered into the inter-user communication application by the user; prompting, in response to determining that the text string is identified as the potential password, the user to confirm that the user intends to send the text string using the inter-user communication application; and transmitting the text string via the inter-user communication application in response to a confirmation from the user to send the text string.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , where: the text entry context information comprises at least one of run-time text-based and run-time time-based analysis of a manner of entry and content of characters of the text entry that omits evaluation of known passwords; evaluating, via the processor without the use of any configured password, the text entry context information associated with the text entry within the inter-user communication application comprises: detecting a windowing system focus change from a valid password entry field of a different application to the inter-user communication application; and detecting entry of a single text string without spaces within a configured time from the focus change from the valid password entry field of the different application to the inter-user communication application; and determining that the evaluated text entry context information identifies the text string entered by the user as the potential password inadvertently entered into the inter-user communication application by the user comprises: identifying the single text string without spaces as the potential password in response to detecting the entry of the single text string without spaces within the configured time from the focus change from the valid password entry field of the different application to the inter-user communication application.