US 12,088,649 B2
Adaptive content masking during web conferencing meetings
Avinash Asthana, London (GB); Shikhar Kwatra, San Jose, CA (US); Diwesh Pandey, Bengaluru (IN); and Tathagato Bose, Kolkata (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/445,546.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059019 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2023.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 65/401 (2022.01); H04L 65/4038 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/4038 (2013.01) [G06N 3/02 (2013.01); G06N 5/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01); H04L 65/4015 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for adaptive content masking, the computer-implemented method comprising:
applying, by a computer, content visibility customizations to a view of shared information by respective participants during screen sharing in a web conferencing meeting using content visibility control settings, wherein the content visibility control settings comprise predefined content visibility control settings and system-generated content visibility control settings, wherein the predefined content visibility control setting are defined prior to starting a presentation, wherein the predefined content visibility control settings include one or more rules identifying information that is never to be shared in any presentation to any participants;
adjusting, by the computer, content visibility via adaptive learning based on frequency and type of screen sharing in one or more prior web conference meetings previously completed between a content presenter and respective participants of the web conferencing meeting; and
applying, by the computer, content masking adaptively based on the content visibility control settings and based on monitoring the shared information and correlating the shared information with respective participants by retrieving meeting information prior to the web conferencing meeting and retrieving screen capture attributes from metadata of the web conferencing meeting that are mapped to the shared information being displayed on screens corresponding to respective participants, wherein the content masking is applied dynamically in real time based on changes in roles of presenter and participants.