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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Giridhar E. Buddepalli, Bangalore, IN;

Anita Govindjee, Ithaca, NY (US);

Jenny S. Li, Danbury, CT (US);

Narayana Pattipati, Bangalore, IN;

Lisa M. Salcedo Eichorn, Weston, FL (US);

Ronald A. Soltis, Woodbury, CT (US);

Catharina E. Wilner, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/629 (2013.01); G06F 2221/032 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2105 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an approach to enhancing the security features of user interfaces of computing devices, a computing device repeatedly detects environmental cues in its vicinity. The computing device determines the presence of a threat based on matching at least one of the detected environmental cues with one or more stored threat criteria. The computing device determines the presence of one or more sensitive applications on a user interface. Having determined the presence of one or more sensitive applications on the user interface, the computing device hides the one or more sensitive applications.


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