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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
May. 10, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ross Garrett Cutler, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for obfuscating user selections during user-input sessions in which potentially sensitive information is being identified, involving displaying several targets, such as keys of a virtual keyboard, on a display device, where each target corresponds to one of multiple options. While a current user target is associated with a visual indicator at a first time, a discriminatory signal indicating the visual indication displayed at the first time is for the current user target is provided, where the discriminatory signal includes one of a haptic signal generated by a device in physical contact with the user, an audio signal, and a modified image. Concurrently, the obfuscation system is configured to present another visual indication corresponding to a current distractor target. The current user target is thus obfuscated as two different visual indicators are presented and move through the group of options.