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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2012
Applicants:

Verizon New Jersey Inc., Newark, NJ (US);

Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Woo Beum Lee, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Michelle Felt, Randolph, NJ (US);

Jeffrey M. Walsh, Verona, NJ (US);

Assignees:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Verizon New Jersey Inc., Newark, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06F 2221/032 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device is configured to determine that the device is to activate a privacy mode, obscure information displayed by a display of the device, detect a user interaction with a first portion of the display, the first portion being less than an entirety of the display, and reveal first information obscured by the first portion of the display, without revealing information obscured by a remaining portion of the display, the first portion and the remaining portion comprising the entirety of the display.


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