Abstract

Visual content to be displayed on a display of a user device is received. Obfuscation data for obscuring the visual content is generated and the obscured visual content is displayed on the display. A request to stop obscuring the visual content is transmitted from the user device to a remote device, in response to a drag gesture detected at the user device. As the drag gesture is performed, the obfuscation data is modified to reduce a level of obfuscation applied to the visual content before the request has been accepted, so that the visual content remains obscured but with a lower level of obfuscation. If the request is subsequently accepted at the remote device, the display is controlled to stop obscuring the visual content, thereby rendering the visual content fully visible on the display.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04L 65/75 - Media network packet handling
• G06F 16/9535 - Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• G06F 16/2457 - Query processing with adaptation to user needs
• G06Q 30/02 - Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• H04N 7/14 - Systems for two-way working
• H04N 21/431 - Generation of visual interfaces; Content or additional data rendering
• H04N 21/4545 - Input to filtering algorithms, e.g. filtering a region of the image
• H04N 21/4788 - Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification or shopping application communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
• H04M 1/72403 - User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• G06F 3/04847 - Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• G06F 3/0486 - Drag-and-drop

Abstract

Visual content to be displayed on a display of a user device is received. Obfuscation data for obscuring the visual content is generated and the obscured visual content is displayed on the display. A request to stop obscuring the visual content is transmitted from the user device to a remote device, in response to a drag gesture detected at the user device. As the drag gesture is performed, the obfuscation data is modified to reduce a level of obfuscation applied to the visual content before the request has been accepted, so that the visual content remains obscured but with a lower level of obfuscation. If the request is subsequently accepted at the remote device, the display is controlled to stop obscuring the visual content, thereby rendering the visual content fully visible on the display.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04L 29/06 - Communication control; Communication processing characterised by a protocol
• G06F 16/9535 - Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• G06F 16/2457 - Query processing with adaptation to user needs
• G06Q 30/02 - Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• H04N 7/14 - Systems for two-way working
• H04N 21/431 - Generation of visual interfaces; Content or additional data rendering
• H04N 21/4545 - Input to filtering algorithms, e.g. filtering a region of the image
• H04N 21/4788 - Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification or shopping application communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
• H04M 1/72403 - User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• G06F 3/0484 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• G06F 3/0486 - Drag-and-drop
• H04L 65/60 - Network streaming of media packets
• G06F 3/04847 - Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

In a communication event via a network between a requesting user, operating a first user device, and a responding user, operating a second user device, each of the user devices captures a stream of audio data, transmits the captured stream of audio data to the other user device via the network for receiving thereat, and outputs, to its user, the audio stream received from the other user device. A video exchange function is initially suppressed for the communication event for both of the user devices. The first user device transmits to the second user device a request to stop suppressing video. If the responding user does not accept the request, the video exchange function continues to be suppressed for both of the user devices. If the responding user accepts the request, the video exchange function stops being suppressed for both of the user devices.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04L 29/06 - Communication control; Communication processing characterised by a protocol
• G06F 16/9535 - Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• G06F 16/2457 - Query processing with adaptation to user needs
• G06Q 30/02 - Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• H04M 1/725 - Cordless telephones
• H04N 7/14 - Systems for two-way working
• H04N 21/431 - Generation of visual interfaces; Content or additional data rendering
• H04N 21/4545 - Input to filtering algorithms, e.g. filtering a region of the image
• H04N 21/4788 - Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification or shopping application communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
• G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• G06F 3/0484 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• G06F 3/0486 - Drag-and-drop

Abstract

In a communication event via a network between a requesting user, operating a first user device, and a responding user, operating a second user device, each of the user devices captures a stream of audio data, transmits the captured stream of audio data to the other user device via the network for receiving thereat, and outputs, to its user, the audio stream received from the other user device. A video exchange function is initially suppressed for the communication event for both of the user devices. The first user device transmits to the second user device a request to stop suppressing video. If the responding user does not accept the request, the video exchange function continues to be suppressed for both of the user devices. If the responding user accepts the request, the video exchange function stops being suppressed for both of the user devices.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04L 29/06 - Communication control; Communication processing characterised by a protocol
• G06F 16/9535 - Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• G06F 16/2457 - Query processing with adaptation to user needs
• H04M 1/725 - Cordless telephones
• H04N 7/14 - Systems for two-way working
• H04N 21/431 - Generation of visual interfaces; Content or additional data rendering
• H04N 21/4545 - Input to filtering algorithms, e.g. filtering a region of the image
• G06Q 30/02 - Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• H04N 21/4788 - Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification or shopping application communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
• G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• G06F 3/0484 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• G06F 3/0486 - Drag-and-drop