Copy-Paste Context Conflict Detection for Secure Message Sending
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Solution Overview
Problem
Accidental copy-paste actions can lead to privacy breaches, security risks, and professional mishaps due to incorrect data transfer between application windows, causing unintended sharing of sensitive information and miscommunication.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device employs context detection and recipient detection modules using artificial intelligence to identify potential conflicts between source and destination contexts, rendering alerts to prevent accidental copy-paste actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If copy-paste action is enabled between different applications, then productivity and efficiency are improved, but risk of accidental data transfer and privacy breaches increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time feedback by detecting the source and destination of copy-paste operations and presenting context conflict alerts to users. The feedback mechanism analyzes the content being transferred, identifies potential privacy risks or contextual mismatches, and prompts users with warnings before the paste action is executed, allowing users to make informed decisions about whether to proceed with the operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the copy and paste operations that acts as a mediator. This intermediary component intercepts the paste action, analyzes the context of both source and destination applications, and determines whether the transfer is appropriate. It serves as a gatekeeper that can allow, block, or warn about potential problematic transfers without completely disabling the copy-paste functionality.
2Measurement precision
If context detection and alert systems are implemented, then accuracy of data transfer is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining context profiles for different applications and data types. Instead of implementing complex real-time analysis of every paste operation, the system pre-categorizes applications and their typical content, allowing the context detection to work by matching against these pre-established profiles. This reduces the computational complexity while maintaining detection accuracy.
3Reliability
If context conflict alerts are rendered, then reliability of data transfer is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by not blocking all paste operations, but only those that trigger context conflicts. The alert mechanism selectively intervenes only when there is a detected mismatch between source and destination contexts, allowing routine and safe paste operations to proceed without interruption. This partial intervention maintains ease of operation for normal use while providing reliability protection when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
A method provides techniques for accidental copy-paste action prevention. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of an electronic device that includes a display and at least one input device, content selected via the at least one input device, from an application window that is rendered on the display. A source context from the selected content is determined. A paste operation that inserts the selected content into a communication window that is rendered on the display is detected. A destination context is determined, based at least in part on one or more participants in the communication window. A conflict between the source context and the destination context is identified. In response to identifying the conflict, a transmit option for forwarding the selected content via the communication window is suspended, preventing the information from being sent, and a context conflict alert is rendered on the display.