Financial App Video Masking Private Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Financial applications, such as tax preparation software, face challenges in securely communicating private information through video due to concerns about identity theft, limiting the use of video as a communication medium for sensitive data.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that generate videos from financial application screens while masking or blurring private data, ensuring that sensitive information is not visible to others, allowing for secure video communication within financial applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If video is used to communicate financial application screens with private information, then content sharing effectiveness is improved, but privacy security deteriorates due to risk of identity theft

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevideo communication capabilityVSAvoididentity theft risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and removes private information (social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers) from the video stream while preserving the functional content of the financial application interface. This allows the video to be shared for educational and support purposes without exposing sensitive personal data, thus resolving the contradiction between effective communication and privacy security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that captures the video stream, identifies and masks private information fields, and produces a sanitized version for sharing. This intermediary mechanism enables safe video communication by acting as a buffer between the original content and the shared output, eliminating identity theft risks while maintaining communication effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If private information is masked in videos, then privacy security is improved, but content completeness deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoiddata visibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by selectively masking only specific fields containing private information (such as social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers) while leaving the rest of the financial application interface fully visible and functional. This localized approach preserves the completeness and usability of the video content for educational purposes while protecting only the sensitive portions that pose privacy risks.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS8732845B1Methods systems and articles of manufacture for generating and displaying video related to financial application

Publication Date: 2014.05.20 INTUIT INC

AI summary

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for generating a video such that when another person views the video, the other person can view non-private information but not private information of the person who generated the video. A first interview screen is generated by a financial application and displayed to a first person or user of a financial application. The screen includes private data related to the first person. A video of the interview screen is generated and may be transmitted over a network to a second person who may also utilize a financial application. The video is displayed to the second person, but the second person cannot view the private data related to the first person.