Virtualized Display for Selective Screen Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current screen sharing technologies lack the ability to intelligently select and render specific tabs and applications, leading to accidental exposure of private content during web conferencing, as users must manually close private tabs and applications before sharing.

Innovation Solution

A virtualized screen sharing management application generates a virtualized display that allows users to selectively map and share specific tabs and applications from multiple monitors to a single virtual display, enabling intelligent selection and customization of content for sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually close private tabs and applications before screen sharing, then privacy protection is improved, but operation complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidoperation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a virtual display as an intermediary layer between the user's physical displays and the screen sharing function. This virtual display selectively receives content from specific source displays and applications, filtering out private information before transmission. The virtual display acts as a mediator that automates the privacy protection process, eliminating the need for users to manually close tabs while maintaining privacy security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary configuration by creating a virtual display with pre-defined content selection rules before screen sharing begins. Users configure which applications and displays should be included in the shared content in advance, and the system maintains these selections throughout the sharing session. This preliminary setup automates the privacy protection process, eliminating the need for manual tab closing during sharing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If users manually close private tabs and applications before screen sharing, then privacy protection is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If all tabs and applications are shared during screen sharing, then content sharing completeness is improved, but privacy security deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing completenessVSAvoidprivacy security

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the screen sharing content by creating a virtual display that selectively combines content from specific source displays and applications. Instead of sharing all content uniformly, the virtual display divides and selects which portions of the user's digital workspace should be included, allowing comprehensive sharing of work-related content while excluding private information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Reliability

If a virtualized display is generated to selectively map tabs and applications, then privacy protection is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240086211A1Generation of virtualized shared tab for screen sharing

Publication Date: 2024.03.14 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

A request to share an object is received within a virtualized screen sharing management application. A virtualized display for sharing the object is generated. The object is mapped to the virtualized display. Responsive to the request, the object is shared within the virtualized screen sharing management application via the virtualized display.