IP Library Patent Application 17401429
Patent Application
App. No. 17/401,429

Web Conference Security

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App. No.
17/401,429
Abstract

There is disclosed, by way of example, a computing apparatus, including a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to provide access to a web conference; determine that an object has been shared via the web conference; determine a reputation for the object; and according to the reputation, modify a conference experience for at least one participant of the web conference

Claims (41)

1 . A computing apparatus, comprising:

a hardware platform comprising a processor and a memory; and

instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to:

provide access to a web conference;

determine that an object

has been shared via the web conference;

determine a reputation for the object; and

according to the reputation, modify a conference experience for at least one participant of the web conference.

2 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein modifying the conference experience comprises notifying the at least one participant of the reputation.

3 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein modifying the conference experience comprises notifying all participants of the web conference.

4 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein modifying the conference experience comprises blocking access to the object.

5 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein modifying the conference experience comprises modifying the object.

6 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the object is a uniform resource locator (URL).

7 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the object is a file.

8 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein determining the reputation of the object comprises a cloud query.

9 . The computing apparatus of claim 8 , wherein determining the reputation comprises determining that the file has a file type that supports executable data.

10 . The computing apparatus of claim 9 , wherein modifying the conference experience comprises converting the file to a static file type.

11 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein determining that the object has been shared comprises determining that the object was shared via a chat or instant message feature of the web conference.

12 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein determining that the object has been shared comprises determining that the object was shared via a screen share feature of the web conference.

13 . The computing apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the instructions are further to provide optical character recognition (OCR) on the screen share feature.

14 . The computing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further to determine that a remote device participating in the web conference has begun screen recording, and wherein modifying the conference experience comprises notifying the at least one participant of the screen recording.

15 - 25 . (canceled)

26 . One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon executable instructions to:

initiate a web conference;

determine that a participant in the web conference has shared an object via the web conference;

query a cloud service for a reputation for the object;

receive the reputation; and

according to the reputation, modify a conference experience for at least one participant in the web conference.

27 - 40 . (canceled)

41 . The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 26 , wherein the instructions are further to determine that screen recording has begun, and wherein modifying the conference experience comprises notifying the at least one participant.

42 . The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 41 , wherein determining that screen recording has begun comprises observing DirectX activity.

43 . The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 41 , wherein determining that screen recording has begun comprises statically observing an application with screen recording capability.

44 - 47 . (canceled)

48 . The one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 26 , wherein the instructions provide a browser plugin.

49 - 50 . (canceled)

51 . A computer-implemented method, comprising:

beginning a web conference;

determining that an object has been shared via the web conference;

receiving a reputation for the object; and

according to the reputation, modifying a conference experience for at least one participant in the web conference.

52 - 80 . (canceled)

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE THE PATENT TITLES AND REMOVE DUPLICATES IN THE SCHEDULE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 059354 FRAME: 0335. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: MCAFEE, LLC
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 060792/0307 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 3, 2022
From: MCAFEE, LLC
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 059354/0335 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2021
From: KULKARNI, DATTATRAYA; NALLURI, SRIKANTH; HEBBALALU, RAGHAVENDRA SATYANARAYANA; GULLO, JOSEPH
To: MCAFEE, LLC
Reel/Frame 057168/0161 →