Authenticating a user of a system via an authentication image mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8973095-B2
Application number	US-201213531878-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2012
Priority date	Jun 25, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

In an embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a request for user authentication of a system, displaying an authentication image on a display of the system using a set of random coordinates, receiving a plurality of gesture input values from the user, and determining whether to authenticate the user based at least in part on the plurality of gesture input values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile system comprising:
a processor to execute instructions;
a manageability engine coupled to the processor and including a security processor to authenticate a user of the mobile system; and
a trusted storage associated with the manageability engine to store an authentication image and at least one authentication gesture associated with the authentication image, wherein the security processor is to generate a display frame image having the authenti…

Assignees

• Smith Ned M
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Smith Ned M

Classifications

• G06F21/36 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0488

  Physics · mapped topic