Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for entering secure passwords

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8978129-B2
Application number	US-201314044354-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 2, 2013
Priority date	Sep 23, 2009
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

Apparatus, methods and/or computer program products are provided that facilitate entering secure passwords into a user device. A user requested image is displayed via a display or monitor of a user device. The image is zoomable to one or more higher resolution levels beyond an initial display resolution, and the image is displayed at higher resolution levels in response to a user activating a zoom function via the user device. The coordinates of a user selected feature within a displayed higher resolution level image are obtained and translated into a password. The password is then entered into the requesting application.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. A method of entering a password via a user device, comprising
displaying an image within a display of the user device, wherein the image is zoomable to one or more higher resolution levels beyond an initial display resolution;
displaying at least a portion of the image at a higher resolution level of the one or more higher resolution levels in response to user activation of a zoom function associated with the display;
obtaining coordinates of a featur…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Cheswick William Roberts

Classifications

• G06F2221/2111

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/083

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F2203/04806

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0481

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/46

  Physics · mapped topic