Preventing the discovery of access codes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9507928-B2
Application number	US-201314086783-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2013
Priority date	Nov 21, 2013
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

An example method includes determining a size at which to display one or more keys of a virtual keypad and determining a symbol to display on the one or more keys of the virtual keypad. The method also includes displaying the one or more keys of the virtual keypad on a computing device in accordance with a key's determined size and symbol, where a first displayed key is displayed at a different size than a second displayed key. The method further includes receiving a user input corresponding to the one or more keys and comparing the user input with a sequence of symbols. The method also includes authenticating the user in accordance with the comparison of the user input and sequence of symbols.

First claim

I claim:

1. A method of authenticating a user, the method comprising:
determining a color to display on one or more keys of a virtual keypad;
determining a symbol to display on the one or more keys of the virtual keypad;
displaying a first set of keys of the virtual keypad on a display coupled to a computing device in accordance with a key's determined color and symbol, wherein the same symbol is displayed on a first key and a second key of the first set of keys, and a color o…

Assignees

• Red Hat Inc

Inventors

• Fuerth Jonathan

Classifications

• G06F21/83

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07C9/33

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/083

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F21/36 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04886

  Physics · mapped topic