METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED VIRTUAL KEYBOARD

• US 20150100913A1
• Filed: 03/27/2013
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Mlinfotech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Minfotech Company Limited
• Inventors: Park, Seung Bae
• Application Number:
  US14/388,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20150100913A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/83 input devices, e.g. keyboards, mice or controllers thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2107 File encryption
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0238 Programmable keyboards key guide holders G06F3/0224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

The present invention relates to generating and providing a personalized virtual keyboard in accordance with personal information inputted by a user. A method for providing a personalized virtual keyboard according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method providing a personalized virtual keyboard on a screen so as for a user to input personal information, includes: a first step of generating and storing a personalized virtual keyboard including character keys forming the personal information and having a same or less number of keys than the number of character keys on a default virtual keyboard; and a second step of displaying the personalized virtual keyboard on the screen when the personal information is being inputted.

Claims

1. A method for providing a personalized virtual keyboard on a screen so as for a user to input personal information, the method comprising:

a first step of generating and storing a personalized virtual keyboard including character keys forming the personal information and having a same or less number of keys than the number of character keys on a default virtual keyboard; and

a second step of displaying the personalized virtual keyboard on the screen when the personal information is being inputted.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first step comprises:

a first sub-step of displaying the default virtual keyboard on an information device;

a second sub-step of performing authentication on the personal information of the user, which has been inputted through the default virtual keyboard; and

a third sub-step of generating and storing a personalized virtual keyboard corresponding to the personal information for which the authentication is successful.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second sub-step comprises performing the authentication on the personal information through an external server.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the personalized virtual keyboard is generated and stored by any one of the information device and the external server or by both the information device and the external server.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein when the personalized virtual keyboard is generated and stored by both the information device and the external server, the personalized virtual keyboard is generated by combining information device side key data stored in the information device and server side key data stored in the external server.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the server side key data is encrypted and transmitted to the information device, or the information device side key data is encrypted and stored in the information device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second step of displaying the personalized virtual keyboard on the screen comprises arranging character keys forming the personalized virtual keyboard, in a preset predetermined pattern.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the character keys forming the personalized virtual keyboard are sequentially arranged on the pattern.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized virtual keyboard may include character keys of which characters are invisible.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized virtual keyboard includes all duplicated character keys forming the personal information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the personalized virtual keyboard includes each one of duplicated character keys forming the personal information.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein in the personalized virtual keyboard displayed on the screen, locations of character keys forming the personalized virtual keyboard are changeable.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the locations of the character keys are changed by a drag and drop method or by a method of selecting a character key to be moved and then selecting a location to which the selected character key is to be moved.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein in the personalized virtual keyboard displayed on the screen, characters displayed on character keys forming the personalized virtual keyboard are invisible.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein in the personalized virtual keyboard, the number of character keys displayed on the screen is changeable according to settings of the user.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein in the personalized virtual keyboard displayed on the screen, the number of character keys displayed on the screen is changeable according to a signal received from an external server.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein an information device provides an environment of selecting the use of the default virtual keyboard or the use of the personalized virtual keyboard.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising a third step of transmitting location information of character keys sequentially selected from the personalized virtual keyboard displayed on an information device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein arrangement information of character keys of the personalized virtual keyboard is further transmitted to an external server.