Systems and Methods for Verifying Human Interaction with a Computer Interface

• US 20160065559A1
• Filed: 08/27/2014
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Archer, Steven T., Clavenna, Robert A. II, Pate, Kristopher, Hubner, Paul V.
• Granted Patent: US 9,614,837 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2133 Verifying human interaction, e.g., Captcha
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231

Abstract

Exemplary methods and systems for verifying human interaction with a computer interface are described herein. An exemplary method includes a human-interaction verification system detecting a request by an access device to access network-based content, providing, for display by the access device, a visually dynamic representation of one or more security images associated with a passcode in response to the access request, receiving, by way of the access device, challenge-response input associated with the visually dynamic representation of the one or more security images, and performing an access operation based at least in part on a comparison of the challenge-response input to the passcode.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, by a human-interaction verification system for display by an access device requesting access to network-based content, a visually dynamic representation of a plurality of security images associated with a passcode;

receiving, by the human-interaction verification system by way of the access device, challenge-response input associated with the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images; and

performing, by the human-interaction verification system, an access operation based at least in part on a comparison of the challenge-response input to the passcode,

wherein

the plurality of security images comprises a first security image including a first graphical object depicting the passcode and a second security image including a second graphical object depicting the passcode, and

the second graphical object is different from the first graphical object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images comprises:

providing a first subportion of the plurality of security images for display during a first time segment; and

providing a second subportion of the plurality of security images for display during a second time segment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the providing of the first subportion of the plurality of security images comprises transmitting subportion image data representative of the first subportion of the plurality of security images to the access device; and

the providing of the second subportion of the plurality of security images comprises transmitting subportion image data representative of the second subportion of the plurality of security images to the access device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the first subportion of the plurality of security images comprises a first subportion of the first security image; and

the second subportion of the plurality of security images comprises a second subportion of the second security image.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

providing, by the human-interaction verification system, an obfuscation image for display by the access device temporally between the display of the first subportion of the plurality of security images during the first time segment and the display of the second subportion of plurality of security images during the second time segment,

wherein the obfuscation image comprises at least one of a solid-color image and a patterned image.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the providing of the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images comprises providing a plurality of subportions of the plurality of security images in accordance with a display heuristic; and

the display heuristic specifies a display scheme in which at least one of a shape, a size, a position, an order of display, a display duration, and a quantity of the plurality of subportions of the plurality of security images changes during the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the providing of the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images further comprises randomizing the display scheme.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the human-interaction verification system, that the challenge-response input matches the passcode;

wherein the access operation includes allowing access to the network-based content by the access device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the human-interaction verification system, that the challenge-response input does not match the passcode;

wherein the access operation includes at least one of

denying access to the network-based content by the access device,

allowing another challenge-response input associated with the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images,

temporarily blocking another challenge-response input associated with the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images, and

providing another visually dynamic representation of plurality of other security images associated with another passcode.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images comprises:

providing the first security image for display during a first time segment, and

providing the second security image for display during a second time segment.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of security images further include one or more characters representative of a security question associated with the passcode.

22. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

maintaining, by the human-interaction verification system, a repository of security image data, the security image data comprising data representative of a set of security images and metadata associated with each security image included in the set of security images, the set of security images including the plurality of security images;

selecting, by the human-interaction verification system, the first security image and the second security image from the set of security images;

obtaining, by the human-interaction verification system, a passcode based on metadata associated with the first security image and metadata associated with the second security image.

23. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

maintaining, by the human-interaction verification system, a repository of passcode data, the passcode data comprising data representative of a plurality of passcodes;

selecting, by the human-interaction verification system, a passcode from the repository of passcode data;

obtaining, by the human-interaction verification system, the first security image and the second security image based on the selected passcode.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the obtaining of the first security image and the second security image based on the selected passcode comprises selecting, from a repository of security image data, security images having metadata that matches the selected passcode.

5-6. -6. (canceled)

13-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method comprising:

providing, by a human-interaction verification system for display by an access device requesting access to network-based content, a visually dynamic representation of a plurality of security images associated with a passcode, the providing of the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images comprising

providing, for display during a first time segment, a first subportion of a first security image included in the plurality of security images, the first security image including a first graphical object depicting the passcode, and

providing, for display during a second time segment, a second subportion of a second security image included in the plurality of security images, the second security image including a second graphical object depicting the passcode, wherein the second graphical object is different from the first graphical object;

receiving, by the human-interaction verification system by way of the access device, challenge-response input associated with the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images; and

performing, by the human-interaction verification system, an access operation based at least in part on a comparison of the challenge-response input to the passcode.

16. A system comprising:

at least one physical computing device that;

provides, for display by an access device requesting access to network-based content, a visually dynamic representation of a plurality of security images associated with a passcode;

receives, by way of the computing device, challenge-response input associated with the plurality of security images; and

performs an access operation based at least in part on a comparison of the challenge-response input to the passcode,

wherein

the plurality of security images comprises a first security image including a first graphical object depicting the passcode and a second security image including a second graphical object depicting the passcode, and

the second graphical object is different from the first graphical object.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one physical computing device provides the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images by:

providing a first subportion of the first security image for display during a first time segment; and

providing a second subportion of the second security image for display during a second time segment.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one physical computing device:

provides the first subportion of the first security image for display during the first time segment by transmitting subportion image data representative of the first subportion of the plurality of security images to the access device; and

provides the second subportion of the second security image for display during the second time segment by transmitting subportion image data representative of the second subportion of the plurality of security images to the access device.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein:

the at least one physical computing device provides the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images by providing a plurality of subportions of the plurality of security images in accordance with a display heuristic; and

the display heuristic specifies a display scheme in which at least one of a shape, a size, a position, an order of display, a display duration, and a quantity of the plurality of subportions of the plurality of security images changes during the visually dynamic representation of the plurality of security images.

19. (canceled)