UTILIZING A CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL FONT TO IDENTIFY A COMPUTING DEVICE

• US 20170237723A1
• Filed: 02/17/2016
• Published: 08/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Piyush, Goel, Sourabh, Patidar, Mansukh
• Granted Patent: US 10,341,319 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/168 above the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for securely identifying a computing device via a web browser utilizing a customized digital font. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods generate a customized digital font and install the customized digital font on a computing device. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods utilize the customized digital font to identify the computing device. In particular, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that identify an element of a webpage rendered by the computing device utilizing the customized digital font and identify the client device based on the rendered element of the webpage.

Claims

1. In a digital medium environment for managing digital assets, a method of utilizing electronic fonts to securely identify computing devices seeking to access digital assets, comprising:

generating, by at least one processor, a customized digital font;

sending the customized digital font to a computing device;

receiving a request from a requesting device;

determining, by the at least one processor, that the requesting device has the customized digital font; and

authenticating the requesting device based on the determination that the requesting device has the customized digital font.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the customized digital font comprises:

generating a digital font that is unique to the computing device; and

modifying a base digital font comprising a first character order by changing the first character order of the base digital font to a second character order unique to the computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the customized digital font to the computing device further comprises:

sending a digital asset to the computing device in conjunction with the customized digital font.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining that the requesting device has the customized digital font comprises:

sending a request to the requesting device to render a textual element via a web browser utilizing the customized digital font; and

determining that the textual element rendered by the requesting device via the web browser uses the customized digital font.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein authenticating the requesting device comprises:

determining that the requesting device has the digital asset.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining that the requesting device has the customized digital font further comprises:

comparing a width of the textual element rendered by the requesting device via the web browser with a width of a second textual element.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein authenticating the requesting device comprises:

determining that the requesting device is the computing device to which the customized digital font was sent.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein determining that the requesting device has the customized digital font further comprises:

receiving an image of the textual element rendered by the requesting device via the web browser; and

applying an optical character recognition algorithm to the image to identify the characters of the textual element rendered by the requesting device via the web browser.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon generating the customized digital font, applying the customized digital font to a reference text to create a font-based client identification; and

authenticating the requesting device by determining a correspondence between the font-based client identification and the textual element rendered by the requesting device.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

based on the determination that the requesting device is the computing device, providing access to client information stored on a server.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the client information comprises at least one of the following:

state information regarding one or more digital assets on the computing device;

one or more updates available for the one or more digital assets on the computing device;

access credentials;

payment information;

or demographic information.

12. A system comprising:

at least one server; and

at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one server cause the system to;

maintain a database correlating a plurality of computing devices to a plurality of customized digital fonts;

send a request to a requesting device to render an element utilizing a customized digital font from the plurality of customized digital fonts;

detect the element rendered by the requesting device; and

determine that the requesting device corresponds to a computing device from the plurality of computing devices based on the element rendered by the requesting device being in one of the customized digital fonts of the plurality of customized digital fonts.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

each of the plurality of customized digital fonts comprises a title, and the title for each of the plurality of customized digital fonts is the same; and

the instructions when executed by the at least one server cause the system to send the request to the requesting device to render the element utilizing the customized digital font from the plurality of customized digital fonts by sending a request to the requesting device to render the element utilizing a font comprising the title.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the instructions when executed by the at least one server cause the system to;

send the request to the requesting device to render the element utilizing the customized digital font from the plurality of customized digital fonts by sending a request to the requesting device to render the element via a web browser utilizing the customized digital font; and

detect the element rendered by the requesting device by;

receiving an image of the element rendered by the requesting device via the web browser; and

identifying characters from the image of the element rendered by the requesting device via the web browser.

15. The system of claim 12, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:

send a second request to the requesting device to render a second element utilizing the customized digital font;

detect the second element rendered by the requesting device; and

compare the element and the second element.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the second request comprises a request to render the second element utilizing a digital asset installed on the client device, wherein the digital asset is not a web browser.

17. In a digital medium environment for managing digital assets, a method of utilizing digital fonts to access digital information stored on a server via a web application, comprising:

receiving a customized digital font from one or more servers;

rendering, by at least one processor, an element of a webpage via a web browser utilizing the customized digital font; and

in response to rendering the element of the webpage utilizing the customized digital font, gaining access to client information stored on the one or more servers.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

rendering a second element utilizing the customized digital font via a software management application; and

sending the second element to the one or more servers.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

sending a device ID and a checksum to the one or more servers.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

upon receiving the customized digital font from the one or more servers, generating a font-based identification based on the customized digital font; and

sending the font-based identification to the one or more servers.