System and methods for automatically accessing a web site on behalf of a client

• US 8,555,359 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2009
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yodlee Incorporated (Envestnet Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Yodlee Incorporated (Envestnet Incorporated)
• Inventors: Manohar, Pradheesh, Nalwaya, Prashant, Agrawal, Prashant Kumar
• Primary Examiner(s): ARMOUCHE, HADI S
• Application Number:
  US12/393,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20100215270A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,685 Days
• Field of Search: 726 2- 4, 726/7, 726 26- 28, 715/773, 382/177, 382/218
• US Class Current: 726/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32

Abstract

A system for performing an automated network-based login procedure on an interactive keypad image includes a software agent executable from a digital medium connected to the network for navigating to a login page, accessing the keypad image, and performing an automated login, and an automated login support application executable from the same or a different digital medium connected to the network, the support application including at least an image processor, an optical character recognizer, and an image data encoder and decoder. The software agent performs a login at the virtual keypad image based on character image matching and location information acquisition for each character of a client'"'"'s specific set of credential characters included in the image of the keypad.

Claims

1. A processor connected to a computer readable memory storing and executing software for performing an automated network-based login procedure on a virtual interactive keypad image comprising:

a software agent, provided by the software, executable from the processor connected to the network for automatically navigating to a login page, on behalf of a user, accessing the keypad image, and performing an automated login; and

an automated login support application, provided by the software, the support application including at least an image processor, an optical character recognizer, and an image data encoder and decoder for discerning characters;

characterized in that the virtual keypad image includes randomly placed characters that must be selected in an order of a client'"'"'s specific set of credential characters for successful login and the software agent performs a login at the virtual keypad image based on functions of the automated login support application including at least sequential character image matching, according to the order, and location information acquisition for each character of the client'"'"'s specific set of credential characters included in the image of the keypad.

2. The processor of claim 1 wherein the network is the Internet network.

3. The processor of claim 1 wherein the keypad image includes the credential characters of a client and other random characters.

4. The processor of claim 1 wherein image data processed by the image processor is encoded to 64 base string or some other feasible encoding format.

5. The processor of claim 1 wherein the keypad image is mathematically sectioned to isolate individual characters in the image resulting in multiple character images.

6. The processor of claim 5 wherein the keypad image is converted into a grayscale image before mathematical sectioning of the image to isolate the characters.

7. The processor of claim 1 wherein the location information corresponds to character position in the virtual keypad image.

8. The processor of claim 1 wherein characters in the keypad image are identified by character name and the location of the character in the keypad image.

9. The processor of claim 1 wherein the image data decoder returns image data in 64 base string in extensible markup language (XML) format.

10. The processor of claim 1 wherein a specific set of credential characters representing a pass code or password are extracted from a navigation template to match them with characters processed from the keypad image to obtain the identification and location of those characters in the keypad image.