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Visual or touchscreen password entry

  • US 8,635,676 B2
  • Filed: 12/16/2010
  • Issued: 01/21/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having computer readable instructions stored thereon for authenticating a user of a computing device, the computing device having a memory storing a base image and an overlay image, the base image having a base image reference point, and the overlay image having an overlay image reference point, which when executed by a processor direct the computing device to:

  • generate a modified base image;

    generate a modified overlay image;

    display, on a display, the modified base image overlaid by the modified overlay image;

    receive an input for moving one of the modified base image and the modified overlay image;

    move the one of the modified base image and the modified overlay image if a criterion for movement of the one of the modified base image and the modified overlay image is met, the criterion for movement being that the input is a touch at a location other than the overlay image reference point; and

    in response to alignment of the base image reference point on the modified base image with the overlay image reference point on the modified overlay image at a point on the display after the move, indicate positive authentication.

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