Motion, orientation, and touch-based CAPTCHAs

• US 9,192,861 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Human Differential Intelligence, LLC
• Original Assignee: John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust
• Inventors: Gross, John Nicholas
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US14/223,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20140295927A1
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 463 9- 1316, 463/20, 726 3- 5, 726/17, 726/21
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/215 comprising means for detecting acoustic signals, e.g. using a microphone
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/332 using wireless networks, e.g. cellular phone networks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/338 using television networks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/424 involving acoustic input signals, e.g. by using the results of pitch or rhythm extraction or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/61 using advertising information
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/795 for finding other players; for building a team; for providing a buddy list
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/847 Cooperative playing, e.g. requiring coordinated actions from several players to achieve a common goal
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0661 Making a drawing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/572 Communication between players during game play of non game information, e.g. e-mail, chat, file transfer, streaming of audio and streaming of video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/638 according to the timing of operation or a time limit
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8094 Unusual game types, e.g. virtual cooking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0423 Word games, e.g. scrabble electric A63F3/0421; two-dimensional puzzles with rotating rings or discs A63F9/0811, A63F9/0819
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2133 : Verifying human interaction, e.g., Captcha
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 : Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00

Abstract

A CAPTCHA system uses images/pictures and/or motion for granting access to a computing system. The images can be culled from examples used in pictorial games, and can progressively presented to increase the strength of the CAPTCHA challenges. Speech recognition, motion and touch sensing can also be employed as parts of the challenge.

Claims

1. A method of providing a motion and/or orientation-based Completely Automatic Public Turing Test To Tell Humans And Computers Apart (CAPTCHA) challenge on a portable computing device comprising:

a. automatically electing a manipulation challenge for a user with the portable computing device, wherein said manipulation challenge includes a set of physical manipulation instructions for the portable computing device for the user;

b. automatically processing sensory data associated with user movements and/or manipulations of the portable computing device; and

c. automatically determining if said user movements and/or manipulations from the user meet a required threshold for satisfying said set of manipulation instructions to qualify said user as a human.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of physical manipulation instructions for the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in an electronic image.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said electronic image is presented in degraded form.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of physical manipulation instructions for the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in audible form by a text to speech engine operating on the portable computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said set of physical manipulation instructions requires the user to move the portable computing device so as to manipulate objects presented in an interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said set of physical manipulation instructions require the user to orient a needle of a virtual compass in a specified direction.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said set of physical manipulation instructions require the user to speak or blow into a microphone.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein a speech response from the user is processed and used to determine if it matches a human voice or a machine voice, and further whether it contains a description of an image presented in an interface of the portable computing device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge is embodied in computer readable form and implemented as a routine executing on the portable computing device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is required to move the portable computing device so as to cause some action between objects in a scene presented in an interface of the portable computing device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said manipulation challenge is used for unlocking and/or accessing the portable device.

12. A method of providing a touch-based Completely Automatic Public Turing Test To Tell Humans And Computers Apart (CAPTCHA) challenge on a portable computing device comprising:

a. automatically electing a manipulation challenge for a user with the portable computing device, wherein said manipulation challenge includes a set of physical touch instructions for the portable computing device for the user;

b. automatically processing touch sensory data associated with user movements and/or manipulations of objects within a graphical interface of the portable computing device; and

c. automatically determining if said user touch sensory data meets a required threshold for satisfying said set of physical touch instructions to qualify said user as a human.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of physical touch instructions for the touch-based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in an electronic image.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of physical touch instructions for the touch-based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in audible form by a text to speech engine operating on the portable computing device.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein said set of physical touch instructions require the user to arrange a set of letters on the graphical interface.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the touch based CAPTCHA challenge is embodied in computer readable form and implemented as a routine executing on the portable computing device.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the user is required to move the portable computing device so as to cause some action between objects in a scene presented in an interface of the portable computing device.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein said manipulation challenge is used for unlocking and/or accessing the portable device.

19. The method of claim 12 wherein said electronic image is presented in degraded form.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein a speech response from the user is processed and used to determine if it matches a human voice or a machine voice, and further whether it contains a description of an image presented in an interface of the portable computing device.