System And Method For Preventing Automated Programs and Unauthorized Users In A Network
AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsAdam Fritz, Yiqing Wang
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Abstract
A system for preventing an unauthorized user in a networked computing environment includes a client computer provided with a visual test upon a request transmitted through a network by the client computer for a service, wherein the visual test is displayed on a video display, wherein the visual test requires the performance of a predetermined action on a group of images displayed on the video display in order to gain access to the service, wherein the group of images comprises at least two images that are associated with each other.
Claims29
A system for preventing an unauthorized user in a networked computing environment comprising:
- a server that can provide access to a service, wherein the service is stored on a memory associated with server;
- a software module stored on the server, wherein the software module provides a visual test upon a request transmitted through a network for the service, wherein the visual test includes the performance of a predetermined action on a group of images in order to gain access to the service;
- a validation software module stored on the server, wherein the validation software module receives a request from the software module for the group of images, wherein the validation software module selects the group of images to be transmitted to the software module, wherein the validation software module provides the software module with the group of images;
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- an access software module, wherein the access software module receives an access instruction from the validation software module if the visual test is passed, wherein the server provides access to the service if the visual test is passed.
A system for preventing an unauthorized user in a networked computing environment comprising:
- a client computer provided with a visual test upon a request transmitted through a network by the client computer for a service, wherein the visual test is displayed on a video display, wherein the visual test requires the performance of a predetermined action on a group of images displayed on the video display in order to gain access to the service;
- wherein the group of images comprises at least two images that are associated with each other.
A method for restricting an unauthorized user to computing services, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to perform a computing service;
- determining whether a set of criteria has been met;
- requesting a visual test if the set of criteria has not been met, the visual test including a requirement that a predetermined action on a group of images take place within a given time period;
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- performing the computing service if the set of criteria has been met or if the predetermined action on the group of images takes place within the given time period.
A method for preventing an unauthorized user, comprising:
- displaying to a user a plurality of images in which the plurality of images comprises at least two images that are related and one image that is unrelated to the at least two images;
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- allowing access to a computing service when the at least two images are identified to the exclusion of the one image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.