User-defined multiple input mode authentication
AssigneeSony Corporation and Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsKAZUHIKO SHIRAI, Yasuhiro Harbara, Koki Iwazaki
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Abstract
A user can define two or more input modes with respective input values to establish an authentication protocol to unlock a computer or govern other computer behavior. As an example, the user may first establish a particular voice recognition pattern followed by a particular image recognition and subsequent logons can be accomplished only by speaking the voice recognition pattern into the device and then by presenting the commanded image, such as an image of the use's face, to the device.
Claims20
Computer comprising:
- processor;
- computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing instructions embodying logic comprising:
- permitting a user to select a first input mode with associated first input parameter;
- permitting a user to select a second input mode with associated second input parameter, the first input mode being different from the second input mode;
- and
- executing a behavior of the computer only when subsequent inputs of the first and second parameters are received in the first and second input modes in an order specified by the user.
The computer of Claim I, wherein the behavior is unlocking the computer for full use thereof.
Method comprising:
- presenting, on a computer display, a sequence of user interfaces to permit a user to define two or more input modes with respective input values to establish an authentication protocol to enable a computer behavior;
- and
- executing the computer behavior only when the input values are received.
Computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- a display coupled to the processor;
- a first input device coupled to the processor;
- a second input device coupled to the processor, the second input device being a different genre of input device than the first input device;
- the processor receiving a first input mode value from the first input device;
- the processor receiving a second input mode value from the second input device;
- the processor determining whether the first and second values match user-defined values, and only if a match is found, executing a computer behavior.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.