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US 2011/0239272 A1Published application
Non-numeric personal identification
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorCarl Stone
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Abstract
Various methods and systems are provided for allowing a user to select a non-numeric PIN or password and use that to access content instead of a conventional numerical PIN. A series of visual, textual, and/or audio “digits” form the PIN, where each succeeding digit may be related to one or more of the preceding digits.
Claims27
A non-numeric authentication comprising:
- a first non-numeric digit;
- and
- a second non-numeric digit.
A method of authenticating a user, comprising:
- presenting the user with a set of non-numeric options for a first digit;
- receiving a user-selected first digit;
- presenting the user with a set of non-numeric options for a second digit;
- receiving a user-selected second digit;
- and
- determining whether the received user-selected digits match a stored non-numeric authentication for the user.
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A machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a server are adapted to cause the server to perform a method comprising:
- presenting a user with a set of non-numeric options for a first digit;
- receiving a user-selected first digit;
- presenting the user with a set of non-numeric options for a second digit;
- receiving a user-selected second digit;
- and
- determining whether the received user-selected digits match a stored non-numeric authentication for the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.