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AssigneeAdvanced Biometric Controls, LLC
InventorArthur W. Joyce, III
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The present invention includes a device and method to authenticate a user to a computer prior to the user having access to the computer or network. As user name and password protocols are nearly ubiquitous in authentication applications used today, there have been developed many nefarious techniques to defeat the security of such systems. It is relatively easy to write a computer program to guess passwords and then use those passwords to defeat security and cause harm and mischief to a computer, its users and others. To thwart such activity, the present invention provides a novel device that can be provided within a keyboard, in a computer, or in a third device having connectivity thereto. The device in conjunction with the method provides a secure password mode and a challenge/response protocol to verify that the password is entered in response to a particular request for a password.
A method of verifying a password, entered via a keyboard, for a computing device prior to permitting access, comprising the steps of:
In a method for authenticating a person to a computer based on a user name and password without establishing a direct connection between the computer and a device, which comprise the steps of the computer generating and transmitting session-specific data, the computer receiving one or more messages comprising a user name and encoded password data, the computer retrieving device data, the computer retrieving user data based on the user name, the computer authenticating the encoded password data based on the retrieved device data, the retrieved user data and the generated session specific data, the improvement comprising adding the steps wherein:
A method for authenticating a user to a computer based on a user name and password, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.