US 2015/0178490 A1Published application

System For And Method Of Generating Visual Passwords

AssigneesCellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorsNiloufer Tamboly, Denise Kearney Whittaker, Renato J. Delatorre, Aneeta F. Arestani

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Abstract

Systems and methods for creating a visual password are presented. A user having an account or profile is given the option to create a visual password via a graphical user interface. The interface displays a plurality of themes to the user, wherein each theme represents a category of images. The user selects a theme and is presented with a plurality of images within the category. The user selects one or more images in a certain order to create a visual password. The selected images and order of selection are saved as the user's visual password. When the user later attempts to electronically access his account, the user will be required to select the correct pictures in the correct sequence in order to access his account.

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Dependent claims

A computer-based system, comprising:

a theme module to provide one or more themes for display on a user device and receive a selection of at least one of the one or more themes from the user device, wherein the theme module provides the one or more themes based on at least one of account information associated with a user of the user device, data unloaded from the user device, a current location of the user device, the current date, and the current time;
an image module to provide one or more images for display on the user device based on the selected theme and receive a first selection of at least one of the one or more images from the user device;
a conversion module to store the at least one selected image, associate the at least one selected image with a user account, and construct a first password string based on the at least one selected image;
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an authentication module to:
receive user information from the user device,
provide a plurality of images for display on the user device, wherein at least one of the plurality of images includes the at least one selected image associated with the user profile,
receive a second selection of at least one of the plurality of images,
compare the received second selection with the at least one stored image, and
grant the user device access to the user account if the received second selection matches the at least one stored image.

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