US 2019/0171803 A1 · METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER AUTHENTICATION BASED ON TOUCH INPUT INCLUDING FINGERPRINT INFORMATION

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for user authentication through the input of a password, the method for user authentication having enhanced security by determining whether or not a particular symbol or a symbol positioned in a particular position, among the symbols constituting the password, is input via a touch input including particular fingerprint information, in addition to determining the matching status of the password. Also provided is a user authentication method which can protect a user's personal information from others by using, in user authentication, the use status of a touch input including fingerprint information which is unlikely to be exposed by the others.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method of authenticating a user, comprising:

receiving an entry of a desired password, comprising a touch input comprising at least one piece of given fingerprint information and an input of at least one symbol comprising one or more of a number, letter and special letter, as authentication information through a user terminal;
determining whether authentication information pre-configured in the user terminal and the received authentication information are identical;
and
completing user authentication of a user in response that the pre-configured authentication information and the received authentication information are identical.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/302,503Filed 12 May 2017

Priority

KR 10-2016-005940716 May 2016

Published

6 Jun 2019

Term ends

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Classification13 codes

G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
G06F 3/0488
Using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of…:…
G06F 3/04886
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the…
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication

Method and apparatus for user authentication based on touch input including fingerprint information

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Method and apparatus for user authentication based on touch input including fingerprint information

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Abstract

Claims10