Touch entry of password on a mobile device
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsAlexander Kornilovsky, Alexei Skarine
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Abstract
An electronic mobile device that includes a controller including at least one processor, for controlling operation of the mobile device, a display coupled to the controller, and a navigational input mechanism coupled to the controller and responsive to user manipulation thereof. The controller, in one input mode, moves a selection marker on a user interface screen on the display in response to user manipulation of the navigational input mechanism, and in a second input mode, authenticates a user of the device in dependence on a sequence of input events resulting from user manipulation of the navigational input mechanism matching a predetermined passcode sequence.
Claims23
An electronic device comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- a touch interface coupled to the controller;
- the controller being enabled to compare a sequence of successive input events from the touch interface to a particular passcode sequence corresponding to a particular sequence of input events, each input event being either a fast input event or a slow input event, and the controller being operative to interpret each of the successive input events as an input event corresponding to a fast input event or a slow input event in the particular passcode sequence and to authenticate if the sequence of input events matches the particular passcode sequence.
A method of processing touch inputs received at an electronic device, the method comprising:
- interpreting each of a sequence of successive input events detected at the touch interface as either a fast input event or a slow input event;
- comparing the sequence of successive input events to a particular passcode sequence, wherein the particular passcode sequence corresponds to a particular sequence of input events, each input event being either a fast input event or a slow input events;
- and
- authenticating if the sequence of successive input events matches the particular passcode sequence.
A non-transitory computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions processing touch inputs received at an electronic device having a touch interface, the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for:
- interpreting each of a sequence of successive input events detected at the touch interface a fast input event or a slow input event;
- comparing the sequence of successive input events to a particular passcode sequence, the particular passcode sequence corresponding to a particular sequence of input events, each input event being either a fast input event or a slow input event;
- and
- authenticating if the sequence of successive input events matches the particular passcode sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.