Security key entry using ancillary input device
OwnerGary Stephen Shusterinventor
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Abstract
A physical, non-human readable representation of a digital key may be in a physical key article. The key article may enable a person to generate a signal representing the digital key from a user interface device in communication with a computer by physical manipulation of the key article. Access to digital content via the computer may be unlocked in response to receiving the signal. In addition, a key may be represented by a pattern of unreadable errors in a computer-readable medium.
Claims8
A method, comprising:
- configuring a physical, non-human readable representation of a digital key in a physical key article including providing the physical, non-human readable representation configured as contours in the physical key article, enabling a person to generate a signal representing the digital key from a user interface device in communication with a computer by physical manipulation of the key article, wherein the signal is not human readable, the user interface device comprises a microphone and the physical key article enables generating the signal in the form of sound by dragging an object over the contours in the physical key article;
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- unlocking access to digital content via the computer in response to receiving the signal.
An apparatus, comprising a processor coupled to a memory holding encoded instructions and to a user interface device, the encoded instructions causing the apparatus to:
- configure a physical, non-human readable representation of a digital key in a physical key article including providing the physical, non-human readable representation configured as contours in the physical key article, enabling a person to generate a signal representing a digital key from the user interface device by physical manipulation of the key article, wherein the signal is not human readable, the user interface device comprises a microphone and the physical key article enables generating the signal in the form of sound by dragging an object over the contours in the physical key article, and
- unlock access to digital content in response to receiving the signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.