Snowshoefood Inc.

Ryan M Brown

Claus Christopher Moberg

Matthew Charles Luedke

This invention relates to a hardware tool for interacting with an 'intelligent device' such as a 'smart phone,' e.g., Apple Corporation's &#x201c;iPhone&#x201d;, or other devices with certain comparable capabilities, such as the Apple &#x201c;iPad&#x201d; tablet computer, and to a method for authorizing transactions based on successful interaction. More specifically, the invention relates to employment of a hardware tool having contact members for contacting the touch-sensitive screens of such devices at plural locations in specific spatial relation to one another. The device, running an application program or &#x201c;app&#x201d;, then detects the locations at which the screen has been thus contacted, and compares those locations to stored locations specific to a particular type of transaction, and, if the detected locations match a set of stored locations, authorizes the transaction to proceed.

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Ryan M Brown