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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Diego Xirinachs Jimenez, Heredia, CR;
Andrea del Pilar Macias Garcia, GuachipelĂn Escazu, CR;
Stephen J. McConnell, Belfast, GB;
Piotr Pierga, Palatine, IL (US);
Stacey Ramos, Cedar Hill, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/32 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/32 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for securely authenticating users of a device which uses pairings of a verbal passphrase and user interactions. The user interactions may be finger position on an interface of the device, number of taps on the interface of the device, or touching of the interface in a predefined area. Alternatively, the user can provide a verbal passphrase with inflection points.