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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2016
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin Jiang, San Mateo, CA (US);
Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for authenticating users on touchscreen devices may include (i) detecting that the computing device is at an authentication step that requires valid authentication input from a user in order to authenticate the user to a service on the computing device, (ii) detecting that the computing device is physically oriented such that a touchscreen of the computing device is facing away from the user of the computing device, (iii) receiving input from the user via the touchscreen, (iv) determining that the input from the user comprises a mirrored version of the valid authentication input that is flipped along a vertical axis relative to the touchscreen, and (v) authenticating the user to the service in response to determining that the input comprises the mirrored version of the valid authentication input. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.