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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Colm Nolan, Navan, IE;
Mark Maresh, Wake, NC (US);
Michael J. Whitney, Cary, NC (US);
Juan Vargas, Wake, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
User authentication is facilitated. A plurality of images on one or more display levels is presented to a user in random order. A password is received from the user, and the password includes a set of images selected from the plurality of images and an indication of a particular sequence of the images in the set of images. A determination is made as to whether the password matches a predefined password, and access is provided based on determining there is a match of the password and the predefined password.