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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Valerio Bontempi, Rome, IT;
Crescenzo Migliaccio, Naples, IT;
Simone Rutigliano, Terlizzi, IT;
Gianluca Carugno, Rome, IT;
Antonio Di Cocco, Rome, IT;
Umberto Manganiello, Manocalzati, IT;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for encoding a key touch on a device. The method may include detecting a key touch at one of two of more subareas of a key area and encoding the detected key touch into one code of a plurality of codes. Each code may be associated with one key area and one subarea of the key area. The method may perform an operation to determine whether to authorize access to a resource by determining whether the code, at least in part, authorizes the access. The key area may be marked with an indicia. The two or more subareas of the key area may be unmarked and may be of equal size. The key area may be divided into the two or more subareas by specifying two or more subregions of sensor pixels of a region of sensor pixels of a touch-sensitive screen.