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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:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Keith Eric McIntyre, Roseville, CA (US);
John Foxe Sheets, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dominique Andre Jean Gougeon, Rocklin, CA (US);
Curtis W. Watson, Aubrey, TX (US);
Keven Paul Morlang, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Dave Faoro, Newcastle, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A method for operating a combination touch pad and display screen device as a PINpad for entering a A plurality of numerical keypad layouts for the display screen are defined. Each keypad layout has a unique arrangement of decimal number locations differing from one layout to all others. For each PIN entry event a random one of the numerical keypad layouts is selected and displayed on the display screen.