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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Applicants:
Dawn Ashley Comfort, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert John Schule, Cary, NC (US);
Inventors:
Dawn Ashley Comfort, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert John Schule, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Lenovo Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A keyboard graphic is displayed on a touch-sensitive display screen of a computing system when it is determined that a password should be entered, so that the password can be entered by touching individual spaces within the keyboard graphic. The keyboard graphic may be thus displayed several times during the operation of the system, including following a predetermined period in which no user input is made to the computing system, under control of a subroutine operating as a screen saver subroutine.