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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:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2010
Applicants:
Eric N. Billingsley, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Louis M. Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Eric N. Billingsley, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Louis M. Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04H 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system is provided to monitor a user's interaction with a computer. The system may comprise a random reference data generator to generate a random reference string, an image generator to create an image including the random reference string, a modification module to iteratively modify the image until a distortion criterion is satisfied, and a communications module to communicate the image to a client computer for display to a user. The random reference string comprises a plurality of alphanumeric characters.