Method for producing dynamic data structures for authentication and/or password identification

摘要

A method for generating a changing authentication input or password generation and input for a user is provided for allowing access to a computing device such as a smartphone or computer or using the computing device to communicate over a network to a server. Using recognizable objects displayed in positions on a graphic display, and input strings of text or alphanumeric characters the user has identified as relating to each recognizable object, a password or authentication can be generated by combining the input strings relating recognizable objects to paired related objects. Authentication can be varied easily for each access attempt by changing the recognizable objects displayed and/or the sequence of responses.

主权项

1. A method for generating a changing authentication input or password required for a user accessing a computing device such as a smartphone or server over a network, where said computing device is in operative communication with both a display capable of rendering objects in a Graphic User Interface (GUI) and an alphanumeric input component such as a keyboard, and running software adapted for operation and the steps of:
having said user employ said input component to associate a relating object, associated to each respective recognizable object; electronically storing each respective said relating object, in a respective association with each respective said recognizable object, in a relational database; upon an access attempt to said computing device, communicating a said GUI displaying at least one said recognizable object in a group of depicted objects; allowing said user to input a communication confirming a discerning of a said recognizable object, from said group of depicted objects; communicating to said user a GUI depicting at least one group of relatable objects having a said relating object therein associated to said recognizable object; allowing said user to communicate a discerned said relating object, from said group of relatable objects; generating a comparative authentication string from said recognizable object and said discerned said relating object communicated by said user; and authenticating said user if said comparative authentication string is determined by said software to have a match between said recognizable object and said relating object associated to said recognizable object by said user.