Method and apparatus for authenticating password of user terminal

摘要

Provided are method and apparatus for authenticating a password of a user terminal. The method includes: pre-setting, by a user, a password and an identification image for identifying the password; moving a keypad window or an image window realized on a screen of the user terminal according to an action of the user; determining, when a plurality of images included in the image window and a plurality of keys included in the keypad window sequentially overlap with each other, whether a plurality of keys and the identification image corresponding to the password sequentially overlap; and authenticating the password when the plurality of keys and the identification image corresponding to the password sequentially overlap. Accordingly, password information may be protected from a third person observation as the user inputs a pre-set password in an indirect method without having to directly input the pre-set password through an authentication interface.

主权项

1. A method of authenticating a password of a user terminal, the method comprising:
receiving a password via a keypad window of the user terminal; receiving an identification image and at least one dummy image among a plurality of images and an arrangement of the images via an image window, the identification image to be overlapped at a location corresponding to the password to identify the password; moving the keypad window or the image window in directions in response to detection of a dragging action of the user via an interface, the image window overlapping the keypad window each other; and authenticating the user by determining whether each key of the keypad window being sequentially overlapped with each location of the identification image of the image window, the location of the identification image corresponding to each digit of the password, wherein the at least one dummy image being provided along with the identification image to prevent from displaying each key and being exposed.