Patent ID: 11882439
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
storing, by a first electronic device, first path information in a memory, the first path information comprising data representing a first path of input on a touch interface associated with the first electronic device;
communicating one or more first portions of the first path information to a second electronic device, wherein less than all of the first path information is communicated to the second electronic device;
receiving, in response to communicating the one or more first portions, one or more second portions of second path information from the second electronic device, wherein the second path information comprises data representing a second path of input on a touch interface associated with the second electronic device, and wherein the one or more second portions at least partially do not overlap with the one or more first portions;
comparing the one or more second portions to the first path information; and
authenticating, by the first electronic device, the second electronic device based on similarity between the one or more second portions and the first path information.