Patent ID: 9465930
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, using a plurality of fingerprint sensor regions of a user device, a sequence of a plurality of fingerprint gestures, each fingerprint gesture, of the plurality of fingerprint gestures, including a touch by at least one finger on at least one fingerprint sensor region of the plurality of fingerprint sensor regions; determining, based on the sequence of the plurality of fingerprint gestures, a sequence of a plurality of finger identifiers and corresponding plurality of touch locations, wherein each finger identifier, of the plurality of finger identifiers, indicates a specific one of a plurality of registered fingerprints that touched a fingerprint sensor region, of the plurality of fingerprint sensor regions, at the touch location in the sequence corresponding to the each finger identifier; determining whether the sequence of the plurality of finger identifiers and corresponding plurality of touch locations matches a valid passcode sequence; and granting or denying access to a protected function of the user device based at least in part on whether the sequence of the plurality of finger identifiers and corresponding plurality of touch locations matches the valid passcode sequence.