Patent ID: 9390249
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing access to a user account via an electronic device having a visual display screen, the method including the steps of: issuing at least one security identifier to the user, said security identifier including one or more characters chosen from a predetermined character set, and said predetermined character set being independent of said electronic device and unique to a subset of users; providing an access interface on said visual display screen for said user to input said security identifier, wherein said access interface includes a graphical display character set which includes at least the characters comprising the security identifier, determining one or more visual display screen locations selected by the user, the one or more visual display screen locations corresponding to characters on the graphical display character set; determining an entered security identifier based on the graphical display characters associated with the one or more visual display screen locations selected by the user; and comparing said entered security identifier to a predetermined security identifier stored in a database, and if comparison is successful, providing access to said user account.