Patent ID: 9729544
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of improving security of access to computerized machines in a computer network comprising: loading an image library on a database of the computer network; populating an image group with less than all of a plurality of images in the image library; displaying the image group on a display screen of one of a plurality of the computerized machines so as to prompt a user to initially enter passcode information based on the image group; receiving passcode information that includes a plurality of passcode textual characters initially entered by the user in response to the prompt to initially enter passcode information; determining an entropy rule for the passcode information initially entered by the user is satisfied; redisplaying a component of the image group on the same display screen or another display screen of one of the plurality of computerized machines of the computer network, so as to prompt the user to subsequently enter passcode information; receiving passcode information subsequently entered by the user using an input device in response to the prompt to subsequently enter passcode information; comparing the subsequently entered passcode information with the initially entered passcode information via a processor of the computer network; and outputting an authentication signal so as to initialize an authenticated session for the user on the computer network, responsive to the comparison.