Patent ID: 9626498
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of authorizing access to a resource, the method comprising acts which are performed by a processor, the acts comprising: obtaining sensor information related to at least two users from one or more sensors, the sensor information comprising one or more of image information or proximity information of each of the at least two users; identifying with the processor current gestures performed by each of the at least two users in accordance with the sensor information, regardless of a temporal order in which the current gestures are performed by the at least two users; and when the at least two users are identified, detecting the temporal order at which the current gestures were performed by the at least two identified users based on the sensor information; comparing the current gestures of each of the at least two identified users and the temporal order of the current gestures between the at least two identified users with pre-stored gesture information specific to each identified user and related to predetermined gestures and an order of the predetermined gestures; and authorizing access to the resource when the processor determines that the current gestures are in accordance with the predetermined gestures, and the temporal order of the current gestures are in accordance with the order of the predetermined gestures.