Patent ID: 6959389
Filing Date: 2005-10-25
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for secure entry of authorizing data in a publicly positioned device comprising the steps of: establishing a private communications link between a user and the publicly positioned device, wherein the establishing step comprises: (i) linking the publicly positioned device having a visual interface through an encoder application to active glasses having a shuttered display, said shuttered display opening and closing responsive to synchronization pulses; (ii) synchronizing display of prompts in said visual interface with said opening and closing of said shuttered display in said active glasses; (iii) displaying masking data in said visual interface between said display of said prompts; the publicly positioned device presenting device generated data over the private communications link, wherein said user can be visually prompted for said device generated data and authorization data through said visual interface; prompting said user for a combination of the device generated data and authorizing data, where the prompted combination intersperses the device generated data and the authorizing data in a manner determined by the publicly positioned device, wherein prompting step further comprises the step of: separately prompting said user for a subset of the digits of the authorizing data followed by at least some of the digits of the device generated data, followed by additional digits of the authorizing data; receiving a user input through a public input means of the publicly positioned device; extracting user-provided authorizing data from the user input, wherein the user input also contains the device generated data; and authorizing the user to utilize the publicly positioned device based upon whether the extracted authorizing data is equivalent to the authorizing data.