Patent ID: 8086745
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of forming a collage as a computerized graphical user authentication tool, the method being executed by a processor, the method comprising: constructing an image corpus; receiving a selection of a first image as secret image from the image corpus; retrieving images other than the secret image as decoy images from the image corpus; selecting one or more regions from the secret image as secrets, and one or more regions from the decoy images as decoys; and forming a collage including a first number of secrets and a second number of decoys, wherein forming the collage further comprises creating a single composite image comprising one or more regions from the secret image as secrets, and one or more regions from the decoy images as decoys; wherein each of the one or more regions from the secret image is less than the secret image in its entirety; wherein a region selected from a decoy image is less than the decoy image in its entirety; presenting the collage to a user for selection of a region of the collage; wherein authentication is denied in response to receiving a selection of a decoy in the collage.