Patent ID: 7672906

Claim:
A method for securing the authentication of transactions taken place over a communications network using a validation code, wherein a user submits over said communications network information using a communication terminal, said method comprising the steps of: the user submitting information via a communication terminal; said user further sending said information via a communications network to a remote location on said communications network; generating a random color grid at said remote location upon receiving said information; sending said grid to said communications terminal of said user; displaying said grid at a monitor of said communications terminal of said user ; positioning a transparent alphanumeric cipher card having rows and columns over said grid such that upon positioning said alphanumeric cipher card over said color grid, the cells of said grid are aligned over said color grid cells, said cipher card containing rows and columns of random alphanumeric characters, associated with user information; matching said color grid with a cipher card containing rows and columns of random alphanumeric characters; transforming said color grid to an alphanumeric validation code; and, submitting said validation code for authentication over said communications network to said remote location by using said communications terminal.