Patent ID: 8464324

Claim:
A system to verify user identity on a computing device having a display and coupled to a computer network, comprising: an authentication server coupled to the computer network; a data storage area communicatively coupled to the authentication server and configured to store an image, the stored image having no embedded information; a network interface controller associated with the authentication server and configured to control communications with the computer network wherein the authentication server is configured to transmit the stored image to the computing device, using the computer network, to thereby display the image on the display; a mobile communication device having an image capture device and configured to capture the displayed image and thereby generate a captured image; a transmitter associated with the mobile communication device to transmit the captured image, in an unprocessed form, to the authentication server using a public mobile communication network; and an image analyzer associated with the authentication server and configured to compare the captured image and the stored image without any analysis of embedded information, to thereby verify user identity if the comparison indicates that the captured image matches the stored image.