Patent ID: 8134449

Claim:
A method for secure operation of a computing system using a biometrics keyboard, the method comprising: providing a database of user keyboard behavior biometric information; authenticating a user to use the biometrics keyboard; establishing a secure connection with the computing system; and subsequent to establishing the secure connection, the biometrics keyboard performing steps of: probing the computing system to determine if the secure connection with the computing system is compromised; if the secure connection is compromised, disabling the secure connection with the computing system; sampling user keyboard behavior biometric information; determining if the sampled user keyboard behavior biometric information is within an allowable tolerance; disabling the secure connection with the computing system, if the sampled user keyboard behavior biometric information exceeds the allowable tolerance; and displaying indications associated with the sampled user keyboard behavior biometric information on a display device provided on a portion of the biometrics keyboard; wherein authenticating the user to use the biometrics keyboard comprises: the biometrics keyboard performing the steps of: prompting the user to enter a user ID and a user password; deriving biometric behavioral information from the entered user ID and user password; comparing the derived biometric behavioral information with the database to determine if the derived biometric behavioral information is within the allowable tolerance; disabling an initial connection, that is different from the secure connection, with the computing system, if the derived biometric behavioral information exceeds the allowable tolerance; displaying indications associated with the derived user keyboard behavior biometric information on the display device provided on the portion of the biometrics keyboard; and tightening the tolerance, if the derived biometric behavioral information is within the allowable tolerance.