Patent Document ID: 10146933
Application ID: 15193364

Base Claim:
1. A method of controlling access to a resource, the method comprising: deriving, by processing circuitry, a password based on a phrase provided by a user; by the processing circuitry, confirming with the user that the password is to control access to the resource; and after confirming with the user that the password is to control access to the resource, imposing, by the processing circuitry, a requirement that the user provide the password before obtaining access to the resource; wherein deriving the password based on the phrase provided by the user includes: prompting the user to type in the phrase, extracting a first group of words from the phrase, modifying at least some of the words in the first group of words extracted from the phrase to generate a second group of words, and providing the second group of words to the user; and wherein providing the second group of words to the user for password use includes: displaying, as a proposal for the password, each word of the second group of words on an electronic display to the user, the proposal for the password including at least 16 letters.

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Claim 15:
15. The method as in claim 1 wherein each word of the second group of words includes multiple letters; and wherein displaying each word of the second group of words on the electronic display includes rendering the multiple letters of each word to the user.