Patent Document ID: 8549314
Application ID: 12770717

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a plurality of characters input to a computer device by a user, wherein the plurality of characters input by the user include a user password, variable characters, a plurality of terminator characters, and wherein the plurality of characters input by the user further include a plurality of safeguard characters; identifying locations of the plurality of terminator characters, each one of the terminator characters separated from one another by a portion of the variable characters; and extracting the user password from the plurality of characters which included the user password, variable character, the plurality of terminator characters, and the plurality of safeguard characters, wherein the safeguard is number that presents the minimum number of variable characters the user enter after each character in the actual user password and followed by variable characters and terminator characters; input by the user based on a one-to-one correspondence of each character of the user password with each one of the terminator characters and the locations of each one of the terminator characters.

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Claim 6:
6. A computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1 further comprising validating the user password.