Patent Application
20180115894
Individuals utilize websites for multiple reasons. For certain transactions, such as financial transactions, secured access to the host site is desired to prevent unauthorized access. A security system is desired to prevent unauthorized access.
In accordance with one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for securing access to a host site is provided. The method includes creating, using a processor system, an access code for access to a user account hosted by the host site and providing, using the processor system, the access code to the host site, the access code including user provided images in a defined sequence. The method also includes creating, using the processor system, an access attempt code for access to the user account hosted by the host site and transmitting, by the processor system, the access attempt code to the host site. Based on a determination that the access attempt code matches the access code, the method includes accessing, using the processor system, the user account hosted by the host site.
In accordance with one embodiment, a system for securing access to a host site is provided. The system includes a user device having a display, a camera, a processor system, and a memory all in electrical communication. A plurality of images, some of which may be captured by the camera of the user device are stored in the memory and used to define an access code, which is defined by a user by selecting a group of images from the plurality of images in a sequence and associating respective access codes access rights to the host site. A rendering system alters the images contained within the access code and a transmitter transmits the rendered access code to a host site.
In accordance with one embodiment, a computer program product for securing access to a host site is provided. The computer program product includes a computer-readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, and the program instructions readable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to perform a method. The method includes creating, using a processor system, an access code for access to a user account hosted by the host site and providing, using the processor system, the access code to the host site, the access code including user provided images in a defined sequence. The method also includes creating, using the processor system, an access attempt code for access to the user account hosted by the host site and transmitting, by the processor system, the access attempt code to the host site. Based on a determination that the access attempt code matches the access code, the method includes accessing, using the processor system, the user account hosted by the host site.
The subject matter which is regarded as the invention is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the claims at the conclusion of the specification. The foregoing and other features, and advantages of the invention are apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems, computer program products, and methods for securing access to a host site. In exemplary embodiments, user-defined access codes are generated by a user and are provided to a host site for retention. Subsequent attempts to access information from the host site require the user to submit access attempt codes which must match the previously submitted and retained access codes. In exemplary embodiments, the access code is generated utilizing multiple images captured by the user and assembled into a user defined sequence. Once assembled, the images are rendered creating rendered images that become access codes. In exemplary embodiments, rendering the images includes performing processing on the images to obscure the image as it is provided to the remote host site.
In exemplary embodiments, the access codes are assigned access rights defining what access a user submitting the respective access code is granted by the host site. In one embodiment, a plurality of access codes having different access rights are submitted to a host site for storage. Access to the host site is controlled by the submission of an access attempt code and the comparison of the code with a previously submitted access code which is utilized as a reference.
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In operation, once the respective access codes are generated by the user device and rendered utilizing a rendering option selected by the user, the access codes are provided to the remote host site. The access codes with their designated functional access authorization are associated with the user's account by the host site and determined if appropriate access should be provided.
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At block 330, the remote host site receives the rendered images and their sequence, which originate from the user which constitute an access attempt code. At block 340, the submitted rendered images and sequence are compared with the previously submitted access codes which have been stored in a manner accessible by the host site. For example, if the user submitted five images in the specific sequence of Image A, Image E, Image B Image D, and Image C rendered in the manner as provided by selecting rendering option 150, then at block 350, after the submitted access attempt code is compared with the stored access codes, the host site would determine that an appropriate access code corresponding to access code 410a illustrated in
An advantage of the system involves the provision of images from the user's own gallery of available images. The images may be personal such as a child or from a particular natural setting, or random such as a stock photo taken from another source. However, each photo is available to the user to select in any desired sequence and then rendered using any available means provided by the application. The user is able to customize access codes which can only be created by the gallery of images available only to the user. Additionally, by rendering the images in a manner which makes the images visually unrecognizable, the content of the images is protected and cannot be reproduced in the event of a data breach.
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The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computer program product at any possible technical detail level of integration. The computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.
The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that can retain and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of the computer readable storage medium includes the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically identified device such as punch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructions recorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. A computer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construed as being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulses passing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through a wire.
Computer readable program instructions described herein can be downloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computer readable storage medium or to an external computer or external storage device via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, a wide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprise copper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wireless transmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives computer readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer readable program instructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium within the respective computing/processing device.
Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations of the present invention may be assembler instructions, instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions, machine dependent instructions, micro-identifier, firmware instructions, state-setting data, or either source identifier or object identifier written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object-oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, C++ or the like, and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages. The computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), a wireless LAN (WLAN using WiFi), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including, for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute the computer readable program instructions by utilizing state information of the computer readable program instructions to personalize the electronic circuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.
Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer readable program instructions.
These computer readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can direct a computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises an article of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects of the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computer implemented process, such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods, and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specified functions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
