Traversal of a soft bar to unlock an application
View Patent ↗Illustrated is a system and method to receiving input at a soft bar, the input received at a middle position on the soft bar equal distance from a first position and a second position on the soft bar. The system and method also including a traversing of the soft bar from the middle position to one of the first or second position, using the input, a plurality of times to generate a candidate password, each traversal to generate a position value that is part of the candidate password. Further, the system and method to include unlocking a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for use, the unlocking to occur where the candidate password is equivalent to a stored password.
1. A method for receiving input at a computing device comprising:
displaying a soft bar and soft icon, the soft bar including a middle position, a first position and a second position that are equal distance from the middle position;
receiving input indicative of a tilting of the computing device using an accelerometer, the soft icon to traverse the soft bar where tilting occurs;
granting access to an application residing on the computing device, the access granted based upon a number of times the soft icon intersects at least one of the first position or the second position, to generate a candidate password;
wherein each intersection to generate a position value that is part of the candidate password, wherein each of the position value is in a form of one character and each of the intersection includes movement of the input from a first pixel position to a second pixel position.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the input is a signal generated by the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a touch sensitive display.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the soft bar is displayed based upon the orientation of a mobile computing device, the display of the soft bar to be one of vertically or horizontally where the mobile computing device is oriented in a vertical or horizontal manner.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one character is an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) based alpha-numeric character.
5. The method claim 4 , wherein the ASCII based alpha-numeric character is an alphabetical character.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the alphabetical character is either “A” or “B”.
7. An apparatus comprising:
a display to show a soft bar and soft icon, the soft bar including a middle position, a first position and a second position that are equal distance from the middle position;
an accelerometer to receive input indicative of a tilting of the apparatus, the soft icon to traverse the soft bar where tilting occurs; and
an access logic module to grant access to an application residing on the apparatus, the access granted based upon a number of times the soft icon intersects at least one of the first position or the second position to generate a candidate password, each intersection to generate a position value that is part of the candidate password, wherein each of the position value is in a form of one character and each of the intersection includes movement of the input from a first pixel position to a second pixel position.
8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the first position and the second position are each one of a left position, a right position, up position, and down position.
9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the apparatus is a mobile computing device.
10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the access logic module stores a password, the password to include position values, each position value generated based upon the number of times the soft icon intersects at least one of the first position or the second position.
11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for causing a suitably programmed computer to execute a method comprising:
displaying a soft bar and soft icon, the soft bar including a middle position, a first position and a second position that are equal distance from the middle position;
receiving input indicative of a tilting of a computing device using an accelerometer, the soft icon to traverse the soft bar where tilting occurs;
granting access to an application residing on the computing device, the access granted based upon a number of times the soft icon intersects at least one of the first position or the second position, to generate a candidate password;
wherein each intersection to generate a position value that is part of the candidate password, wherein each of the position value is in a form of one character and each of the intersection includes movement of the input from a first pixel position to a second pixel position.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the input is a signal generated by the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a touch sensitive display.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the soft bar is displayed based upon the orientation of a mobile computing device, the display of the soft bar to be one of vertically or horizontally where the mobile computing device is oriented in a vertical or horizontal manner.