Object-Alignment Authentication Challenges for Bot Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing authentication systems, such as CAPTCHA, are often bypassed by automated processes, causing unauthorized access and abuse of computer resources, while being frustrating for human users.
Innovation Solution
An authentication challenge system that presents challenges requiring real-world experience and knowledge, making it difficult for automated processes to bypass while remaining accessible for human users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional CAPTCHA systems are used for authentication, then automated processes can be blocked to some extent, but human users experience frustration and the system can still be bypassed by sophisticated automated processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the authentication challenge from traditional text-based or image selection tasks to a spatial reasoning task involving rotated geometric shapes. By changing the parameter of the challenge type to require rotational orientation matching, the system achieves higher reliability in distinguishing human from automated users while maintaining ease of operation through intuitive visual alignment
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary visual element (the alignment indicator or reference orientation marker) that mediates between the challenge presented to the user and the verification process. This intermediary provides a clear visual reference that simplifies the user's task while making automated bypass more difficult, as the system can verify the user's ability to correctly interpret and respond to the spatial relationship
2Reliability
If authentication challenges require real-world experience and knowledge, then automated processes become harder to bypass, but the challenge complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of the authentication challenge from complex cognitive tasks requiring extensive real-world knowledge to a simpler spatial orientation task. The challenge involves rotating shapes to match visual patterns, which requires basic visual processing and spatial reasoning that is intuitive for humans but difficult to automate reliably, thereby achieving high bot detection accuracy without excessive challenge complexity
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AI summary
A method of securing a computer resource against unauthorized access by a user computer system attempting to access the computer resource includes sending, by a processing device, a challenge data structure to the user computer system. The challenge data structure defines a challenge to be presented to a user of the user computer system. The challenge includes a user interface for manipulating one or more objects to match a defined alignment. The method further includes obtaining a user input to the user interface that represents a manipulation of the one or more objects to a first orientation and providing access to the computer resource for the user computer system based on whether the first orientation of the one or more objects matches the defined alignment.