Abstract: Keyboard configurations are described. In embodiments, a keyboard includes a microcontroller to register key inputs, a memory to store time durations that correspond to the key inputs, and an algorithm that generates an input signature based on the time durations that correspond to the key inputs. The input signature can be used for user authentication and identity theft protection, and/or used to validate users for access to a computer system. The input signature may also include a watermark, a timestamp, or voice stamp for further security. An input system that includes a keyboard can provide multi-modal biometric protection by supplementing keystroke-scans with fingerprint, voice-scan, signature-scan and mouse-scan verification.

Abstract: A typing typeprint is used to validate users for access to a computer system. The typeprint may also include a timestamp or voice stamp for further security. Multi-modal biometric protection is provided by supplementing keystroke-scan methods with fingerprint, voice-scan, signature-scan and/or mouse-scan verification. The authentication program may be built into a keyboard.

Abstract: Keyboard configurations are described. In embodiments, a keyboard includes a microcontroller to register key inputs, a memory to store time durations that correspond to the key inputs, and an algorithm that generates an input signature based on the time durations that correspond to the key inputs. The input signature can be used for user authentication and identity theft protection, and/or used to validate users for access to a computer system. The input signature may also include a watermark, a timestamp, or voice stamp for further security. An input system that includes a keyboard can provide multi-modal biometric protection by supplementing keystroke-scans with fingerprint, voice-scan, signature-scan and mouse-scan verification.

Abstract: A method and system for user authentication and identity theft protection. A typing typeprint is used to validate users for access to a computer system. The typeprint may also include a watermark, a timestamp, or voice stamp for further security. The method and system provide multi-modal biometric protection by supplementing keystroke-scan methods and systems with fingerprint, voice-scan, signature-scan and mouse-scan verification. The authentication program may be built into a keyboard.

Abstract: A method for user authentication and identity theft protection. A typing typeprint is used to validate users for access to a computer system. The typeprint may also include a watermark, a timestamp, or voice stamp for further security. The method provides multi-modal biometric protection by supplementing keystroke-scan methods with fingerprint, voice-scan, signature-scan and mouse-scan verification. The authentication program may be built into a keyboard.

Abstract: A device for verifying the identity of an individual based on a typing characteristic token. The device having said device embedded in a keyboard, said keyboard in communication with an a processing system to be secured, said device comprising: an input means for monitoring the time interval in which keys on the keyboard are depressed; a processing means in electrical communication with the input means for generating a first typing characteristic token based on the monitored time intervals; a memory means in data communication with the processing means for storing the first typing characteristic token, and wherein the processing system is adapted to compare the first typing characteristic token with a second typing characteristics token generated for a current user; and wherein the processing system denies access to the current user if the second typing characteristic does not match the stored first typing characteristic token.

Abstract: A method and system for learning a foreign language by first switching-off subconscious translation into a native language with the help of special drills consisting of simultaneous: reading of a lesson in a foreign language; listening to the recording of the same lesson; and repeating said lesson. The simultaneous reading, listening and repetition results in the formation of a new link image—word block in a foreign language, that after multiple repetition becomes engrained in the new language speech center in the brain so that the next time an adult encounters a similar situation, the corresponding word block in a foreign language is pronounced by the learner automatically in the same way that it occurs in the native language. The method and system is further comprised of the step of simultaneously listening to a lesson, repeating the lesson aloud and writing any words that a learner recognizes and can write down.