Abstract: An arrangement for determining those optimal times to permit an important pop-up message to be displayed by way of garnering a user's attention, while permitting less important messages to be displayed at times when a user's attention is unlikely to be garnered. In accordance with a particularly preferred embodiment, an arrangement is provided to recognize whether a user is looking towards a computer monitor and, at such times, to determine whether a blink rate of the user's eyes corresponds to a degree of focus and concentration that would ensure a strong likelihood of the user seeing or “catching” a message that may then appear. If such likelihood is thus determined to be strong, then a critical message may preferably then be displayed.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for validating users based on fuzzy logic. An interface with security questions is presented to a user who requires authentication. A typical scenario is authentication for password recovery. The interface comprises security questions for the user to answer. The security questions may be limited or unlimited response questions. The answers to the security questions are either scored using fuzzy logic, which may attribute a value between “1” and “0” based on similarity with the original, correct answer; or scored using digital logic. When fuzzy logic scoring is used, a similarity score is computed for each answer. The similarity score is compared against a similarity score threshold to either grant or deny access. An average similarity score is also computed for all answers and compared against an average similarity score threshold to either grant or deny access.

Abstract: An arrangement for determining those optimal times to permit an important pop-up message to be displayed by way of garnering a user's attention, while permitting less important messages to be displayed at times when a user's attention is unlikely to be garnered. In accordance with a particularly preferred embodiment, an arrangement is provided to recognize whether a user is looking towards a computer monitor and, at such times, to determine whether a blink rate of the user's eyes corresponds to a degree of focus and concentration that would ensure a strong likelihood of the user seeing or “catching” a message that may then appear. If such likelihood is thus determined to be strong, then a critical message may preferably thence be displayed.