US 12,406,052 B2
Automatic compliant password generation
Benjamin David Cox, Newbury (GB); Joseph Sayer, Bury St Edmunds (GB); and Andrew David Lyell, Winchester (GB)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/830,789.
Prior Publication US 2023/0394135 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/46 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/46 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for automatic compliant password generation, said method provided by one or more processors of a computing system and comprising:
activating password generation for a given input field, wherein the activating password generation is triggered by an action selected from the group consisting of inputting navigating to a page, a username into a username input field, and putting focus in an input field;
gathering information from one or more sources associated with the input field, wherein the one or more sources include an attribute of the input field;
determining password criteria from the gathered information;
generating bound requirements based on the determined password criteria; and
generating a randomized password meeting the bound requirements.