Methods and apparatus provide for: facilitating communication between one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, and a data processing apparatus running an application program, wherein each controller device includes a plurality of actuation elements that are operable to be manipulated by a respective one of the one or more users to input desired operations to the data processing apparatus for use by the application program; obtaining a respective controller identifier from each of the one or more controller devices; and storing in a memory the controller identifiers in response to the control section in a sequential table, such that each entry in the sequential table includes at least a sequential table entry number and a respective one of the controller identifiers.

A multi-factor authentication method and system is provided such that a push notification during an authentication process is only received if a mobile device and user are authenticated prior to receiving the push notification. Either the mobile device itself or a second device sending the push notification may be programmed to either reject or not forward the authentication request. Additionally, using the method of the present invention, enhanced security is provided by requiring the location of the mobile device and the second device to be approximately in the same geographical location.

A user may be authenticated at a device through analyzing video frames of acquired video data. Feature recognition may be used to determine that features in the video frames correspond to features of an authorized user. Moreover, successive frames of the video frames may be compared to determine whether the video data is representative of a video capturing the user, or a representation of the user, such as a digital image of or a video depicting the user.

A user may be authenticated at a device through analyzing video frames of acquired video data. Feature recognition may be used to determine that features in the video frames correspond to features of an authorized user. Moreover, successive frames of the video frames may be compared to determine whether the video data is representative of a video capturing the user, or a representation of the user, such as a digital image of or a video depicting the user.

This disclosure is directed to an image authenticity detection method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an image; removing low-frequency information from the image to obtain first image information of the image; denoising the first image information to obtain second image information; determining, based on a difference between the first image information and the second image information, a fixed pattern noise feature map corresponding to the image; analyzing distribution of fixed pattern noise in the fixed pattern noise feature map, the fixed pattern noise being inherent noise from a camera sensor and not interfered by image content; and detecting, based on the distribution, authenticity of the image to obtain an authenticity detection result of the image.

This disclosure is directed to an image authenticity detection method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an image; removing low-frequency information from the image to obtain first image information of the image; denoising the first image information to obtain second image information; determining, based on a difference between the first image information and the second image information, a fixed pattern noise feature map corresponding to the image; analyzing distribution of fixed pattern noise in the fixed pattern noise feature map, the fixed pattern noise being inherent noise from a camera sensor and not interfered by image content; and detecting, based on the distribution, authenticity of the image to obtain an authenticity detection result of the image.

A method (600) for fingerprint verification of a user is presented. The method (600) comprises receiving (602) a sample (108) of a fingerprint from the user, extracting (604) key points (204) from the sample (108), extracting (606) descriptors (202) from the sample (108), wherein the descriptors (202) are based on information gathered from areas surrounding the key points (204), retrieving (608) enrolled descriptors (302), matching the descriptors (202) and the enrolled descriptors (302), thereby forming a list (304) of matching descriptor pairs, transferring (610) the list (304) of matching descriptor pairs and the key points (204) from a first module (104) to a second module (106), retrieving (614) enrolled key points (308), matching (616) the key points (204) and the enrolled key points (308) in combination with the list (304) of matching descriptor pairs, and in case of match (618), signaling (620) a positive verification outcome using the second data communications device (122), else, signaling (622) a negative verification outcome using the second data communications device (122).

An authorization method based on form data gotten by a role is disclosed in the present invention, including: selecting one or more grantees; selecting a form, and displaying an authorized field used for searching form data; displaying all roles in a system, defining a role that needs to be used for searching form data as a target role, and selecting a target object for each target role respectively, where the target object is a current object, a historical object, or all objects; defining a target role and a user or an employee in its target object as a limited value; for each target role of each authorized field, respectively getting a set of form data, any limited value of the target role of which is included by a field value of the authorized field in the form, and authorizing an operation permission to the set. The present invention achieves dynamic authorization of form data, so that related permissions can be adjusted automatically in the resignation, transfer, induction of the employees and other cases, thus reducing workloads of the authorization operation and making it less error-prone.

An authorization method based on form data gotten by a role is disclosed in the present invention, including: selecting one or more grantees; selecting a form, and displaying an authorized field used for searching form data; displaying all roles in a system, defining a role that needs to be used for searching form data as a target role, and selecting a target object for each target role respectively, where the target object is a current object, a historical object, or all objects; defining a target role and a user or an employee in its target object as a limited value; for each target role of each authorized field, respectively getting a set of form data, any limited value of the target role of which is included by a field value of the authorized field in the form, and authorizing an operation permission to the set. The present invention achieves dynamic authorization of form data, so that related permissions can be adjusted automatically in the resignation, transfer, induction of the employees and other cases, thus reducing workloads of the authorization operation and making it less error-prone.

A computer-implemented method for hosting a video communications portal of an external video communications server system on an internal domain is disclosed. The may include receiving a unique path from a user, the unique path including a unique identifier, in response to the receiving, initiating the video communications portal of the external video communications server system, the video communications portal corresponding to the unique identifier, in response to the initiating, displaying the video communications portal within the internal domain, wherein the video communications portal is hosted on the external video communications server system, receiving a user selection from the user to initiate a video communication with one or more visitors, and in response to receiving the user selection, activating the video communication between the user and the one or more visitors.