Patent 10169558 was granted and assigned to Intel on January, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an ordered sequence of biometric inputs from a user via a biometric sensor, determining if each of the ordered sequence matches a corresponding entry stored in a table that includes a stored ordered sequence of biometric inputs corresponding to a password pattern of the user, and if so, enabling the user to access the processing system, otherwise preventing the user from accessing the processing system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.