Patent 7533419 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on May, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A human interactive proof (HIP) service is described. In response to a request from a web server, the HIP service generates a HIP challenge and an associated attestation. The web server can then embed the generated HIP challenge in a requested web page. The attestation is used to determine whether or not a user response to the HIP challenge is correct.