Apple Inc.

Felipe Marin Cypriano

Gokul P Thirumalai

Dmitry V Belov

Wayne Loofbourrow

Frank De Jong

Hannah S Story

Jonathan Birdsall

Nagarjuna Thottempudi

Keetae Ryu

Patrick L Coffman

Bob Bradley

Marc Jason Krochmal

A method and apparatus of a device that endorses a proximity authorization for an authorization requesting device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a proximity authorization request from the authorization requesting device, wherein the authorization requesting device is in proximity with the authorization endorsing device. The device additionally presents a local authorization request to a user of the authorization endorsing device and receives a set of user credentials for the local authorization request. The device further performs a local authorization on the device using at least the set of user credentials. In addition, the device sends a server authorization request to an identity management server, receives an authorization response from the identity management server, and returns the authorization response.

Systems and methods for proximity single sign-on

The present disclosure generally relates to setting up an account for a service. A request to set up an account for a first service is received. In response to receiving the request to set up the account for the first service, a first login option and a second login option are displayed. If an input selecting the first login option is detected, a request to use first contact information for a user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. If an input selecting the second login option is detected, a request to use second contact information for the user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. The second contact information is automatically generated for the service and does not reveal the first contact information for the user.

User interface for accessing an account

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Felipe Marin Cypriano