Apple Inc.

Gregory T Quirk

Patrick L Coffman

Jeffrey L Robbin

Craig Michael Federighi

Monika E Gromek

Jean-Pierre Ciudad

Sam H Gharabally

Daniel I Feldman

Pedraum R Pardehpoosh

Daniel Emil Pu

Jackie Lee-Kang

Christopher John Sanders

Megan M Frost

Ellis Marshall Verosub

Jack R Matthew

Thomas K Burkholder

Yoon Sub Hwang

James C Wilson

Maria Dimitrova Ioveva

Michael Kuohao Chu

David Lawrence Neumann

Joseph Michael Rossell

Christopher D Espinosa

William M Bachmann

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for associating an application that was pre-installed on a computer with a user account on an online store. A system configured to practice the method presents an application available for download, receives a request to download the application to a computing devices, determines that the application is a pre-installed application, presents an authorization prompt configured to request user authorization to link the application with a user account, receives the user authorization, generates a unique hardware identifier associated with the computing devices, determines that the application is linkable based upon the unique hardware identifier, and links the adoptable application with the user account when the adoptable application is linkable.

System and method for linking pre-installed software to a user account on an online store

To perform a restricted action, such as access a restricted content item, a subordinate user account can transmit a permission request to an authorizing user account. The permission request can request authorization from the authorizing user account to perform the restricted action. The permission request can be transmitted to one or more client devices of the authorizing user account, and enable to the authorizing user account to remotely select to approve or deny the permission request, thereby either granting or denying the subordinate user account from performing the restricted action. In addition to approving or denying a permission request, an authorizing user account can also be enabled to ignore a permission request, thereby allowing the authorizing user account to respond to the permission request at a later time. Further, in some embodiments, an authorizing user account can select to deny all further permission requests to perform the restricted action.

Permission request

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for associating an application that was pre-installed on a computer with a user account on an online store. A system configured to practice the method presents an application available for download, receives a request to download the application to a computing device, determines that the application is a pre-installed application, presents an authorization prompt configured to request user authorization to link the application with a user account, receives the user authorization, generates a unique hardware identifier associated with the computing device, determines that the application is linkable based upon the unique hardware identifier, and links the adoptable application with the user account when the adoptable application is linkable.

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Gregory T Quirk