Apple Inc.

Munish K Poonia

Yannick L Sierra

Robert William Mayor

Sriram Hariharan

Brent Michael Ledvina

Scott Lopatin

Tommy Rochette

Emmanuel Lalande

Raghunandan K Pai

Gokul P Thirumalai

Julien F Freudiger

Kyle C Brogle

Langford M Wasada

Siva Ganesh Movva

Navin Bindiganavile Suparna

Lawrence T Lu

Sam Schaevitz

Steven Andrew Myers

Alexandre A Aybes

Sudhakar N Mambakkam

Dmitry V Belov

Hannah S Story

Samuel B Schaevitz

Frederic Jacobs

Keaton F Mowery

Adam M Driscoll

Kalyan C Gopavarapu

David G Knipp

Keetae Ryu

Christina Selle

Jonathan R Schoenberg

Nihar Sharma

Tunc Ertan

Carmen S Yu

Swadesh Bhattacharya

Michael C Laster

Nicholas D Shourounis

Jean-Luc Giraud

Rebekah H Mercer

Assar E Westerlund

Mads N Paulin

Tim Taubert

Ernst Thomas Erdmann

Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

System and method for locating wireless accessories

Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations to share a set of keys used to communicate with a wireless accessory device. By sharing the set of keys, functionality of the wireless accessory device can be delegated by an owner to other individuals.

Sharing keys for a wireless accessory

This Application sets forth techniques for establishing a custodial relationship between a user device and a custodian device for recovering access to a user account and/or to encrypted user data with assistance provided by the custodian device to effect access recovery. A server of a cloud network service provides an anonymous identifier to associate with the custodian device and an account recovery key to store at the custodian device. Identity of an account of the cloud network service associated with the custodian device can be hidden from the server. The user device generates a data recovery key and provides a first portion of the data recovery key to the custodian device and a second portion of the data recovery key to the server. Integrity of the stored account recovery key and portions of the data recovery key are checked regularly by the custodian device and the user device.

Techniques for user account and data recovery

The present disclosure generally relates to account recovery. An example method includes, at a computer system in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices: performing a recovery contact set up process including providing a notification to a contact; after performing the recovery contact set up process, receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to initiate an account recovery process; in response to the request to initiate the account recovery process and without providing a request to the contact, displaying, via the display generation component, a recovery code interface for receiving a set of recovery credentials; while displaying of the recovery code interface, receiving the set of recovery credentials; in accordance with a determination that the recovery credentials are valid, performing a recovery function; and in accordance with a determination that the recovery credentials are not valid, forgoing performing the recovery function.

Methods and user interfaces for account recovery

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Munish K Poonia