Apple Inc.

Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam

Grant R Paul

Brandon J Newendorp

Nicole M Wells

Kyle C Brogle

Trungtin Tran

Nikrouz Ghotbi

Ramanujam Jagannath

Benjamin Biron

Ryan D Webber

Tyler C Leppek

Sue Wen Chiao

Vasilios E Anton

Songkran Vatanapanpilas

Christian Seifert

Shannon Shih

An example process includes at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: while the electronic device is in a locked state and in communication with an external accessory device: receiving a natural language input; determining whether the natural language input corresponds to a secure task request; in accordance with a determination that the natural language input corresponds to a secure task request: determining whether one or more states of the external accessory device satisfy a set of authentication criteria; and in accordance with a determination that the one or more states of the external accessory device satisfy the set of authentication criteria: initiating, by the electronic device, a secure task corresponding to the natural language input; and providing an output indicative of the initiated secure task.

Accessory device based authentication for digital assistant requests

A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform a prewarming process, wherein the prewarming process includes concurrently performing a face detection process and an unlock process independent of face detection, determine whether a face detection operation indicates the presence of a face within a field of view of a camera of the UE and disable prewarming for a predetermined time period when the face detection operation is not satisfied.

User equipment auto-unlock optimization

One embodiment of the present invention provides a portable device, which is configured to join a known Wi-Fi network. While the device is not associated with a known access point, the device scans for access points at a scanning frequency wherein information about known access points has been stored in a database in the device. During this scanning process, the device determines whether the device is proximate to a known access point and the device sets the device's scanning frequency based on whether the device is proximate to a known access point.

Using proximate access points to ensure fast Wi-Fi network discovery and reconnection with reduced power consumption

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam