Apple Inc.

Prabhakaran Vaidyanathaswami

James R Wilson

Patrice Olivier Gautier

Ivan Krstic

Karthik Narayanan

Raghunandan K Pai

James C Wilson

Sudhakar N Mambakkam

John Gates

Eric Daniel Friedman

Ramarathnam Santhanagopal

Selvarajan Subramaniam

John Patrick Gates

Some embodiments of the invention provide a program for recovering access to a service associated with an account. The program provides a login credential to log into the account to receive the associated service. Next, the program receives an access continuation parameter (ACP) after logging into the account. The program then accesses the service and receives a rejection of a subsequent access to the service. The program then provides the ACP in lieu of the login credential to continue to receive the service.

Account access recovery system, method and apparatus

Some embodiments provide an account-access recovery method that receives a request to recover access to an account. The method also assesses recent usage of a device that is associated with the account. The method also, based on the assessment, selects a recovery process from a group of different recovery processes for regaining access to the account. The method also provides the selected recovery process to a party that is requesting the access recovery.

Selectively specifying account access recovery process based on account activity

Some embodiments of the invention provide a program for recovering access to an account. The program receives an access recovery parameter (ARP) after providing a first credential to log into an account and providing a notification of a second credential necessary for accessing another resource. The program then receives a request to modify the first credential and receives the second credential. Next, after authenticating the second credential, the program uses the ARP to modify the first credential without providing the first credential.

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Prabhakaran Vaidyanathaswami