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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ivan Krstic, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Wilson, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Daniel Friedman, Berkeley, CA (US);
Selvarajan Subramaniam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Patrice O. Gautier, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Patrick Gates, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ramarathnam Santhanagopal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prabhakaran Vaidyanathaswami, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhakar Mambakkam, San Jose, CA (US);
Raghunandan Pai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Karthik Narayanan, London, GB;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.