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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Conrad A. Shultz, San Jose, CA (US);

Alexander D. Sanciangco, San Jose, CA (US);

Brent M. Ledvina, San Francisco, CA (US);

Chelsea E. Pugh, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kyle C. Brogle, San Francisco, CA (US);

Marc J. Krochmal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Maureen G. Daum, Mountain View, CA (US);

Reza Abbasian, Milpitas, CA (US);

Richard J. Mondello, Mountain View, CA (US);

Jacob S. Klapper, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/44 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); G06F 21/43 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/107 (2013.01); G06F 21/43 (2013.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

Techniques are disclosed relating to user authentication. In some embodiments, a first computing device receives, from a second computing device, a request for a user credential to be input into an authentication prompt associated with the second device. The first computing device determines a proximity associated with the second computing device based on a received wireless location beacon and, based on the request and the determined proximity, presents a selection prompt asking a user of the first computing device to select a user credential stored in the first computing device. The first computing device then provides the selected user credential to the second computing device to input into the authentication prompt. In some embodiments, the first computing device receives the wireless location beacon from a remote controller of the second computing device and determines a proximity based on a signal strength associated with the received location beacon.


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