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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
James R. Montgomerie, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jessica Aranda, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick Coffman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Julien Freudiger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Hansen Gamble, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Ron Huang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anant Jain, Union City, CA (US);
Glen S. Low, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrey Pokrovskiy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew E. Shepherd, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ansh Shukla, Cupertino, CA (US);
Katherine Skinner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kyle Martin Sluder, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Soli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher K. Thomas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Guy L. Tribble, Woodside, CA (US);
John Wilander, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An access control system is provided to prevent the surreptitious granting of access to privacy related functionality on an electronic device. Software-based events to grant access to device functionality can be validated by confirming that the software event corresponds with a hardware input event. This validation prevents the spoofing of a user interface input that may be used to fraudulently grant access to specific functionality.