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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2017
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Byron B. Han, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon Patience, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/40 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/40145 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4014 (2013.01); H04L 2463/102 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computing device may determine to execute a secured function. The computing may obtain a biometric of the user of the computing device utilizing one or more biometric sensors associated with the computing device, determine that the biometric matches the biometric of a user authorized to utilize the secured function, and execute the secured function. Whenever during execution of the secured function the computing device determines that the biometric sensor no longer detects the biometric of the user, the computing device may cease execution of the secured function.