Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Trusted status transfer between associated devices
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Application No.: US16281001Application Date: 2019-02-20
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Publication No.: US11184353B2Publication Date: 2021-11-23
- Inventor: James C. Wilson , Lestat Ali , Aniwat Arromratana
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Dickinson Wright RLLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/44 ; H04W12/065 ; H04W12/06

Abstract:
The embodiments set forth systems and techniques to authenticate a user device for device services, such as by transferring or extending a trusted device status from a separate and trusted associated user device, which can be paired with the user device. This can be done automatically without requiring the user to sign in at or on behalf of the user device, and the automated process can include verifying a trusted status for the associated user device, receiving data items from both devices, evaluating the data items, and facilitating an authentication of the user device when the evaluating returns a favorable result. Data items can include provisioned machine identifiers, temporally limited one-time user passwords, and a provisioned password reset key. Authentication or trusted device status transfer can be achieved by way of an authentication token that is given to the user device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190281047A1 TRUSTED STATUS TRANSFER BETWEEN ASSOCIATED DEVICES Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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