公开(公告)号：US20200380108A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-03

申请号：US16888482

申请日：2020-05-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Felipe Marin CYPRIANO ,  Marc J. KROCHMAL ,  Gokul P. THIRUMALAI ,  Bob BRADLEY ,  Dmitry V. BELOV

IPC: G06F21/35 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06F21/33

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that endorses a proximity authorization for an authorization requesting device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a proximity authorization request from the authorization requesting device, wherein the authorization requesting device is in proximity with the authorization endorsing device. The device additionally presents a local authorization request to a user of the authorization endorsing device and receives a set of user credentials for the local authorization request. The device further performs a local authorization on the device using at least the set of user credentials. In addition, the device sends a server authorization request to an identity management server, receives an authorization response from the identity management server, and returns the authorization response.