Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing authentication credentials for user accounts

US11120123B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Conrad A. Shultz · San Jose, US
• Richard J. Mondello · Mountain View, US
• Reza Abbasian · Milpitas, US
• Ivan Krstic · San Francisco, US
• Darin B. Adler · Los Gatos, US
• Charilaos Papadopoulos · Redwood City, US
• Maureen G. Daum · Mountain View, US
• Guillaume Borios · Boulogne-Billancourt, FR
• Patrick Robert Burns · San Jose, US
• Alexander D. Sanciangco · Cupertino, US
• Brent M. Ledvina · San Francisco, US
• Chelsea E. Pugh · San Francisco, US
• Kyle C. Brogle · San Francisco, US
• Marc J. Krochmal · Santa Clara, US
• Jacob Klapper · Santa Clara, US
• Paul Russell Knight · San Francisco, US
• Connor David Graham · San Francisco, US
• Shengkai Wu · Jiaocheng District, CN
• I-Ting Liu · Sunnyvale, US
• Steven J. Falkenburg · Los Altos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2019
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2021
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W12/068
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at an electronic device with a display device and one or more input devices. The method includes displaying, via the display device, a user interface that includes a new-password field. The method includes detecting, via the one or more input devices, a user input that corresponds to selection of the new-password field. In response to detecting the user input that corresponds to selection of the new-password field, the method includes displaying, on the display device, a representation of a new automatically-generated password in the new-password field and displaying, on the display device, an affordance to accept the new automatically-generated password and an affordance to decline to use the new automatically-generated password.