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US 11,468,162 · App. 16/677,500 · Granted Oct 11, 2022

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

Inventors: Conrad A. Shultz (San Jose, CA); Richard J. Mondello (Mountain View, CA); Reza Abbasian (Santa Clara, CA); Ivan Krstic (San Francisco, CA); Darin Adler (Los Gatos, CA); Charilaos Papadopoulos (San Jose, CA); Maureen Grace Daum (Mountain View, CA); Guillaume Borios (San Jose, CA); Patrick Robert Burns (San Jose, CA); Alexander David Sanciangco (Campbell, CA); Brent Michael Ledvina (San Francisco, CA); Chelsea Elizabeth Pugh (San Francisc, CA); Kyle Brogle (San Francisco, CA); Marc J. Krochmal (Santa Clara, CA); Jacob Klapper (Santa Clara, CA); Paul Russell Knight (San Francisco, CA); Connor David Graham (San Francisco, CA); Shengkai Wu (San Jose, CA); I-Ting Liu (Sunnyvale, CA); Steven Jon Falkenburg (Los Altos, CA)

Assignee: APPLE INC.

G06F21/46 G06F3/0482 G06F3/04886 G06F21/31

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Patent No.: US 11,468,162
App. No.: 16/677,500
Granted: Oct 11, 2022
Kind: B2

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Abstract

In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes: detecting, via the one or more input devices, a request to display information for password protected accounts; and, in response to detecting the request, concurrently displaying, on the display device: a representation of a first password protected account that is associated with a credential having one or more security issues, wherein the representation of the first password protected account is visually associated with an alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account; and a representation of a second password protected account that is associated with a credential having one or more security issues, wherein the representation of the second password protected account is visually associated with an alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the second password protected account.

Claims (68)

1. A method comprising:

at an electronic device with a display device and one or more input devices:

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a request to display information for password protected accounts; and

in response to detecting the request, concurrently displaying, on the display device:

a representation of a first password protected account that is associated with a credential having one or more security issues, wherein the representation of the first password protected account is visually associated with an alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account; and

a representation of a second password protected account that is associated with a credential having one or more security issues, wherein the representation of the second password protected account is visually associated with an alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the second password protected account.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account indicates that the one or more security issues correspond to a reused password for the first password protected account.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account indicates that the one or more security issues correspond to a weak password for the first password protected account.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein a password corresponds to a weak password in response to determining that the password is one of easily guessed, short, low-entropy, or contains common words.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the credential for the first password protected account includes a first password, and

wherein the credential for the second password protected account includes a second password.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the representation of the first password protected account includes a visual representation of the first password and text indicating a strength of the first password, and

wherein the representation of the second password protected account includes a visual representation of the second password and text indicating a strength of the second password.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the visual representation of the first password is a text representation of at least a portion of the first password, and

wherein the visual representation of the second password is a text representation of at least a portion of the second password.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the visual representation of the first password excludes at least a portion of the first password, and

wherein the visual representation of the second password excludes at least a portion of the second password.

9. The method of claim 5 , wherein the representation of the first password protected account includes an affordance that corresponds to updating the first password, and

wherein the representation of the second password protected account includes an affordance that corresponds to updating the second password.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

detecting, via the one or more input devices, a subsequent user input directed to the affordance that corresponds to updating the first password; and

in response to detecting the subsequent user input, displaying, on the display device, a user interface for updating the first password.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the user interface for updating the first password corresponds to a web page associated with the first password protected account.

12. An electronic device comprising:

a display device configured to display a user interface;

one or more input devices configured to receive inputs; and

a processing device coupled with the display device and the one or more input devices, the processing device configured to:

detect, via the one or more input devices, a request to display information for password protected accounts; and

in response to detecting the request concurrently display, on the display device:

13. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account indicates that the one or more security issues correspond to a reused password for the first password protected account.

14. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account indicates that the one or more security issues correspond to a weak password for the first password protected account.

15. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the credential for the first password protected account includes a first password, and

wherein the credential for the second password protected account includes a second password.

16. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the representation of the first password protected account includes a visual representation of the first password and text indicating a strength of the first password, and

wherein the representation of the second password protected account includes a visual representation of the second password and text indicating a strength of the second password.

17. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the representation of the first password protected account includes an affordance that corresponds to updating the first password, and

wherein the representation of the second password protected account includes an affordance that corresponds to updating the second password.

18. The electronic device of claim 17 , wherein the processing device is further configured to:

detect, via the one or more input devices, a subsequent user input directed to the affordance that corresponds to updating the first password; and

in response to detecting the subsequent user input, display, on the display device, a user interface for updating the first password.

19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, that, when executed by an electronic device with a display device and one or more input devices, cause the electronic device to:

detect, via the one or more input devices, a request to display information for password protected accounts; and

in response to detecting the request concurrently display, on the display device:

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account indicates that the one or more security issues correspond to a reused password for the first password protected account.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account indicates that the one or more security issues correspond to a weak password for the first password protected account.

22. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the credential for the first password protected account includes a first password, and

wherein the credential for the second password protected account includes a second password.

23. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the representation of the first password protected account includes a visual representation of the first password and text indicating a strength of the first password, and

wherein the representation of the second password protected account includes a visual representation of the second password and text indicating a strength of the second password.

24. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the representation of the first password protected account includes an affordance that corresponds to updating the first password, and

wherein the representation of the second password protected account includes an affordance that corresponds to updating the second password.

25. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 24 , wherein the instructions further cause the electronic device to:

detect, via the one or more input devices, a subsequent user input directed to the affordance that corresponds to updating the first password; and

in response to detecting the subsequent user input, display, on the display device, a user interface for updating the first password.

26. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first password protected account and the second password protected account correspond to pre-existing password protected accounts.

27. The method of claim 1 , wherein concurrently displaying, on the display device, the representation of the first password protected account that is associated with the credential having one or more security issues and the representation of the second password protected account that is associated with the credential having one or more security issues includes:

displaying, on the display device, the information for the one or more password protected accounts within a password list interface with a plurality of representations of password protected accounts, including concurrent display of at least:

a first representation of the first password protected account that is associated with the credential having one or more security issues, wherein the first representation of the first password protected account is visually associated with a first alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the first password protected account; and

a second representation of a second password protected account that is associated with a credential having one or more security issues, wherein the second representation of the second password protected account is visually associated with a second alert indicator indicating the one or more security issues associated with the credential of the second password protected account.

28. The method of claim 1 , wherein concurrently displaying, on the display device, the representation of the first password protected account that is associated with the credential having one or more security issues and the representation of the second password protected account that is associated with the credential having one or more security issues includes:

a third representation of a third password protected account that is not associated with a credential having one or more security issues, wherein the third representation of the third password protected account is not visually associated with an alert indicator.

Continuity (3)

Continuation 16427152 · May 30, 2019

Provisional Application 62679841 · Jun 3, 2018

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