US 11,989,739 B2
System and method for identity verification
Peter J. Hare, San Francisco, CA (US); David G. Knipp, San Jose, CA (US); Natalie Calvert, Santa Clara, CA (US); Bagath S. Pugazhendhi, San Jose, CA (US); Patrick J. Rogers, San Leandro, CA (US); Kalyan C. Gopavarapu, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Kashyap Jogi, Milpitas, CA (US); Sivasankar Ponnambalam, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Nora J. Shoemaker, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/071,159.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/041,750, filed on Jun. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0398145 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G06Q 30/018 (2023.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0185 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/1235 (2013.01); G06Q 20/40145 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3674 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4018 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for enabling a primary computing device to authorize actions requested by secondary computing devices, the method comprising, by the primary computing device:
receiving, from a secondary computing device, a request to perform an action, wherein:
primary and secondary accounts are associated with the primary and secondary computing devices, respectively,
the primary and secondary accounts are associated as a shared user account, and
the secondary account is unable to access a set of actions that the primary account is permitted to access, wherein the set of actions includes the action;
identifying a payment registration characteristic of a payment registration associated with the primary account;
obtaining, based on the payment registration characteristic, identity information associated with the primary account;
identifying, based on the payment registration characteristic, a particular identity verification technique through which to obtain a verification indicator;
performing the particular identity verification technique to obtain the verification indicator; and
in conjunction with determining that the identity information corresponds to the verification indicator:
providing, to a server computing device, an indication that the identity information corresponds to the verification indicator,
receiving, from the server computing device, a payment verification token that authorizes the action requested by the secondary account, and
authorizing the action requested by the secondary account.