US 12,001,858 B2
User interface for accessing an account
Frank De Jong, San Francisco, CA (US); Hannah S. Story, San Mateo, CA (US); Keetae Ryu, San Jose, CA (US); Dmitry V. Belov, Santa Clara, CA (US); Gokul P. Thirumalai, Mountain View, CA (US); Wayne Loofbourrow, San Jose, CA (US); Jonathan Birdsall, Campbell, CA (US); Nagarjuna Thottempudi, Fremont, CA (US); Felipe Marin Cypriano, San Francisco, CA (US); and Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/949,963.
Application 17/949,963 is a continuation of application No. 16/915,572, filed on Jun. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,467,853.
Application 16/915,572 is a continuation of application No. 16/585,178, filed on Sep. 27, 2019, granted, now 10,698,701, issued on Jun. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/855,985, filed on Jun. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0014800 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/4451 (2013.01) [G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a display device;
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
receiving a request to set up an account for a service using an intermediary email address, wherein:
the intermediary email address is automatically generated for the service while setting up the account for the service,
the intermediary email address does not reveal contact information of a user to the service, and
the intermediary email address is an email address that is generated for the user to serve as an email address that receives email directed from the service to the user;
after receiving the request to set up the account for the service using the intermediary email address, displaying a settings interface, including displaying an email address of the user to which the intermediary email address is configured to forward received emails;
detecting a set of one or more inputs modifying the email address of the user; and
in response to detecting a set of one or more inputs modifying the email address of the user, transmitting a request to have emails that are sent to the intermediary email address from the service forwarded to the modified email address of the user.