US 12,445,505 B2
Electronic conferencing
Xudong Liu, Campbell, CA (US); Huan He, Mountain View, CA (US); Nelson M. Leduc, San Jose, CA (US); Nicholas J. Circosta, Mountain View, CA (US); and Daniel B. Pollack, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/485,274.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/189,148, filed on May 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/143,714, filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0247705 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 65/1069 (2022.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 65/1069 (2013.01) [A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/87 (2014.09); G06F 16/9566 (2019.01); H04L 12/1813 (2013.01); H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 51/52 (2022.05); H04L 63/0421 (2013.01); H04L 63/0442 (2013.01); H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/108 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
by a device including an input component and logged into an account, wherein the account is associated with an account alias:
obtaining, based on an input detected by the input component, an indication of a selected set of services from a plurality of services;
providing a request for a service-specific alias for the account, the request including one or more identifiers corresponding to the selected set of services, wherein the service-specific alias is separate from the account alias and configured to allow or deny communications from a remote device to one or more devices associated with the account via the selected set of services, the remote device being separate from another device to which the request is provided; and
after providing the request, receiving the service-specific alias.