Association of address with cloud services account
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsOlivier Bonnet, Van Hong
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Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for an electronic device. The method receives, through a communication address, an invitation to access a shared data asset via a cloud services platform. When the communication address is not associated with any account on the cloud services platform, the method identifies whether the device is associated with a cloud services account. When the device is associated with a cloud services account, the method prompts for input of a password for the cloud services account in order for the communication address to be associated with the cloud services account and for access to be enabled to the shared data asset.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a device and via a communication address, an invitation message to access a shared data asset via a cloud services platform;
- and
- responsive to receiving the invitation message:
- when the communication address is unassociated with any cloud service account on the cloud services platform, identifying whether the device is associated with a cloud services account on the cloud services platform;
- and
- when the communication address is unassociated with any cloud service account on the cloud services platform and the device is associated with the cloud services account on the cloud services platform, prompting, on the device via a cloud-services sign-in prompt, for input of a user-selected password and receiving, via the cloud services sign-in prompt, input of the user-selected password for the cloud services account in order for the communication address to be associated with the cloud services account that the device is already associated with on the cloud services platform and for access to be enabled to the shared data asset via the communication address through which the invitation message was received.
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by at least one processing unit of a device, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
- receiving, through a communication address, an invitation message to access a shared data asset via a cloud services platform;
- when the communication address is unassociated with any cloud services account on the cloud services platform, identifying whether the device is associated with a cloud services account;
- and
- when the communication address is unassociated with any cloud services account on the cloud services platform and the device is associated with the cloud services account, and responsive to receiving the invitation message, prompting for input of a user-selected password for the cloud services account in order for the communication address to be associated with the cloud services account that the device is associated with and for access to be enabled to the shared data asset via the communication address through which the invitation message was received.
A device comprising:
- a set of processing units;
- and
- a non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by at least one of the set of processing units, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
- receiving, from another device and through a communication address, an invitation message to access a shared data asset via a cloud services platform;
- when the communication address is unassociated with any cloud services account on the cloud services platform, identifying whether the device is associated with a cloud services account;
- and
- when the communication address is unassociated with any cloud services account on the cloud services platform and the device is associated with the cloud services account and responsive to receiving the invitation message, prompting for input of a user-selected password for the cloud services account in order for the communication address to be associated with the cloud services account that the device is associated with and for access to be enabled to the shared data asset via the communication address through which the invitation message was received from the other device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.