Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11643048 B2) for “cell key enrollment and use.” The purpose is to make it straightforward to make use of your iPhone to unlock your automobile or home.
Concerning the patent
Within the patent Apple notes that as digital units reminiscent of smartphones have develop into extra broadly used, their capabilities have grown past cellphone calls and textual content messaging. Offering an environment friendly technique for utilizing and implementing the varied capabilities on these digital units could be complicated and time-consuming.
A type of capabilities is the power to have the ability to use your iPhone as a key to unlock your automobile or home. Nonetheless, Apple says that some strategies for enrolling and utilizing a cell key utilizing digital units, nonetheless, are usually cumbersome and inefficient.
For instance, some current strategies use a fancy and time-consuming consumer interface, which can embrace a number of key presses or keystrokes. Current strategies require extra time than crucial, losing consumer time and gadget vitality. Apple needs to beat such limitations when utilizing the iPhone (or maybe an Apple Watch) as a cell key.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “A pc system performs strategies associated to enrolling and utilizing a safe credential. In some embodiments, a pc system offers consumer interfaces for enrolling a safe credential on the pc system. In some embodiments, a pc system offers consumer interfaces for inviting a consumer account to make use of a safe credential.”
