Apple has been granted a patent for “Techniques For Providing A Digital Keychain For Physical Objects.”
About the patent
The patent relates generally to intelligent digital assistants and, more specifically, to providing a digital keychain for physical objects. In it, Apple notes that intelligent automated assistants (or digital assistants) can provide a beneficial interface between human users and electronic devices. Such assistants can allow users to interact with devices or systems via natural language input in spoken, textual, or other forms.
For instance, a user can issue a request to a digital assistant operating on an electronic device (e.g., portable multifunctional devices such as a mobile phones, laptop computers, tablet computers, gaming devices, streaming media devices, digital video recorders, etc.).
Per Apple’s patent, in response to the request, the digital assistant can respond based on available information to the digital assistant. Specifically, the digital assistant may store and provide digital information (e.g., an email password) associated with the user on an electronic device implementing the digital assistant.
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide a digital keychain for physical objects. An example method includes receiving a user request and in response to receiving the user request, scanning one or more objects within a real-world environment using a real-time capturing device associated with the electronic device in response to receiving a user request, generating one or more views of the one or more objects, identifying at least one of the one or more objects as a locking device based on the one or more views, authenticating the user based on biometric data and contextual information, obtaining instructions for unlocking the locking device in response to authenticating the user, and providing the instructions to the user.”
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