Patent ID: 11895114
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors of an electronic device to perform operations comprising:
establishing, by an application program, a wireless data connection between the electronic device and a wireless accessory;
causing a prompt to be displayed for authentication credentials associated with a first account for the application program, wherein the first account is to be associated with the wireless accessory and the first account differs from a second account associated with the application program, the second account associated with the electronic device;
transmitting, by the application program, authentication credentials for the first account to a first server;
receiving, by the application program, an authentication response from the first server, wherein the authentication response indicates that the wireless accessory is trusted by the first server; and
sending, by the application program, the authentication credentials to the wireless accessory to configure the wireless accessory to authenticate with a second server using the first account.