iPads in particular are often used in a family setting, where one iPad may be used by everyone in the house. The ability to grant each user access based on gestures could mean that a child could use a custom gesture to unlock the iPad and have access to Safari, videos, and games, but not his parents' contacts or iMessages. The use of gestures would overcome a potentially cumbersome user login screen.
Of course, Apple patents many things which never see the light of day, but lets hope this one does as multiple user accounts -- or in this case, individual user access accounts -- on iPads would be a thing many of us would like to see.
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Source: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/03/apple-tech-gesture…
