Kaspersky Lab Assigned Patent

AO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, Russia, has been assigned a patent (9,384,353) developed by Yakovlev, Evgeny A., Moscow, Russia, for a “system and method for encryption of disk based on pre-boot compatibility testing.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for encryption of disk based on pre-boot compatibility testing. An example method includes upon determining, by a processor, no test booting of the computer, performing one or more pre-boot compatibility tests to boot an operating system of the computer, upon detecting a successful test booting, performing booting the operating system of the computer or performing the one or more pre-boot compatibility tests again, upon detecting an unsuccessful test booting, restoring a process of ordinary booting of the operating system and performing an ordinary booting of the operating system, determining one or more encryption policies applicable to a pre-boot execution stage of the computer, and comparing results of the one or more pre-boot compatibility tests with the encryption policies to determine whether to apply a full disk encryption to the boot disk.“

The patent application was filed on March 13, 2015 (14/657,005).