Standard Microsystems (Microchip) Assigned Patent
Securing access to storage device
By Jean Jacques Maleval | October 16, 2014 at 2:40 pmStandard Microsystems Corp. (Microchip Technology Inc.), Hauppauge, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,839,371) developed by Atish Ghosh, Austin, TX, and Mark Bohm, Bear Creek, TX, for a “method and system for securing access to a storage device.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system for securing access to a storage device including one or more locked logical sections. The method includes providing an interface device including a first port connected to a computing system and a second port connected to the storage device. Further, the method includes receiving a unique identifier from a wireless device, and deriving a key from the unique identifier. Based on the derived key, the method unlocks a logical section in the storage device. The method may further store access permission rights for the locked logical sections in the interface device and unlock the logical section based on the access permission rights. Moreover, the method may further authenticate the identity of a user of the wireless device for unlocking the storage device.”
The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2010 (12/868,724).