Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Korea Assigned Patent

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,164,845) developed by Hwang, Hyun Uk, Daejeon, Korea, Kim, Ki Bom, Chungbuk, Korea, Chang, Tae Joo, and Lee, Cheol Won, Daejeon, Korea, for a “partition recovery method and apparatus.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a technology which searches an unallocated area to quickly extract information on a deleted partition when checking a disk and an evidence image in digital forensic, and adds a recovered partition to a forensic tool as a new partition. For this, the technology has direct access to the sector of a disk or an evidence image which is obtained, limits information search on an unallocated area only to an area satisfying the minimum size in which a partition may be created, changes an LBA-based sector access scheme into a CHS-based sector access scheme, and reads only the sector of a location having the possibility that a boot record exists to search information of a deleted partition, recovering a partition at high speed.“

The patent application was filed on November 27, 2009 (12/626,783).