ClearCube Assigned Patent
Mass storage lockout for USB devices on extended USB system
By Jean Jacques Maleval | April 23, 2014 at 2:46 pmClearCube Technology, Inc., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,661,523) developed by five co-inventors for a “mass storage lockout for USB devices on extended USB system.”
The co-inventors are Michael Barron, Raymond A. Dupont, Rajesh K. Mellacheruvu, Austin, TX, Randy Printz, Kingsland, TX, and Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, Round Rock, TX.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and system, used with an extended USB computer system, for locking out USB mass storage devices at the desktop. For lockout activation, a switch at each host computer is set, and causes a host-side lockout process to deliver a downstream lockout signal to the host’s associated portal. This signal causes a portal-side lockout process to disallow USB data from a mass storage device from entering the network.”
The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2010 (12/876,012).
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