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McAfee Assigned Two Patents

Wireless storage device, securing memory and storage of electronic device with below-operating system security agent

Wireless storage device
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,262,592) developed by Schrecker, Sven, San Marcos, CA, for a “wireless storage device.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A first computing device is detected as substantially collocated with a wireless storage device, using a short-range wireless communication network. A connection is established between the first computing device and the wireless storage device over the short-range wireless network. Data stored in memory of the wireless storage device is sent from the wireless storage device to the first computing device over the short-range wireless network for a presentation of the data using a user interface of the first computing device. The wireless storage device lacks user interfaces for the presentation of the data. In some instances, authentication of either or both of the first computing device or wireless storage device can be accomplished through communication between the first computing device and wireless storage device over the short-range wireless communication network.

The patent application was filed on April 9, 2012 (13/442,633).

Securing memory and storage of electronic device
with below-operating system security agent
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,262,246) developed by Sallam, Ahmed Said, Cupertino, CA, for a “system and method for securing memory and storage of an electronic device with a below-operating system security agent.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A security agent configured to execute on the electronic device at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device accessing the memory or a storage of the electronic device may be further configured to:, (i) access one or more security rules to determine a criteria by which an attempted access involving a transfer of content between the memory and the storage of an electronic device will be trapped,, (ii) if the criteria is met, trap, at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device, attempted access of data between memory and storage of an electronic device, and, (iii) analyze, at a level below all of the operating systems of the electronic device, information associated with the attempted access to determine if the attempted access was affected by malware.

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/077,270).

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