KOM Software Assigned Patent

KOM Software Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (9,881,013) developed by Shaath, Kamel, Ontario, Canada , for a “method and system for providing restricted access to a storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system, apparatus, method, or computer program product of restricting file access is disclosed wherein a set of file write access commands are determined from data stored within a storage medium. The set of file write access commands are for the entire storage medium. Any matching file write access command provided to the file system for that storage medium results in an error message. Other file write access commands are, however, passed onto a device driver for the storage medium and are implemented. In this way commands such as file delete and file overwrite can be disabled for an entire storage medium.”

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2016 (15/175,036).