Symantec Assigned Patent

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,192,056) developed by Goel, Vipul, Noida, India, and Kumar, Hemant, Pune, India, for a “systems and methods for authenticating whole disk encryption systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computer-implemented method for authenticating whole disk encryption systems may include, (i) detecting, by a computing device, an attempt to initiate a boot process on the computing device, (ii) verifying, by the computing device, an initial decryption key, (iii) decrypting, by the computing device, an initial set of software required to boot crucial functions of the computing device using the initial decryption key, (iv) detecting, by the computing device, a secondary device running an authentication application, (v) receiving, by the computing device, a second decryption key from the authentication application on the secondary device, and, (vi) completing the boot process on the computing device based on a security policy associated with the second decryption key. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on December 6, 2016 (15/369,913).