Sandisk Il Ltd.

M-systems Flash Disk Pioneers, Ltd.

Msystems Ltd.

Western Digital Israel Ltd

Aran Ziv

Eyal Bychkov

Mordechai Teicher

Aryeh Mergi

Sasha Paley

Itzhak Pomerantz

Noam Shintel

Arik Bovshover

Arik Boshover

To authorize a transaction between a host and a server, a token is operationally connected to the host. The host receives an identification credential of a user. The identification credential is verified by the token and/or by the server. If the token detects a prescribed human action, the token generates token authentication data and the host sends the token authentication data to the server. Upon receiving the authentication data, the server authenticates the transaction. A device for authenticating a transaction includes a device interface for interacting with a host, a connector for reversibly operationally connecting the device to the host, and a controller that authenticates the transaction only once, contingent on detecting a prescribed anonymous human action. One such human action is providing one or more inputs at the host's user interface synchronously with outputs at the device's user interface.

Transaction authentication by a token, contingent on personal presence

Methods, apparatus, systems and devices for facilitating transfer of a remote session from a first user terminal to a second user terminal are disclosed herein. According to one example, the transferred remote session is a telephone call session. According to another example, the transferred remote session is a session of a rights-enabled remote on-demand service&#x2014;for example, a service where on demand media content is remotely provided or an interactive game service. In some embodiments, data indicative of usage rights for the remote service is transferred from the first to the second user terminal. In some embodiments, in order to transfer the session between the first terminal and second terminal, the user terminals are brought in proximity or into contact, and data indicative of the session is sent via a short-range communications channel, for example a short-range contact or 'wired' channel, or a short-range wireless link, for example, a Bluetooth or infrared link.

Session handover between terminals

A portable storage device including a microprocessor and a secure user data area, the microprocessor operable to perform on-the-fly encryption/decryption of secure data stored on the storage device under a user password, the microprocessor also operable to exclude access to the secure user data area unless the user password is provided.

Apparatus and method for securing data on a portable storage device

A data storage device that can be reversibly associated with one or more of a plurality of hosts. A 'trusted' host on which the device is mounted is allowed access to a secure data area of the device automatically, without the user having to enter a password. Ways in which a host is designated as 'trusted' include storing the host's ID in a trusted host list of the device, storing a representation of the host's ID that was encrypted using a trust key of the device in a cookie in the host, or storing a storage password of the device in a password list of the host. Alternatively, an untrusted host is allowed access to the secure data area if a user enters a correct user password.

System and method for securing portable data

A method includes exchanging information between a local web-server of a local storage device and a remote web-server through a network. The exchange of the information is initiated autonomously by the local storage device upon a determination by the local web server that the information is not stored at the local storage device.

Autonomous local web-server updating

A data-processing system includes a storage device for running a local web-server residing in the storage device; a host device for connecting to the storage device; and an exchanging mechanism, residing in the host device, for exchanging information autonomously between the local web-server and a remote web-server connected to the host device. Preferably, the local web-server serves a host application, upon a host-application request for information when the local web-server cannot obtain the information, by retrieving the information autonomously from the remote web-server via an LWSA. Preferably, the exchanging mechanism exchanges data packets between the local web-server and the remote web-server. Preferably, the storage device initiates the exchanging of the information upon indication of available bandwidth for network communication. More preferably, the storage device prioritizes the exchanging of the information according to a protocol that takes into account statistics of data usage according to temporal parameters of the data usage.

Method and apparatus to exchange information with a local storage device

A storage device includes a local memory, wherein data are locally stored, and a controller that is operative, in accordance with a reduction policy, to modify the data on the local memory, thereby freeing storage area on the local memory.

Data storage management method and device

A peripheral device of a host computer includes a microcontroller and two virtual devices. The first virtual device passes, to the microcontroller, commands of a first command set from any user of the host computer and preferably also commands of a second command set from only privileged users of the host computer. The second virtual device passes, to the microcontroller, commands of the second set from any user of the host computer. In one physical implementation of the invention, the two virtual devices are implemented as separate physical devices, and the second device is connected to an interface to the host computer only if the user is not privileged. In another physical implementation of the invention, the two virtual devices are implemented in a common physical device, and a sector of a memory of the peripheral device is reserved for handling commands of the second set from non-privileged users.

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Hertzliya, Israel

Aran Ziv