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Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:

Kingston Digital, Inc., Fountain Valley, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark P. Weber, Oakdale, MN (US);

Preetham Varghese, White Bear Lake, MN (US);

Kevin Peter Vlasich, Lino Lakes, MN (US);

David Alan Myers, Broomfield, CO (US);

David Blake Farmer, Louisville, CO (US);

David Paul Duncan, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

Kingston Digital, Inc., Fountain Valley, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/35 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/35 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04L 2463/082 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device may be operably coupleable with a host computing device, and the storage device and/or host computing device may be Bluetooth enabled. The storage device may include authentication information. Access to the storage device may be permitted via Bluetooth communication between the Bluetooth enabled device and at least one of the storage device and a host computing device, wherein the Bluetooth enabled device may be within a maximum Bluetooth range of the storage device. The Bluetooth communication may be performed without Bluetooth pairing.


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