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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2019
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lovish Singla, Karnataka, IN;

Prathika Vinayak, Karnataka, IN;

Sandeep Singh, Karnataka, IN;

Akash Kumar, Karnataka, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods for resetting a current password of a memory device or a memory card system. The method includes receiving a data block including a content field, a combined password length of a user-defined current password and a new password, and a user-defined password length of the new password. The content field includes the user-defined current password and the new password. The method also includes determining a system calculated password length of the new password based at least on the combined password length and a length of the current password. The method further includes matching the system calculated password length and the user-defined password length and comparing the user-defined current password with the current password. The method also includes replacing or resetting the current password with the new password based on a result of the matching and a result of the comparing.


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