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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2023
Innodisk Corporation, New Taipei, TW;
Chao-Hung Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Chung-Yi Lai, New Taipei, TW;
INNODISK CORPORATION, New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method for preventing a file to be protected, from being copied includes the steps of executing a prevention of replication application on a host to enable or disable a setting program, processing the file to be protected, and defining a supplementary protective zone after processing the file to be protected. The prevention of replication application of the host notifies firmware of a storage medium, of a predetermined logical block address corresponding to the supplementary protective zone by a communication connection, so as to complete a setting procedure for preventing the file to be protected, from being copied. When a data access address read by the host from the storage medium includes the predetermined logical block address, the firmware executing a pre-stored data blocking program so as to prevent the file to be protected, from being copied by the host.