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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2024
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Bharath Radhakrishnan, Georgetown, MY;
Ramanathan Muthiah, Bangalore, IN;
Uthayarajan Rasalingam, Nibong Tebal, MY;
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for authenticating a host computer system to access a data storage device (DSD) comprising a non-volatile storage medium including a plurality of blocks, the method comprising: receiving, from a computer program on the host computer system, an initial read request to read a block of the plurality of blocks and in response sending information from the block to the host computer system; iteratively receiving, from the computer program on the host computer system, a subsequent read request to read a subsequent block of the plurality of blocks based on the information sent from the block of a previous response; and in each iteration sending information from the subsequent block to the host computer system or terminating the iterative process in response to determining that each block of the plurality of blocks has been read; and determining the host computer system is authenticated in response to determining one or more conditions are met, wherein the one or more conditions include determining that each block of the plurality of blocks has been read.