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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark S Shipman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Orville H Christeson, Portland, OR (US);
Timothy E Labatte, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710200 ; 710 36 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for protecting data using lock values in a computer system includes indicating that the computer system does not support locked accesses to the data. However, upon receipt of a request to write to the storage area where the data is contained, the present invention checks whether a lock value corresponding to the request matches a predetermined lock value. If the lock value matches the predetermined lock value, then the data is written to the storage area; otherwise, the storage area is left unmodified.