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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:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
James C. Farmer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kent A. Dickey, Westford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A system and method for protecting memory space in a target storage device during a write operation in a computer system, comprising creating a single data packet, including user data that is to be written to said target storage device and key data that is used to establish authorization to store said user data; transmitting said single data packet to the target storage device; determining whether said key data is valid; writing said user data into said target storage device only when said key data is valid.