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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:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen Woodrow Murphrey, Apex, NC (US);
David B. Rhoades, Apex, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract
A method and system for erasing a drive of a computer system is disclosed. The method and system include scrubbing the drive and writing a message to a portion of the drive such that the message will be provided to a user in response to the drive being booted after scrubbing. The message indicates that the drive has been scrubbed.