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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:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2000
Carl M. Ellison, Portland, OR (US);
Roger A. Golliver, Beaverton, OR (US);
Howard C. Herbert, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Derrick C. Lin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Francis X. Mckeen, Portland, OR (US);
Gilbert Neiger, Portland, OR (US);
Ken Reneris, Wilbraham, MA (US);
James A. Sutton, Portland, OR (US);
Shreekant S. Thakkar, Portland, OR (US);
Millind Mittal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Carl M. Ellison, Portland, OR (US);
Roger A. Golliver, Beaverton, OR (US);
Howard C. Herbert, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Derrick C. Lin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Francis X. McKeen, Portland, OR (US);
Gilbert Neiger, Portland, OR (US);
Ken Reneris, Wilbraham, MA (US);
James A. Sutton, Portland, OR (US);
Shreekant S. Thakkar, Portland, OR (US);
Millind Mittal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus to protect a subset of a software environment. A key generator generates an operating system nub key (OSNK). The OSNK is unique to an operating system (OS) nub. The OS nub is part of an operating system in a secure platform. A usage protector uses the OSNK to protect usage of a subset of the software environment.