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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:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2006
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, CT (US);
Mandayam Thondanur Raghunath, Bangalore, IN;
Nishkam Ravi, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Marcel-catalin Rosu, Ossining, NJ (US);
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, CT (US);
Mandayam Thondanur Raghunath, Bangalore, IN;
Nishkam Ravi, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Marcel-Catalin Rosu, Ossining, NJ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A portable device for connecting to a host information processing platform includes: a digital information storage medium storing an operating system image, secure data, applications, and system state of an owner of the portable device, wherein the medium is in read only mode until a set of tests are run on the host platform; and a platform validation program for: running the plurality of tests on the host computer to determine whether the host is safe, depending on the outcome of the tests, presenting the owner with a user-identifiable message, prompting the owner to enter decryption credentials, and receiving the decryption credentials. The portable device could also optionally include subsystems that provide additional functionality to the owner such as media playback, communications, and entertainment.
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