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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2009
Applicants:
Jae-sung Lee, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Yoon-tae Lee, Seoul, KR;
Won-il Cho, Seongnam-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A chip mountable on a customer replaceable unit monitory (CRUM) unit used in an image forming job includes a central processing unit (CPU) to perform cryptographic data communication with a main body of an image forming apparatus, using an operating system (OS) of the CPU. The security of a unit on which the chip is mounted can thereby be reinforced and random changes of data of the unit can be prevented.