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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2007
Boris Asipov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Boris Asipov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A flash storage device and a method for using the flash storage device to prevent unauthorized use of a software application are provided. An identifier may be encoded within specific sectors of the flash storage device. One bits of the identifier may be encoded as unusable ones of the specific sectors and zero bits of the identifier may be encoded as usable one of the specific sectors. Alternatively, the zero bits of the identifier may be encoded as the unusable ones of the specific sectors and the one bits of the identifier may be encoded as the usable ones of the specific sectors. The software application may be permitted to execute on a processing device connected to the flash storage device only when the identifier is encoded within the flash storage device.