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Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2005
Applicants:

Michael Brian Cox, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);

Brian Keith Langendorf, Benicia, CA (US);

David G. Reed, Saratoga, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Brian Cox, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);

Brian Keith Langendorf, Benicia, CA (US);

David G. Reed, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A bridge is disclosed having a security engine to protect digital content at insecure interfaces of the bridge. The bridge permits cryptographic services to he offloaded from a central processing unit to the bridge. The bridge receives a clear text input from a central processing unit. The bridge encrypts the clear text input as cipher text for storage in a memory. The bridge provided the cipher text to a graphics processing unit.


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