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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:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Valiuddin Y. Ali, Cypress, TX (US);
Lan Wang, Cypress, TX (US);
James Robert Waldron, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Valiuddin Y. Ali, Cypress, TX (US);
Lan Wang, Cypress, TX (US);
James Robert Waldron, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 21/81 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 21/81 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device has a lower power state in which power to a storage device is disabled. Predetermined information stored in a memory is useable to unlock the storage device during a procedure to transition the electronic device from the lower power state to a higher power state. The predetermined information is different from a credential for use in unlocking the storage device.