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Patent No.:

US 9690944 B1

PDFFull Text
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Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2016

System and method updating disk encryption software and performing pre-boot compatibility verification

Applicant:

AO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, RU;

Inventors:

Vitaly S. Alexeev, Moscow, RU;

Dmitry V. Bavykin, Moscow, RU;

Alexander V. Fedorov, Moscow, RU;

Evgeny A. Gleyzerman, Moscow, RU;

Alexey V. Ilyushin, Moscow, RU;

Lev A. Kazarkin, Moscow, RU;

Evgeniya P. Kirikova, Moscow, RU;

Alexey A. Kutumov, Moscow, RU;

Gleb Y. Molaev, Moscow, RU;

Ilya A. Tereshchenko, Moscow, RU;

Evgeny A. Yakovlev, Moscow, RU;

Assignee:

AO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, RU;

Attorneys:

Arent Fox LLP

Michael Fainberg

Primary Examiner:

Phillip H Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/44521 (2013.01); G06F 12/1408 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are systems and method or updating full disk encryption (FDE) software on a computer. An example method comprises: obtaining an updated version of the FDE software; blocking operations of the FDE software on a boot drive of the computer; updating one or more components of the FDE software based on the updated version of the FDE software; modifying a booting process of an operating system of the computer to allow execution of a new version of a pre-boot compatibility verification component before the booting process; executing the new version of the pre-boot compatibility verification component, without decrypting and encrypting data on the boot drive, to determine if the boot drive is compatible with the updated FDE software; and if the boot drive is determined to be compatible with the updated FDE software, performing the booting process of the operating system of the computer.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Alexeev, Vitaly. (2017). System and method updating disk encryption software and performing pre-boot compatibility verification (U.S. Patent No. 9690944). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9690944

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