Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Arani, Taghi T (Department: 2438)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Control technique
C711SE12091, C711S115000, C713S182000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07877563
ABSTRACT:
A removable digital data storage device has a programmable memory controller, a data storage medium and a data destruction means. The memory controller is encoded with a firmware program to provide a computer device driver interface, wherein the firmware program further configures the memory controller to secure data on the medium by querying for a hardware code in response to a data operation request by a computer through the interface and either granting access in response to a hardware code input or, independent of an operational status of the requesting computer, directly instructing the data destruction means to render data residing on the data storage medium unreadable in response to a failure to receive the first hardware code input through the interface.
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Breslau Franklin C.
Hamilton, II Rick A.
Kaemmerer John P.
Arani Taghi T
Daugherty Patrick J.
Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., LPA
International Business Machines - Corporation
Victoria Narciso
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