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Secure content enabled hard drive system and method

USRE47772E1 · kind E1 · reissue

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Filing dateMar 19, 2015
Grant dateDec 17, 2019
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Expiry dateMar 19, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC —)General

Abstract

The present invention facilitates convenient and secure distribution of proprietary content. A present secure content enabled drive system and method permits flexible use of storage medium for both protected distribution of information and user definable storage use. In one embodiment, a computer readable storage medium includes an unprotected information portion, a protected information portion and a protection interface. The unprotected portion stores unprotected information. The protected content portion stores protected information. The protection interface protects information in the protected content portion from unauthorized access.

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