Patents by Inventor Carine Lefort

Carine Lefort has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8782433
    Abstract: This document discloses data security systems and methods of securing data. A cache memory can be connected between a decryption engine and a central processing unit (“CPU”) to increase security of encrypted data that is stored in a datastore. The decryption engine can retrieve the encrypted data from the datastore, decrypt the data, and store the decrypted data in the cache. In turn, the decrypted data can be accessed by the CPU. The data can be encrypted with a secret key, so that decryption can be performed with the secret key. The key can be varied based on a memory address associated with the data. The key can be protected by restricting direct access to the decryption engine by the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Inside Secure
    Inventors: Majid Kaabouch, Alexandre Croguennec, Carine Lefort
  • Patent number: 8417902
    Abstract: This document discloses one-time-programmable (“OTP”) memory emulation and methods of performing the same. OTP memory can be emulated by managing reads and writes to a memory array in response to an instruction to write data to a OTP memory location and selectively setting a security flag that corresponds to the memory locations. The memory array can be a NAND Flash memory array that includes multiple pages of memory. The memory array can be defined by memory blocks that can include multiple pages of memory. When an OTP write instruction is received, previously stored data can be read from a first page of memory, combined with the new data and stored to a target page of memory. A security flag can be set to prevent the target page from being reprogrammed prior to an erase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Majid Kaabouch, Carine Lefort, Jean-Pascal Maraninchi
  • Publication number: 20100064144
    Abstract: This document discloses data security systems and methods of securing data. A cache memory can be connected between a decryption engine and a central processing unit (“CPU”) to increase security of encrypted data that is stored in a datastore. The decryption engine can retrieve the encrypted data from the datastore, decrypt the data, and store the decrypted data in the cache. In turn, the decrypted data can be accessed by the CPU. The data can be encrypted with a secret key, so that decryption can be performed with the secret key. The key can be varied based on a memory address associated with the data. The key can be protected by restricting direct access to the decryption engine by the CPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: ATMEL Corporation
    Inventors: Majid Kaabouch, Alexandre Croguennec, Carine Lefort
  • Publication number: 20100037000
    Abstract: This document discloses one-time-programmable (“OTP”) memory emulation and methods of performing the same. OTP memory can be emulated by managing reads and writes to a memory array in response to an instruction to write data to a OTP memory location and selectively setting a security flag that corresponds to the memory locations. The memory array can be a NAND Flash memory array that includes multiple pages of memory. The memory array can be defined by memory blocks that can include multiple pages of memory. When an OTP write instruction is received, previously stored data can be read from a first page of memory, combined with the new data and stored to a target page of memory. A security flag can be set to prevent the target page from being reprogrammed prior to an erase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Majid Kaabouch, Carine Lefort, Jean-Pascal Maraninchi