Patents by Inventor Nikhil George

Nikhil George 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).

  • Authenticating hardware for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users
    Patent number: 7523281
    Abstract: Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing a method for improving access protection, more particularly, protection for data on mass memories by adding a hardware that will enable or disable read or write protection to portions of mass memories for each user. The hardware supports one or more users and two or more states for each supported user. The state of the hardware is manually controlled by the users. Depending on the configuration, each hardware state corresponding to a user corresponds to disabling or enabling read or write protection to some portions of a mass memory or mass memories for that user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Inventors: George Madathilparambil George, Nikhil George
  • Master device for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users
    Publication number: 20080066183
    Abstract: Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing a method for improving access protection, more particularly, protection for data on mass memories by adding a hardware that will enable or disable read or write protection to portions of mass memories for each user. The hardware supports one or more users and two or more states for each supported user. The state of the hardware is manually controlled by the users. Depending on the configuration, each hardware state corresponding to a user corresponds to disabling or enabling read or write protection to some portions of a mass memory or mass memories for that user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: George Madathilparambil George, Nikhil George
  • Hardware for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users
    Publication number: 20080059740
    Abstract: Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing a method for improving access protection, more particularly, protection for data on mass memories by adding a hardware that will enable or disable read or write protection to portions of mass memories for each user. The hardware supports one or more users and two or more states for each supported user. The state of the hardware is manually controlled by the users. Depending on the configuration, each hardware state corresponding to a user corresponds to disabling or enabling read or write protection to some portions of a mass memory or mass memories for that user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: George Madathilparambil George, Nikhil George
  • Authenticating hardware for manually enabling and disabling read and write protection to parts of a storage disk or disks for users
    Publication number: 20080059742
    Abstract: Data protection is weak with the methods currently available and there are risks of corrupting important data, including system data accidentally by users or by malicious programs. We are proposing a method for improving access protection, more particularly, protection for data on mass memories by adding a hardware that will enable or disable read or write protection to portions of mass memories for each user. The hardware supports one or more users and two or more states for each supported user. The state of the hardware is manually controlled by the users. Depending on the configuration, each hardware state corresponding to a user corresponds to disabling or enabling read or write protection to some portions of a mass memory or mass memories for that user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: George Madathilparambil George, Nikhil George