Patents by Inventor Christophe Carvounas

Christophe Carvounas 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: 9767303
    Abstract: Systems and methods that can facilitate the utilization of a memory as a slave to a host are presented. The host and memory can provide authentication information to each other and respective rights can be granted based in part on the respective authentication information. The host can determine the available functionality of the memory. The host can activate the desired functionality in the memory and can request memory to perform the desired function(s) with regard to data stored in the memory. An optimized controller component in the memory can facilitate performing the desired function(s) associated with the data to generate a result. The result can be provided to the host, while the data and associated information utilized to generate the result can remain in the memory and are cannot be accessed by the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: MONTEREY RESEARCH, LLC
    Inventors: Christophe Carvounas, Joël LeBihan
  • Publication number: 20140165217
    Abstract: Systems and methods that can facilitate the utilization of a memory as a slave to a host are presented. The host and memory can provide authentication information to each other and respective rights can be granted based in part on the respective authentication information. The host can determine the available functionality of the memory. The host can activate the desired functionality in the memory and can request memory to perform the desired function(s) with regard to data stored in the memory. An optimized controller component in the memory can facilitate performing the desired function(s) associated with the data to generate a result. The result can be provided to the host, while the data and associated information utilized to generate the result can remain in the memory and are cannot be accessed by the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Christophe Carvounas, Joël LeBihan
  • Patent number: 8694776
    Abstract: Systems and methods that can facilitate the utilization of a memory as a slave to a host are presented. The host and memory can provide authentication information to each other and respective rights can be granted based in part on the respective authentication information. The host can determine the available functionality of the memory. The host can activate the desired functionality in the memory and can request memory to perform the desired function(s) with regard to data stored in the memory. An optimized controller component in the memory can facilitate performing the desired function(s) associated with the data to generate a result. The result can be provided to the host, while the data and associated information utilized to generate the result can remain in the memory and are cannot be accessed by the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Christophe Carvounas, Joël LeBihan
  • Patent number: 8650399
    Abstract: Systems, devices and/or methods that facilitate mutual authentication for processor and memory pairing are presented. A processor and a suitably equipped memory can be provided with a shared secret to facilitate mutual authentication. In addition, the memory can be configured to verify that the system operating instructions have not been subjected to unauthorized alterations. System integrity can be ensured according to the disclosed subject matter by mutual authentication of the processor and memory and verification of the authenticity of system operating instructions at or near each system power up. As a result, the disclosed subject matter can facilitate relatively low complexity assurance of system integrity as a replacement or supplement to conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Joël Le Bihan, Christophe Carvounas, Vincent Cedric Colnot, Elena Trichina, Helena Handschuh
  • Publication number: 20090222910
    Abstract: Systems, devices and/or methods that facilitate mutual authentication for processor and memory pairing are presented. A processor and a suitably equipped memory can be provided with a shared secret to facilitate mutual authentication. In addition, the memory can be configured to verify that the system operating instructions have not been subjected to unauthorized alterations. System integrity can be ensured according to the disclosed subject matter by mutual authentication of the processor and memory and verification of the authenticity of system operating instructions at or near each system power up. As a result, the disclosed subject matter can facilitate relatively low complexity assurance of system integrity as a replacement or supplement to conventional techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: SPANSION LLC
    Inventors: Joel Le Bihan, Christophe Carvounas, Vincent Cedric Colnot, Elena Trichina, Helena Handschuh
  • Patent number: 7558907
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter can provide an architecture that can transparently provide more robust interactions between a host device and a smartcard or other mass media storage device by way of block level read or write operations provided as part of a standard interface protocol. A virtual controller can be installed on the smartcard to manage access to the data store of a smartcard. The virtual controller can provide special objects (e.g., files, directories, partitions . . . ) to the host, and upon an access to one of these special files, call an application to manage pre- or post-processing of the data transferred between the host and the smartcard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Julien Stern, Christophe Carvounas, Cedric Colnot, Nicolas Prawitz, Jean-Yves Grall, Thomas Pornin
  • Publication number: 20090164789
    Abstract: Systems and methods that can facilitate the utilization of a memory as a slave to a host are presented. The host and memory can provide authentication information to each other and respective rights can be granted based in part on the respective authentication information. The host can determine the available functionality of the memory. The host can activate the desired functionality in the memory and can request memory to perform the desired function(s) with regard to data stored in the memory. An optimized controller component in the memory can facilitate performing the desired function(s) associated with the data to generate a result. The result can be provided to the host, while the data and associated information utilized to generate the result can remain in the memory and are cannot be accessed by the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: SPANSION LLC
    Inventors: Christophe Carvounas, Joel LeBihan
  • Publication number: 20080091878
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter can provide an architecture that can transparently provide more robust interactions between a host device and a smartcard or other mass media storage device by way of block level read or write operations provided as part of a standard interface protocol. A virtual controller can be installed on the smartcard to manage access to the data store of a smartcard. The virtual controller can provide special objects (e.g., files, directories, partitions . . . ) to the host, and upon an access to one of these special files, call an application to manage pre- or post-processing of the data transferred between the host and the smartcard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicants: SPANSION, LLC, CRYPTOLOG
    Inventors: Julien Stern, Christophe Carvounas, Cedric Colnot, Nicolas Prawitz, Jean-Yves Grall, Thomas Pornin