Patents by Inventor Nicholas Harvey MEIER

Nicholas Harvey MEIER 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).

  • Executing encrypted boot loaders
    Patent number: 10909248
    Abstract: A secure boot mechanism is described. The secure boot mechanism can operate in environments not originally designed to support such a mechanism. Downstream boot components can be executed from an encrypted boot partition. A first stage boot loader (FSBL) can load a second stage boot loader (SSBL) from an encrypted disk partition. The FSBL can decrypt and load the SSBL. The FSBL can intercept all I/O initiated by the SSBL so that the SSBL can transparently operate on an encrypted disk partition as though the encrypted disk were unencrypted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Eugene Brasher, Nicholas Harvey Meier
  • EXECUTING ENCRYPTED BOOT LOADERS
    Publication number: 20190005244
    Abstract: A secure boot mechanism is described. The secure boot mechanism can operate in environments not originally designed to support such a mechanism. Downstream boot components can be executed from an encrypted boot partition. A first stage boot loader (FSBL) can load a second stage boot loader (SSBL) from an encrypted disk partition. The FSBL can decrypt and load the SSBL. The FSBL can intercept all I/O initiated by the SSBL so that the SSBL can transparently operate on an encrypted disk partition as though the encrypted disk were unencrypted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Eugene BRASHER, Nicholas Harvey MEIER