Patents by Inventor Thomas Rodel Bowen

Thomas Rodel Bowen 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).

  • Technology for fine-grain encryption and secure key injection on self-encrypting drives
    Patent number: 11599479
    Abstract: A self-encrypting drive (SED) comprises an SED controller and a nonvolatile storage medium (NVSM) responsive to the SED controller. The SED controller enables the SED to perform operations comprising: (a) receiving an encrypted media encryption key (eMEK) for a client; (b) decrypting the eMEK into an unencrypted media encryption key (MEK); (c) receiving a write request from the client, wherein the write request includes data to be stored and a key tag value associated with the MEK; (d) using the key tag value to select the MEK for the write request; (e) using the MEK for the write request to encrypt the data from the client; and (f) storing the encrypted data in a region of the NVSM allocated to the client. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian Robert Pearson, David Ray Noeldner, Niels Juel Reimers, Emily Po-Kay Chung, Gamil Assudan Cain, Thomas Rodel Bowen, Teddy Gordon Greer, Jonathan Martin Hughes
  • Technology For Fine-Grain Encryption And Secure Key Injection On Self-Encrypting Drives
    Publication number: 20190266103
    Abstract: A self-encrypting drive (SED) comprises an SED controller and a nonvolatile storage medium (NVSM) responsive to the SED controller. The SED controller enables the SED to perform operations comprising: (a) receiving an encrypted media encryption key (eMEK) for a client; (b) decrypting the eMEK into an unencrypted media encryption key (MEK); (c) receiving a write request from the client, wherein the write request includes data to be stored and a key tag value associated with the MEK; (d) using the key tag value to select the MEK for the write request; (e) using the MEK for the write request to encrypt the data from the client; and (f) storing the encrypted data in a region of the NVSM allocated to the client. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Adrian Robert Pearson, David Ray Noeldner, Niels Juel Reimers, Emily Po-Kay Chung, Gamil Assudan Cain, Thomas Rodel Bowen, Teddy Gordon Greer, Jonathan Martin Hughes