Patents by Inventor Tony E. FESSEL

Tony E. FESSEL 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).

  • Method and system for emergency data destruction
    Patent number: 10521611
    Abstract: A method for emergency data destruction includes: identifying, by a data identification module, one or more data files for emergency destruction stored in one or more data storage devices; identifying, by the data identification module, at least one file system utilized by the one or more data storage devices; overwriting, by a data generation module, a header of each of the one or more data files, wherein the header of each of the one or more data files is identified based on the at least one file system; truncating, by a data modification module, a file size of each of the one or more data files; and deleting, by a data destruction module, each of the one or more data files, wherein the overwriting and truncating steps are performed prior to deletion of each of the one or more data files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: CIGENT TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: John E. Benkert, Tony E. Fessel
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY DATA DESTRUCTION
    Publication number: 20180373893
    Abstract: A method for emergency data destruction includes: identifying, by a data identification module, one or more data files for emergency destruction stored in one or more data storage devices; identifying, by the data identification module, at least one file system utilized by the one or more data storage devices; overwriting, by a data generation module, a header of each of the one or more data files, wherein the header of each of the one or more data files is identified based on the at least one file system; truncating, by a data modification module, a file size of each of the one or more data files; and deleting, by a data destruction module, each of the one or more data files, wherein the overwriting and truncating steps are performed prior to deletion of each of the one or more data files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: John E. BENKERT, Tony E. FESSEL