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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6199163
SERIAL NO

08621672

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The invention provides an encryption circuit for encrypting and decrypting data as it travels to and from a hard disk. The encryption circuit can be turned on or off under control of the BIOS program and a user supplied password. With the present invention, a removed hard disk cannot be read without the user supplied password and a similar encryption circuit.

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RPX CORPORATIONFOUR EMBARCADERO SUITE 4000 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dumas, Patrick A Barrington, IL 1 47
Pulver, Mark Elmhurst, IL 7 219

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