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Fire locker and mechanisms for providing and using same

  • US 20050257048A1
  • Filed: 04/23/2004
  • Published: 11/17/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of using a file management component to protect a file, the method comprising:

  • receiving a file from an object;

    using a data storage system to seal the file to the file management component, said data storage system being enabled to receive data from a specified category of components and to seal received data to one or more of said components such that the data cannot be unsealed by any component to which the data is not sealed, the file management component being one of said specified category of components;

    restricting access to said file based on whether an object that issues a request for the file is authorized to open said file, a determination as to whether said object that issues the request is authorized being made by the file management component which causes the file to be unsealed from said data storage system if said object that issues the request is authorized to open the file.

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