Restricting access to data on portable storage media based on access to a private intranet
First Claim
1. A method of enabling access to encrypted data stored on a portable storage medium, the method comprising:
- attempting, by the portable storage medium, to communicate with an intranet, wherein the portable storage medium includes a radio configured to communicate directly with the intranet using a wireless communications network independent of a host device to determine if the intranet is a predetermined private intranet;
receiving a request at the host device to access the encrypted data stored on the portable storage medium;
determining, by the portable storage medium using the radio, that the intranet is the predetermined private intranet that, when identified by the portable storage medium as the predetermined private intranet, allows access to the encrypted data by the host device; and
providing the host device access to the encrypted data stored on the portable storage medium in an unencrypted form.
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Abstract
Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for enabling access to encrypted data stored on a portable storage medium. In one embodiment, an attempt to communicate with a certain intranet is made. If this attempt succeeds, then access is granted to the data stored on the portable storage device, but if access to the intranet is not granted, then access to the data stored on the portable storage device is also not granted. Denying access can include preventing the portable storage device from even being recognized by a requesting device, being recognized but not presented, or can include showing that such encrypted data exists, but denying access to the data in an unencrypted format.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of enabling access to encrypted data stored on a portable storage medium, the method comprising:
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attempting, by the portable storage medium, to communicate with an intranet, wherein the portable storage medium includes a radio configured to communicate directly with the intranet using a wireless communications network independent of a host device to determine if the intranet is a predetermined private intranet; receiving a request at the host device to access the encrypted data stored on the portable storage medium; determining, by the portable storage medium using the radio, that the intranet is the predetermined private intranet that, when identified by the portable storage medium as the predetermined private intranet, allows access to the encrypted data by the host device; and providing the host device access to the encrypted data stored on the portable storage medium in an unencrypted form. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A memory component comprising:
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a housing having a portable computer-readable medium that stores encrypted data in a first portion of the portable computer-readable medium; a radio configured to communicate directly with an accessible intranet using a wireless communications network to determine if the accessible intranet is a predetermined private intranet; and a set of computer-executable instructions embodied on a second portion of the portable computer-readable medium, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed, perform a process that includes permitting access to the encrypted data in an unencrypted form only when it is determined, at the portable computer-readable medium using the radio, that the predetermined private intranet that allows access to the encrypted data is accessible by the portable computer-readable medium. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of enabling access to encrypted data stored on a portable storage medium, the portable storage medium having a radio configured to communicate with an accessible intranet using a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
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receiving, from a requesting device, a request to access unencrypted data, which is the encrypted data in an unencrypted format stored on the portable storage medium; attempting, by the portable storage medium using the radio, to communicate directly with the accessible intranet to determine if the accessible intranet is a predetermined private intranet, connection to which by the portable storage medium allows access to the encrypted data by the requesting device; determining, by the portable storage medium, whether the accessible intranet is the predetermined private intranet that allows access to the encrypted data by the requesting device; and if the predetermined private intranet is accessible by the portable storage medium using the radio, then providing access to the unencrypted data, but if the predetermined private intranet is not accessible by the portable storage medium using the radio, then preventing access to the unencrypted data. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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