Patent ID: 11971967
Assignee: CLEVX, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
disabling, by an interface controller in a secure access device, access to a memory in the secure access device via an external data channel until a user is authenticated by the secure access device;
receiving authentication info nation by the secure access device, wherein the secure access device is configured to receive the authentication information via a wireless transceiver for radiofrequency communications in the secure access device, configured to receive the authentication information via an electro-mechanical input mechanism;
authenticating, by an authentication subsystem in the secure access device, the authentication information received via the electro-mechanical input mechanism or via the wireless transceiver;
sending an unlock command, from the authentication subsystem to the interface controller, to enable access to the memory via the external data channel after authenticating the authentication information;
enabling, by the interface controller, access to the memory via the external data channel after the authenticating; and
encrypting, by an encryption engine in the interface controller, data before the data is stored in the memory.