Patent ID: 7735145
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A portable volatile computer-readable medium comprising: a hardware interface implementing, via a connector between the medium and a configurable device selectively coupled to the medium by the hardware interface, a bi-directional communication protocol, the hardware interface configured to operate according to the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) standard and to cooperate with a wizard program on the configurable device, which wizard program is operable to interact with a user and to retrieve data from the medium for use in configuring one or more applications on the configurable device; storage circuitry; and a timed erasure mechanism, wherein the timed erasure mechanism destroys data stored in the storage circuitry after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed from an initiating event, wherein the timed erasure mechanism comprises a digital timer and an erase algorithm that instructs a controller to erase the data stored in the storage circuitry after the predetermined amount of time has elapsed from the initiating event, and wherein further the digital timer was restarted at the initiating event.