Source: http://www.google.com/patents/US8099437?dq=6,188,988
Timestamp: 2017-05-01 06:25:50
Document Index: 689979967

Matched Legal Cases: ['§120', '§120', '§119', 'Application No. 60', 'Application No. 60', '§112']

Patent US8099437 - Method and apparatus for selective file erasure using metadata modifications - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA process that ensures the virtual destruction of data files a user wishes to erase from a storage medium, such as a hard drive, flash drive, or removable disk. This approach is appropriate for managing custom distributions from a large file sets as it is roughly linear in compute complexity to the number...http://www.google.com/patents/US8099437?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8099437 - Method and apparatus for selective file erasure using metadata modificationsAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS8099437 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 12/973,898Publication dateJan 17, 2012Filing dateDec 20, 2010Priority dateDec 22, 2005Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS7398524, US7571176, US7712094, US7856451, US8266615, US8286159, US8321859, US8521781, US8782089, US9171005, US9176971, US20070150886, US20070150887, US20070150888, US20070150889, US20070150890, US20070150891, US20070174367, US20080141242, US20090292747, US20110125816, US20120096456, US20130067460, US20130339408, US20140324798Publication number12973898, 973898, US 8099437 B2, US 8099437B2, US-B2-8099437, US8099437 B2, US8099437B2InventorsAlan Joshua ShapiroOriginal AssigneeAlan Joshua ShapiroExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (123), Non-Patent Citations (15), Referenced by (5), Classifications (23), Legal Events (1) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetMethod and apparatus for selective file erasure using metadata modifications
This is a divisional under 35 U.S.C. §120 of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/534,839 filed on Aug. 3, 2009, titled “SELECTIVE FILE ERASURE USING METADATA MODIFICATIONS” (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,856,451 on Dec. 21, 2010), which is a divisional under 35 U.S.C. §120 of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/611,886 filed on Dec. 17, 2006, titled “SELECTIVE FILE ERASURE USING METADATA MODIFICATIONS” (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,571,176 on Aug. 4, 2009), which claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/753,635 filed on Dec. 22, 2005, titled “RAPID DISPENSING OF STORED DIGITAL CONTENT,” and of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/747,201 filed on May 14, 2006, titled “APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DISPENSING SOFT ASSETS VIA SUBTRACTIVE INSTALLATION,” each one of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
In contrast, one aspect of sideloading process 889 of the present invention provides sideloading 898 of soft assets, wherein a large set (an “ipselecta”) of soft assets are in effect loaded en masse onto a storage medium 99 that is operatively coupled to computer 804, either before or after the ipselecta are loaded. For example, in some embodiments, storage medium 99 includes a disk drive and/or FLASH card or chip (e.g., a SanDisk®, TransFlash® or microSD® card) or any other suitable storage medium that is preloaded (for example, as described below for FIG. 9A or FIG. 9B below), then plugged into an appropriate slot and connected by appropriate signal and power cabling to other hardware in computer 804, resulting in an operational, ready-to-use device 804. This saves a considerable amount of time (thus increasing manufacturing throughput and/or reducing the time spent by the user waiting for his or her purchase to become usable) and electrical energy for the manufacturer and/or end-user by avoiding much or all of the downloading manual, and/or media installing of soft assets. In some embodiments, however, the sideloading of the present invention is supplemented by also downloading and/or manually installing and/or media installing soft assets that were not in the ipselecta.
It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive. Moreover, it is not necessary for a device or method to address each and every problem sought to be solved by the present invention, for it to be encompassed by the present claims. Furthermore, no element, component, or method step in the present invention is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether the element, component, or method step is explicitly recited in the claims. No claim element herein is to be construed under the provisions of 35 U.S.C. §112 paragraph 6 unless the element is expressly recited using the phrase “means for” or, in the case of a method claim, the element is expressly recited as a “step” instead of an “act.”