Patent ID: 8146153

Claim:
A method of creating a secure storage account to permit access to protected content in a non-volatile memory device, comprising: reading a memory identification value from a first non-volatile memory device; calculating an account identification value; transmitting said memory identification value and said account identification value to a second non-volatile memory device; receiving a credential from said second non-volatile memory device, wherein said credential is calculated utilizing said memory identification value, said account identification value, and a formula; transmitting a command to create a secure storage account in said first non-volatile memory device, wherein said command comprises said credential and said account identification value; wherein said calculation of said credential further utilizes a second memory identification value stored within said second non-volatile memory device, and wherein said calculating said account identification value further comprises: reading a third memory identification value from said second non-volatile memory device; and calculating the account identification value utilizing said third memory identification value.