IP Library Granted Patent US 7,657,733
Granted Patent B2
US 7,657,733 · App. 11/330,250 · Granted Feb 2, 2010

Hardware password accessing method

Assignee: Inventec Corporation
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,657,733
App. No.
11/330,250
Granted
Feb 2, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is to provide a hardware password accessing method, which is capable of reading a password of at least one hardware (such as a hard disk) disposed on a computer and storing the password to a RAM before the computer entering a standby mode from a working status and also capable of retrieving the password of the hardware from the RAM to restart the hardware once the computer being restored to the working status from the standby mode, so as to resolve the conventional problems caused by storing the hardware password to a CMOS.

Claims (13)

1. A hardware password accessing method implemented by installing a password accessing software in a computer, enabling the computer to read a password of a hard disk disposed on the computer and store the password in a RAM of the computer, which includes the steps of:

storing current read/write status and data of a specific address of the RAM into the hard disk;

changing the status of the specific address of the RAM into a writable status;

writing the password read from the hard disk into the specific address of the RAM;

restoring the status of the specific address of the RAM to the current read/write status previously being stored in the hard disk;

entering into a standby mode from a working status; and

retrieving the password of the hard disk from the RAM to restart the hard disk before the computer enters into the working status from the standby mode.

2. The method of claim 1 further including the steps of:

storing the current read/write status of the specific address of the RAM into the hard disk;

changing the status of the specific address of the RAM into a readable status;

retrieving the password from the specific address of the RAM to restart the hard disk;

restoring the status and data of the specific address of the RAM to the current read/write status and data previously being stored in the hard disk; and

entering into the working status from the standby mode.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2015
From: INVENTEC CORPORATION
To: ZHIGU HOLDINGS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 035959/0466 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 12, 2006
From: LO, JEFFREY
To: INVENTEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 017467/0976 →
Continuity (1)
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