System and method to permanently erase customer personal information from mobile device
AssigneeCommunications Test Design, Inc.
InventorsChristian Cote, Nidhin Davis
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Abstract
A system to physically remove data including customer personal information from mobile devices includes a computer; an input device to input to the computer a unique identifier associated with a board; a computer numerical control (CNC) machine controlled by the computer and configured to physically remove a predetermined chip from the board; a camera to record the CNC machine physically removing the predetermined chip from the board; and a memory to store a first file comprising the camera's recording and to store a second file comprising a record associating the unique identifier associated with the board to the camera's recording.
Claims12
A method for permanently eliminating customer personal information from a mobile device, comprising:
- Recording, by a computer system, a unique identifier of a mobile device;
- mounting a logic board from the mobile device in a computer numerical control (CNC) machine;
- configuring, by the computer system, a CNC toolpath corresponding to a physical location of a memory chip on the logic board;
- wherein the toolpath is determined based on the mobile device model determined from the unique identifier;
- controlling, by the computer system, the CNC machine to execute the toolpath to physically mill away the memory chip from the logic board, thereby irreversibly destroying the memory chip;
- automatically initiating video recording, by a camera controlled by the computer system, during execution of the toolpath;
- storing, in a non-transitory memory, a recording of an operation that physically destroys a memory chip from the mobile device by the CNC machine;
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- storing, in the non-transitory memory, a record associating the unique identifier to the recording of the operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.