User level security for an emulated removable mass storage device
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsJeffrey R. Contino, Warren B. Cope, Douglas Alan Olding
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Abstract
A communication session is established, via a wireless communication link, with a mobile communication device that is connected to a computer system. The mobile communication device is enumerated by the computer system as a locally attached mass storage device. An authentication executable file is sent to the mobile communication device. A response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file is received from the mobile communication device. Based on the response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file, access to a data file that is stored by a mass storage system via a network is granted.
Claims20
A method of operating a communication system, comprising:
- establishing, via a wireless communication link, a communication session with a mobile communication device that is connected to a computer system, the mobile communication device being enumerated by said computer system as a locally attached mass storage device;
- sending an authentication executable file to the mobile communication device;
- receiving, from the mobile communication device, a response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file;
- and,
- granting, based on the response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file, access to a data file that is stored by a mass storage system via a network.
A communication system, comprising:
- an access network that establishes, via a wireless communication link, a communication session with a mobile communication device that is connected to a computer system, the mobile communication device being enumerated by said computer system as a locally attached mass storage device, and said access network sends an authentication executable file to the mobile communication device and receives, from the mobile communication device, a response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file;
- and,
- a system that grants, based on the response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file, access to a data file that is retrieved via a network.
A mobile communication device, comprising:
- a first interface adapted to receive data from a computer system as data destined for a locally connected mass storage device;
- and,
- a wireless communication interface adapted to wirelessly receive an authentication executable file and send an authentication response generated by the computer system executing the authentication executable file and, based on the authentication response, to send said data destined for said locally connected mass storage device via a wireless network and a wired network to a storage network for storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.