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US 9,436,400 B2Granted
Transient storage device configuration silo
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsDavid Abzarian, Harish S. Kulkarni, Todd Carpenter
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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsDavid Abzarian, Harish S. Kulkarni, Todd Carpenter
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A device configuration silo is arranged to be accessed as an IEEE 1667-compatible silo which exposes interfaces to a host application to make changes to the presence of one or more other silos, as well as make changes to silo configurations on a per-silo basis for data and method sharing among silos across the ACTs on a storage device such as a transient storage device. The interfaces exposed by the device configuration silo are arranged to enable an authenticated provisioner, like administrator in a corporate network environment, to perform configuration changes to silos after the storage device is released into the field through a secure provisioning mechanism. In addition, users may make configuration changes to silos at runtime in some usage scenarios, for example to enable discrete portions of functionality on a storage device, by using a secure secondary authentication mechanism that is exposed by the device configuration silo.
A computer-readable storage manufacture comprising a storage device that includes a plurality of silos including a configuration silo, where the storage device is Institute of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 1667-compliant, the storage device configured for performing actions comprising:
A method of operating a computer-readable storage manufacture comprising a storage device that includes a plurality of silos including a configuration silo, where the storage device is Institute of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 1667-compliant, the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage manufacture storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a storage device of the computer-readable storage manufacture, cause the storage device to perform actions, the storage device including a plurality of silos including a configuration silo, where the storage device is Institute of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 1667-compliant, the actions comprising:
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