Secure Systems has the following three patents pending or approved for its innovative technology. 

Patent - Security System and Method for Computers

The unique inventive step which leads to the successful implementation of the SDV controlled access system is the methodologies used to securely intercept a computers standard boot procedure and enforce user authentication by invoking a custom master boot record (MBR) and separate authentication application. The scope of SDV functionality included within the legal claims made in this patent relate to the following areas:

• The SDV hardware itself and its location between a PC motherboard and storage device such as a hard disk drive.
• Allowing an authorised master user to predefine and/or change users access rights to information stored on separate areas (zones) of the storage device. These zones are more commonly referred to as hard disk partitions in technical documentation.
• Blocking access to all areas of the storage device until a user has been authenticated.
• Blocking access to areas of the storage device to which a user does not have access privileges after the user has been authenticated.
• Pre-boot authentication of the user before loading of any operating system.
• Implementation of methodologies which intercept a computers standard boot procedure to enforce user authentication by invoking a custom master boot record (MBR) and separate authentication application.
• Implementation of methodologies which ensure all SDV blocking and authentication mechanisms are not addressable or modifiable by the host PC microprocessor.

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Patent - Security System and Method for Computer Operating Systems

The unique inventive step which leads to the successful implementation of this controlled access system is the way in which the SDV can enforce read only access for applications which require write access in order to operate correctly. The scope of SDV functionality included within the legal claims made in this patent relate to the following areas:

• Predefining access rights to information stored on laptop hard disk drive partitions to multiple users with Read/Write, Read Only and/or No Access privileges.
• Partition data access control based on the individual users assigned access rights.
• Implementation of methodologies which enforce read only data access for applications such as operating systems which require write access during normal operation.

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Patent - Partition Access Control System and Method for Computers

The unique inventive step which leads to the successful implementation of this dynamically controlled access system is the way in which the SDV can switch partition access rights for applications which do not provide the facility to dynamically switch storage resources at a partition level during normal operation. The scope of SDV functionality included within the legal claims made in this patent relate to the following areas:

• Predefining access rights to information stored on laptop hard disk drive partitions to multiple users with Read/Write, Read Only and/or No Access privileges.
• Predefining the degree by which access rights assigned to individual users may be changed. (eg For a particular user or partition No Access may be changed to Read Only but Read Only may not be changed to Read/Write.)
• Data access control based on the individual users current assigned access rights.
• Implementation of methodologies which allow users to dynamically switch partition access rights within the predefined allowed range, for applications such as operating systems which do not provide the facility to dynamically switch storage resources at a partition level during normal operation.

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