Rohde and Schwarz Assigned Two Patents

Portable storage, test system
Rohde and Schwarz GmbH and Co. KG, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (10,839,101) developed by Keles, Mustafa, Penzberg, Germany, for “portable storage apparatus, test system and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A portable storage apparatus and method used for storing sensitive data of a user and/or of an external device, said portable storage apparatus comprising an authentication unit adapted to authenticate the user and/or the external device connected to the portable storage device, at least one processing unit adapted to encrypt the sensitive data requiring a high security level, SL, with a secure encryption key, K, loaded from a key storage of the portable storage apparatus, and a switching unit adapted to switch the processing unit to a high security level, SL, data memory of the portable storage apparatus to store the encrypted sensitive data if the high security level, SL, data memory is selected by an authenticated user or by an authenticated external device.”

The patent application was filed on September 28, 2018 (16/146,858).

Failure tolerant data storage access
Rohde and Schwarz GmbH and Co. KG, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (10,824,590) developed by Arend, Michael, Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany, Bartelt, Felix, Hambuehren, Germany, and Thometzek, Dirk, Hamburg, Germany, for “failure tolerant data storage access unit, failure tolerant data storage access system and method for accessing a data storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A failure tolerant data storage access unit with real time capability comprising at least two data volumes and a file requesting handler that handles a file operation request from an application. The file requesting handler is configured to multiply the file operation request at least twice and to forward the multiplied file operation requests to the at least two data volumes ensuring simultaneous and independent processing of the multiplied file operation requests. Further, a failure tolerant data storage access system with real time capability and a method for accessing a data storage are described.”

The patent application was filed on December 7, 2017 (15/835,208).