Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hacking-resistant computer design
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Application No.: US16413446Application Date: 2019-05-15
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Publication No.: US11030301B2Publication Date: 2021-06-08
- Inventor: Frank N. Newman , Dan Newman
- Applicant: PathGuard, LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: PathGuard, LLC
- Current Assignee: PathGuard, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Bakos & Kritzer
- Main IPC: G06F21/50
- IPC: G06F21/50 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F21/71 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/14

Abstract:
A computer architecture is disclosed for implementing a hacking-resistant computing device. The computing device, which could be a mainframe computer, personal computer, smartphone, or any other computing device suitable for network communication, comprises a first partition and a second partition. The second partition can communicate over a public network such as the Internet, or over a private connection. In contrast, the first partition cannot connect to the Internet, and can directly communicate only with the second partition or with input/output devices directly connected to the first partition. Further, the first partition segments its memory addressing for program code and can be configured to hardware-protect that code from alteration. The second partition is hardware-limited from reading from or writing to the memory addressing of the first partition. As a result, the critical data files and program code stored on the first partition are protected from malicious code affecting the second partition.
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