Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 11/05

20050262334 - Computer restoration apparatus: The present invention relates generally to a novel computer fitted with a switch that is capable of restoring a computer that has had an operating system or hard drive crash and the corresponding method of restoration and apparatus that is capable of restoring....

20050262335 - Performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a compute system: A method of performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a computer system is described and disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes identifying one or more affected hardware identifiers. Each affected hardware identifier corresponds to any of the cards. Configuration information of the computer system is gathered....

20050262337 - Method and device for determining flash software compatibility with hardware: A method of determining compatibility between a hardware device and a software application includes the step of initializing a boot loader application. Initialization of the boot loader application includes verifying the presence and validity of a software application. Once the software application has been validated by the boot loader application,...

20050262336 - Methods and apparatuses for resetting the physical layers of two agents interconnected through a link-based interconnection: A method for effecting an in-band reset of the physical layers of two agents interconnected through a link-based interconnection scheme. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a first of the two agents ceases its forwarded clock to initiate the in-band reset. Upon realization of the cessation, a second...

20050262338 - System and method for securing on-line documents using authentication codes: A system method for providing an authentication code across a network for use in authentication of documents, such as printed lottery tickets. The system includes document-printing terminals that create a first key and a second key, with the first key used to generate an authentication code for printing on the...

20050262339 - Creation of electronically processable signature files: The invention relates to aspects in connection with the automatic generation and processing of signature files. The signature files are generated in paper form on the basis of documents (28) that comprise a personal signature (34) and also control information items (30) assigned to the signature (34) and/or the documents...

20050262341 - Methods and systems for protecting information in paging operating systems: The inventive methods and systems provide an approach to protecting unencrypted sensitive information from being paged out to secondary storage, such as a hard disk, during paging operations. In the described embodiment, a key is provided and is maintained in the main memory of a virtual memory system. Measures are...

20050262342 - Methods and systems for protecting information in paging operating systems: The inventive methods and systems provide an approach to protecting unencrypted sensitive information from being paged out to secondary storage, such as a hard disk, during paging operations. In the described embodiment, a key is provided and is maintained in the main memory of a virtual memory system. Measures are...

20050262340 - Methods and systems in a computer network for enhanced electronic document security: Methods and systems for scanning and encrypting documents are disclosed. A document can be scanned utilizing a scanning device. The document can then be converted into image formatted data representative of the document. The image formatted data can then be encrypted at the scanning device utilizing an encryption key prior...

20050262344 - Data-mover controller with plural registers for supporting ciphering operations: A data processing system ciphers and transfers data between a first memory unit and a second memory unit, such as, for example, between a share memory architecture (SMA) static random access memory (SRAM) and a double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM). The system includes a ciphering...

20050262343 - Pervasive, user-centric network security enabled by dynamic datagram switch and an on-demand authentication and encryption scheme through mobile intelligent data carriers: Methods and systems are provided for improving security, efficiency, access control, administrative monitoring, reliability as well as integrity of data transmission and remote application sharing over a network. Secure, stable network connections and efficient network transactions among multiple users are supported by an improved client-server architecture. A datagram schema is...

20050262345 - Certificate lookup and validation: A certificate validation framework allows for the use of plug-ins for a certificate path builder and certificate path validator. Clients can include a web server clients, SSL certificate validation or application code....

20050262346 - Self-service provisioning of digital certificates: A system and method for provisioning digital certificates. An automated provisioning engine receives notification of a need to provision a user with a digital certificate. The engine electronically instructs the user to obtain a digital certificate. When obtained, the user responds by forwarding the certificate. The engine then electronically instructs...

20050262348 - Authentication of an object using a signature part: A method of authenticating an object by sensing coded data provided on or in a surface associated with the object. The coded data is indicative of an identity of the object and, at least part of a signature, the signature being a digital signature of at least part of the...

20050262349 - Coded data including a distributed data stream: Coded data for disposal on or in a surface that includes a number of coded data portions. Each coded data portion encodes an identity of an object or the like associated with the surface. In addition, each coded data portion encodes at least part of a data object so that...

20050262353 - Digital signatures including identity-based aggregate signatures: Methods and systems are provided that allow multiple identity-based digital signatures to be merged into a single identity-based “aggregate” digital signature. This identity-based aggregate signature has a shorter bit-length than the concatenation of the original unaggregated identity-based signatures. The identity-based aggregate signature can be verified by anyone who obtains the...

20050262352 - Method for sending digital copies of protected media and network access device: Method for sending digital copies of protected media, using receiver-individual digital watermarks, from a media server via a telecommunications network and a network access device with connecting devices to an end user terminal, in which a digital copy which is to be sent to a specific end user terminal of...

20050262350 - Use of a digital signature obtained from at least one structural characteristic of a material element to protect the direct reading of sensitive data and method for reading this protected data: The invention is related to the use of one or several digital signatures obtained from at least one structural characteristic of a material element that has a complex, chaotic, unique and stable structure, to protect the direct reading of sensitive data, a media of such protected data and a method...

20050262347 - Watermark insertion apparatus and watermark extraction apparatus: The present invention generates watermark from ID information that uniquely identifies a program distribution destination, inserts the generated watermark in a program, and prevents the program from operating correctly if the watermark is tampered with, and also inserts the same watermark verification code in a program regardless of the distribution...

20050262351 - Watermark payload encryption for media including multiple watermarks: The present invention provides encryption techniques useful with digital watermarking payloads. In a first implementation, we encrypt one of two different cooperating watermark payloads, but the encryption and payload data structure helps to authenticate both payloads. Another implementation provides a three encryption key pair system for managing messages and watermark...

20050262354 - Multiple signature apparatus, multiple signature method and computer program product: A multiple signature apparatus includes a determining unit that determines whether signature information of a specific signer is included in multiple signatures created by a plurality of signers for message data. The multiple signature apparatus also includes a signature deleting unit that deletes the signature information of the specific signer...

20050262355 - Method of providing a signing key for digitally signing verifying or encrypting data and mobile terminal: m

20050262358 - Backing context for portal element controls: Backing files and backing contexts can be associated with portal elements controls for the construction of a portal. The backing files and backing contexts can allow interactions with the portal element controls before rendering. In one embodiment, developers are allowed to have access to backing files and backing contexts. The...

20050262356 - Method and system for secure remote access to computer systems and networks: A method and system for supporting secure remote access to computer systems and networks, wherein the universe of computer systems and networks to be accessed is partitioned between a plurality of remote sites, each having the ability to grant limited access rights to an external management entity, comprising of the...

20050262357 - Network access using reverse proxy: A security platform connected to a private network permits access to the private network from a public network (such as the Internet) through a variety of mechanisms. A reverse proxy system operating as part of the security platform provides access to web-enabled applications from a browser connected to the public...

20050262359 - Embedding a security support provider interface in a communication class library: An apparatus for and method of improving the efficiency of service request/response activity requiring security functions. A security facility, such as Security Support Provider Interface is embedded in a communication class library which controls the communication between client and server applications. A context token is associated with the service request...

20050262360 - Trusted patching of trusted code: Trusted code may be patched in a manner that resists tampering from non-trusted sources. In some embodiments, the patches may be moved into a patch cache in a trusted processing module for execution....

20050262362 - Distributed security system policies: A memory for storing data for access by an application program being executed on a computer system, comprising, a data structure stored in said memory, said data structure including, a name attribute wherein the name identifies an action or a role, a resource attribute wherein the resource attribute specifies a...

20050262361 - System and method for magnetic storage disposal: A storage system has integrated information security features adapted to interact with a host system. The storage system includes a storage media, controller firmware and a controller. The storage media is adapted to store data. Controller firmware stores a secret. The controller controls data transfers between the host system and...

20050262366 - Method and apparatus for improving bus master performance: A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing dynamic arbitration of memory accesses by a CPU and at least one bus master interface module based on, at least in part, monitoring a CPU throttle control signal and monitoring CPU power and performance states, and making decisions based on the monitored...

20050262363 - Method for signaling during a transaction and receiving unit and system for use therewith: A transmitting device communicates a multi-level clock signal to a receiving device. Changes in the clock level may indicate the start or stop of a transmitting message or delineate fields in the transmitted message. The number of clock pulses received at a particular voltage may indicate further information about the...

20050262364 - Methods and apparatus for provisioning phantom power to remote devices: An apparatus provisions power from a power budget to remote devices configured to obtain phantom power. The apparatus includes, among other things, a controller which is configured to identify a power demand for a remote device (e.g., a power demand based on an actual cable loss), and generate a comparison...

20050262365 - P-state feedback to operating system with hardware coordination: A mechanism for P-state feedback to operating system (OS) with hardware coordination is described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a process includes, but is not limited to, receiving data from a processor representing an average performance over a pervious period of time, and determining a performance state (P-state)...

20050262367 - Power-saving system for a computer peripheral: A power-saving system for a computer peripheral includes a computer, a power switch controller and a computer peripheral. The power switch controller is electrically connected to the computer and the computer peripheral. The power witch controller is for detecting an operation mode of the computer, receiving a power and transmitting...

20050262368 - Link power saving state: Disclosed are embodiments of a method, apparatus and system for a low power state for a point-to-point link. During the low power state, the signal on both conductors of a differential transmit pair are driven to electrical idle. Analog activity detectors are enabled during the low power state and are...

20050262369 - Semiconductor memory device, and method of controlling the same: An internal voltage generator when activated, generates an internal voltage to be supplied to an internal circuit. Operating the internal voltage generator consumes a predetermined amount of the power. In response to a control signal from the exterior, an entry circuit inactivates the internal voltage generator. When the internal voltage...

20050262370 - Processor timing apparatus, systems, and methods: An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to independently adjust a plurality of processor clocks coupled to a corresponding plurality of networked processors responsive to one or more status indicators to provide scalable performance and power consumption....

20050262372 - Microcomputer: The present invention aims to be capable of properly measuring the cycle of an external signal even where a timer clock and a CPU clock are operated asynchronously. A timer circuit comprises a timer counter which counts a generation interval of an external signal in sync with the timer clock,...

20050262371 - Systems and methods for the implementation of a peer-to-peer rule-based pull autonomous synchronization system: The present invention relates to a synchronization system that utilizes a synchronization wizard (“PullSync”) residing on a first computer device to request and receive (or “pull”) data from a second computer device. The first computer device (the “syncer”) copies files from shared folders on the second computer device (the “syncee”)...

20050262373 - Dll phase detection using advanced phase equal: A system and method are disclosed to generate and terminate clock shift modes during initialization of a synchronous circuit (e.g., a delay-locked loop or DLL). Upon initialization, the DLL is entered into a ForceSL (Force Shift Left) mode and an On1x mode (i.e., left shifting on each clock cycle). The...

20050262374 - Information processing apparatus and media storage apparatus using the same: An information processing apparatus switches a clock to reduce power consumption of an information processing unit. In order to reduce an overhead time in switching, the information processing apparatus includes an interrupt controller for generating a clock switch signal by accepting an interrupt to each information processing unit and a...

20050262375 - System and method for efficient cabac clock: A system and method that process data in a circuitry utilizing two clocks. The two clocks may be an offset version of one another. Utilizing two clocks to processes the data may consume fewer clock cycles than using only one clock. The circuitry may comprise registers and a memory, wherein...

20050262376 - Method and apparatus for bussed communications: Some embodiments of this invention relate to methods and apparatus for implementing bussed transactions between one or more components connected to a system bus. A clock generator circuit generates an independent clock signal for each component connected to the system bus. The clock generator circuit may use system signals, sideband...

20050257038 - Automotive electronic control unit and a method for storing configuration data in the same: The invention discloses a method of storing configuration information in an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). This method discloses storing configuration information at a sequence of address locations. After all of the configuration information is stored, a recognizable block separator is stored in the next address location in the sequence. This...

20050257040 - Information processing system and method of controlling the same: An information processing system operating in response to a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller, the information processing system including a remote signal receiver to receive the remote control signal; an interrupt generator to generate a system management interrupt signal when receives the remote control signal by the...

20050257039 - Virtual private network configuration system and method: Method for configuring a tunnel connection between a first gateway and second gateway. Configuration of the tunnel connection is completed at the first gateway in response to a user request. At the second gateway, a request is received from the user to configure the second gateway, and an identification of...

20050257041 - Method and apparatus for remote computer reboot: A remote reboot device allows unattended computer systems to be rebooted or restarted from a remote location. The remote reboot device uses the reset pins on a logic board of a computer system to effectuate a reboot. The remote reboot device includes a network interface for secure communication over a...

20050257042 - Methods and arrangements for providing a mark-up language based graphical user interface for user identification to an operating system: Methods and arrangements are provided that can be used to identify users to an operating system during initialization through an advanced graphical user interface (GUI). The resulting GUI can be visually compelling and functional while advantageously remaining easy for the developer to create, maintain and modify. A markup language rendering...

20050257043 - System and method for content protection on a computing device: Systems and methods for handling user interface field data. A system and method can be configured to receive input which indicates that the mobile device is to enter into a protected mode. Data associated with fields displayed on a user interface are stored in a secure form on the mobile...

20050257044 - System and method for enterprise autentication: A method for adaptively authenticating a subject, said method adapted to cooperate with a security provider interface hierarchy, said method comprising the steps of providing for the implementation of an authentication interface adapted to extend and implement at least a portion of the security provider hierarchy, providing for the authentication...

20050257045 - Secure messaging system: A method for secure data transactions over a computer network is described. In one embodiment, the act of generating at the first party a document, which authorizes the data transaction to proceed is performed. In one embodiment, the document content is signed using a computer network with audit-level encryption digital...

20050257046 - Distributed management of a certificate revocation list: In a method for managing a Certificate Revocation List (CRL), a first device (31, 61) receives the CRL (33, 67) which comprises at least one revoked certificate identifier (SNi). An integrity field (MACi) associated to an entry of the CRL (371, . . . , 37p) is calculated using a...

20050257047 - Network equipment with embedded movable secure devices: A system for improving security of management and control functions at a network element in a communications network is described. The control card of the network element is configured to function in association with an execution device such as a smartcard. The execution device has embedded thereon one or several...

20050257051 - Adaptive data transformation engine: Information streams are integrated with context information objects and processing instruction objects. The integrated information streams are received by a solution manifold and transformed in accordance with the context information objects, the instruction objects, and logic inherent in the solution manifold. The transformed information is then viewed by a client...

20050257049 - Chemical for data destruction: A compound and method for rendering a hard disk drive forensically unrecoverable includes a solution comprising cerium ammonium nitrate, hydrochloric acid by mass, and water. When applied to the surface of a platter, the compound sufficiently disrupts or corrupts the platter such that not recovering the information previously stored on...

20050257048 - Fire locker and mechanisms for providing and using same: A file locker manages the storage and use of protected data for software objects. A protected environment maintains the cryptographic and isolative infrastructure to support sealing of data items for use by a trusted agent. The file locker uses the protected environment's sealing functionality to seal data items for the...

20050257050 - System, method and program product for controlling access to computer system: The computer system initially operates in a fully operational mode in which an operating system in the computer system is operating and the computer system executes one or more user applications installed in the computer system. In response to a predefined time interval lapsing, the computer system automatically switches from...

20050257052 - Mobile station and communication control method: When an application is activated, a mobile station 10 detects external devices 20, 30, 40 as candidates for a BLUETOOTH connection out of external devices existing in the surrounding area, and presents a list of the devices to a user. When the user selects from the list an external device...

20050257054 - Information security method and system: The present invention discloses an improved information security system and method. A polymorphic engine is used to enhance the security features of a software application and the data generated by or made available to the application and/or the operating system. The polymorphic engine operates to randomly alter the standard executable...

20050257053 - System and method for automatically hiding sensitive information obtainable from a process table: The present invention provides a system and method for automatically hiding sensitive information, obtainable from a process table, from other processes that should not access the sensitive information. The system and method include a sensitive command attribute table that is used by a system administrator to designate the commands and...

20050257056 - Content transfer system, content transfer method, content transmitting apparatus, content transmission method, content receiving apparatus, content reception method, and computer program: The present invention provides a content transfer system for transferring content from a content transmitting apparatus to a content receiving apparatus through a network in consideration of content protection. The system comprises an authentication process executing means which executes an authentication process between the content transmitting apparatus and the content...

20050257055 - Device ownership transfer from a network: A home relationship is established between a device and a network by storing an ownership record in the device that identifies the network, and storing in the network a device identifier that identifies the device. Thereafter, communication is established between the device and the network. The ownership record is then...

20050257057 - System, method and computer product for sending encrypted messages to recipients where the sender does not possess the credentials of the recipient: A system for encrypting and decrypting messages using a browser in either a web or wireless device or secure message client software for transmission to or from a web server on the Internet connected to an email server or message server for the situation where the sender does not possess...

20050257058 - Communication apparatus and authentication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes: a memory (418) that holds CA information A (301a) including (ú@) a CA certificate A (106a) indicating that an AP server certificate A (402a) that indicates the validity of an application server (401) is valid and (úA) a URL B (302b) indicating the URL of a...

20050257061 - Platform and method for authenticating emails on the internet: A platform and a method for authenticating email, wherein the unauthenticated advertisements/mails enter in a feedback authentication system via a screening and authentication system to determine the legality, the feedback authentication system will request the advertiser to login to be authenticated, and then send the signature to the advertiser on...

20050257063 - Program, computer, data processing method, communication system and the method: A program capable of protecting private data with a small processing amount appropriately with high reliability, by which a server apparatus transmits hash data of an booted program to a client apparatus, the client apparatus transmits the hash data and encoded private data to the server apparatus after negotiation, and...

20050257060 - Randomized signal transforms and their applications: Techniques are disclosed to provide randomized signal transforms and/or their applications. More particularly, a signal (e.g., an audio signal, an image, or a video signal) is transformed by applying randomly-selected basis functions to the signal. The applications of the randomized signal transforms include, but are not limited to, compression, denoising,...

20050257059 - Signing and authentication devices and processes and corresponding products, notably for dvb/mpeg mhp digital streams: The present invention concerns a device and a process for signing digital streams, each of them comprising contents, related to audiovisual information, and a signaling. The device applies encrypting to selectively determined descriptors of the signaling, called authenticated descriptors, to obtain signature. The invention also concerns corresponding authentication device and...

20050257062 - System and method for providing encryption in pipelined storage operations in a storage network: In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a method is provided for performing a storage operation in a pipeline storage system in which one or more data streams containing data to be stored are written into data chunks. The method includes generating an encryption key associated with a first archive...

20050257064 - Method for recognition and tracking of fibrous media and applications of such a method, particularly in the computer field: The invention relates to a method for acceptance of a candidate fibrous medium comprising the following steps: a candidate digital signature is generated from a structural characteristic extracted from a reference zone of the fibrous medium, the said digital signature representing the unique, complex, chaotic structure of the reference zone,...

20050257066 - Managing user access to data: A method of managing user access to data includes detecting that a user seeks access to a data portion that belongs to a specified category. One or more authorizations are evaluated, each authorization having an authorization segment corresponding to the specified category. The method includes permitting the sought access to...

20050257065 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for implementing issue notification and resolution activities: Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for implementing issue notification and resolution activities. The method includes receiving a request for access to a network service from a user associated with an account that has been flagged as having an issue. The method also includes redirecting the request for...

20050257067 - Fingerprint embedding: Disclosed is a method of embedding a fingerprint identifying media content into a media transmission signal used for transmission of said media content. In order to achieve that the embedded fingerprint survives all kinds of analogue and digital processing such as compression, the fingerprint (FP) extracted (21) from the content...

20050257068 - Method and apparatus for secure issuance of secure firearm identification credentials: The invention brings together the components of digital image capture and digital fingerprint capture to both speed up and make more secure the process of applying for a firearm permit and the process of issuing a firearm permit. Biometric data captured, such as face and finger, is used in both...

20050257069 - Cipher strength evaluation apparatus: An object of the invention is to allow cipher strength evaluation when available resources such as the complexity and the number of plaintext available for decryption have conditions, and to allow comparison of cipher strength under given conditions. The invention combines the exhaustive search with an algebraic method, sets conditions...

20050257070 - Method and system of accessing instructions: A method of accessing encrypted instructions includes utilizing an instruction access controller to access an encrypted instruction, utilizing a microprocessor to drive the instruction access controller to access the encrypted instruction, decrypting the encrypted instruction to generate a decrypted instruction, and utilizing the microprocessor to operate according to the decrypted...

20050257072 - Credential roaming: Implementations are described and claimed herein to enable credential roaming among a plurality of different computing devices. An exemplary system may include an event handler to receive event notifications such as, e.g., a client logon. The event handler may invoke a management service in response to receiving an event notification....

20050257075 - Data output method and apparatus, data playback method and apparatus, data recording method and apparatus, and data recording and playback method and apparatus: A method of outputting data read from a recording medium includes decoding data read from a recording medium, embedding electronic watermark information in the decoded data when the decoded data is output as recording data, and outputting the resulting data....

20050257071 - External storage device: With respect to a memory substrate 12 to be mounted a semiconductor memory 21, an image sensor 20 on which a sensing surface 20a is provided for fingerprint authentication is mounted at a surface on the opposite side to a surface where a connector 24 is mounted so as to...

20050257073 - Method and system for bootstrapping a trusted server having redundant trusted platform modules: Multiple trusted platform modules within a data processing system are used in a redundant manner that provides a reliable mechanism for securely storing secret data at rest that is used to bootstrap a system trusted platform module. A hypervisor requests each trusted platform module to encrypt a copy of the...

20050257074 - Secure storage on recordable medium in a content protection system: An application on a computing device to write data to a storage medium associated therewith. The data is to be written to a secure storage area associated with an object on the storage medium, and the secure storage area has a value storage area associated therewith. The application generates a...

20050257076 - System and method for controlling power sources of motherboards under test through networks: A system for controlling power sources of motherboards under test through networks includes a central server (1), a serial device server (3), a bus distributor (4), a number of power controllers (5), and a number of testing computers (8). The central server sets testing parameters, and transmits instructions regarding turning...

20050257077 - Method for voltage drop analysis in integreted circuits: A method for performing a voltage drop analysis in a logic circuit that takes into consideration voltage drop—current drain dependency. The voltage drop analysis helps in accurately estimating power requirements of the logic circuit, designing optimal power grids and performing accurate static timing analysis for the logic circuit. The logic...

20050251670 - Configuring multi-thread status: One exemplary method for configuring multi-thread status in a system having a core with multi-thread capability which comprises the steps of selecting a desired multi-thread status from either enabled status or disabled status and configuring the core to the desired multi-thread status....

20050251671 - Method for sampling optic disc data and apparatus thereof: The present invention discloses a method for sampling optic disc data. The method includes the following steps. First, a first sync tag signal and a data signal are provided, and the previous first sync tag signal is saved as a second sync tag signal. Then, it is checked and determined...

20050251672 - Mobile communication terminal including nand flash memory and method for booting the same: A mobile communication terminal with a NAND flash memory is described. The terminal includes a memory for storing address information indicative of a start address of a specific area including boot data to be read from the NAND flash memory; and a sub-controller for determining whether a predetermined block including...

20050251674 - Method and system for automatically initializing sata controller: A method and system for automatically initializing a SATA controller, which is used to set up a specified SATA port as enable or disable, the method includes: inputting a value of the specified SATA port to an interface; automatically identifying ICH south bridge and the SATA controller by searching a...

20050251673 - Updatable firmware having boot and/or communication redundancy: A distributed nodal system with a source computer processor node storing program code for target node(s). A target node has an updatable firmware memory storing program code for operating a target processor. The target code comprises application code for controlling an embedded device, primary communication code for communicating with a...

20050251675 - Privacy model: Disclosed are systems and/or methods that mitigate overexposure of shared content and that facilitate improving security of content in a computing environment. In particular, the systems and methods involves monitoring resource activities such as user interactions (between users and/or between users and resources), email activity, share space activity, shared content...

20050251676 - Method for offloading the digest portion of protocols: A card receives data encoded in a protocol. The data may be divided into packets, or still in a protocol data unit. If still in a protocol data unit, the card divides the data into packets of appropriate size. Digests appropriate to the protocol are computed and inserted into the...

20050251677 - Server device and program management system: The server apparatus (120) includes a CPU (121), a RAM (122), a cipher processing unit (123) for carrying out encryption and decryption, a communication processing unit (124) for carrying out communication with an information processing terminal (100), a data storage unit (125) for storing information that does not require confidentiality,...

20050251678 - Identification code management method and management system: An identification code management method and management system includes that the issue and distribution of an ID code having a message authentication code are managed thereby to efficiently and reliably manage a material object using the ID code. An electronic circuit chip with an ID code having a message authentication...

20050251679 - Original transcript system: method and system to issue, submit and view original electronic transcripts.: Transcript in OTS refer to any electronic file that can include a PDF, word or an image file, and is issued by an issuer. The original transcript system consists of transcript servers that register and host users. These transcript servers talk securely to each other through the transcript network server....

20050251680 - Systems and methods to securely generate shared keys: A method for secure bidirectional communication between two systems is described. A first key pair and a second key pair are generated, the latter including a second public key that is generated based upon a shared secret. First and second public keys are sent to a second system, and third...

20050251681 - Gsm-like and umts-like authentication in a cdma2000 network environment: An authentication server (e.g., AAA server) is described herein which is located in a CDMA2000 network and used to authenticate a user terminal that is connected to a non-CDMA2000 network. The authentication server receives an access request for authenticating the user terminal connected to the non-CDMA2000 network. Then, it obtains...

20050251683 - Audio/video commerce application architectural framework: The present invention provides an inventive architectural framework for use in audio/video commerce applications. In one embodiment, message types are used in different applications. These applications may be conceptualized as falling into three classes: 1) broadcast monitoring, copyright communication, copy/play control, file verification, and PC connected e-commerce; 2) forensic tracking,...

20050251682 - Method for indicating the integrity of a collection of digital objects: The present invention is directed to a method for indicating the integrity of a collection of digital objects, such as a software package, an email with attachments, etc.) The method comprising the steps of: Sealing the collection of digital objects by gathering the hash values of the digital objects into...

20050251685 - Diagnosis system with identification display device: An electronic system provides secure and authorized access to data or a user interface on at least one first computer for operating machines from at least one second computer. The data or the user interface on the first computer can be accessed exclusively from the second computer, in that the...

20050251686 - Methods and apparatus for secure distribution of software: Software is securely distributed with limited usage rights. The software may be an executable program and/or one or more data files such as image or multimedia data files. The software includes an access control object which prevents at least some usage of the software without use of a first access...

20050251684 - Storage control system and storage control method: Accesses are controlled which are received on the basis of the iSCSI protocol. A control apparatus which receives an iSCSI name and a log-in request of a host apparatus from the host apparatus via one or a plurality of communication networks, one or more storage apparatus which can be an...

20050251687 - File cabinet with secure access: A secured file cabinet having a mechanical locking mechanism movable between locked and unlocked positions and a biometric data scanner for activating the locking mechanism. The biometric data scanner is based on fingerprints, iris recognition, retina recognition, voice recognition or any other biometric data. The scanner initiates a signal, if...

20050251688 - Identity verification method using a central biometric authority: A method performs biometric verifications to authenticate the identification of users using a central biometric authority (CBA). This allows parties to an electronic transaction to be assured of each other's identity. Specifically, at the sender side, a first message to a receiver is generated, wherein the first message includes a...

20050251689 - Computer system for playing encrypted multimedia data and method for the same: A computer system and a method for playing encrypted multimedia data are proposed. The computer system has a first operating system that heavily consumes system resources and a second operating system that slightly consumes the system resources. Via a basic input/output system (BIOS), the computer system is booted with a...

20050251690 - Content sharing system, content reproduction apparatus, content recording apparatus, group management server, program, and content reproduction controlling method: A content sharing system is disclosed that can efficiently execute copyright management and can promote the degree of freedom and convenience in sharing of content within a legal range of private utilization. A group management server places a plurality of content processing apparatuses in terms of a unit of an...

20050251691 - Data authentication method and agent based system: This invention relates to a data authentication method for authenticating data to be sent from a first agent to a second agent in agent based systems. The invention introduces a way of signing documents without having a private key....

20050251692 - Method and system of remote monitoring and support of devices, using pop3 and decryption using virtual function: A method involves retrieving from an email message, information concerning at least one remotely monitored device. The method involves obtaining a line of the email message containing the information, decoding the line obtained from the email message if it has been encoded, and decrypting the decoded line. The decrypting involves...

20050251694 - Content processing limit method, content processing limit program, and content edition device: In an insertion operation for combined use of contents in a content editing device such as a portable phone, if content without being combined is authorized content, all restriction conditions that have been added to content to be inserted and existing content are initially extracted. The restriction condition refers to...

20050251693 - Method and device for computer memory protection against unauthorized access: A METHOD FOR PROTECTION COMPUTER MEMORY AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS includes partitioning data received via communication links and instructions for controlling the processing of data incoming from a protected computer by means of an external controller. To substantially eliminate any breach in the firewall all the messages received in a communication...

20050251695 - Tamper-resistant re-writable data storage media: A cartridge handling system and method are provided to initialize a data storage cartridge having rewritable media and a cartridge memory for tamper resistant write once recording. During initialization of the cartridge for write once recording, selected data set information table fields of each data set are scrambled. The scrambling...

20050251696 - Method and apparatus for managing power consumption of a disk drive: Consumer electronic devices that run on a battery or an accumulator—i.e. particularly portable applications such as mobile phones, laptops or MPEG players or recorders-require the management of power consumption. They consist essentially of a host and a storage medium like a disk or means for receiving a storage medium like...

20050251697 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: Notification is sent to an upper layer via a control device 2 (a device for managing operation buttons) provided between operation buttons “A-1”, “A-2” and the like and devices for operation input “Device A”, “Device B” and the like such as a pointing device for executing application processing. Function assignment...

20050251698 - Cuttable illuminated panel: An illumination apparatus is provided having a panel including a plurality of circuit units on a dielectric surface. The circuit units include electrically conductive traces and at least one light emitting diode (LED). At least some of the circuit units have contacts for supplying power to the LED. The circuit...

20050251699 - Synchronous pipeline with normally transparent pipeline stages: A synchronous pipeline segment and an integrated circuit (IC) including the segment. The segment includes an input stage, an output stage and at least one intermediate stage. A place holder latch associated with each stage indicates whether valid stage data is in the stage. A local clock buffer provides a...

20050251700 - Dynamic voltage scaling system: Methods and apparatus for implementing a Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) system are presented herein. In one embodiment, an embedded delay checker (EDC) cell is used to measure the actual activity and delay of a critical path within a microprocessor core, which is the basis for dynamically altering the voltage to...

20050251701 - Distributed control and monitoring system: In a more efficient distributed control or monitoring arrangement there are devices in control, monitoring and/or vehicle systems that comprise locally deployed module units that carry out one or more functions, and one or more links connecting the units. The respective module unit is connected to a link via a...

20050246516 - Method and apparatus for implementing distributed scsi devices using enhanced adapter reservations: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing distributed (SCSI) devices using enhanced adapter reservations. A plurality of adapters is provided. Each adapter implements a plurality of logical devices with each logical device respectively coupled to a port of the distributed SCSI devices. The adapters manage reservations for the plurality...

20050246517 - Method for ensuring optimal memory configuration in a computer: A method according to the invention ensures optimal memory configuration in a computer: A determination is made whether performance can be improved by rearranging the DIMMs that are installed in the computer. If so, then a user of the computer is notified that the DIMMs can be rearranged to improve...

20050246518 - Computer system and booting method therefor and server used for the same: To accelerate the booting time of a computer by a booting method using a communication network, a boot-up main memory image of an OS and application programs is used to boot a computer. The main memory image is managed in one batch on a server, and is regularly updated with...

20050246520 - Reconfiguration port for dynamic reconfiguration-system monitor interface: Method and apparatus for an interface to a system monitor (1600) is described. A controller (102) accessible via a port interface thereof (110) is configured for read/write access to configuration memory cells (1500) and for read access to status registers (1602). The configuration memory cells (1500) are addressable via a...

20050246519 - Secure transparent virtual private networks: Techniques are provided for managing communications associated with Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). One or more local clients who attempt to communicate with one or more remote clients are serviced by local and remote transparent VPN services. The services intercept communications and, in some embodiments, satisfy the communications via local cache....

20050246521 - Method and system for providing a trusted platform module in a hypervisor environment: A method is presented for implementing a trusted computing environment within a data processing system. A hypervisor is initialized within the data processing system, and the hypervisor supervises a plurality of logical, partitionable, runtime environments within the data processing system. The hypervisor reserves a logical partition for a hypervisor-based trusted...

20050246522 - Securing applications and operating systems: Techniques for securing applications and operating systems are provided. In an embodiment, the system notifies a user that a security enforcement action is being taken even though the condition prompting the action is detected by a security engine that executes in kernel mode. The security engine enforces security policies that...

20050246523 - Management of signing privileges for a cryptographic signing service: A Management System (MS) manages signing privileges for entities desiring cryptographic signatures, and a Certificate Authority (CA) provides a cryptographic signing service. MS registers entities for the cryptographic signing service, determines signing privileges for each entity, and processes requests from entities for signatures. For registration, MS obtains registration information for...

20050246524 - Security mechanism for computer processing modules: To provide improved security in adjunct program modules such as plug-ins and dynamic link libraries, a requesting module provides an authorization interface to the invoked module such that the invoked module can require a certificate of the requesting module and can also challenge the authority of the requesting module. The...

20050246525 - Method and system for hierarchical platform boot measurements in a trusted computing environment: An architecture for a distributed data processing system comprises a system-level service processor along with one or more node-level service processors; each are uniquely associated with a node, and each is extended to comprise any components that are necessary for operating the nodes as trusted platforms, such as a TPM...

20050246526 - Method for permanent decryption of selected sections of an encrypted document: The present invention allows the viewer of a document to select certain portions of an encrypted document for decryption and optionally re-encryption while other portions of the document remain encrypted or as originally created. In this decryption process, the user would use a standard word processing editor technique to highlight...

20050246530 - Confirmation method of software and apparatus for executing software: Software contains a confirmation module for confirming the software. The present invention extracts the confirmation module and confirms the software with the extracted confirmation module. Then, the present invention determines validity of the software on the basis of the confirmed result....

20050246529 - Isolated persistent identity storage for authentication of computing devies: A technique is provided for authenticating a computing device to access a secured resource based on a persistent identity that is associated with the computing device. The persistent identity is maintained in an isolated region of the computing device. In one aspect, a secure identity processing area (SIPA) is provided...

20050246528 - Method for reliable authentication of electronic transactions: A method for reliable authentication of electronic transactions, whereby each authentication is unique, immune to cryptanalysis attacks, and information from intercepted transactions cannot be used to authenticate or facilitate authentication of future transactions....

20050246527 - Method for secure encoding of data: The present invention provides a method of securely encoding and transmitting data using a template to produce an encoded text string. The encoding of the data and the arrangements of the data elements provide a two-fold level of protection and can be decoded in a useable format with the template....

20050246532 - Secure communication system and method: A method of initiating a secure call between a first secure terminal unit and a second secure terminal unit over a digital transmission link, the first secure terminal unit being connected to a first secure interface unit and the second secure terminal unit being connected to a second secure interface...

20050246531 - System and method for secured access for visitor terminals to an ip type network: executing said automaton on said visitor terminal (15), said execution allowing to establish a connection with said authentication service (14), the implementing of a mutual authentication process between said visitor terminal and said authentication service according to a cryptographic protocol using said shared secret key, and the connecting of said...

20050246533 - Certificate-based encryption and public key infrastructure: The present invention provides methods for sending a digital message from a sender (606) to a recipient (608) in a public-key based cryptosystem comprising an authorizer (606). The authorizer can be a single entity (606) or comprise a hierarchical or distributed entity (602, 604a-604b). The present invention allows communication of...

20050246535 - Message service indication system and method: Systems and methods for displaying messages to a user, the messages having different levels of security, are provided herein. One method of displaying to a user messages having different levels of security includes receiving a message over a network includes examining an attribute of the message to determine a security-related...

20050246534 - System and method for administering digital certificate checking: Systems and methods for handling electronic messages. An electronic message that is associated with a digital certificate is to be processed. A decision whether to check the validity of the digital certificate is based upon digital certificate checking criterion. An IT administrator may provide to one or more devices configuration...

20050246536 - Embedding of image authentication signatures: A method (2), an apparatus, a computer readable medium and use of said method for authenticating an audio-visual signal (10), such as a digital image or video, are disclosed. A signature is derived from all image regions, including areas with flat or otherwise un-watermarkable content. By combining signature bits from...

20050246542 - Method and apparatus for making and detecting a document verification indicator using optical pattern encryption: A method and apparatus for creating and detecting an optically encoded document having a uniquely designed document verification indicator is disclosed. One embodiment includes applying a spatially varying Brewster angle pattern on a substrate. Another embodiment includes an apparatus for detecting the spatially varying Brewster angle pattern including a light...

20050246537 - Method and system for limiting software updates: A method of detecting pirated software includes receiving a request for a software update by a client computer and providing to the client computer a test to be performed. The test is performed on the client computer against the client software application. The client computer may be denied a software...

20050246540 - System and method for handling secure messages: Systems and methods are provided for handling electronic messages. An electronic message is examined as to whether the message contains one or more encoding properties. A visual indication is generated for use in a display to a user wherein the visual indication is displayed to the extent to which the...

20050246543 - System and method of content copy control: A calculator system for performing duplication of contents does not necessarily perform screening, i.e., electronic watermark detection, rather, contents copy control information can be obtained otherwise. For example, in the event of copying a CD regarding which it is known beforehand that there is no electronic watermark inserted in the...

20050246538 - Transmission of secure electronic mail formats: A method and system for providing e-mail messages to a receiving e-mail application. The e-mail messages as sent from a sending e-mail application being secure and in opaque signed format. The opaque signed e-mail messages being converted to clear signed e-mail messages by decoding extracting message content and digital signatures....

20050246541 - Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution: Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or...

20050246539 - Trusted signature with key access permissions: Devices, methods, and computer code products are disclosed in which access to private keys required to create digital signatures for delimited information is controlled by permissions in the device. The permissions can be used to check the identity of an application to determine if the application has access to a...

20050246544 - System and method for identity confirmation of a contact published on a network: A system and method is provided for confirmation of the identity of a contact on the network. A notification that a nearby user is present on a network is signed with a private key associated with the nearby user. The private key is also associated with a public key. A...

20050246546 - Access method: With commands from a terminal divided into a command to designate an access area and a command to gain access, the terminal adds verification data of the terminal to an argument of the command to gain access, and it is thereby possible to verify the identity of a terminal application...

20050246547 - Computer grid access management system: An apparatus, program product and method for managing access to a remote computing grid that is not normally accessible to a client. A client computer may communicate with the computing grid via a dropbox configured to receive and distribute data between the client computer and the grid. The connection may...

20050246548 - Method for verifying a first identity and a second identity of an entity: A method for verifying a first identity and a second identity of an entity, said method comprising: receiving first identity information at a checking entity; sending second identity information from the entity to said checking entity; verifying that the first and second identities both belong to said entity; and generating...

20050246549 - Methods and apparatus for secure distribution of software: Software is securely distributed with limited usage rights. The software may be an executable program and/or one or more data files such as image or multimedia data files. The software includes an access control object which prevents at least some usage of the software without use of a first access...

20050246550 - Methods and systems for establishing an electronic account for a customer: Registration information is sent form a customer to a registration system over a network. The registration system creates an electronic account for the customer and facilitates the validation of the customer's identity. When the customer's identity is validated, the registration system activates the electronic account. The electronic account includes a...

20050246545 - Screening for illegitimate requests to a computer application: Illegitimate request to a computer application may be screened with a rule having at least one of an existential condition; a statistical condition; and a complex universal condition. Illegitimate Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests to a computer application may be screened with a rule applied to an element of the...

20050246551 - System and method for rendering selective presentation of documents: The present invention is directed to a system for rendering selective presentation of a document and a method therefor, said system comprising: an encrypting logic, for securely storing the content of said document; a decrypting logic, corresponding to said encrypting logic, for decrypting the encrypted document, wherein at least a...

20050246552 - Method and system for virtualization of trusted platform modules: A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product is presented for virtualizing trusted platform modules within a data processing system. A virtual trusted platform module along with a virtual endorsement key is created within a physical trusted platform module within the data processing system using a platform...

20050246553 - Mobile terminal and data protection system: An IC card 3 installed in a mobile terminal stores an encryption key 4 and a decryption key 5. Input data 10 is subjected to data encryption processing by using the encryption key 4 read from the IC card 3 to be transformed to encrypted data 14 and is then...

20050246554 - System and method for creating tamper-resistant code: A system and method for creating tamper-resistant code are described herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first object code block. The method also comprises translating the first object code block into a second code block, wherein the translating includes applying taper-resistance techniques to the first object code...

20050246561 - Computer power mangement architecture and method thereof: A computer power management architecture and a method thereof is disclosed. A first operating system and a second operating system with lower consumption of system resources are installed in a computer system. When a multimedia presentation unit installed in a first operating system or a second operating system runs programs,...

20050246559 - Handling wake events in a device driver: The present invention provides a unified layer for Plug and Play (PnP) components and power management components while relieving device drivers from system-level complexities associated with implementing PnP and/or power management functionality. The layer operates at a level between low-level device drivers and more complex operating system tasks. The subject...

20050246562 - Interchangeable power over ethernet module: An interchangeable power over Ethernet module having a plurality of configurations, and a single unified pin out, the power over Ethernet module comprising: at least one circuitry managing the supply of power over Ethernet to at least one port; a first set of connections associated with a first one of...

20050246556 - Interlocked plug and play with power management for operating systems: The present invention provides a unified layer for Plug and Play (PnP) components and power management components while relieving device drivers from system-level complexities associated with implementing PnP and/or power management functionality. The layer operates at a level between low-level device drivers and more complex operating system tasks. The subject...

20050246557 - Laptop computer recharging using ethernet connection: One embodiment disclosed relates to a laptop computer system including a display casing, having display circuitry and a display screen, and a main computer casing coupled to the display casing. The main computer casing includes a battery power source, a charging regulator, and an Ethernet-type connector. The battery power source...

20050246558 - Power management using a pre-determined thermal characteristic of a memory module: A computer system includes a memory module. Power management in the computer system is performed with at least one temperature rise parameter (ΔTx) of the memory module....

20050246555 - Transition detection at input of integrated circuit device: An integrated circuit has an input connection for connecting an external signal conductor that passes signals to execute functions in the device. The external signal conductor can pick up strong interfering signals with high frequency content, for example when the device is used in a car. To protect against unintended...

20050246560 - Unified device power management engine: The present invention provides a unified layer for Plug and Play (PnP) components and power management components while relieving device drivers from system-level complexities associated with implementing PnP and/or power management functionality. The layer operates at a level between low-level device drivers and more complex operating system tasks. The subject...

20050246564 - Advanced power management in generic usb drivers: Techniques are disclosed to provide advanced power management in generic USB drivers. More particularly, a generic USB device driver architecture is described which enables development through a user-mode USB library that accesses a generic kernel-mode driver. The architecture may be utilized to provide advanced power management. In a described implementation,...

20050246563 - Task-oriented processing as an auxiliary to primary computing environments: A computing system that incorporates an auxiliary processor to the main system processor. The auxiliary system utilizes a separate application runtime for processes and is capable of operating even when the primary system is in an off state. Methods for load-balancing are provided based on computing needs respective to power...

20050246565 - Information processing apparatus, method of starting up the same, and startup program of the same: An information processing apparatus, having a hibernation state, includes a hibernation controller that stores information required to resume the information processing apparatus from the hibernation state to an arbitrary operational state when the information processing apparatus is shifted from the arbitrary operational state to the hibernation state and that turns...

20050246566 - Process for providing submodel performance in a computer processing unit: A simple and accurate processor derating method includes: sampling a real-time counter/clock too obtain an initial time value T1; resetting an Icnt Counter; incrementing the Icnt Counter to reflect the processing of each instruction; comparing the count in the Icnt Counter to a predetermined count IcntMax and if the count...