Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 03/07

20070074015 - Control apparatus, upgrade method and program product of the same: A control device ensures system booting without delay or failure even if the system cannot be booted using newly downloaded upgraded software. Nonvolatile storage 14 stores booting software used for system booting at the time of system power on or reset, and booting software information which designates the booting software.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070074016 - Method, system and computer program product for generic and flexible collection of a hardware data image: A method of processing data is proposed. In response to determining that a reconfiguration of a data processing system has occurred, one or more system items are surveyed to identify a change to the data processing system. One or more requests for status instructions for the one or more system... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070074017 - Method for transmitting encrypted useful data objects: A method for transmitting encrypted useful data objects to a first telecommunications terminal includes the following steps: first, in a switching component of a telecommunications network, an encrypted useful data object that is to be transmitted to the first telecommunications terminal is provided with a reference for acquiring the description... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070074018 - Network communications: Methods and systems for communicating information between computer networks in which the information to be communicated is required at one location (e.g. for processing) but only available at another location. The information may be absent deliberately (for privacy reasons) or may simply be unavailable as an artefact of the computer... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070074019 - Method and system for establishing trust in a peer-to-peer network: A method and system for establishing trust in a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a certificate associated with content from a peer in a peer-to-peer network. A file certificate associated with the content is received wherein the file certificate includes a... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070074020 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that processes content data supplied in a format that has at least a metadata region in which metadata of a content is stored, the apparatus including: acquisition means configured to acquire the content data in the aforementioned format and decryption information for decrypting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074021 - System and method for verification of personal identity: A system and method for storing identifying information and telephone numbers associated with individuals, and cross-referencing said information so as to link a first individual to other referee individuals capable of identifying the first individual as a result of a telephone conversation. When a relying party wishes to confirm the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070074023 - Authentication method and related devices: A method for authenticating a first party with a second party, the first and second parties having means for communicating with each other, the first party having secret information and supporting a plurality of authentication modes for authenticating the first party with another party, using said secret information, the authentication... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070074022 - Method for providing message transmission in h.323 communication system: The present invention provides a method for providing message transmission in H.323 communication system. The method includes: the first endpoint and second endpoint confirming authentication information through a GK; according to said authentication information, the first endpoint and second endpoint exchanging message directly. Since H.235 protocol of ITU-T describes the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070074024 - Multiple code service system and method thereof: A multiple code service system and method thereof are provided. A tag includes first identification information, and a terminal identifies the first identification information of the tag. A service server receives the first identification information and second identification information of the terminal from the terminal, and retrieves the associated contents... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070074025 - Battery pack, portable electronic apparatus, and control method thereof: Disclosed are a battery pack having a dummy battery function, a portable electronic apparatus and a control method thereof. The portable electronic apparatus, includes a system body connectable to a plurality of components; a battery to supply power to the system body; a battery charging part to charge the battery... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070074033 - Account management in a system and method for providing code signing services: A system and method for providing code signing services to software application developers or to other individuals or entities that wish to have applications digitally signed. Signing of the applications may be required in order to enable the applications to access sensitive APIs and associated resources of a computing device... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070074029 - Data embedding apparatus: An image signal is smoothed, a superimposed signal having embedded data superimposed therein is generated, the superimposed signal is added to the smoothed image, and the image signal having the superimposed signal added thereto is binarized.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070074026 - Detection of items stored in a computer system: Detection of items stored in a computer system such as computer code, data or information includes obtaining signatures characteristic of programs of interest such as stenanographic programs. A signature is obtained by reading code from a program of interest. The code may consist of the first 500 bytes from a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070074028 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus stores user signature data signed by using a user's second private key, signature object data, public-key certificate data and log data, and creates and stores log signature data by giving a signature to the total of these data by using a first private key. The apparatus... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070074027 - Methods of verifying, signing, encrypting, and decrypting data and file: Methods of verifying, signing, encrypting and decrypting data and files contained a mobile telecommunication device having public keys (authentication) and private keys (digital identification) installed inside the device, and an electronic device handling requests to the mobile telecommunication device. When the files are signed, verified, encrypted or decrypted, the electronic... Agent: Tien-chun Tung

20070074036 - Multi-certificate revocation using encrypted proof data for proving certificate's validity or invalidity: A certification authority (CA, 120) generates decryption key data (K′Fj) for each set (F) in the complement cover (804) for a plurality of digital certificates. The CA encrypts all or a portion of the validity proof data (cj(i)) for each digital certificate (140.i) for each time period j for which... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070074032 - Remote hash generation in a system and method for providing code signing services: A system and method for providing code signing services to software application developers or to other individuals or entities that wish to have applications digitally signed. Signing of the applications may be required in order to enable the applications to access sensitive APIs and associated resources of a computing device... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070074035 - Secure recordation for inspection systems and methods: In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, a portable inspection system is configured to capture inspection data, such as for example an infrared image. The inspection data is securely recorded (e.g., with an encryption algorithm) along with associated information, which may include for example date, time,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070074030 - Surface profile tracing of a document: A method for providing an indication of authenticity of an electronic image of a document comprises generating a signal corresponding to a profile of at least one of a number of surfaces of the document, converting the signal into a profile signature, and correlating the profile signature with the electronic... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070074031 - System and method for providing code signing services: A system and method for providing code signing services to software application developers or to other individuals or entities that wish to have applications digitally signed. Signing of the applications may be required in order to enable the applications to access sensitive APIs and associated resources of a computing device... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070074034 - System and method for registering entities for code signing services: A system and method for registering entities for code signing services. The entities may be software application developers or other individuals or entities that wish to have applications digitally signed. Signing of the applications may be required in order to enable the applications to access sensitive APIs and associated resources... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070074037 - Method for signing a data package and signing apparatus: A method for signing a data package uses a signing apparatus, the signing apparatus having a binary identification code comprises the step of providing a set of node keys and a check value for the data package and the step of determining a signature block having a plurality of signature... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070074038 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a secure password manager: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a secure password manager. A password manager provides a database comprising a header and N slots. An indicator is stored in a predetermine position of the header for identifying a number of valid password entries for the record. A hash value... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070074039 - Method for implementing services on a network element based on multiple ids: A method for implementing services on an ASON (automatic switched optical network) network element based on multiple IDs is disclosed, including: a network element setting an ID corresponding to a new service in local as an active ID; the network element advertising an ID information including the newly set active... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070074042 - Face image obtaining method and appratus: A face image obtaining apparatus which includes: a biological information preliminarily obtaining means for preliminarily obtaining biological information of a user; a biological information determining means for determining whether the biological information obtained by the biological information preliminarily obtaining means is applicable to biometric authentication; a biological information storing means... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070074043 - Medical and personal data retrieval system: A system for confidentially retrieving data from a person, such as by authorized personnel. One embodiment provides a data carrier item such as jewelry, having encrypted data imparted upon the item in manner that is only intelligible after being unencrypted. Such data can be encrypted and/or invisibly disposed such that... Agent: Maine & Asmus

20070074041 - Method and system for efficient exception handling of the production process of personal identification verification (piv) smartcards: A method and system provide efficient exception handling of the production process of PIV smartcards. Specifically, an automatic personal identity verification (AutoPIV) system and process manage potential failures in identification for agencies, such as a breakdown in correct identification. The AutoPIV system and process may deny access to individuals falsely... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070074040 - Online authorization using biometric and digital signature schemes: A method, system, mobile terminal and computer program product for authenticating a user's signature is provided. In general, the authentication scheme introduced combines the benefits of both biometric and digital signature schemes by projecting a sequence of predefined images onto a surface, enabling the user to sign, or otherwise write,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070074044 - Method for providing trusted time in a computing platform: Providing trusted time in a computing platform, while still supporting privacy, may be accomplished by having a trusted time device provide the trusted time to an application executing on the computing platform. The trusted time device may be reset by determining if a value in a trusted time random number... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074045 - Method of securing programmable logic configuration data: The present invention relates to a secure method of distributing configuration data for a programmable logic device (PLD). The configuration data is encrypted to generate encrypted configuration data. A decryption key is encrypted using a silicon key. The encrypted configuration data and the encrypted decryption key are transferred to a... Agent: Jones Day

20070074046 - Secure microprocessor and method: A method and reconfigurable computer architecture protect binary opcode, or other data and instructions by providing an encryption capability integrated into an instruction issue unit of a protected processor. Opcodes are encrypted at their source, and encrypted opcodes are then delivered to the CPU and decrypted “inside” the CPU. Access... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070074051 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium: The CPU 11 of the personal computer 1 controls the CPU 32 of the adaptor 26 made of a semiconductor IC to compute a hash value of a content-management music data base recorded in the HDD 21 and store it into the nonvolatile memory 34. When playing back a content... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074047 - Key rotation: A system and method for a mechanism is provided for automatically selecting a new encryption key for re-encrypting data in a target database. New initialization vectors may be specified for re-encrypting each column of data selected for re-encryption. Further, a new initialization vector may be specified for one or more... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070074048 - Logging changes to blocks in a non-volatile memory: Provided are a method and device for logging changes to blocks in a non-volatile memory. Security bits are maintained for blocks of cells in a non-volatile memory device indicating whether data in the blocks has been modified. The security bit for one block is set to indicate modification in response... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20070074049 - Method and system for continuously serving authentication requests: A method and system for continuously serving the authentication requests of networked computers is disclosed. The authentication requests of computers are served and the services for the computers are reserved for a predefined time interval. The authentication service for a computer is reserved by an authentication server, which receives authentication... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070074050 - System and method for software and data copy protection: A system and method is introduced to prevent unauthorized copying, unauthorized usage and altering of data and software. An autonomous storage device such as a USB flash drive contains protected data and code necessary for software running on a digital appliance to properly function. Software that executes in a digital... Agent: Noam Camiel

20070074057 - Adaptive throttling system for computing systems: An adaptive throttling system for minimizing the impact of non-production work on production work in a computer system is provided. The adaptive throttling system throttles production work and non-production work to optimize production. The adaptive throttling system allows system administrators to specify a quantified limit on the performance impact of... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070074054 - Clock gated pipeline stages: Methods and apparatus are described that gate a clock signal from pipeline stages of a processor. In one embodiment, gated clock logic determines which pipeline stages are active and which pipeline stages are idle. The gated clock logic permits a clock signal to drive active stages and gates the clock... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074055 - Countering power resonance: An embodiment may comprise a counter to provide a count value, enable logic coupled with the counter, and circuitry coupled with the enable logic, the circuitry to be powered up or down if the counter value is outside of a resonance bandwidth for the circuitry to be powered up or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070074056 - Low power electronic circuit incorporating real time clock: A power conserving electronic circuit is provided having one or more main electronic devices or components powered by the output of a voltage regulator circuit. The voltage regulator is powered by a first power input, such as a battery. A real time clock circuit enables the voltage regulator, which, in... Agent: W. Eric Boyd, Esq. Irvine Sensors Corporation

20070074053 - Saving system context in the event of power loss: Embodiments of a method and system for saving system context after a power outage are disclosed herein. A power agent operates to reduce the possibility of data corruption due to partially written data during an unexpected power outage. The power agent can determine an amount of time remaining before a... Agent: Courtney Stanford & Gregory LLP C/o Intellevate

20070074052 - System architecture for a power distribution network and method of operation: Digital and analog functionality are separated and optimized in an Ethernet port architecture to free port circuit space for additional desired functionality. A power controller and physical link controller for the port share a high speed communication link to transfer information and control instructions from one to the other. The... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070074058 - Multifunctional power jack: A multifunctional power jack comprises a main body, having a front part and a rear part with grooves, a front cover, a sensor protection circuit, an electrical noise suppression circuit, and a power indicator circuit, electrically connected with said sensor protection circuit and said electrical noise suppression circuit, so that... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070074061 - Bus receiver and method of deskewing bus signals: A bus receiver receives at least one first signal and a second signal both generated from a chip connected to a parallel bus. The bus receiver includes a receiving module and a deskewing module. The receiving module is electrically connected to the parallel bus and receives the first signal and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070074060 - Dynamic adjusting circuit for basic clock signal of front-side bus and method thereof: By adjusting a scale factor of a phase locked loop in computers for generating a basic clock signal of a front-side bus, the frequency of the basic clock signal is modulated when the central processing unit of computers operates. By a bridge unit of the present invention, a selecting signal... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070074059 - System and method for dynamic power management in a processor design: A system and method for dynamic power management in a processor design is presented. A pipeline stage's stall detection logic detects a stall condition, and sends a signal to idle detection logic to gate off the pipeline's register clocks. The stall detection logic also monitors a downstream pipeline stage's stall... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070074062 - Universal timeout mechanism: According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a central timeout manager (CTM) to receive timeout events from two or more clients and a search unit to search for a location in a list of timeout events to place a new received timeout event.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070067614 - Booting multiple processors with a single flash rom: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium are presented for loading firmware onto multiple processors. A firmware controller is coupled to multiple processors and a firmware memory. A service processor, by controlling the operation of the firmware controller, selects one or more of the multiple processors. Under the control of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070067613 - Computer system and failed computer replacing method to the same system: When a computer (C1) fails, a failed computer search process (FP) that operates on the computer (C1) is started by another computer such as a computer (C2). When the search process (FP) detects the failed computer (C1), the search process (FP) selects for a provisioning computer (C5) using a provisioning... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070067615 - Method for executing computer function options with intelligent memory for computer-based multimedia system: A method for executing computer function option with intelligent memory is provided, including loading the multimedia application program corresponding to the pressed function option button into the image file memory region of the system memory for execution when detecting a function option button is pressed. When the user shots down... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070067616 - Method for express execution of computer function options by loading program image file: A method for fast activating a computer function options by loading program image files is provided, including a data storage pre-installed with at least a program image file. When the user operates an option button, the computer loads and executes the program image file associated with the option button after... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070067617 - Simple scalable and configurable secure boot for trusted mobile phones: A method, apparatus, system and computer program product are provided for booting up a system using a secure boot framework. In particular, a secure boot mechanism (i.e., a mechanism that enforces that only authenticated programs and/or events are executed on a particular platform) is provided that has an unlimited number... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070067618 - Asymmetric crypto-graphy with rolling key security: A system for securing information, includes a processor and storage device. The storage device stores information encrypted with one of a first private rolling key and a first public rolling key of an a first asymmetric rolling crypto-key, along with the one first rolling key. The processor has the logic... Agent: Alfred A. Stadnicki Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070067619 - Authentication apparatus, authentication method, recording medium storing authentication program and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave: An authentication apparatus which, during processing a job which is initiated according to occurrence of an event and is performed based on an instruction sheet, implements the authentication processing required for processing the job, the apparatus includes a determination section that determines whether authentication is required for processing the job;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070067620 - Systems and methods for third-party authentication: A third-party authentication system can comprise a third-party digital device configured to receive an authentication signal to establish a secure link between a first-party device and a second-party network site, transmit a request to the first-party device for security information, the security information comprising a digital certificate, receive for security... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070067621 - Storage of digital data: A device for locating a DES key value that corresponds to a packet identification (PID) contained at a variable possible location which comprises part only of a 32-bit packet header. A table stored in memory contains for each DES key: (i) a packet header having 32 bits with a PID... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070067622 - Management apparatus, terminal apparatus, and copyright protection system: A management apparatus reduces the number of pieces of unique information each not generated from another piece of unique information, among unique information being bases of keys assigned to managed apparatuses. The management apparatus calculates, for nodes in layers other than tree structure leaves, subsets of apparatus identifiers subordinate to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070067623 - Detection of system compromise by correlation of information objects: The present invention describes a class of techniques for discovering evidence that a computer system has been compromised or attacked successfully. In an illustrative embodiment, a detection method involves detecting discrepancies between what a (compromised) operating system reports about enumerations of system objects, and the specific instances of those objects... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070067624 - Saving and retrieving data based on symmetric key encryption: In accordance with certain aspects, data is received from a calling program. Ciphertext that includes the data is generated, using a symmetric cipher, in a manner that allows only one or more target programs to be able to obtain the data from the ciphertext. In accordance with other aspects, a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070067628 - Association method and system in network system: An association method and system in a network system are provided. The association method is for data exchange between a host and a device in a network system, and includes measuring a distance between the device and the host, and transmitting a connection context required for association with the device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070067629 - Cryptographic authentication, and/or establishment of shared cryptographic keys, using a signing key encrypted with a non-one-time-pad encryption, including (but not limited to) techniques with improved security against malleability attacks: Using a password (π), a client (C) computes part (H1(<C,πC>) of the password verification information of a server (S), and together they use this information to authenticate each other and establish a cryptographic key (K′), possibly using a method resilient to offline dictionary attacks. Then over a secure channel based... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070067626 - Method and system for managing privacy policies: The present invention is a method and system for managing privacy policies in ad-hoc networks by way of spatial and temporal landmarks. A privacy policy is associated with a geographic or temporal landmark, which is associated with a domain. An information system selects an appropriate privacy policy for a wireless... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070067631 - Method for authentication: A method for authentication between at least two nodes within a network, preferably a wireless sensor network, is disclosed. The sending node computes a t-bit long hash value by using a hash function h. A transmission of possibly few additional data over the network is designed in such a way... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070067627 - Processing device and processing method: A digital MFP carries out an authentication of an operator by a user ID and a password prior to usage of the digital MFP. The digital MFP requests from the operator an instruction as to whether or not to store the successfully authenticated user ID and password in a flash... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070067625 - System and method for enabling secure access to a program of a headless server device: Provided is a system and method for enabling secure access to a desired end-point server program of at least one end-point server program. The system includes a server having a security server program and the end-point server programs, and a client. During operation, the server establishes a first connection with... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070067630 - Trusted information exchange based on trust agreements: Techniques are provided for allowing organizations to preserve the trust and allow this trust to be propagated across multiple agencies and/or enterprises. A technology is provided that allows (mutually) trusted entities to share content (information, digital assets) over any protocol-based network such as the Internet based on granted rights and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070067632 - Vehicle antitheft system: A vehicle antitheft system includes an immobilizer unit and a portable unit. Each of the units includes an antenna, a communication part, a data processor, and storages. The immobilizer unit and the portable unit authenticate each other, based on a highly encrypted authentication method, using at least first data for... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070067633 - Method for securely managing an inventory of secure coprocessors in a distributed system: A method of managing an inventory of secure coprocessors and processing a plurality of transaction requests in a distributed system having one or more data centers. The method includes maintaining a secure coprocessor control list that includes information identifying one or more of the secure coprocessors, receiving the secure coprocessor... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070067634 - System and method for restricting access to a terminal: A method for authenticating data comprising the steps of: providing data to a first device having at least two initial cryptographic keys; generating authentication information required to authenticate the data utilizing the at least two initial cryptographic keys; sending the data and authentication data to a second device having paired... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20070067635 - Authentication of a vehicle-external device: A method for authenticating a vehicle-external device in a bus system of a motor vehicle comprising control units is provided. In order to effectively and inexpensively prevent a sequence control system that is stored in a control unit from being manipulated, an authentication device is provided in the bus system.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070067636 - Method and apparatus for digital watermarking: A method for embedding digital watermark data in digital data contents includes the steps of obtaining a frequency coefficient of block data of digital data contents, obtaining a complexity of the block data, obtaining an amount of transformation of the frequency coefficient from the complexity and the digital watermark data,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070067637 - Method and a system for preventing impersonation of a database user: A method for preventing an administrator impersonating a user of a relational database, which database at least comprises a table with at least a user password, wherein said password is stored as a hash value. The method comprises the steps of: adding a trigger to said table, said trigger at... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070067638 - Method of session consolidation: d) maintaining (540) a single Proxy-user in relation to a single server application, wherein said Proxy user represents a plurality of clients and their authorization for connecting to and for using said respective single server application, e) operating a single session using said Proxy-user for a plurality of allowed client... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070067639 - Method for identifying persons and system for carrying out said method: The present invention provides a process and system for identifying a person. According to the inventive method, and with the aid of the system, a sensor is used to capture biometric characteristics of a person to be identified. Identification data is extracted and the identification data of the person to... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services Inc

20070067640 - Mobile unit with fingerprint sensor and attachment structure: A mobile unit with fingerprint sensor, includes a fingerprint sensor; a circuit board on which a plurality of circuit components are mounted, one of the circuit components processes an output signal output from the fingerprint sensor; a key case on which a plurality of key switches, used as operation keys... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070067641 - Storage device and method for protecting data stored therein: A storage device to be connected to a terminal host includes a control module to be connected to the host, and a biometrics sensor and a storage unit both connected to the control module. The host runs a biometrics application program (AP) to inform the control module to control the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070067642 - Systems and methods for multi-factor remote user authentication: This invention discloses a multi-factor remote user authentication card-device 12 in the form factor of a prior art one-factor of “what you have” security card. The multi-factor card-device has innovative features that enable this one card-device itself to function and accomplish a multi-factor remote user authentication of “what you know”,... Agent: Tara Chand Singhal

20070067643 - System and method for software tamper detection: A method, system, and apparatus are directed towards detecting unauthorized modification of software, such as virtual smart card software. An analysis is performed on the software to generate a unique pattern that is based on the integrity of the software. The pattern is generated using various portions of the software... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070067645 - Installation of black box for trusted component for digital rights management (drm) on computing device: To install a black box on a computing device, an administrator has access to the computing device and queries same for machine properties thereof. The administrator sends the machine properties of the computing device to a black box server as part of a request for a new black box for... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070067644 - Memory control unit implementing a rotating-key encryption algorithm: A method, a computer program product and a memory control unit operate to store encrypted data in a memory. In response to receiving a memory write command having write data and a memory address, a determination is made if a corresponding region of the memory is specified to store encrypted... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070067648 - Data outputting method, data outputting apparatus, data reproducing method, data reproducing apparatus, data recording method, data recording apparatus, and record medium: A reproducing method is disclosed, that comprises the steps of determining whether or not additional data has been read from data that had been read from a loaded record medium, and when the determined result represents that the additional data has been read from the data, performing a reproducing process... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070067649 - Data outputting method, data outputting apparatus, data reproducing method, data reproducing apparatus, data recording method, data recording apparatus, and record medium: A reproducing method is disclosed, that comprises the steps of determining whether or not additional data has been read from data that had been read from a loaded record medium, and when the determined result represents that the additional data has been read from the data, performing a reproducing process... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070067650 - Data outputting method, data outputting apparatus, data reproducing method, data reproducing apparatus, data recording method, data recording apparatus, and record medium: A reproducing method is disclosed, that comprises the steps of determining whether or not additional data has been read from data that had been read from a loaded record medium, and when the determined result represents that the additional data has been read from the data, performing a reproducing process... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070067647 - Data security for digital data storage: A computing system includes data encryption in the data path between a data source and data storage devices. The data encryption may utilize a key which is derived at least in part from an identification code stored in a non-volatile memory. The key may also be derived at least in... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070067646 - Recording medium, apparatus for decrypting data and method thereof: A recording medium, apparatus for decrypting data and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes downloading encrypted data associated with a recording medium to a local storage, decrypting data recorded in the recording medium using a first type key within a key file stored in the recording medium and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070067655 - Low power mode for portable computer system: A computer system is configured to operate in a normal mode and in a reduced power mode. The normal mode utilizes a primary processor, which operates using a primary operating system. When system power is depleted to a defined level, the primary processor is shut down and certain operations are... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070067651 - Method & apparatus for power supply adjustment with increased slewing: A power supply includes a switching circuit and a transient control module. The switching circuit is switched in accordance with a regulation signal to produce an output voltage. The adjustable feedback module is operably coupled to produce the regulation signal based on the output voltage. The transient control module adjusts... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070067654 - Power adapter including peripheral unit capable of supplying power for computer and the peripheral unit: This patent specification describes a power adapter which includes a power unit including a converter to supply power to a computer and a peripheral unit configured to communicate with the computer and to be controlled by the computer. Further, the power adapter includes a multiplexing-demultiplexing circuit configured to multiplex and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070067653 - State monitor, configuration control system, cluster, disk array, method of controlling power supply to packages in cluster and computer readable medium: A state monitor for controlling a power supply to packages in a cluster includes a detector that detects whether the power supply capacity is inadequate to the packages. The state monitor outputs a signal that selectively allows one of the packages to be shut down based on a detection of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070067652 - System using bus arbiter to power down: A system operating in a normal mode and a power-saving mode includes a memory and one or more master modules interconnected by a bus. A bus arbiter selectively grants use of the bus to the master modules, and activates an enable signal when no master module is using the bus.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070067656 - Agent for managing power among electronic systems: A power management agent for managing power among electronic systems includes a module for predicting a future power consumption level of the electronic systems, a module for determining a power budget threshold for the electronic systems, and a module for determining whether a predicted future power consumption level will exceed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070067657 - Power consumption management among compute nodes: In a method for managing power consumption among compute nodes having respective power components, an increase in the power utilization of a first compute node of the compute nodes may be detected. In response to a detected increase, a sum of the power consumption levels of the compute nodes and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070067658 - 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... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070067659 - Charging of mobile devices: A system which enables battery powered devices such as notebook computers to efficiently charge smaller mobile devices such as music players, cell phones and PDAs using the power signals provided over their data connections is made more efficient by ensuring that the power to the small mobile device is not... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070067660 - Asymmetrical io method and system: An asymmetrical IO method and system are described. In one embodiment, a host device includes shared resources for data synchronization of the host device and a client device. The shared resources include a shared phase interpolator. In an embodiment, data lines between the host and client are also used to... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070067661 - Communicating client phase information in an io system: A system and method for transmitting client phase information to a host device over a bidirectional data link is described. Embodiments include detecting a phase of a clock signal relative to a data signal transmitted between a host device and a client device over a bidirectional data link. The data... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070061560 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070061559 - Electronic apparatus and control method thereof and electronic apparatus system: An electronic apparatus that includes a connection part to which an external storage apparatus is connected, and a method for controlling the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus further includes a connection detector that detects whether the storage apparatus is connected to the connection part, and a controller that executes a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070061556 - Method and apparatus for quick resumption: When transitioning from sleep mode to active mode, a processing system loads first stage resume content and second stage resume content into a volatile memory of the processing system. The first stage resume content may contain contextual data for a first program that was in use before the processing system... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070061558 - Method and apparatus for quick resumption: During a process of transitioning a processing system from sleep mode to active mode, system firmware of the processing system may automatically determine whether an initialization task has been assigned to a component other than system firmware, based on data obtained from a resume descriptor stored in nonvolatile storage of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070061557 - Techniques for managing applications in a portable communication device: An arbitration engine manages applications in a portable communication device by identifying a comprehensive DSP image that includes all modules necessary to run a new application as well as currently active applications. The arbitration engine also includes a conflict detector that determines if simultaneously running the new application with the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070061562 - Method and apparatus for providing seamless file system encryption from a pre-boot environment into a firmware interface aware operating system: Methods and apparatus for providing seamless functionality in a computer are disclosed. For example, an encrypted file system manager is included to layer an encoded File Allocation Table on top of a disk and to pass to the operating system an Embedded Root Key to provide access to an encrypted... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (intel)

20070061561 - Os starting method and apparatus using the same: An OS starting method of an OS stored in a hard disk of an information processing apparatus includes: starting a BIOS stored in a storage when it is determined that a power is turned on; searching for a boot device that can be started; starting a boot OS stored in... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070061563 - Secure internet voting system with bootable disk: An Internet voting system is provided with security against malicious software by using a bootable CD ROM to boot voter client machines for use in elections.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070061564 - Convertible computer: A convertible computer is equipped with a notebook computer function and a tablet computer function. When a system power supply is turned on, a functionality or physical configuration such as rotation state of a display module can be detected, and an environment can be controlled such as an operating system... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070061565 - Synchronizing the exchange of cryptography information between kernel drivers: Methods and apparatuses for synchronizing the exchange of cryptography information between kernel drivers. A high level application in an electronic system passes a pointer to a base driver. The pointer is a unique identifier for cryptography information, such as a Security Association (SA), that the base driver uses to populate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070061566 - Tokencode exchanges for peripheral authentication: In a system comprising a transient storage device (TSD) or other type of peripheral configured for communication with a host device, a first one-time password or other type of code is generated in the peripheral and transmitted to the host device. The first code is presented by the host device... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070061567 - Digital information protection system: A system by which documents and other network resources may be kept secure and private. Using public key encryption technology, an integrated set of elements serve to provide security, encryption, and privacy for files, e-mail and other messages, and network resources. Digital certificates are obtained and held as well as... Agent: Cislo & Thomas, LLP

20070061568 - Inter-entity coupling method, apparatus and system for content protection: Disclosed is an inter-entity coupling method for protecting content in a broadcast environment including a broadcast network and a terminal, the broadcast network having a Broadcast Service Application (BSA), a Broadcast Service Distribution (BSD), and a Broadcast Service Management (BSM), the inter-entity coupling method including performing, by the terminal, a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070061569 - Inter-entity coupling method, apparatus and system for service protection: Disclosed is an inter-entity coupling method for service protection in a broadcast environment including a terminal and a broadcast network, which includes a Broadcast Service Application (BSA), a Broadcast Service Distribution (BSD) and a Broadcast Service Management (BSM) function. The method includes executing enrollment and service joining procedures for the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070061570 - Method of hardware driver integrity check of memory card controller firmware: A memory system comprises an encryption engine implemented in the hardware of a controller. In starting up the memory system, a boot strapping mechanism is implemented wherein a first portion of firmware when executed pulls in another portion of firmware to be executed. The hardware of the encryption engine is... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz, LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20070061571 - System and method for managing security testing: The subject matter relates generally to a system and method for managing security testing. Particularly, this invention relates to maintaining a security database by correlating multiple sources of vulnerability data and also to managing security testing from plural vendors. This invention also relates to providing secure session tracking by performing... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070061572 - Authentication system and remotely-distributed storage system: An authentication system for mutual authentication between a terminal and a server characterized by the fact that the terminal comprises a memory means that pre-stores an authentication information P′ for terminal storage; a concatenation means that yields a value P using a specific calculation formula with the input of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070061574 - Methods and systems for unilateral authentication of messages: Disclosed is an authentication mechanism that enables an information recipient to ascertain that the information comes from the sender it purports to be from. This mechanism integrates a private/public key pair with selection by the sender of a portion of its address. The sender derives its address from its public... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070061573 - Processing device and processing method: An authentication unit of a digital MFP carries out communication with an authentication server and executes an authentication procedure. The authentication unit acquires authentication information from an operator, transmits an authentication request including the authentication information to the authentication server, and receives an authentication result from the authentication server. A... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070061575 - System and method for automatic setup of a network device with secure network transmission of setup parameters: A system and method for use with local area networks (LANs) automatically configures a new device on a LAN by secure encrypted transmission of setup parameters. A remote control (RC) with an infrared (IR) transmitter contains a stored setup command and a security number that is used only once (a... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20070061576 - Device and method for managing public key certificate attached to electronic mail and storage medium: A certificate managing device has a verifying section that verifies validity of a first public key certificate corresponding to a originating mail address when an electronic mail to which the first public key certificate is attached is received, a comparing section that compares newness of the first public key certificate... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070061580 - A license-based cryptographic technique, particularly suited for use in a digital rights management system, for controlling access and use of bore resistant software objects in a client computer: A technique for imparting substantial break-once-run-everywhere (BORE) resistance to passive and active software objects, and for controlling access and use of resulting protected objects by a client computer (400). Specifically, a relatively large number, n, of identical watermarks (1720) are embedded throughout a software object (1700), through use of n... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070061579 - Digital signing policy: Techniques relating to directed digital signing policy are described. In one instance, a system includes means for storing a document as a plurality of logical parts. The system also includes means for establishing a document configuration when a digital signature is applied to the document, and means for indicating whether... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070061578 - Directed signature workflow: Techniques relating to directed signature workflow of a document are described. In one instance, a process enables a publishing user to populate a body portion of a document with content. The process also allows the publishing user to populate an associated digital signature definitions portion of the document with at... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070061582 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium: An image processing method includes inputting a plurality of component image data, each component image data including information indicating a storage location of an electronic signature for the component image data, selecting a component image data associated with an electronic signature to be verified from the plurality of component image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070061583 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium: An image processing method is provided to control an action for image data based on control information associated with the image data. The method includes generating an electronic signature to be affixed to image data, and generating control information used for controlling an action for the image data based on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070061584 - Information processing apparatus, information recording medium, apparatus and method of manufacturing information recording medium, and computer program: An information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes content verification means for executing a verification processing of a recording content recorded on an information recording medium, and content play means for executing a content play processing on a condition that validity of the recording content is checked... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070061581 - Methods used in a secure yet flexible system architecture for secure devices with flash mass storage memory: A device with mass storage capability that uses a readily available non secure memory for the mass storage but has firmware (and hardware) that provides security against unauthorized copying of data. This is true even though the firmware itself is stored in the non secure mass storage memory, and therefore... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070061577 - Signal encoding: The invention relates to a signal encoding system (100). A pre-encoder (103) encodes a signal and generates a pre-encoded signal. In addition the pre-encoder (103) generates encoding assistance data which is stored in a signal storage (105) together with the pre-encoded signal. When the signal is retrieved from the signal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070061585 - Watermark system: A method for examining an electronic representation of an item for a watermark, the method including examining at least a first electronic representation of an item for a watermark in accordance with a first watermark definition, receiving a signal indicating that a second watermark definition is to be used for... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070061586 - Scalable wide-area upload system and method: A server/overlay network architecture and related method prevent (i.e., minimize the likelihood of) overloads from many network clients all trying to upload data files to a common destination server on the network at about the same time. Before a client transfers its (his or her) data file to the common... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070061588 - Method and system for secure distribution of subscription-based game software: Methods and Systems for securely distributing software in a subscription-based environment are provided. In an example embodiment, a Game Security Facility (“GSF”) associated with a game server is used to manage secure communications with game clients. The GSF typically manages secure communication of the accounting and billing information and secure... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070061587 - Multi-user computer system and remote control method thereof: A multi-user computer system and a remote control method for the multi-user computer system includes a remote controller, with an input unit that receives a remote-control password to remotely operate the computer, information on an OS booted when the remote-control password is input, a key input setting the computer in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070061589 - System and method for scrambling keystrokes related to a password: An embodiment relates to a system for scrambling characters of a password entered by a user on an input device. The system includes a keystroke controller to identify a keystroke that represents a character of the password entered on the input device. The system further includes a scrambling pad to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070061590 - Secure biometric authentication system: A system and method for authentication a user's identity via biometrics is disclosed. The system includes client software, an authentication server, and an independent biometric services server. Data associated with the biometric samples provided by a user are stored in the biometric services server and the user is assigned a... Agent: Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor LLP

20070061591 - User authentication apparatus and user authentication method: An apparatus performs user authentication based on biological information for organizations. Each organization employs a biological authentication method with a biological authentication device. The apparatus stores thresholds corresponding to the biological authentication methods, acquires a matching degree between registered biological information of a user and biological information read by a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070061592 - Computer input device with security protection and method thereof: A computer input device with security protection and method thereof is provided, wherein a security protection enable key is set on the input device of the computer, and the security protection program residing in the memory is started by triggering the security protection enable key, and thereby any signal from... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070061593 - Sending secured data: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for sending secured data, the method including encrypting a first portion of a request for computer services to be performed by a downstream node for decryption by a first node, encrypting a second portion of the request for computer services to be performed by... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070061594 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for electronic commerce including secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers employed in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070061595 - Apparatus and method for protecting data: The invention provides an apparatus and a method for protecting data. This apparatus includes a sequential-key comparator and a scrambling device, and a storage device stores encrypted data. When a received address signal is not consistent to a key pattern in the sequential-key comparator, the scrambling device rearranges the address... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070061597 - Secure yet flexible system architecture for secure devices with flash mass storage memory: A device with mass storage capability that uses a readily available non secure memory for the mass storage but has firmware (and hardware) that provides security against unauthorized copying of data. This is true even though the firmware itself is stored in the non secure mass storage memory, and therefore... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070061596 - Transactional sealed storage: A transactional sealed storage system enables data to be accessed according to transactional properties and also enables access to the data to be restricted to secured applications. The transactional properties according to which the data may be accessed may include, for example, at least some levels of atomicity, consistency, isolation,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070061598 - Method and apparatus for the enhanced disaster survivability of a networked computer server: An apparatus for protecting a digital electronic data processor or stored digital data from damage includes a digital data unit comprising a data storage medium, a protective housing having side, top, and bottom walls defining a closed compartment which contains the digital data unit to shield the digital data therein... Agent: James V. Harmon

20070061601 - Computer and control method thereof: A computer includes a CPU and a system unit, and further includes a power source, a system driving power generator which converts source power input from the power source to be outputted to the system unit, a CPU driving power generator which outputs driving power to drive the CPU, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070061604 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus has a first processing unit for processing an input data, a second processing unit responsive to the data processed by the first processing unit for executing a processing dependent on the data and producing a display data, and a display unit having a display drive unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070061600 - Data processing apparatus, program, recording medium, and content playback apparatus: A data processing apparatus stops a supply of data to a buffer when the buffer becomes full, and thereafter performs processing such as moving to a low-power mode and switching execution tasks. The data processing apparatus then reverts from the low-power mode and resumes execution of a task for supplying... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070061602 - Information processing method, information-processing appartus, recording medium, and program: An information-processing method usable by an information-processing apparatus is provided. The information-processing-apparatus is used for editing state-transition information usable to construct a state-transition diagram including information on the operation in each of states, information on events each possibly occurring in each specific one of the states to result in a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070061603 - Method and apparatus for selectively increasing the operating speed of an electronic circuit: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates selectively increasing the operating frequency of an electronic circuit, such as a computer system. The system begins by operating in a low-power state with the frequency and voltage of the electronic circuit set to low levels. Upon recognizing the... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070061599 - System and method for managing power consumption: An electronic circuit having built-in self testing capabilities for optimizing power consumption. Typically, the electronic circuit includes a component circuit that operates at some known or unknown optimal operating power level. Further, the electronic circuit includes a power supply coupled to the component circuit such that the power supply provides... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070061606 - Method and apparatus for limiting processor clock frequency: A method and apparatus for limiting a processor clock frequency includes an overclocking prevention circuit. The overclocking prevention circuit includes a frequency limiting circuit having programmable fusible elements. The frequency limiting circuit outputs a signal identifying a maximum processor clock frequency based on the state of each of the fusible... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070061605 - System and method for tod-clock steering: A system, method and computer program product for steering a time-of-day (TOD) clock for a computer system having a physical clock providing a time base for executing operations that is stepped to a common oscillator. The method includes computing a TOD-clock offset value (d) to be added to a physical-clock... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070061607 - Use of t4 timestamps to calculate clock offset and skew: Disclosed are a method and system for calculating clock offset and skew between two clocks in a computer system. The method comprises the steps of sending data packets from a first processing unit in the computer system to a second processing unit in the computer system, and sending the data... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070055853 - Method for changing booting configuration and computer system capable of booting os: In a computer system in which a server has, in addition to a disk used for booting, an operation transfer destination disk that has the same content as the boot disk, a method for changing the disk used by the server or another server in the computer system for booting... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070055854 - Method for loading configuration data onto a non-volatile memory and a device using the same: A method for loading configuration data onto a non-volatile memory and the device using the same is provided. A non-volatile memory block is preloaded with a certain compatible memory configuration data in advance when the memory device is being manufactured. The memory configuration data comprises plural parameters corresponding to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070055855 - Tracing through reset: A method of tracing a data processor upon reset of the data processor. A data processor reset signal resets the data processor, part of trace collection hardware and does not reset remaining parts of trace collection hardware. The data processor reset signal may be not owned, owned by an application... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070055859 - Boot systems and methods: Boot systems and methods. A processing unit decrypts a first ciphertext in first memory to generate a first plain text comprising a jump instruction of a first specific address of the first memory, stores the first plain text at a first address of second memory, and executes the first plain... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070055860 - Method of fast booting for computer multimedia playing from standby mode: A method of fast booting for multimedia playing from a standby mode is provided, including installing at least a first operating system, a second operating system and the kernel of the second operating system in the hard disk of the computer. An event signal generating unit is connected to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070055857 - Method of fast switching control for different operation systems operated in computer: A method of fast switching control for different operation systems operated in computer is provided, including installing a first operating system, a second operating system and a second operating system kernel program in a hard disk of the computer. An event signal generation unit is connected to the computer. When... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070055856 - Preboot memory of a computer system: A temporary memory of a computer system is configured during a boot mode. Page tables are generated for the temporary memory. System memory of the computer system is initialized. Contents of the temporary memory are migrated to the system memory.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070055858 - Starting method for a plurality of chips: To enable a start in a short period of time in an apparatus including a plurality of chips. In chip carrying out information processing in accordance with a firmware which is at least a part of the firmware common to the other chip, each of the chips receives the firmware,... Agent: Arent Fox Pllc

20070055862 - Method and system for distributing data: A method and system for distributing data to at least one communication device are disclosed. When multiple communication devices request the same data, a seeder sends a different piece of the data to each communication device and the communication devices share the piece of data each other by using a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20070055861 - System and method for hyper-chaos secure communication: A system for hyper-chaos secure communication, for conveying data confidentially from a transmitter to a receiver, includes: (1) a hyper-chaotic signal generator, for carrying a message into a first signal of the hyper-chaotic signal generator; (2) a transmitter's adjusting parameter device, for adjusting a first inner coupling parameter of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20070055863 - Safety programmable logic controller: A safety PLC includes an I/O module to which a safety device for detecting a predetermined condition at any time is connected, a CPU module that executes a safety program for managing the I/O module, and a communication unit that interconnects the I/O module and the CPU module with each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070055864 - Dual authentication of a requestor using a mail server and an authentication server: Improved approaches for providing secure remote access to email resources maintained on private networks are disclosed. The secure access can be provided through a public network using a standard network browser. Multiple remote users are able to gain restricted and controlled access to email on a mail server within a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070055866 - Certification system in network and method thereof: A certification system connected to a radio communication system which includes a device configured to perform a first certification based on first information received via the radio communication system from a radio terminal. A first access server is connected to a first network and to the radio network and the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070055865 - Examination apparatus, communication system, examination method, computer-executable program product, and computer-readable recording medium: An examination apparatus includes a receiving part, an acquisition part, and an examination part. The receiving part receives a public key certificate and identification information of the communication device from the device, which conduct the authentication process by using the public key encryption and sends the public key certificate used... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070055867 - System and method for secure provisioning of encryption keys: A system for secure communications. Embodiments include systems and methods for registering a recipient providing an encryption key corresponding to a recipient to a sender before the recipient has received the corresponding decryption key. Other embodiments include authenticating the identity of a recipient and assigning trust levels according to the... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20070055869 - Record carrier, read-out device and method for reading carrier data and network data: The present invention provides a solution to protect network data stored on a network unit within a network related to a carrier data stored on a record carrier. A copy protection system already provided for protecting a carrier data is used therefore so that in a key locker stored in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070055868 - Secure data transmission between two modules: The invention relates to a method for secure data transmission in connections between two functional modules of an electronic unit. A first module of a message of k bits in a word code of n bits is injection coded with a constant Hamming weight of w. The word of code... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20070055874 - Bundled subscriber authentication in next generation communication networks: Performing an authentication of a subscriber in a communication system comprising at least two subsystems is disclosed, the authentication of the subscriber requiring authentications of the subscriber in any of the subsystems, the method performing a bundled subscriber authentication by using an authentication in a first one of the subsystems... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20070055871 - Method and system for authenticating a user: A method and system of authenticating the identity of a person is disclosed which involves obtaining a value representing an overall degree of trust that the user is who he or she claims to be. A plurality of values are obtained from different authentication sources. By combining the values using... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20070055873 - Method and system for protecting data, related communication network and computer program product: A method for securely storing at least one user's private information item, such as a private key for cipher processing, includes the steps of providing a communication network wherein the user is allotted a respective subscriber identity module and the subscriber identity module stores at least one security algorithm; producing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070055870 - Process for secure communication over a wireless network, related network and computer program product: In order to ensure secure communication over a wireless network, such as a network according to the 802.11 standard, the terminals in the network exchange information ciphered by means of at least one key. The key is generated independently at each terminal by means of the group key agreement type.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070055872 - Secure processor: A processor having a general-purpose function and a security dedicated function (i.e., safe keeping of key data and high-speed digital signature calculation) is provided. Key data is stored in a non-volatile key register 130 of a secure processor 100, which has general instructions and signature calculation instructions. A key bit... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20070055875 - Methods and apparatus for accelerating secure session processing: Methods and apparatus are provided for an entity such as a CPU to efficiently call a cryptography accelerator to perform cryptographic operations. A function call causes the cryptography accelerator to execute multiple cryptographic operations in a manner tailored for specific processing steps, such as steps during a handshake phase of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Pllc

20070055876 - Media receiving apparatus, media system having the same, and control methods thereof: A power supplying apparatus and a power supplying method with superior stability against over-voltage and over-current are provided. The present invention relates to a media receiving apparatus which processes a copy-protected media signal received from an external media source. An interface is provided to connect with the external media source,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20070055880 - Authenticated key exchange with derived ephemeral keys: AKE with derived ephemeral keys is described. In one aspect, a first party computes a derived ephemeral public-key based on a derived ephemeral secret key and a mathematical group. The derived ephemeral secret key is based on an ephemeral secret key and a long-term secret key. The first party generates... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20070055877 - Security in a communication network: Disclosed is a method of establishing a secured peer-to-peer communication between two communications devices, each communications device having stored a respective set of previously established security associations with other communications devices. The method comprises determining whether the two communications devices have a common security association in their respective sets of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070055879 - System and method for high performance public key encryption: A method and apparatus for high performance public key operations which allows key sizes longer than 4K bit, without substantial degradation in performance. The present invention provides variations of modular reduction methods based on standard Barrett algorithm (modified Barrett algorithm) to accommodate RSA, DSA and other public key operation. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Pllc

20070055878 - Technique for providing multiple levels of security: Techniques for authentication are provided. A first authentication request transformed with a private portion of a first type split private key is received. A first user is authenticated for a first level of network access based upon the first request being transformed with the first type of split private key.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070055882 - Document management system with public key infrastructure: Apparatus are provided, including a document management system and a private certificate authority. The private certificate authority is private to the document management system, and includes a certificate authority public key, a certificate authority private key, a key pair generator, and a digital certificate issuer. The key pair generator generates... Agent: Anthony L. Miele Miele Law Group

20070055881 - Method for securely exchanging public key certificates in an electronic device: A method for securely exchanging public key certificates in an