Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 10/07

20070250693 - Boot system and method thereof: A boot system which uses a NAND flash is disclosed. The boot system is used for a digital camera, and it comprises a NAND flash, a flash control module, a processing module, and an IO bridge. The processing module includes a cache memory. When booting the digital camera, the cache... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070250697 - Remote monitoring method for computer system: A remote monitoring method applied in a monitored computer system and a monitoring computer system, which are connected to a network. The monitored computer system has a microprocessor chip which operates independently. After power is supplied to the monitored computer system, the microprocessor chip starts to capture image data. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070250695 - Automatic configuration of equipment software: An architecture for automatically configuring software of a piece of equipment. The piece of equipment is in communication with a network, the piece of equipment having one or more machine-resolvable codes associated therewith. The piece of equipment connects to a remote location disposed on the network in response to reading... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070250694 - Extended format for initialization files: A method is disclosed comprising initializing and/or modifying a first set of computer configuration data for a first user based on the first users membership in a first group, initializing and/or modifying a second set of computer configuration data for the first user without regard to the first user's membership... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070250696 - Method and apparatus for controlling a processor in a data processing system: Method and apparatus for controlling a processor in a data processing system is described. In an example, the processor is maintained in a halt condition in response to reset information received from the data processing system (e.g., initialization of an integrated circuit having a processor embedded therein). At least one... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20070250691 - Method and apparatus to support independent systems in partitions of a processing system: A processing system with multiple processing units may support separate operating systems (OSs) in separate partitions. During an initialization process, a preboot manager in the processing system may copy software to a sequestered area of memory in the processing system. The preboot manager may also configure the processing system to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070250690 - Method and system for caching peripheral component interconnect device expansion read only memory data: A system for caching peripheral component interconnect device data. In response to probing a peripheral component interconnect device, peripheral component interconnect device data is discovered. The discovered peripheral component interconnect device data is cached and then configured to enable the peripheral component interconnect device to execute.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070250692 - Simultaneous dual booting of platforms: A method for booting a software operating environment and software applications within a wireless communications system (100) is provided. The method (500) includes executing one or more boot manager programs (516). The method further includes executing a first stage program code (614) and a second stage program code (618) in... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070250698 - Apparatus and method for building, storing, uploading, relocating and executing dos based software module during system startup time: The present invention provides a method of packaging, storing, uploading, and executing a DOS based software module capable for being utilized as applications of a PCI device. The present invention may deliver both a binary image and a DOS executable of an application provided by the PCI device. The DOS... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070250699 - Automated evidence gathering: Evidence gathering and analysis from networked machines can be automated and made policy-based. In one embodiment, the present invention includes, a networked machine receiving an instruction from a server to execute a pre-recorded action sequence designed to capture evidence data. The machine can annotate the captured evidence data with meta-data,... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070250700 - Peer-to-peer contact exchange: A system may publish authenticated contact information in a publicly available index store, retrieve the contact information, and validate it. The claimed method and system may provide a client-based, server optional approach to publishing. The publicly available index store may be a distributed hash table used in a peer-to-peer network.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070250701 - System and method for performing efficient program encoding without splicing interference: Multiple-frame format data streams are selectively encrypted at a master head-end prior to distribution. Selective encryption includes monitoring packet for frame header information. Only packets that do not contain frame header information are encrypted, while those that contain frame header information are left unencrypted. Splicers at distribution hubs can then... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070250702 - Firewall-tolerant voice-over-internet-protocol (voip) emulating ssl or http sessions embedding voice data in cookies: A voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) client codes audio data as printable ASCII characters, then embeds the ASCII audio data inside a cookie that is sent over the Internet within an HTTP GET message. The GET message is sent to a server acting as a call proxy or external manager that forwards the... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20070250703 - Protection against attacks by generation of errors on jump instructions: A method for securing a program against attacks by error, i.e. in a chip card, wherein at least one jump instruction, including a relative address chosen from a plurality of possible relative addresses, is identified in the program, wherein the at least one jump instruction makes it possible to reach... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070250704 - Privacy enhanced identity scheme using an un-linkable identifier: A privacy enhanced identity scheme that may use public and private key cryptography to selectively distribute attributes of a token holder to a relying party. A challenge message {Rnonce, RID}, where Rnonce is a reader nonce and RID is a reader identifier. Methods may also include, responsive to the challenge... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070250705 - Integrated marketing portal for businesses: A system supports creation of design and tangible and intangible commodities related to them such as logos, printed materials, handbooks, web sites, etc. Among various features described are a collaborative environment to help executives communicate preferences to a designer, an automated system for creating design works such as logos, and... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20070250706 - Channel binding mechanism based on parameter binding in key derivation: This document describes a channel binding mechanism based on parameter binding in the key derivation procedure. The method cryptographically binds access network parameters to a key without need to carry those parameters in EAP methods.... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070250707 - Method and device for accessing data using near field communications: The invention relates to an electronic device (10) with a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface, and a method for accessing data using NFC. The NFC interface of the electronic device is positioned within communication range of a second NFC interface of a second device, whereby data is transferred to the... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070250708 - Methods of operating portable computerized device with network security: A multi-level network security system is disclosed for a computer host device coupled to at least one computer network. The system including a secure network interface Unit (SNIU) contained within a communications stack of the computer device that operates at a user layer communications protocol. The SNIU communicates with other... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070250711 - System and method for presenting and inputting information on a mobile device: Disclosed are combinations of authentication, session management and web scraping implemented on a mobile device to support a rich mobile application using secure connections to existing websites to access data sources. The mobile application presents information in logical units rather than screen by screen, and fetches data in the background... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070250709 - Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for automatic detection and registration of ip multimedia devices situated in a customer device zone: Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for providing encrypted data to an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS)-capable device. The device is automatically detected when the device is situated in a customer device zone. The customer device zone comprises a spatial volume within which a signal transmitted by the device can... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070250710 - Versatile secure and non-secure messaging: A messaging system and method are associated with a first device. The messaging system includes a plurality of credentials and a plurality of authorities. Each authority associates at least one of a plurality of protocol operations with at least one of the plurality of credentials. The messaging system is adapted... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070250712 - Method for securing an authentication and key agreement protocol: The present invention concerns a personal token for a terminal in a communication network including an authentication server and a secure server producing derived key material on the basis of a random and a secret key (K), said personal token including program instructions for re-computing the derived key material (Ck,... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20070250713 - Securing multiple links and paths in a wireless mesh network including rapid roaming: A method and logic encoded in tangible media and apparatus for securing links between a mesh point and one or more identities of one or more parent mesh points of a wireless mesh network in order to secure the links. A first association is carried out to one of the... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070250714 - Scanned document management system: A scanned document management system for managing a paper document in a state in which the paper document is scanned and transformed into electronic data, registers an attribute of the document by a manager; when printing out the document, registers identification information of the document with correspondence to the attribute,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250717 - Image forming apparatus, image reproducing apparatus and image processing system: An image forming apparatus is provided with a first generating part to generate an encrypted image data by subjecting an input image data to a predetermined encryption process, a second generating part to generate a decryption key that is used when decrypting the encrypted image data, wherein a different decryption... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070250715 - File sharing control using digital watermarks: Systems, methods, and software products are disclosed that control file sharing of copyright protected electronic files over a communication network. A digital watermark in an electronic file includes information on content servers that are authorized to download to the electronic file to a requesting party. When the electronic file is... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070250716 - Fingerprinting of media signals: The present invention relates generally to fingerprinting, e.g., a reduced-bit representation or other identifier of a media signal (e.g., audio, video or still images). One method recites: receiving a partial fingerprint of a media signal, wherein the partial fingerprint is derived from the media signal itself, the partial fingerprint being... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070250718 - Removable storage medium with biometric access: In one embodiment, a storage device with biometric access includes: a biometric scanner adapted to scan a biological feature of a user to provide a corresponding extracted biometric template; and a storage engine adapted to retrieve an encrypted biometric template from a storage medium and to retrieve a corresponding encrypted... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070250719 - Digital information protecting method and apparatus, and computer accessible recording medium: A method for protecting digital information includes: converting a protected address range into a plurality of address blocks based on a preset conversion unit, and generating an address block rearranging rule using the address blocks as a parameter; when it is desired to load data into an address batch of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070250720 - Method for using shared library in tamper resistant microprocessor: A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer instructions for causing a tamper resistant microprocessor which has a function for decrypting and executing encrypted codes and a table formed by a plurality of regions for storing a plurality of encryption keys corresponding to at least one program and at least... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250724 - Portable electronic apparatus with a power saving function and method for implementing the power saving function: A method for implementing a power saving function of the portable electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes the step of: receiving an operation command transmitted from an input device; obtaining a new work mode which corresponds to the operation command from a work mode table that defines a plurality... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070250723 - Storage apparatus and power supply control method thereof: This storage apparatus has a plurality of units for transferring or storing data sent from an information processing device, and includes a failure notification unit for notifying a failed unit among the plurality of units, a power supply switching command unit for commanding the switching of off and on of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070250721 - Power ok distribution for multi-voltage chips: A method and apparatus for powering up an integrated circuit (IC). An IC includes a plurality of power domains each coupled to receive power from one of a plurality of power sources. Each power domain includes a power-sensing unit. A power-sensing unit in a first one of the plurality of... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20070250722 - System and method for managing power provided to a portable information handling system: A portable information handling system having internal battery power and external adapter power manages power drawn from the external power adapter to avoid exceeding the power rating of the external power adapter. As power drawn from the external adapter approaches a predetermined limit of the power adapter power rating, a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070250727 - Portable electronic apparatus with a power saving function and method for implementing the power saving function: A method for implementing a power saving function of the portable electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes the step of: receiving an electricity quantity value transmitted from the charge meter unit; determining which particular electric charge range the electricity quantity value falls in; searching the particular electric charge range... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070250726 - Method of controlling wakeup frequency in a wireless communication system: An access terminal supports both a longer wakeup period and a shorter wakeup period (lower frequency of wakeups and higher frequency of wakeups, respectively) where the time interval over which the short wakeup period is active is prescheduled or enabled based on needs. Thus, when paging of the access terminal... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc.

20070250725 - Power saving device for an actuator: A power saving device for an actuator comprises a portable power source, a charging circuit, a control circuit, a starting circuit for starting the power source, a microprocessor, and a switch. When the equipment is not in use, the power source will be cut off, and the power consumption will... Agent: Banger Shia

20070250728 - Work based clock management for display sub-system: A system and method for enabling or disabling clocks to one or more portions of hardware circuitry, for example a display sub-system of a personal computer. A processor generates a command or data to a first circuit configured to perform a function based at least on the command or data.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070250729 - Thermal and power management for computer systems: Improved approaches to providing thermal and power management for a computing device are disclosed. These approaches facilitate intelligent control of a processor's clock frequency and/or a fan's speed so as to provide thermal and/or power management for the computing device.... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20070250730 - Method and apparatus for quickly reanimating devices from hibernation: A system that causes a computing device to enter a hibernation mode. During operation, the system creates a hibernation image for the computing device by identifying processes that do not have visible user interface elements, and generating the hibernation image so that processes with visible user interface elements can be... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070250733 - Apparatus having power saving mode and method of controlling apparatus: An apparatus operable to enter a power saving mode in which a main portion of the apparatus is powered off includes an alarm unit configured to produce an alarm upon detection that the data waiting for processing is present, a power saving mode transition check unit configured to check whether... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070250732 - Portable device with an automatic power off protection and method for same: A portable device with an automatic power off protection and a method of achieving such a protection are related. The portable device circuit comprises a switch unit, a main body, and a battery. The main body includes an acceleration transducer that samples an analog acceleration signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070250731 - Business method, system, and media providing for power-state change as a function of direction of right-to-use status change: The present invention provides a computer-implemented limited right-to-use business method. In response to a command to change the right-to-use status of at least a first component, the right-to-use status of said processor is changed in a direction either from reserved to available or from available to reserved. Then, the power... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250734 - Hybrid computer security clock: A clock object is provides, which includes a clock time and a monotonic time that are readable by the electronic device. The monotonic time is incremented every read of the monotonic time from the clock object. The clock object can also include an indication of a level of trust of... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070250735 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A microcontroller formed on a single chip semiconductor includes a central processing unit; an oscillator unit adapted to generate a system clock, and an electrical fuse unit including a control information for trimming a frequency of the oscillator unit. The central processing unit is operable to generate said control information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070250736 - Microprocessor with improved performance during p-state transitions: A microprocessor includes core logic that operates according to a core clock signal in order to execute program instructions, clock generation circuitry controllable to generate the core clock signal having one of N different possible frequencies, wherein N is more than two, and a control circuit. The control circuit, in... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070245134 - Testing device and testing method for computer: A testing device is provided to include a pre-boot execution environment (PXE) server, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, and a computer. The computer is connected to the PXE server and the DHCP server via a network. The PXE server includes an image file stored therein, a communicating module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070245135 - Control protocol for image enumeration and transfer: A control protocol is used to deploy and install an operating system image to a client. The data structure of the protocol includes an operation code corresponding to an operation associated with the deployment and installation of an operating system image to a client. When the server receives a request... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070245136 - Computer system using disk controller and operating service thereof: When there is an access passing between unit disk controllers, the band of a mutual connecting network must be very large in order to exhibit the performance sufficiently, so that the cost is increased. In the present invention, the access number of a logical volume is monitored, the change of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070245137 - Http cookie protection by a network security device: A security device for a network operates to inspect data packet traffic outgoing from an application server, the data packet traffic including a data packet destined for a client device, the data packet containing a cookie created by the application server. The security device is further operable to extract the... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070245138 - Documenting security related aspects in the process of container shipping: The present invention discloses a method for generating and verifying a user attestation-signature value (DAA′) and issuing an attestation value (cert) for the generation of the user attestation-signature value (DAA′). Further, the invention is related to a system for using a user attestation-signature value (DAA′) that corresponds to at least... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070245139 - Url-based certificate in a pki: A method of requesting and issuing a certificate from certification authority for use by an initiating correspondent with a registration authority is provided. The initiating correspondent makes a request for a certificate to the registration authority, and the registration authority sends the request to a certificate authority, which issues the... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070245140 - Communication system and network control apparatus with encryption processing function, and communication control method: A communication system, which performs communication using a transmission packet encrypted by an IP-SEC encrypting method, includes a first encrypting circuit that encrypts a transmission packet by an IP-SEC encrypting method, a second encrypting circuit that encrypt header data to be used to decode the transmission packet encrypted by the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070245141 - Trusted cryptographic processor: A cryptographic processor for redundantly-processing cryptographic operations is disclosed. The cryptographic processor includes a number of input ports, a first and second cryptographic engines, comparison logic and a plurality of output ports. The number of input ports is configured to accept both plaintext and ciphertext. Each of the number of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20070245142 - Authentication of a request to alter at least one of a bios and a setting associated with the bios: A system comprises storage and a basic input/output system (BIOS) stored in the storage and adapted to be executed by a processor. The BIOS has an associated setting. The system receives an encrypted value that comprises an encrypted hash of a request to alter at least one of the BIOS... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070245143 - Method for the radio transmission of traffic messages and radio receiver: A method for transmitting encoded traffic messages via a data channel, which is reserved for transmitting encrypted traffic messages, a certain subset of traffic messages being in general transmitted via the data channel in unencrypted form. For the encryption of the traffic messages, in each case only one of at... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070245144 - System and method for anonymously indexing electronic record systems: A method for issuing Anonymous Public Key Certificates to Registered Persons in an electronic record system, where pointers for indexing the record system are stored within the Anonymous Public Key Certificates, and where associated Private Keys are controlled by smartcards or similar devices. Electronic records may be identifiably indexed when... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070245146 - Apparatus and method for securely realizing cooperative processing: A device for facilitating verification of an electronic signature in an exchange of instructions between an in-house server and an outside server. Each server which is to execute a partial process of a cooperative service has, in a key storage unit (206), secret keys corresponding to public key certificates issued... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070245145 - Image processing apparatus capable of authenticating document: An image processing apparatus is disclosed including a document data analysis unit and an authentication unit. The document data analysis unit can identify policy data related to the authentication of a document based on information related to a document and/or the type of the document, identify items in document data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070245147 - Message authentication code generating device, message authentication code verification device, and message authentication system: A message authentication technology capable of securing against side channel attack is provided. In a message authentication code generating device for calculating a message authentication code for a message from the message, a process in which disturbance information is generated from a temporary use numerical value, a process in which... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070245148 - System and method for securing a credential via user and server verification: Systems and methods for securing a credential generated by or stored in an authentication token during an attempt to access a service, application, or resource are provided. A secure processor receives a credential from an authentication token and securely stores the credential. The secure processor then verifies the identity of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070245149 - Method for obtaining meaningless password by inputting meaningful linguistic sentence: In a method for inputting a long sentence into a conversion function to generate an account password, the long sentence is used as an input seed, and the seed is inputted into a pseudorandom function to generate a password; wherein the sentence is selected, obtained, remembered easily, and the sentence... Agent: Hdsl

20070245150 - Method for preventing unauthorized access to the computer system by using one-time password: The present invention provides a method for preventing unauthorized access to the computer system, and more particularly, provides a method for preventing unauthorized access to the computer system by using the one-time password. The one-time password is produced by a one-time password generator, and decrypted and verified by the computer... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070245156 - Information processing apparatus and program product: An information processing apparatus includes: a first input unit that allows a user to input a biometric data of the user; a storage that stores a setting data corresponding to the biometric data; a setting unit that sets the setting data corresponding to the biometric data as a setting condition... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070245152 - Biometric authentication system for enhancing network security: A network-based biometric authentication system includes a client computer (10), a third party server (24), and a biometric authentication server (26). A user requests access to a web site hosted by the third party server via the client computer, wherein the third party server communicates a deployable object to the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070245155 - Information processing apparatus having a user authentication function: Secret information only a user can know is encrypted and a decryption key is stored in a biometric information sensor. The biometric information sensor has a secret information decryption unit, a secret information display unit for presenting the secret information to the user, a biometric information detection unit for detecting... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070245154 - Renewable and private biometrics: The present invention relates to a method of authenticating an individual (321) at an authenticating device (311) and an authenticating system for authenticating an individual. A basic idea of the present invention is to store, at a device or a system with which an individual wishes to authenticate herself, one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070245158 - Single step transaction authentication using proximity and biometric input: A system and method provide efficient, secure and highly reliable authentication for transaction processing and/or access control applications in which only biometric input is required from the user. A Personal Digital Key stores a biometric profile that comprises a representation of physical or behavioral characteristics that are uniquely associated with... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070245151 - System and method for classifying regions of keystroke density with a neural network: We develop a system consisting of a neural architecture resulting in classifying regions corresponding to users' keystroke patterns. We extend the adaptation properties to classification phase resulting in learning of changes over time. Classification results on login attempts of 43 users (216 valid, 657 impersonation samples) show considerable improvements over... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070245153 - System and method for user authentication in a multi-function printer with a biometric scanning device: The invention relates to the authentication of user privileges for a multi-function peripheral (MFP) device using biometric data. A method is provided for capturing an identifying digital representation of a biometric member and comparing it to an authenticating digital representation of a biometric member saved previously. In addition to granting... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070245157 - Two-level authentication for secure transactions: A system and method provide efficient, secure, and highly reliable authentication for transaction processing and/or access control applications. A Personal Digital Key stores one or more profiles (e.g., a biometric profile) in a tamper-proof memory that is acquired in a secure trusted process. Biometric profiles comprise a representation of physical... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070245159 - Hash function strengthening: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with hash functions are described. One example system embodiment includes logic for computing a first hash for a first data set, logic for manipulating the first data set into a second data set, and logic for computing a second hash for the second... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070245160 - Decryption of data in storage systems: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a controller receives encrypted data from a first storage unit coupled to the controller. The received encrypted data is stored in a second storage unit coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is capable of accessing the second storage unit... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070245163 - Power management in computer operating systems: An apparatus and method are provided for power management in a computer operating system. The method includes providing a plurality of policies which are eligible to be selected for a component, automatically selecting one of the eligible policies to manage the component, and activating the selected policy to manage the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070245161 - Power management system and method: A system has a plurality of electronic components that are powered by a power source, and each of the components is associated with a respective power cap. The system further has logic configured to monitor power consumption of the electronic components over a duration and dynamically adjust at least one... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070245162 - System and method for blade information handling system power inventory: A blade information handling system server prevents excess power demand from blade information handling systems by inventorying the power consumption of each blade information handling system before startup. Another power consumption inventory performed after startup ensures an accurate power consumption inventory for making subsequent startup decision. The baseboard management controller... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070245164 - Information processing device: An information processing device of the present invention comprises a main CPU capable of taking at least two states which are an operating state and a sleeping state, a sub-CPU having power consumption lower than that of the main CPU and capable of taking at least two states which are... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070245165 - System and method for activity or event based dynamic energy conserving server reconfiguration: Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system and data and information servers. Further provides power and energy consumption and workload management and control systems and architectures for high-density and modular multi-server computer... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070245166 - Timer with periodic channel service: A system and method are provided for periodically servicing a channel in a timer used for controlling events. The method services a channel in a fixed periodic cycle, and reads a first control word loaded in the channel to determine a timer operation. Then, a first data word in the... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20070239976 - Message displaying system and method: A message displaying system and method is applicable to an electronic device having a BIOS and a display unit that executes a POST process. The message displaying method includes establishing a message table according to a plurality of message codes output by the BIOS when the electronic device is executing... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070239977 - Direct boot arrangement using a nand flash memory: Systems and processes for booting a device can be implemented by detecting a reset signal associated with the device and retrieving a predetermined page of data from a nonvolatile memory location into a register associated with the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may be designed and implemented such that each... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070239978 - System and method for operating system image provisioning in a utility computing environment: A technique to provision an OS image during a boot-up of a computing server in a utility computing environment using disk array's inherent raw concurrent multi-disk copy mechanism. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by forming a pool of OS image boot-up disks in a disk array using the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070239979 - Method and apparatus to protect policy state information during the life-time of virtual machines: A scheme for protecting policy state information during the lifetime of a virtual machine is presented. In order to protect and preserve the policy state information of the virtual machine, a process creates a source policy, a mapping policy, and a binary policy. These polices are all different representations of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070239980 - Authentication method, authentication apparatus and authentication program storage medium: When only a fingerprint authentication approach is set, it is displayed that only authentication by the fingerprint authentication approach is accepted, and authentication by the fingerprint authentication approach is performed. Meanwhile, at least a system administrator is enabled to perform authentication by a password authentication approach.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070239981 - Data communication in an electronic device: The invention relates to an electronic device (10) and a method for data communication with such an electronic device. The electronic device combines, on the one hand, a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface, including an antenna and a circuit for generating a modulated electromagnetic wave, and on the other hand... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070239983 - Techniques for securing a computing environment: Techniques for securing a computing environment are disclosed. Specifically, the invention allows the execution of any software application with administrator permissions on any computing device. This is done while preventing any of the software applications executed by the users, to perform harmful operations on the device. To this end, a... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20070239982 - Method and apparatus for variable privacy preservation in data mining: Improved privacy preservation techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with data mining. By way of example, a technique for preserving privacy of data records for use in a data mining application comprises the following steps/operations. Different privacy levels are assigned to the data records. Condensed groups are constructed from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070239984 - Method for transferring parameters by network: A method for transferring parameters by network, the method comprising the step of: generating a secret-key and a cryptograph randomly; affording an information transferring side (10) for transferring parameters and data; affording an information receiving side (20) for receiving the parameters and the data; generating the parameters and the data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070239986 - Secure ads-b authentication system and method: A secure system for authenticating the identity of ADS-B systems, including: an authenticator, including a unique id generator and a transmitter transmitting the unique id to one or more ADS-B transmitters; one or more ADS-B transmitters, including a receiver receiving the unique id, one or more secure processing stages merging... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070239985 - Secure extensions: The operating system organizes software so the set of extensions for an extendable application can be dynamically discovered and the extension can be run securely. Extensions are run as separate applications instead of within the extendable application's process. Extensions are discoverable to an activated extendable application by querying a category... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070239987 - Managing communications between computing nodes: Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070239988 - Accessing data storage devices: Restricting access to a device includes obtaining a passphrase for a user, obtaining access credentials for the user, obtaining a PIN value for the user, one-way encrypting at least the access credentials and the PIN using a secret key provided with the device. The user is allowed access to the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070239989 - Computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for securing node port access in a switched-fabric storage area network: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for securing node port access in a switched-fabric storage area network. Permitted combinations of fabric port identifiers and node port identifiers are specified. A node port receives a request to access the node port. A node port identifier, which identifies... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070239990 - Secure mass storage device: A USB mass storage device includes a memory, USB interface and USB controller. A biometric circuit provides biometric authentication and a secure microcontroller is operatively connected to the biometric circuit and the USB controller and operative in accordance as a trusted platform and having a command set to access security... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc

20070239992 - Method and system for preventing unauthorized use of a vehicle by an operator of the vehicle: A method and system for preventing use of a vehicle by an operator of the vehicle. The system includes a system controller; a biometric authenticator coupled to the system controller; and a substance detecting device adapted to provide a substance level in the operator to the system controller. Here, the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070239991 - Fingerprint authentication method for accessing wireless network systems: This invention provides a fingerprint authentication mechanism for accessing the wireless network system that is applicable to a wireless network communications apparatus, the mechanism including the steps of inputting data of users' fingerprints and converting the same into matrix data compliant with wireless network authentication bit ciphers; setting thresholds for... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20070239993 - System and method for comparing similarity of computer programs: Similarity between the distinct documents/programs is determined by comparing their respective control flow or other labeled transition graphs. The determination of similarity involves creating a combined measure of similarity based in part on a measure of local similarity between the graphs and in part on a measure of step similarity... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20070239994 - Bio-metric encryption key generator: In a method of facilitating an encrypted communication for use in communication between a local device, operated by a user, and a remote device, a data representation of a biometric feature of the user is received from a biometric input interface. The data representation is transformed into a biometric encryption... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070239995 - External key to provide protection to devices: An external key device including a test access port connector adapted to mate with a test access port, a test equipment connector adapted to communicatively couple to test equipment, and an external encryption chip adapted to communicate signals through the test access port to an internal encryption chip. The internal... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070239998 - Dynamic binding of access and usage rights to computer-based resources: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to dynamic binding of access and usage rights to a computer-based resource. In general, data characterizing a request for content is received, a determination as to whether first security credentials authenticate a user is made, and, if so and the user is... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20070239997 - Method for unified communication between multiple medical information systems: The invention discloses a method for unified communication between multiple medical information systems. In accordance with the method of the invention, an isomerous gateway pool comprises multiple servers connected to the clients ports of various medical information systems via network ports. The network ports of a the gateway pool are... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20070239996 - Method and apparatus for binding computer memory to motherboard: Serial presence data in the EEPROM of a DIMM is encrypted with the private key of the motherboard with which the DIMM is intended to be used, so that only BIOS of the intended motherboard can decrypt the SPD to complete booting.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070239999 - Systems and methods for adaptive model generation for detecting intrusions in computer systems: A system and methods for detecting intrusions in the operation of a computer system comprises a sensor configured to gather information regarding the operation of the computer system, to format the information in a data record having a predetermined format, and to transmit the data in the predetermined data format.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070240000 - Method and system for controlling and monitoring an array of point-of-load regulators: A power control system comprises a plurality of POL regulators, at least one serial data bus operatively connecting the plurality of POL regulators, and a system controller connected to the serial data bus and adapted to send and receive digital data to and from the plurality of POL regulators. The... Agent: Brian M Berliner, Esq O'melveny & Myers, LLP

20070240001 - Reduced power consumption for embedded processor: An embedded processor system including at least one gated power unit including an internal ROM and a power controller that provides one or more gated power signals to selectively provide power to each gated power unit. The power controller provides a gated clock signal to the embedded processor to selectively... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070240002 - Pre-activation of network devices: An approach for pre-activating network devices includes using prior usage of a network device to estimate times when the network device will be used in the future. The network device is then pre-activated, i.e., transitioned to an active operational state, prior to the estimated times so that the network device... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070240004 - Communication apparatus: A printer has a controller configured to give an instruction to a LAN controller, the instruction specifying which one of communication speeds the LAN controller should communicate at. When it is determined that the mode of the printer is changed from a power mode in which power is supplied to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070240003 - Method for implementing thermal management in a processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same: A method for detecting temperature associated with a processor, results of the detecting being used for controlling power dissipation associated with the processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070240005 - Portable electronic device and power control method thereof: A power control method for a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device comprises a power supply unit and a volatile memory for storing data when the power supply unit supplies power thereto. First, the portable electronic device is set to enter a deep sleep mode. Then, data accessed from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070240006 - System and method for activity or event base dynamic energy conserving server reconfiguration: Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system and data and information servers. Further provides power and energy consumption and workload management and control systems and architectures for high-density and modular multi-server computer... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070240008 - Semiconductor device and signal processing method: In view of accurately determine a valid range of data to be synchronized to the system clock, conforming to actual environments of mounting and connection, the semiconductor device of the present invention is configured as acquiring flight times of clock signal(s) and a data strobe signal, transmitted to or from... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070240009 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device that can transmit data in wide bus width regardless of the width of an external data bus connected thereto. In a semiconductor device on the data output side, m-bit internal data is divided into n blocks. A data selection circuit selects m/n pieces of data at a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070240007 - Technique for providing service processor access to control and status registers of a module: A technique for providing service processor (SP) access to registers, e.g., control and status registers (CSRs), located within hardware modules of a computer system, ensures access to the CSRs within a predetermine time period. The computer system includes a host module (HM) and a plurality of client modules (CMs). The... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20070240011 - Fifo memory data pipelining system and method for increasing i²c bus speed: An I2C system includes an I2C bus which includes an SCK (serial clock) conductor and an SDA (serial data) conductor, a master device coupled to the SCK conductor and the SDA conductor for sending and receiving data signals and serial clock signals. The master device includes a CPU, clock generation... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070240012 - Memory interface circuitry with phase detection: Integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits with memory interface circuitry are provided. The memory interface circuitry measures the timing characteristics of an associated memory during a series of dummy read operations. A multiplexer and phase detector are used to measure phase shifts of memory group clock signals... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20070240010 - Phase frequency detector with limited output pulse width and method thereof: Phase frequency detectors with limited output pulse width and related methods are disclosed. The proposed phase frequency detector generates a first output signal and a second output signal corresponding to phase difference or frequency difference between a first signal and a second signal. When the phase difference between the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070240013 - Methods and apparatus for managing defective processors through clock programming: An apparatus is disclosed which may include a plurality of circuit blocks, each circuit block including a separate clock grid; at least one oscillator circuit operable to select frequencies for at least two respective clock signals and to transmit the at least two clock signals to respective ones of said... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070234027 - Determining storage device connection information for serial and parallel computer interfaces to storage devices: Computer systems and related methods are provided for managing connections to storage devices. The computer system includes a connector and a register. The connector includes a plurality of pins configured to be removably connected to a first storage device and to a second storage device. A first pin of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070234023 - Computer platform system control unit data programming control method and system: A computer platform system control unit data programming control method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform, such as a network server, to provide the computer platform with a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) data programming control function, and which is characterized by... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070234026 - Independent main partition reset: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide independent reset of a main partition. A reset functionality is disabled to preclude a main partition from resetting a platform. The platform has a visible resource belonging exclusively to the main partition. An activity of the main partition is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070234028 - Method and apparatus for quickly changing the power state of a data processing system: A data processing system features a processor, random access memory (RAM), flash memory, a disk drive, an operating system (OS), and platform software. The platform software is capable of intercepting an attempt by the OS to read a storage location of the disk drive during a process of transitioning the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070234025 - Method for conserving system resources: A method for conserving system resources applicable to an electronic system with a BIOS, a first memory unit and a second memory unit is proposed. The electronic system is connected to a riser card with a plurality of slots disposed thereon for receiving a plurality of slot cards. The method... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070234024 - Method for managing setup programs: The method for managing setup programs is applicable to a data processing device with a main OS setup program. The data processing device is coupled to at least one peripheral device with a configuration memory module and a corresponding configuration memory module setup program. The method checks the authority of... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070234022 - Storing files for operating system restoration: A computer system comprising a processor, a first storage coupled to the processor and comprising an operating system, and a second storage coupled to the processor. The processor is adapted to store a group of files pertaining to the operating system on the second storage prior to launching the operating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070234030 - Controller interface ownership changing system and method: A controller interface ownership changing system and method are applicable to a basic input/output system (BIOS) of a data processing device having an operating system. The method actuates a first controller interface ownership changing mechanism to actuate system management interrupt (SMI) of a first controller interface controller when the BIOS... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070234029 - Methods and apparatus for context sensitive component dispatch management: Methods and apparatus for context sensitive component dispatch management to boot a processor are disclosed. An example method includes creating a driver that has dependency components for booting a target by identifying data associated with a boot target and using the data to determine which of the dependency components are... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070234031 - Methods and apparatus to optimize bios for a partitioned platform: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to boot a basic input/output system (BIOS) for a partitioned platform. An example method disclosed herein identifies at least one hardware component unique to a partition, determines which hardware components have commonality with the partition, initializes the at least one hardware component having commonality, and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070234032 - System and method for chassis management: A system and method for chassis management is proposed. The chassis management system includes at least one server unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, and a system management bus. The system management bus connects the first control unit and the second control unit to the server unit,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070234034 - Method and system for protecting information exchanged during communication between users: A system includes a sending terminal and at least one receiving terminal, the terminals capable of being connected to a communication network for transmitting an information item from the sending terminal to the at least one receiving terminal. The sending terminal is linked via a secure channel to a unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070234033 - Method for establishing secure distributed cryptographic objects: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for synchronization of a set of cryptographic objects across multiple processes. The method includes maintaining a master list of the set of cryptographic objects in the object management process and encrypting a target cryptographic object at the originating process. The originating... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070234035 - Trusted point-to-point communication over open bus: A method and apparatus provides for trusted point-to-point communication over an open bus. An embodiment of a computer includes a first software environment, with the first software environment being a trusted environment. The first software environment includes one or more trusted applications, and provides for the generation of trusted data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070234036 - Network mobility node authentication: A router on a home link for a node that couples to the Internet is to authenticate the node. Authentication is to include receiving a connection message from the node. The connection message is to include an identifier for a secure connection between the node and another node, at least... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070234037 - Information storage device: This encryption magnetic disk device can use a user password and a manufacture password as access restriction passwords. An encoding processing unit can encrypt user data, and a decoding processing unit can decrypt the encrypted user data. When its lock is canceled by a user password, the encryption magnetic disk... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070234039 - Chain of trust processing: A technique for automatically obtaining a second certificate for a user using a first certificate includes accessing a server platform using a user's server and the first certificate of the user to create a connection that authenticates both the user's server identity via a server certificate of the user server... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070234038 - Method for realizing the synchronous authentication among the different authentication control devices: A method for realizing the synchronous authentication among the different authentication control devices is provided. The user accesses the network and initiates the authentication by the slave authentication control device. Then the master authentication control device obtains the authentication information of the user from the slave authentication control device and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070234041 - Authenticating an application: One aspect of the invention discloses a method of authenticating an application. The method comprising performing, with a server application, bootstrapping procedures between the server application and a bootstrapping server function; deriving a shared key based on at least a key received from the bootstrapping server function server during the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070234043 - Electronic certificate issuance system, electronic certificate issuing device, communication device, and program therefor: An electronic certificate issuance system comprising at least one communication device, and an electronic certificate issuing device for issuing a set of an electronic certificate and a private key corresponding to the electronic certificate as a certification set for each of the at least one communication device, is provided. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234040 - Network access protection: A method is provided for use in a computer system including a client and a health registration authority. The health registration authority is configured to accept requests for assertions, and the client has a health state described by at least one health claim. The method may include an act of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070234044 - Program generating device and medium for the same: A program generating device connected with at least one first device and at least one second device on a network comprises an authority information acquiring system that acquires authority information representing a process that the at least one second device is authorized to utilize among processes that can be executed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234042 - Method off-line authentication on a limited-resource device: One feature provides a method for granting authenticated access to off-line, limited-resource mobile devices. A public-private key pair is generated by a service provider and the public key is used to digitally sign a username and (possibly) access privileges to obtain a password for technician. The public key is securely... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070234046 - Communication device with revocation list acquiring function: When a preset time elapses from a previous certificate revocation list acquired date and time, it is determined whether or not a signature confirmation event is stored in a signature confirmation execution list. When the signature confirmation event is stored, contents of the signature confirmation execution list are classified for... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070234047 - Encryption communications using digital certificates with increased security: An apparatus for use in implementing encrypted communications using a digital certificate is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to include a memory storing therein the digital certificate; and a selective-transmit controller, upon receipt of a request from a requester for the encrypted communications using the digital certificate, determining whether or... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234045 - Server device with revocation list acquiring function: When a preset activation time is reached, or when a digital MFP is activated manually, a determination is carried out as to whether or not a certificate revocation list is necessary to be acquired. Then, the digital MFP acquires and stores a certificate revocation list when necessary. The digital MFP... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070234048 - Session handover between terminals: Methods, apparatus, systems and devices for facilitating transfer of a remote session from a first user terminal to a second user terminal are disclosed herein. According to one example, the transferred remote session is a telephone call session. According to another example, the transferred remote session is a session of... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070234049 - Method and apparatus for enhancing security of data processing: A method for enhancing data processing security intercepts a portion of data-to-be-transmitted, determines a security level of the data-to-be-transmitted according to the portion of the data-to-be-transmitted, and sets readability of the data-to-be-transmitted according to the security level of the data-to-be-transmitted.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070234050 - Communications system and method: A communications system includes a transmitting device for processing packets to be sent, and a receiving device for processing the transmitted packets. The transmitting device includes a first memory unit, a first communications unit, and a first processing unit coupled therebetween. The first processing unit is operable so as to... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070234051 - Method for synchronization in encrypted communications using shared key: The disclosed is a method for synchronization of the running key that is generated from a shared key and that is used for encryption and decryption in communications encrypted with the shared key using a multi-valued signal. In the method for synchronization, the transmitting node transmits a signal that is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070234053 - Information processing device and medium for the same: An information processing device configured to perform communication with at least one external device via a network comprises a receiving system configured to receive an electronic certificate transmitted by the at least one external device, the electronic certificate including information on a validity period during which the electronic certificate is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234052 - Electromechanical lock system: The present invention is an electromechanical lock system which includes an electromechanical lock and a release device for releasing the electromechanical lock. In one embodiment of the invention, the electromechanical lock may be released when a release device is placed on, within or in proximity to an electromechanical lock. The... Agent: Suiter West Swantz PC Llo

20070234055 - Communication system, network device and program: There is provided a communication system in which a network device and an information processing device are communicatably connected to each other through a network. The network device comprises a certificate providing unit to transmit an electronic certificate to the information processing device through the network; and a printing unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234054 - System and method of network equipment remote access authentication in a communications network: A system and method are provided for key-based network equipment remote access authentication. A remote client machine and a piece of network equipment perform client-server authentication while the network equipment employs an access validation server to perform access validation for key-based authentication.... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Zegeer

20070234056 - Method and apparatus for multi-distant weighted scoring system: Methods of comparing a plurality of measurements to a template are described. Measurements are compared piecewise (element-by-element) and a proportion of successful comparisons at each of a plurality of distance scaling factors is calculated. The proportions are subjected to a nonlinear transformation, then normalized and combined into a weighted sum.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070234057 - Management device, medium for the same, and management system: A management device configured to communicate with at least one second management device and at least one terminal device via a network includes an acquiring system configured to acquire first management information managed by the management device, a receiving system configured to receive second management information managed by each of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234059 - Communication device and medium for the same: A communication device configured to perform communication with at least one external device via a network using a secret key and an electronic certificate that includes information on a public key corresponding to the secret key, includes a storing system configured to store the secret key and the electronic certificate,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070234060 - Data processing device: A data processing device includes a data storage section that stores data; an authentication information storage section that stores first authentication information registered by a user; an input section that allows the user to input second authentication information; a first judgment section that permits reading of the data stored in... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070234058 - System and method for authenticating products: A method of authenticating a product is provided. The product has an associated electronic device, such as an RFID circuit. The method measures a physical attribute of the product, such as a laser speckle, and stores the measurement as a product signature, either in the RFID circuit or remotely. At... Agent: William J. Kolegraff Kestrel Wireless, Inc.

20070234061 - System and method for providing transactional security for an end-user device: A network system comprises a transaction network operative to provide a transaction with an end user; a trusted source of a security mechanism (e.g., a start/stop trigger module, an application lockout module, a network/file I/O control module, a trusted driver manager, a keystrokes generator driver, a keystrokes deletion hook, and/or... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070234064 - Identification information output device: An identification information output device comprises a storage unit configured to store items of seed information for generating identification information, a selection unit configured to select one of the items of the seed information stored in the storage unit in response to a user operation, a generation unit configured to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070234062 - System, computer program and method for a cryptographic system using volatile allocation of a superkey: A method for protecting data of at least one password-protected account of a user in a system comprises the steps of: (a) creating, by the user, a password-protected account associated with a user identification and a password on the system; (b) hashing the password and storing the hashed password in... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070234063 - System, method and program for off-line user authentication: Disclosed is an off-line user authentication system, which is designed to present a presentation pattern to a user subject to authentication, and apply a one-time-password derivation rule serving as a password to certain pattern elements included in the presentation pattern at specific positions so as to create a one-time password.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070234065 - Biometric identification device providing format conversion functionality and method for implementing said functionality: A biometric authentication device is provided comprising a first interface, a conversion database a second interface, a processing unit and an output. The first interface is for receiving a live biometric signal associated to a person. The conversion database has a plurality of entries associated to respective formats and including... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070234066 - Biometric identification device providing format conversion functionality and method for implementing said functionality: A biometric authentication device is provided comprising a first interface, a second interface, a processing unit and an output. The first interface is for receiving a live biometric signal associated to a person. The second interface is for receiving information from a contactless chip. The information received at the second... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070234067 - Identity verfication 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... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070234069 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped 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 of the information.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070234068 - Validating apparatus having encryption integrated circuits: An apparatus is provided for validating a device. The apparatus includes a first integrated circuit which stores a first key, is configured to generate a random number, and is configured to generate encrypted information using the generated random number and the first key. A control system is configured to: receive... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070234071 - Asynchronous id generation: A technique for automatically establishing device IDs for devices in a daisy chain cascade arrangement. For each device, a write ID operation is initiated at the device to cause the device to enter a generate/write ID mode. While in this mode, a first value is input to the device. The... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070234072 - Secure system-on-chip: The aim of the present invention is to provide a secure system-on-chip for processing data, this system-on-chip comprising at least a central processing unit, an input and an output channel, an encryption/decryption engine and a memory, said system-on-chip having real-time working conditions while receiving and sending data, wherein it comprises... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070234070 - Software self-defense systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting a computer program from unauthorized analysis and modification. Obfuscation transformations can be applied to the computer program's local structure, control graph, and/or data structure to render the program more difficult to understand and/or modify. Tamper-resistance mechanisms can be incorporated into the computer program... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070234073 - Random password automatically generated by bios for securing a data storage device: A system, method, and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method includes automatically generating a set of security data. The security data is stored in non-volatile memory. The set of security data is also programmed into the data storage device as a security code.... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070234074 - Secure device: A secure device is provided that can store programs therein, the secure device including: a low-protection level storage unit; a high-protection level storage unit; a program acquiring unit that acquires a program and corresponding additional information, the additional information used for determining a storage destination of the acquired program; an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070234082 - Computer system with non-support hyper-transport processor and controlling method of hyper-transport bus thereof: A computer system with a non-support hyper-transport processor and a controlling method of a hyper-transport bus thereof. The computer system includes a system management controller, a Northbridge, a hyper-transport bus, a central processing unit and a power management signal line. The Northbridge is electrically connected to the system management controller... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070234081 - Disk enclosure: In a detection element for the current which flows from a power source to a disk apparatus internal circuit, a plurality of resistors are incorporated such that the detection resistance for consumption current can be selected. Based on apparatus identification information from an apparatus identification unit 31 such as a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070234084 - Information processing apparatus and operation control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a receiving device, a processor, and a control unit. The receiving device receives broadcast program data. The processor executes various software, and transitions, when the processor is idle, from an operation state to one of a first sleep state in which... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070234079 - Information processing device, power supply control method and storage medium: An information processing device includes: a power-off detection unit for detecting a signal relating to a power-off operation of a user; an application program termination unit for terminating a predetermined application program when the power-off operation is performed; and a control unit for passing control, after the termination of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070234083 - Integrated circuit having multiple power domains: An integrated circuit includes first and second power domains, a power supply control unit, and a switch block. The power supply control unit supplies a first voltage to the first power domain and a second voltage to the second power domain. The switch block provides at least one current path... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070234076 - Power management system and method f