Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 12/07

20070300050 - Maintaining early hardware configuration state: A processor includes a lock indicator that, when set, prevents microcode updates to occur after the operating system has been booted. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070300051 - Out of band asset management: The present disclosure relates to managing assets utilizing an out-of-band microcontroller and, more specifically, to communicating with an administration agent utilizing an out-of-band microcontroller and a shared memory space.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070300055 - Booting apparatus and method therefor: A method for booting a computer is provided. The computer includes a booting apparatus. The method includes the steps of: powering on the booting apparatus; generating a selection signal that indicates whether a first firmware or a second firmware is to be read; acquiring the selected firmware according to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070300053 - System and method for masking a hardware boot sequence: A system and method for masking a hardware boot sequence are provided. With the system and method, one of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute masking code that generates electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures that mask... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070300054 - Universal bsp tool for porting on embedded systems and an application thereof: An universal BSP tool for porting on embedded systems and an application method thereof are proposed. The universal BSP tool comprises a BSP parser and a code generator, and is used to parse an open reusable document in XML format, BSPXML. Hardware specification of a target embedded platform and booting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070300052 - Recovery of data access for a locked secure storage device: A system for recovery of data access of a locked secure storage device can comprise a keystore module and an authorization module. The keystore module may be configured to allow access to a master file system comprising a user encryption key for data stored within the locked secure storage device... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070300056 - Non-volatile semiconductor memory device: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a non-volatile memory element group having a first storage area which stores booting data and a second storage area to store storage addresses of the first storage area. The device further includes a detecting circuit which detects turn-ON of a power supply. The device... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070300057 - Dynamic web services systems and method for use of personal trusted devices and identity tokens: The present invention involves one or more computers that provide software controls to enable a web application to interface with a personal trusted device. The server side of the computer system comprises: a server-based framework process; a device for receiving requests from the client computer and determining which software controls... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070300058 - Credential provisioning for mobile devices: A method and system for determining rights to access digital content at a mobile communication device is described. A mobile communication device is manufactured with a credential store that maintains credentials associated with the mobile communication device. After manufacturing of the mobile communication device, a player component is installed onto... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070300059 - Terminal device: At the time an application uses a user certificate, the number of candidates for available certificates is decreased, and thus the burden of selecting a certificate for a user is reduced. An information terminal 1 performs a communication with a server 4 via a network 3. The information terminal 1... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070300060 - Securely adjusting setting of an image forming device: A system, method, and article for sending secured data to an image forming device at a remote location. The secured data is unique to the image forming device or a specific class of image forming devices. The secured data is compared to data stored at the image forming device for... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070300061 - System and method for detecting hidden process using system event information: A system and method for detecting a hidden process using system event information are provided. The system includes: a kernel layer monitoring module for extracting system event information by monitoring a kernel layer system; a kernel layer process list detecting module for detecting processes related to an event from the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070300062 - Identifying and enforcing strict file confidentiality in the presence of system and storage administrators in a nas system: A data storage architecture for networked access by clients includes a file server capable of communication with the clients via the network, physical storage organized as a plurality of logical volumes, and an encryption device in communication with both the file server and the physical storage. The encryption device is... Agent: Mcguinness, Manaras & Emc

20070300064 - Communication across domains: Communication across domains is described. In at least one implementation, a determination is made that an amount of data to be communicated via an Iframe exceeds a threshold amount. The data is divided into a plurality of portions that do not exceed the threshold amount. A plurality of messages is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070300063 - Pairing to a wireless peripheral device at the lock-screen: A method is presented to allow pairing of a first wireless-enabled device to a second wireless-enabled device while the first device is locked. A pairing interface is provided on the locked first device to obtain pairing information about the second device. The pairing information is used to pair the first... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070300065 - Time stamp apparatus, time correcting method, and time correcting program: A time stamp apparatus that carries out e-signature including local time based on the local time output from an internal clock, includes a radio wave time acquiring unit that receives a radio wave including standard time so as to acquire the standard time as radio wave time, an authentication time... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070300069 - Associating a multi-context trusted platform module with distributed platforms: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for creating an instance of a virtual trusted platform module (TPM) in a central platform and associating the instance with a managed platform coupled to the central platform. Multiple such vTPM's may be instantiated, each associated with a different managed platform... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070300068 - Method and apparatus for flash updates with secure flash: Firmware updates are performed in a digital device that includes a secure flash that secures each block of stored data with a digital signature. In at least one embodiment, the update package that is received by the digital device for use in performing the update includes the digital signatures of... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevate

20070300066 - Method and apparatus for embedding watermarks: Methods and apparatus for embedding a watermark are disclosed. In an example method, one or more frames associated with a compressed digital data stream (240) is identified. Each of the one or more frames is unpacked to determine a plurality of transform coefficient sets (320). The plurality of transform coefficient... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070300067 - Notice of revocation system for revocable or modifiable documents: A revocable or modifiable document is affixed with a unique identification that is stored in a database with a status indicator. The principal who executed the document may be able to monitor and change the status indicator. A third party who might rely on the document may query the database... Agent: Krajec Patent Offices, LLC

20070300072 - Optimization methods for the insertion, protection and detection of digital watermarks in digital data: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for encoding digital watermarks into content signals. Also disclosed are systems and methods for detecting and/or verifying digital watermarks in content signals. According to one embodiment, a system for encoding of digital watermark information includes: a window identifier for identifying a sample window in... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20070300073 - Optimization methods for the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digital data: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for encoding digital watermarks into content signals. Also disclosed are systems and methods for detecting and/or verifying digital watermarks in content signals. According to one embodiment, a system for encoding of digital watermark information includes: a window identifier for identifying a sample window in... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20070300070 - System for proximity determination: A method for determining proximity between a first device and a second device, the method comprising providing a first device storing a first device private key, the first device having an associated secure first device certificate storing secured information, the secured information comprising a first device public key corresponding to... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070300071 - Watermark-based goods authentication: An implementation is described herein facilitates certification of goods and/or identifications of the source of such goods. At least one implementation, described herein, embeds a watermark into a relatively small amount of data in a deterministic manner. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070300074 - Trusted evidence cameras and related methods and computer program products: Digital Cameras configured to verify authenticity of digital photos taken with the digital camera and related methods and computer program products are provided. GPS information associated with a photograph taken with the digital camera is obtained. A checksum of pixels that make up the photograph and the obtained GPS information... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070300075 - Method, system, and program for distributing software between computer systems: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for distributing computer software from a first computer system. The first computer system receives a request for software from a second computer system. In response, the first computer system generates a message, encrypts the generated message, and transmits the encrypted message to the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070300076 - Method for generating mnemonic random passcodes: A method for generating a word sequence for a passcode involves choosing a schema to guide the generation of the word sequence, and transforming the passcode into the word sequence using the schema, wherein the word sequence contains mnemonic structure.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070300077 - Method and apparatus for biometric verification of secondary authentications: Methods and software to alter secondary authentication procedures of a program by detecting the secondary user authentication, interposing a biometric data collection, validating the collected biometric data, and continuing with a user operation if the validation is successful, are described and claimed. Software to support such operations, and systems using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070300078 - Recording medium, and device and method for recording information on recording medium: A recording medium (100) for storing content that can be read and written by a host device stores a content key (a key that is used for encrypting content) (805a) encrypted in a first format, and a content key (805b) that is encrypted in a second format for content that... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070300079 - Method and apparatus for cryptographic conversion in a data storage system: When data is encrypted and stored for a long time, encryption key(s) and/or algorithm(s) should be updated so as not to be compromised due to malicious attack. To that end, stored encrypted data is converted in the storage system with new set of cryptographic criteria. During this process, read and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070300081 - Achieving strong cryptographic correlation between higher level semantic units and lower level components in a secure data storage system: A data storage architecture for networked access by clients includes a file server capable of communication with the clients via the network, physical storage organized as a plurality of logical volumes, and an encryption device in communication with both the file server and the physical storage. The encryption device is... Agent: Mcguinness, Manaras & Emc

20070300080 - Two-factor content protection: A system for providing two-factor content protection includes a first device that is enabled with content protection, and a second device that is used to authenticate users of the first device. The first device uses the public key (KPUBLIC) of a public/private key pair belonging to the second device to... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070300083 - Adjusting power budgets of multiple servers: A method of adjusting power budgets of multiple servers within a data center comprises various actions. Such actions include, for example, organizing the multiple servers into hierarchical groups, dividing a total power budget among the hierarchical groups, and assigning power consumption levels to individual members of a particular hierarchical group... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070300085 - Maintaining a power budget: A server is capable of maintaining a power budget. The server comprises a central processing unit (CPU), a management processor, a power measurement circuit, and a comparison circuit. The comparison circuit receives real time power measurements from the power measurement circuit. A register includes a power budget value from the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070300084 - Method and apparatus for adjusting power consumption during server operation: A method for adjusting power consumption during server operation is disclosed. The method comprises initializing the server to a system power performance state (SPP-state) that comprises a plurality of constituent power settings, determining whether power regulation is required while the server is operating at the current SPP-state, setting a flag... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070300082 - Method for controlling operation of microprocessor which performs duty cycle correction process: A technology for supplying a power supply voltage to a microprocessor. Before normal arithmetic processing of the microprocessor, duty cycle correction process for adjusting the duty cycle of a clock signal inside the microprocessor is performed. In the duty cycle correction process for adjusting the duty cycle, the duty cycle... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070300086 - Processor core wear leveling in a multi-core platform: A system may comprise a first processor core, a second processor core and a processor core scheduler. The first processor core may include a first circuit to generate a first data and a second processor core may include a second circuit to generate a second data. The processor core scheduler... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC Attorney For Intel Corporation

20070300087 - Power supply system for cpu: A power supply system for CPU is disclosed. The CPU includes a plurality of dynamic voltage identification (VID) pins, and the power supply standard of the CPU conforms to a first standard. The power supply system includes a VID signal line set and a core voltage controller. The VID signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Propery Office

20070300089 - Enhancements to improve the functionality and efficiency of brick power adapters: The enhanced power supply adds a control circuit and rechargeable battery to the prior art transformer. The enhanced power supply uses an internal rechargeable battery in standby mode, so that the power supply does not draw AC power when the attached device is not in use. Control contacts on the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070300088 - Power saving in circuit functions through multiple power buses: A method to manage power in an electronic device having at least one circuit function is provided. The method includes: the at least one circuit function determining a current performance requirement of the at least one circuit function; and the at least one circuit function selecting at least one power... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070300092 - Semiconductor apparatus: A semiconductor apparatus including built-in power supply circuits capable of supplying a large current with high voltage accuracy. The semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor chip including a circuit area and power supply circuits, coils and capacitors. The semiconductor chip, coils and capacitors are provided in a package. Each power supply... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070300090 - Computer and method for realizing household appliance application with low power consumption: The invention discloses a computer which achieves household appliance applications with low power consumption, wherein a power consumption controller is further provided in the computer, which is connected to CPU on the mainboard and power supply of computer respectively; said CPU on the mainboard receives an external low power consumption... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070300091 - Computer system and optical pointing device having security function, and security method thereof: Provided are a computer system having a security function, a computer security method, and an optical pointing device. The optical pointing device includes: an optical part irradiating light to a worktable surface and transmitting the light reflected; receiving the reflected light to continuously detect an image and detect a motion... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070300093 - Image processing device, method for saving power consumption of the image processing device, and a computer product: The image processing device comprises a first function block section formed of functional blocks which require a supply of power so as to maintain the image processing device in an operating state when the power supply is on, and a second function block section formed of functional blocks which need... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070300095 - Double data rate chaining for synchronous ddr interfaces: A system and method in which the receiving chip separately latches each half of the data received from the double data rate bus. Each half is launched as soon as it is available; one on the normal chip cycle time and the other is launched from a Master (L1) latch... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070300096 - Late data launch for a double data rate elastic interface: A double data rate interface in which the set-up interval is extended for a data path in which data is delayed relative to the other data path. Data is latched into a register comprised of mid cycle type latches, such as for example L2* latches. For example, if the delayed... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070300097 - Data transmission system and data transmission apparatus: A data transmission system including a slave device (30) and a master device (10) is disclosed. Slave device (30) may include a slave side clock signal generator section (32) for generating a slave side clock signal (CLKSOUT), a phase adjusting circuit (40) for controlling a phase of a slave side... Agent: Darryl G. Walker

20070300094 - System and method for providing accurate time generation in a computing device of a power system: A system and method provides accurate time generation in a computing device that includes a computing device clock and a microprocessor. The method includes determining a total system latency based on a delay incurred between issuance of a first command by the microprocessor and receipt of a first time-data signal... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070300098 - Mechanism for windaging of a double rate driver: A double data rate launch system and method in which the two-to-one multiplexer select signal delay is programmable and can be adjusted individually for each system. This allows the amount of delay to be minimized based on the actual set up time required, not the worst-case set-up time. The select... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070300099 - Programmable bus driver launch delay/cycle delay to reduce elastic interface elasticity requirements: A double data rate elastic interface in which programmable latch stages provide an elastic delay, preferably on the driving side of the elastic interface. However, the invention is not limited to the driver side/chip, it can be implemented in the receiver side/chip as well. However, since the receiver side of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070294520 - Determining electrical compatibility and/or configuration of devices in a pre-boot environment: In at least some embodiments, a system comprises a plurality of electrical devices and management logic coupled to the electrical devices. While the electrical devices are each in a pre-boot environment, the management logic obtains information from the electrical devices and uses the information to determine electrical compatibility of, and/or... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070294521 - Granularity on a per port basis of request-response communications over a networked computer system: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for improved granularity of a response-request communication on a networked computer system. One example embodiment includes receiving the request-response communication by the networked computer system, and associating the request-response communication with a port, having a nodelay setting, from a set of ports on the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070294522 - Using chip select to specify boot memory: A synchronous Flash memory device is described that enhances initialization and boot memory device identification in synchronous memory systems. A boot memory is typically a separate device that is tied to a specific chip select line and/or address range of a system, whereas synchronous Flash memory generally can be placed... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A. Attn: Thomas W. Leffert

20070294523 - Changing the personality of a device by intercepting requests for personality information: A method and system for a target to adopt the personality of a source without loading the personality information of the source onto the target is provided. The personality system extracts personality information from the source and stores the personality information on a removable storage medium. The storage medium is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070294524 - Storage control apparatus, storage control method, and storage apparatus: A storage control apparatus comprises: a remote adapter that communicates with the other storage control apparatus connected via a network; and a remote adapter controller that, when receiving an instruction that requires the storage control apparatus to serve as an initiator and the other storage control apparatus to serve as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070294525 - Network communications security agent: One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the network. Both sending clients and receiving clients are “clients” in that they rely... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070294526 - Method and apparatus for delivering certificate revocation lists: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for delivering a revocation list over a one-way broadcast network to receivers with limited memory capabilities. In one example, the revocation list is partitioned to form a first certificate revocation list (CRL) sequence if the number of entries in the revocation list... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070294527 - Reconfigurable portable digital device and a method to reconfigure a setup of a portable digital device: There is provided a portable digital device including: a display; a processor for rotating content shown on the display from a first orientation to a second orientation; a connector for connection of the portable digital device to a peripheral device; and at least two control devices for controlling at least... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070294528 - Authentication system: An object is to achieve both the safety and convenience in authentication of an object to be authenticated which is required in various situations. An authentication system (900) includes a first authentication information transmitting device (901) having first authentication information, a second authentication information transmitting device (904) having second authentication... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070294529 - Method and apparatus for data protection for mobile devices: A method and apparatus protect data stored in a device by storing data from the device on a backup system upon the device being connected to the backup system; detecting that the device has been lost or stolen; encrypting a set of data stored on the device that has not... Agent: John C. Moran, Attorney, P.C.

20070294530 - Verification system and method for accessing resources in a computing environment: A software package in accordance with one embodiment comprises a software application, and a declaration of operation associated with the software application. The declaration of operation is examined by a system module running on the computing system. The system module is configured to control access requests submitted by the software... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070294531 - System and methods for a vernam stream cipher, a keyed one-way hash and a non-cyclic pseudo-random number generator: The invention discloses a cryptographic system and consisting of three methods: a cryptographic Vernam stream cipher that permits software programs on separate computers to encrypt and decrypt information; a cryptographic keyed one-way hash that ensures the integrity and authenticity of a message; a non-cyclic pseudo-random number generator that permits a... Agent: Richard Butler Valley Oak Law

20070294532 - Print control apparatus and method, and print system: In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070294533 - Secure and reliable document delivery using routing lists: An operations center (OC) (200) acts as an intermediary for securely and reliably transmitting a document (3) from a sender (100) to a next recipient (300) on a routing list. The OC (200) identifies (464) a recipient (300) from the next stage of the routing list and provides either the... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20070294534 - Apparatuses and methods for decrypting encrypted data and locating the decrypted data in a memory space used for execution: An encrypted-data decrypting apparatus that provides enhanced security protection for programs and data while they are in the processes of decryption to execution after having been encrypted. When a decrypted partial program needs to be loaded into the shared memory M, the controlling unit 11 loads it into an area... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070294535 - Authentication device and method: Provided is an authentication system capable of identifying a cause of a failure when authentication fails. A data structure of data to be authenticated has a header authentication data area (D2), and an authentication data area (D4) in addition to a header area (D1) and a data area (D3). The... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070294536 - Steganographic method and device: An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding additional information into a stream of digitized samples in an integral manner. The information is encoded using special keys. The information is contained in the samples, not prepended or appended to the sample stream. The method makes it extremely difficult to find... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20070294537 - Time stamping method employing a separate ticket and stub: A time stamping protocol has two stages referred to as the ticketing stage and the certification stage. During the ticketing stage, the document or other identifying data is sent to the TSA. The TSA generates a “ticket” based on the document or other identifying data and a time indication derived... Agent: Coats & Bennett/ibm

20070294538 - Apparatus and method for dynamically changing a password: An apparatus and method for dynamically changing a password are provided. In the method, a random number is generated, and an original password and an operator are checked. The original password is changed by performing an operation of the random number and the original password based on the operator. Accordingly,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070294540 - Biometric data update system: When a biometric authentication is determined to be successful, non-match rate data, which represents a rate of non-match between biometric data acquired from a user and registered biometric data acquired from an authentication card, is compared with update threshold data, which represents a rate of non-match between the biometric data... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070294539 - Method and system for transparently encrypting sensitive information: A method for transparently encrypting sensitive information, comprising detecting at least one literal in a database command that includes sensitive information. The literal is extracted from the database command. The literal is encrypted thereby forming an encrypted string. The literal is replaced by the encrypted string in the database command.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070294541 - Methods and apparatus for encryption verification: Methods and apparatus for providing encryption verification. In an aspect, a method is provided for providing encryption verification. The method includes receiving at least one parameter associated with a flow, determining a key based on the at least one parameter, decrypting the flow using the key, and determining whether the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070294542 - Interface for facilitating facsimile transmissions via wireless communications networks: An interface for facilitating facsimile transmission via a wireless communications device operatively connected to a wireless communications network, including: a modem suitable for being communicatively coupled to a facsimile machine; a controller coupled to the modem; and, a memory operatively coupled to the controller. The interface includes code to cause... Agent: Plevy Howard, PC

20070294543 - Method for reading encrypted data on an optical storage medium: The present invention provides a method for reading encrypted data on an optical storage medium. The present invention solves the disadvantage in the prior art that a large amount of hard disk space is needed to store the decrypted data and read it through an application thereafter. The method includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070294544 - Method, apparatus, and system for managing, reviewing, comparing and detecting data on a wide area network: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a data management system, apparatus and process for uniquely identifying and protecting data. In preferred embodiments, the data management system comprises a data management server, a key generator, a source print generator and a source print detector. In some preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070294546 - Host device shutdown system: A host device, such as a personal computer, is shut down only after a client device (such as a portable personal media player) having a client device shutdown condition (such as a media player battery is fully charged) is satisfied. Such conditions include recharging a media player battery and completing... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070294545 - Method of power down control for a display device, and power down controller for implementing the method: A method of power down control (PDC) for a display device is to be implemented by a processor in a power down controller of the display device. The power down controller includes a main system, a main system power source, and a PDC power source. The method includes the steps... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070294547 - Power control circuit: A power control circuit is provided. The circuit is adapted for an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) controller to transform output signals of a chipset which outputs a STR (Suspend to RAM) control signal and a power control signal. The circuit generates control signals of the ACPI controller by... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070294548 - Interlocked synchronous pipeline clock gating: An integrated circuit including a pipeline and a method of operating the pipeline. Each stage of the pipeline is triggered by one or more triggering events and are individually, and selectively, stalled by a stall signal. For each stage a stall signal, delayed with respect to the stall signal of... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Yorktown

20070294549 - Portable information processor: A portable information processor (10) includes a storage unit (11) that stores information; a connecting unit (12) that connects to one of the device (1 (or 2)); an information acquiring unit (13) that acquires information from the connected device (1 (or 2)); an operation information generating unit (14) supplied with... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070294552 - Storage system and storage control method achieving both power saving and good performance: A storage system connected to a host device from which IO commands are sent comprises a plurality of load devices that act as loads including a plurality of storage devices, a current measuring unit that measures a current value flowing into the plurality of load devices, a power calculating unit... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070294551 - Wireless remote control circuit with dual processing units and method therefor: A wireless remote control circuit with dual processing units and a method is provided, which includes a signal receiving unit, a first and a second processing unit. The first processing unit is connected to the signal receiving unit and switches between an activation mode and a sleep mode at a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070294550 - Memory management with defragmentation in a computing device: Data held in physical memory, such as random access memory, in a computing device is defragmented when a system operating code null thread, which is used for placing the computing device into a reduced power mode when no other thread in the system is ready to run, is scheduled to... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070294553 - System and method for remote control save and sleep override: A system, method, and computer program product handle a power down signal received by a device. Other types of signals, such as suspend or save and sleep, may also be handled. A device, such as a parent device, sends a power down signal to another device, such as a child... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070294554 - Apparatus and method for managing power in computer system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for managing power in a computer system. A filter driver can be equipped with a packet monitoring function or the like detects whether devices mounted in the computer system are in the idle state. If a device is in the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070294555 - Saving power when in or transitioning to a static mode of a processor: A method for reducing power utilized by a processor including determining that a processor is transitioning from a computer mode to a mode in which system clock to the processor is disabled, and reducing core voltage to the processor to a value sufficient to maintain state during the mode in... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070294556 - Method and system for connecting remote devices for communication with each other: A data processing system operable in a powered-up mode to accept user input from a first set of user input means and in a powered-down mode to accept user input from only a second set of user input means, the data processing system being configured when not in the powered-down... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca & Quigg, LLP

20070294557 - Power management of multi-processor servers: A method and system are provided for dynamically managing delivery of power to partitionable elements in a computer system while supporting terms of a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Parameters of the SLA are gathered in conjunction with the topology of the computer system. Transactions associated with the SLA are monitored... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070294558 - Calibration technique for power measurement and management over multiple time frames: A method and system and calibration technique for power measurement and management over multiple time frames provides responsive power control while meeting global system power consumption and power dissipation limits. Power output of one or more system power supplies is measured and processed to produce power values over multiple differing... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20070294559 - Method and device for delaying access to data and/or instructions of a multiprocessor system: A method and a device for delaying the accesses to data and/or instructions of a multiprocessor system having a first and a second processor, with which a memory unit is associated, wherein the second processor operates with a clock pulse offset, and the device is arranged so that the first... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070288737 - Service processor host flash update over lpc: A method for updating the contents of a BIOS ROM includes disconnecting a host system from the BIOS ROM, transferring data from a service processor to the BIOS ROM, and updating the contents of the BIOS ROM using the transferred data. A BIOS update system for a computer system, includes... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070288739 - System and method for masking a boot sequence by running different code on each processor: A system and method for masking a boot sequence by running different code on each processor of a multiprocessor system are provided. With the system and method, one of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070288740 - System and method for secure boot across a plurality of processors: A system and method for secure boot across a plurality of processors are provided. With the system and method, boot code is partitioned into a plurality of boot code partitions. Processors of a multiprocessor system are selected to be boot processors and are each provided with a boot code partition... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070288738 - System and method for selecting a random processor to boot on a multiprocessor system: A system and method for masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor are provided. With the system and method, one of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute masking code that generates electromagnetic and/or... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070288741 - Cpu runaway determination circuit and cpu runaway determination method: A CPU reads a clear pattern held in a register in a watchdog timer when a system is booted up or reset, thereby determining whether or not the boot-up or the reset is a reset performed by the system or a reset due to runaway of a program to be... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070288742 - System and method for manipulating a registry: A system, method and facility for manipulating registries on a computer system. The system includes a generic registry facility, which features functions classified according to the breadth of their applicability to varying types of registries. The registries may be classified as file-based and proprietary. The file-based registries may be binary... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070288743 - Enabling stateless server-based pre-shared secrets: A method is disclosed for enabling stateless server-based pre-shared secrets. Based on a local key that is not known to a client, a server encrypts the client's state information. The client's state information may include, for example, the client's authentication credentials, the client's authorization characteristics, and a shared secret key... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070288744 - Method of secure communication between endpoints: The method of secure communication between the endpoints is used for the secret communication between endpoints locating in different gatekeeper management area, and the method includes: in the process of the caller endpoint calling the callee endpoint, the home gatekeeper of the callee endpoint generates the share secret key between... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070288745 - Profile framework for token processing system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a profile framework for handling enrollment requests. In particular, when a token processing system receives an enrollment request, it selects an applicable profile based on information in the request. The profile may indicate a variety of parameters for fulfilling the enrollment request, such as... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070288747 - Methods and systems for managing identity management security domains: Embodiments of the present invention provide identity management security domains that may be used in an enterprise security system. A security domain provides a centralized registry of services provided by the enterprise security system. For example, certificate authorities and other services, such as key archives, and the like, in the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070288746 - Method of providing key containers: The invention relates to providing key containers, such as an encryption or a signing key container to aid the secure transmission of messages sent from a sender to a recipient. A key container directory (20) receives a request for the key container from a requestor (14, 22 or 24). The... Agent: Kenneth M. Fagin

20070288748 - Authentication device and method of controlling the same, electronic equipment equipped with authentication device, authentication device control program and recording medium recorded with program: The present invention aims to effectively prevent spoofing in authentication and maintain convenience of the user. In a face authentication unit of the portable telephone, the face image checking part checks the face image of the person to be authenticated, which is acquired by a face image acquiring part through... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070288752 - Secure removable memory element for mobile electronic device: Security for data stored on a removable memory element communicatively coupled with a mobile electronic device is achieved through encryption of the data using authentication information stored on a removable identification element communicatively coupled with the device. By encrypting the data stored on the removable memory element using authentication information... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20070288753 - Secure communications: A method of providing secure communications between a first and a second communications unit comprising a key exchange between the communications units resulting in a shared secret key, the′ key exchange including a user interaction. The method includes the steps of providing, at least partly by means of a user... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070288754 - Data communication method and system: An encrypted communication method, and a system for the method, can transfer a session control message designated by identification information inherent to an application to a connection destination through a session management server. When an application program of a client or encrypted communication software issues a connection request in the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070288755 - Method and apparatus for identifying internet registrants: The present invention relates to a method of verifying identity of a registrant by an application provider. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of transmitting by the registrant a request for registration to the application provider; receiving by the application provider the request and transmitting a passcode to... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20070288772 - System and method for power control for asic device: A system and method for power control for ASIC device is disclosed. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for adjusting power consumption of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) device. The system includes a first buffer that is configured to receive and store data. For example,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070288773 - Method and systems for a radiation tolerant bus interface circuit: A bus management tool that allows communication to be maintained between a group of nodes operatively connected on two busses in the presence of radiation by transmitting periodically a first message from one to another of the nodes on one of the busses, determining whether the first message was received... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070288775 - System having a power adapter that generates a data signal based on the state of an external power source that is used to manage the power consumption of a cpu: A system and method for determining the type of power source supplying electrical power to a power adapter for a portable computer. In an embodiment of the invention, a power adapter for a portable computer is provided with a first power identification circuit for generating system information relating to operation... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070288777 - Adaptive power management of a disk drive based on user activity: Systems and methods are provided for updating a temperature table for a disk subsystem in a client system using information provided by a server system. In one embodiment, among others, the client receives an update command from the server system. The update command comprises instructions to update the temperature table.... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley

20070288779 - Controlling operation of information processing device using movement data: An apparatus and a method for controlling an operation of an information processing device using movement data of the information processing device or a peripheral device are provided. An operation configuration variable set value for performing a predetermined function of the information processing device is changed according to movement data... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070288776 - Method and apparatus for power management in a data processing system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing power consumption in a cache. A set of sections is identified in the cache used by the process in response to identifying a process requesting access to a cache. Power is enabled to each section in the set... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070288778 - Method for managing and controlling the low power modes for an integrated circuit device: A state machine and an external interface, including its associated input-outputs (IOs), are always powered on and used to manage the chip power modes and power mode transitions. The chip power modes are defined as RUN, HIBERNATE, POWERDOWN, with many more possible with this invention. For example, once the device... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070288780 - Data communication device, data communication system, and data communication method: A data communication device performs stable data communications without a malfunction in a system downsized by realizing bi-directional data communications using two terminals. The data communication device includes: a signal terminal (IN) for inputting a received signal having portions of different duty ratios and a constant pulse frequency; a reference... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070283137 - Method and system for multi-processor initialization in information handling systems: Methods and systems are disclosed for multi-processor initialization in an information handling system with two or more application processors (APs). One of the APs is configured to be a boot strap processor (BSP) that communicates with the other APs to initialize them prior to initialization of main memory. A basic... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070283136 - Reset device for a computer system: A reset device for a computer system is provided. The reset device includes a hardware-reset signal generating circuit for outputting a hardware-reset signal to reset the computer system, a first switch, and a second switch having a first contact, a second contact, and a third contact. The third contact can... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070283139 - Information processing apparatus and control method used thereby: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is connected to a memory in which configuration information is stored in predetermined fixed addresses and a boot program is stored in addresses other than the fixed addresses. Based on a resetting request issued on startup, the configuration information is read out... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070283138 - Method and apparatus for efi bios time-slicing at os runtime: A method and apparatus is described herein for executing firmware tasks during OS runtime. A thread slices execution time among entries in a control structure, such as process control block (PCB), maintained by an OS kernel. An entry in the control structure includes a reference to a firmware task, such... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070283140 - Multiple purpose integrated circuit: An integrated circuit is operable to execute boot loader code and a boot code from external memory. To provide security so that the CPU does not execute malicious codes, the circuit resets in a restricted mode in which only certain functional units may be connected. In the restricted mode the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070283142 - Multimode authentication using voip: Generally described, multimode authentication over a VoIP communication channel is provided. A calling client and a called client may be authenticated for a communication channel establishment. When a calling client requests a call connection with a called client, the calling client is authenticated for the communication channel, based on exchanged... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070283141 - Method and system for establishing the identity of an originator of computer transactions: A method of identifying the originator of a message transmitted between a client and a server system is provided. The method includes modifying a message to be transmitted between a client and a server system to include a session identification flag and/or a session identifier 500 (e.g., at an end... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070283143 - System and method for certificate-based client registration via a document processing device: A system and method for certificate-based client registration via a document processing device is provided. A client device, having an operating system disparate from a document processing device on a computer network, connects to the document processing device to procure a valid digital certificate. The document processing device receives authentication... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070283144 - System and method for implementing acls using standard lpm engine: A method, data processing system, and computer program product are provided for retrieving access rules using a plurality of subtables. An incoming packet that includes fields of data is received from a network. A key is formed from the fields, the key includes a number of subkeys. The subkeys are... Agent: Freescale - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070283145 - Multi-factor security system with portable devices and security kernels: A system for multi-factor security involving multiple secure devices that distribute the secured functions of the system over the different devices, such that the loss or theft of any one of them does not compromise the overall security of the system. Moreover, a configuration of devices is also secure even... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070283146 - Enhanced exception handling: A system comprising a processor adapted to activate first and second security levels for the system. The system also comprises a plurality of exception handlers, each exception handler executed by the processor and associated with one of the security levels. A first exception handler associated with the first security level... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070283147 - System and method to manage device access in a software partition: A system and method to manage device access in a software partition are provided. The illustrative embodiments provide a mechanism for exporting resources/devices from an administrator partition to a software partition in its purview. A trusted device list data structure is provided that identifies which devices are permitted to be... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070283149 - Home address auto-configuration during use of a mobile protocol authentication option protocol: A method for auto-configuring a home address by a mobile node, the method includes transmitting an update message from a mobile node to a home agent. The update message includes at least a nonce and an option for requesting a home prefix from the home agent. The method further includes... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070283152 - Network device, information processing device, and computer usable medium therefor: A network device is provided. The network device includes a communicating unit, which is adapted to communicate with an information processing device via a network to make an operational setting for encrypted communication to be established between the network device and the information processing device, a searching packet receiving unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070283150 - System and method for secure messaging and web service communication: Sensitive or confidential information is received in to a serialization library where it is associated with one or more fields. Fields into which such information is received are tagged with a type identifier representative of the sensitive or confidential nature of associated field content. Information thus tagged is then automatically... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070283148 - Updating configuration information to a perimeter network: Automatically sending configuration information from a trusted network to a perimeter network. Master servers residing in the trusted network are adapted for administering a distributed directory service containing configuration information. Edge servers residing in the perimeter network are adapted for using a local directory service local to each edge server.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070283151 - Content providing system, information processing device and memory card: A memory card 10 inserted in a terminal device 20 establishes a SAC with each of a content server 1, a content server 2, a settlement server 1 and a settlement server 2, using an application program corresponding to the server, to securely receive and transmit data. The memory card... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070283154 - Establishing secure, mutually authenticated communication credentials: Establishing secure, mutually authenticated communication between a trusted network and a perimeter network. Servers on the perimeter network may be securely and automatically configured to communicate with the trusted network. Servers not functioning properly may be stopped from communicating with the other servers. Credential information relating to a perimeter server... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070283153 - Method and system for mutual authentication of wireless communication network nodes: A method and system for mutually authenticating a first node and a second node operating in a wireless communication network enables mutual authentication when the first node and the second node are unable to directly authenticate each other. The method includes identifying, at the first node, a third node that... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070283156 - Method for identifying a patient for later access to an electronic patient record for the patient using a communication device belonging to an inquiring person: A method for identifying a patient for later access to an electronic patient record for the patient using a communication device belonging to an inquiring person. The patient record is stored in a database using a primary key which serves to identify the patient and which has at least one... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070283155 - Print control data generating apparatus, print management apparatus, and printing apparatus: A print control data generating apparatus generates first print control data and outputs the generated first print control data. The first print control data includes print control data capable of controlling an output of a print job, and includes a term of validity for the print control data. The print... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070283157 - System and method for enabling secure communications from a shared multifunction peripheral device: A system and method for enabling secure communications from a shared multifunction peripheral device is provided. The shared multifunction peripheral device first receives identification data representative of an associated user requesting a document processing operation. Upon authentication of the user, a key pair is generated by the shared multifunction peripheral... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070283158 - System and method for generating a forensic file: A file having a data structure is provided which includes copied information, a first hash value, and a second hash value. The file can be generated by copying original information from an information source, performing a first hash operation on the copied information to generate the first hash value, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070283159 - Authentication and access control device: Authentication and access control device (104) includes a first security key sub-system (110, 112, 114, 116, 118). The first security key sub-system is responsive to an input signal for providing a first key code required for permitting a user access to a controlled resource. The device advantageously can also include... Agent: Darby & Darby (formerly Sacco & Associates)

20070283160 - Low cost secure id card and system: The invention provides a method for controlling the operating state of a lock characterized by a locked state and an unlocked state. The method comprises: entering secret information on an electronic input device (e.g. keypad) located on a radio frequency identity card, then electronically comparing the secret information against an... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC - Vai

20070283161 - System and method for generating verifiable device user passwords: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating verifiable device user passwords. More particularly, the subject application is directed to a system and method for authenticating a document processing device with a client device without either device possessing any previous authentication certificate or information.... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070283163 - Methods and systems for nonce generation in a token: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a client and a token for providing a nonce during a login associated with the token in a multi-user computer system. A login process is activated after token insertion by a request to execute a user privileged operation made by a client... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070283162 - Unauthorized device detection device, unauthorized device detection system, unauthorized device detection method, program, recording medium, and device information update method: An unauthorized apparatus detection device, playback device, unauthorized apparatus detection system, information collection device, unauthorized apparatus detection method, a program, recording medium, apparatus information update method, and integrated circuit can detect clones of a playback device. In a management server 2, a reception processing unit 241 acquires a user terminal... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070283164 - Authentication system, consolidation apparatus and program: Upon receiving server side entity information and a principal confirmation profile request data from a server side entity device, a consolidation apparatus transmits an entity information transmission request to each of a plurality of client side entity devices and receives client side entity information from each of the client side... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070283165 - System and method for platform-independent biometrically secure information transfer and access control: The inventive data processing system and method enable verifiable secure transfer of information between two or more parties, each having access to at least one identity verification system utilizing a platform-independent architecture to enabte verification of identities of parties sending and receiving secured information, and ensuring that only an authorized... Agent: Edward Etkin, Esq.

20070283166 - System and method for state transition intrusion detection: A system and method for state transition intrusion detection is provided. The system and method employ a state transition file, containing a listing or table of all available state transitions associated with a given operation. A log file is then generated using state transition data gathered during the performance of... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070283167 - Secure streaming container: A system and method for securely streaming encrypted digital media content out of a digital container to a user's media player. This streaming occurs after the digital container has been delivered to the user's machine and after the user has been authorized to access the encrypted content. The user's operating... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070283169 - Method for controlling file access on computer systems: A method for controlling file access on computer systems is disclosed. Initially, a virtual machine manager (VMM) is provided in a computer system. In response to a write request, the VMM determines whether or not a location field is valid. If the location field is not valid, then the VMM... Agent: Dillion & Yudell LLP

20070283168 - Program, classification method and system: A system and method classifies multiple pieces of private data owned by multiple entities according to data type. Each of the entities has an encryption key. A representative entity is selected that is representative of the entities owning data of the type. Data of each of the representative entity and... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070283170 - System and method for secure inter-process data communication: A system and method for secure inter-process data communication is provided. Identification data corresponding to a user is received and used to generate a symmetric encryption key. The symmetric encryption key is then used to encrypt job data. A token associated with the encrypted job data is then generated. Expiration... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070283171 - System and method for managing data privacy: A system and method for assessing the risk associated with the protection of data privacy by software application. A decision engine is provided to assess monitor and manage key issues around the risk management of data privacy. The system creates a core repository that manages, monitors and measures the data... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070283174 - Electronic device system and controller: In an electronic device system where a controller and a target device are connected to each other via an IEEE 1394 serial bus, the controller comprises: command sending means for sequentially sending via the bus a power control command to change the power status of the target between the power-on... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070283172 - Mitigate power supply noise response by throttling execution units based upon voltage sensing: A system for mitigating power supply and power distribution system noise response by throttling execution units based upon voltage sensing in a circuit is provided. A sensing unit senses the voltage of a circuit. The sensing unit determines if the execution of another execution unit will cause the circuit voltage... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070283173 - System and method of detection of power loss in powered ethernet devices: A powered device includes a power supply input, a diode bridge, and a power loss detector. The power supply input is responsive to an external power source. The diode bridge has an input to receive at least one power supply input. The power loss detector includes an input responsive to... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070283175 - Device having multiple graphics subsystems and reduced power consumption mode, software and methods: Many computing device may now include two or more graphics subsystems. The multiple graphics subsystems may have different abilities, and may, for example, consume differing amount of electrical power, with one subsystem consuming more average power than the others. The higher power consuming graphics subsystem may be coupled to the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070283177 - Dynamic processor operating voltage control: A technique to adjust a processor's operating voltage dynamically while preventing a user from placing the processor into a harmful operating voltage state in relation to the core/bus frequency ratio of the processor. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to a technique to control the operating voltage of the... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070283176 - Method and apparatus for improving responsiveness of a power management system in a computing device: A computer system has multiple performance states. The computer system periodically determines utilization information for the computer system and adjusts the performance state according to the utilization information. If a performance increase is required, the computer system always goes to the maximum performance state. If a performance decrease is required,... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20070283179 - Low power mode override system and method: An exemplary method of operating an electronic device comprises determining if the electronic device is in a low power mode. The exemplary method also comprises continuing normal operation if the electronic device is not in the low power mode, determining if a wake-up timer is set if the electronic device... Agent: Fletcher Yoder

20070283178 - Predict computing platform memory power utilization: A method is to include implementing at least one statistical prediction model to predict memory power utilization and reduce power consumption for a computing platform. The implementation includes determining a configuration parameter for the computing platform, monitoring an operating parameter for the computing platform and predicting memory power utilization for... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070283180 - Mobile device with index creation function, method controlling the same, and computer program for executing the method: A mobile device includes a file storage portion, a file reading portion, an index creating portion, an electric storage portion, an electric energy input/output portion, and an index creation determining portion. The file storage portion stores files. The file reading portion is capable of reading the contents of the files... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070283181 - Packet-switched split computer: A network interface is described in which a single computer bus is split over a long distance into two or more intercommunicating buses. On one bus, processing and applications are provided and on the other remote bus, peripheral and local controllers are provided. The buses communicate through a series of:... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070283182 - Apparatus and method for interfacing to a memory: A delay locked loop (DLL) is added to the system in order to provide an accurate, PVT insensitive translation of the drive clocks into the write data eye. Adding a master-slave DLL to the system provides an accurate, PVT insensitive translation of the echo clocks into the read data eye.... Agent: Dennis R. Haszko Patent Law Office Of D.r.haszko

20070283183 - Apparatus, method and circuit for generating clock, and apparatus, method and program for verifying operation: One or more clock generating units generating a plurality of clock signals are included and, when the clock generating operation is returned from a stop state to an operating state, the clock generating unit generates the clock signal corresponding to the phase at the time of stop. Since a status... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070283184 - Phase selector for data transmitting device: A phase selector is disclosed. The phase selector is utilized for outputting an output clock to a flip-flop according to an input data signal latched by the flip-flop. The phase selector includes: a clock phase adjustor, for adjusting the delay of an input clock to generate a first clock and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070283185 - Digital reliability monitor having autonomic repair and notification capability: An integrated circuit, including: a pulse generator adapted to generate a pulsed signal; a cycle counter adapted to count cycles of the pulsed signal; one or more repairable circuit elements; and a repair processor adapted to repair a repairable circuit element when the cycle counter reaches a pre-determined cycle count.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts