Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 02/08

20080052503 - Apparatus, system, and method for service component qualifiers for the declarative specification of quality of service: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing service qualifiers that define on-demand management requirements for a loosely coupled, platform independent software service in a service component architecture (SCA) for an integration server by associating a service qualifier with one or more of an SCA service reference, an SCA... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080052502 - Method and apparatus for presenting drivers stored on utility partition of hard disk through virtual floppy to operating system installer: Installable device drivers may be stored on a partition, e.g., Utility Partition (UP) or other OEM partition, of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) storage device, e.g., hard disk drive, by associating an INT13h Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) interrupt call, e.g., reading from floppy disk drive a: or drive b: a... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080052504 - Method and system for rebooting a processor in a multi-processor system: Processors arranged in a multi-processor configuration for substantially parallel operations receive their initialization data in order to start operations, such as graphics computations, real-time multimedia streaming, etc. Due to a change in the processing load, one or more processors might be deactivated. Subsequently, the load increases to such a level... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080052506 - Storage apparatus, control method, and control device: Firmware FW1 and FW2 is separately stored in a non-volatile memory, in which a boot code for start-up and a restoration code are stored, and a first magnetic disk. A copy of the firmware FW1 stored in the non-volatile memory is stored in the first magnetic disk, and a copy... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080052505 - Device and method for configuration of a data processing unit: The invention relates to a device for configuring a data processing system (1), the data processing system (1) having a plurality of components such as a processor (6), main board (4), memory, input/output component (20), power supply component (2) or the like, which can be connected to one another for... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080052507 - Multi-partition usb device that re-boots a pc to an alternate operating system for virus recovery: A multi-partition Universal Serial Bus (USB) device has a flash memory with multiple partitions of storage. Some partitions are for different operating systems and store OS images. Another partition has a control program while a user partition stores user data and user configuration information. The control program can test the... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080052508 - Network security status indicators: In one embodiment, a method includes an apparatus includes a programmable microprocessor that determines the current security status of a network, generates a signal corresponding to the status, and applies the signal to an indicating device to produce an indication of the security status of the network that is sensible... Agent: Don C. Lawrence Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080052509 - Trusted intermediary for network data processing: A networked computer system in which a trusted intermediary device is allowed access to packets transmitted through a secured connection. An endpoint to a secured connection identifies a trusted intermediary device, such as by certificate provided by the intermediary device or by using identification information provided by a trusted server.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080052510 - Multi certificate revocation list support method and apparatus for digital rights management: The present invention provides a multi certificate revocation list (CRL) support method and apparatus for digital rights management (DRM). A multi CRM support method for DRM includes: receiving a first CRL and validating an issuer identification (ID) of the first CRL; loading a second CRL corresponding to the issuer ID... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080052511 - Network cryptography system and method: A system for and method of providing encrypted network communications is presented. The system and method involve creating encrypted frames used for secure communications between cooperating peers that are the same size as the original unencrypted frames. The system and method thus provide secure communications with essentially the same transmission... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080052512 - Protection against unauthorized wireless access points: A public wireless network has authorized wireless access points through which users connect to the network. Authentication software provided to a user prompts a user to enter a password that is provided over a secure link to an authentication server. The authentication server provides the password to each authorized access... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080052514 - Information sharing system, information sharing method, group management program and compartment management program: An information sharing system manages computing resources such as files and processes by virtually assigning them to a compartment that is a unique area identified by a group ID. As the information sharing system detects a file input event of an object by using the compartment, it authorizes only referring... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080052513 - Process and system for selectable data transmission: The present invention relates to a process and a system for selectable data transmission. Authentication data and an electronic key are generated, whereby the electronic key is stored as assigned to the authentication data. Data are encrypted into encrypted data by means of an encryption module of a central module... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080052515 - Tamper resistant module certification authority: Methods and apparati for securely loading one or more computer software applications onto a tamper resistant module (TRM) (107) and for securely deleting one or more applications from the TRM. An embodiment of the invention comprises a method for determining, based at least upon an encrypted personalization data block, whether... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080052516 - Contents border detection apparatus, monitoring method, and contents location detection method and program and storage medium therefor: A contents border detection apparatus comprises: a digital watermark detector 11, for detecting a digital watermark embedded in contents for which a time element is provided; and a border detector 12, for detecting border locations for the contents corresponding to the state of the digital watermark detected by the digital... Agent: Tj Watson Research Center

20080052518 - Method to prevent cloning of electronic components using public key infrastructure secure hardware device: An electronic component includes a processor and a memory. The electronic component has a secure platform capable of storing at least one dual key pair and a corresponding digital signature. There is also a system including a host machine and an electronic component capable of being operated by the host... Agent: Lisa K. Jorgenson, Esq. Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080052517 - Real-time electronic signature validation systems and methods: A method for real-time validation of an electronically signature generated onboard a mobile system. The method includes maintaining a ground mobile user account management (GMUAM) module user database to have up-to-date authorized user account information. The GMUAM is hosted by a stationary central computer system (CCS). The method additionally includes... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080052519 - System and method for signing a contract electronically: A method for signing a contract electronically includes the steps of: generating a proposition contract (31) by a first party via a server (10); sending the proposition contract to a client (20); signing the proposition contract electronically by a second party via the client, thereby yielding an endorsed contract (32),... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080052520 - System and method for verifying electronic signature of a document: A computer-based method for verifying electronic signature of a document is provided. The method includes the steps of: generating a first document by a first party in a server; encrypting the first document in the server; sending the first document to a client and informing a second party of signing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080052521 - Hierarchical identity-based encryption and signature schemes: where: the product Πiê(Qi−1,Pi) is taken over all integers i in a proper subset of the integers from 1 to t inclusive; ê is a bilinear non-degenerate mapping; V can be ê(Q0,Pi0) where i0 is predefined (e.g. 1), or V can be another expression is a verifier is part of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080052522 - Method and system for accessing a secure area: A system for accessing a secure area. In response to reading a plurality of security device orientations, the plurality of security device orientations are recorded. The plurality of recorded security device orientations are compared with stored security device orientation data. In response to determining that a match occurs between the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080052523 - Method for coding and decoding information containing in any order any or all upper or lower case letters, with or without numbers, with or without symbols, with or without punctuation marks, with or without spaces, with or without special characters, wit: A Method for coding and decoding information utilizing a Character Set containing in any order any or all upper or lower case letters, with or without numbers, with or without symbols, with or without punctuation marks, with or without spaces, with or without special characters, with or without graphic symbols,... Agent: Mark Les Kaluza

20080052525 - Password recovery: Password recovery utilizes a hardware accelerator operating in connection with a host computer system that runs software to generate and format password candidates for computational processing. The hardware accelerator accepts formatted password candidates and can store a number of these candidates in a memory that is managed by a memory... Agent: Sylke Law Offices, LLC

20080052524 - Reader for one time password generating device: A portable one time password reader for use in two factor authentication systems and methods allows for the display of a one time password when coupled to a device that generates the value of the password. The reader of the present invention provides power and if appropriate a real time... Agent: Winston & Strawn, LLP

20080052527 - method and system for authenticating and validating identities based on multi-modal biometric templates and special codes in a substantially anonymous process: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for authenticating an identity of an individual received from an approved entity against a centralized multi-modal biometric database in an anonymous process. The method includes receiving an authentication request from the approved entity. The authentication request includes a personal reference code... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080052526 - System and method for enrolling users in a pre-boot authentication feature: An authentication method set forth which includes an interface that can be used by operating system level software to verify and set various hardware level passwords, like the BIOS boot password and hard disk password. The method further specifies an application behavior that allows an operating system level pre-boot authorization... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080052528 - Portable device having biometrics-based authentication capabilities: Apparatus and method for implementing biometrics-based access control to a restricted resource. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is realized using a portable device. Specifically, in one embodiment, the portable device includes a microprocessor, a non-volatile memory coupled thereto, and a biometrics-based authentication module controlled by the microprocessor. Preferably,... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20080052529 - Authentication target having ambiguous target elements: A reading device reads ambiguous target elements of an authentication target printed on a medium. Each ambiguous target element has a number of different manners by which the ambiguous target element can be interpreted by the reading device. The authentication target as read by the reading device is compared against... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080052530 - System and method to provide cpu smoothing of cryptographic function timings: A system and method to smooth a cryptographic function's timing footprint is presented. A processor includes a “function timing smoother” that smoothes out spikes in the amount of time that a particular cryptographic function requires to execute. When a cryptographic function executes, the function timing smoother tracks the amount of... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080052531 - Device and method for secure biometric applications: A data encryption device comprising a first and a second port adapted to communicate data from at least one external unit, an encryption unit connected to the first port, an internal memory connected to the encryption unit, a decryption unit connected to the internal memory and to the second port,... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080052532 - Methods and systems involving secure ram: A system is provided that includes a processor and a random access memory (RAM) coupled to the processor. The RAM is divided into public RAM and secure RAM. The system also includes a system memory coupled to the processor, wherein the system memory stores RAM resize instructions that, when executed,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080052533 - Relay apparatus for encrypting and relaying a frame: A relay apparatus comprises a frame relay processing unit for relaying a frame, a plurality of ports for sending and receiving the frame to and from the outside, and a cryptographic processing module corresponding to each of the ports. Each cryptographic processing module is connected to the corresponding port and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080052534 - Processor and secure processing system: A processor (10) manages, in an instruction management unit (103) and a data attribute management unit (105), secure attributes indicating whether instruction code and data stored in an instruction cache (102) and a data cache (104) of the processor (10) are confidential information. When the instruction code and the data... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080052537 - Storage device, write-back method, and computer product: In a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) device, an encrypting unit encrypts data to be written back at a timing when a write-back processing unit performs a write-back of the data. The write-back processing unit stores the encrypted data in an encryption buffer, and then writes back the encrypted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080052535 - Systems and methods for recording encrypted interactions: Systems and methods for selectively recording encrypted contact center interactions based upon characteristics associated with the interaction, a contact center, or a recording module.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080052538 - Container security: A container security device includes a housing, electronic circuitry, and cabling. The electronic circuitry is disposed within the housing, and includes first and second microprocessor functions and an interface for accepting and providing data. The cabling is removably coupled to the housing, provides the only communicative coupling between the first... Agent: Ip Strategies

20080052540 - Data decoding apparatus and method, charge information processing apparatus and method, data reproducing apparatus and method, electronic money, electronic use right, and terminal apparatus: Reproduction data is supplied to a decoder and encryption is decoded. A reproducing conditions label is detected by a reproducing conditions label detecting unit. Compression encoding is decoded by a decompressor. A watermark detecting unit discriminates whether the reproducing conditions label has been falsified or not. In a listening right... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080052539 - Inline storage protection and key devices: A generalized-topology heterogeneous time-variant computing environment (CE) is defined, which includes generalized Usage Devices (UDs), Storage Devices (SDs), and Data Links (DLs). It includes as SDs all physical or virtual devices which may be used to store data and on which data may be accessed via an Access Protocol (AP),... Agent: David M. Macmillan

20080052536 - Storage device, storage method, and image display device: When data whose storage period is limited by copy control information is temporarily stored in a removable recording medium, the data are encrypted and decoding information (encryption key) necessary to decrypt the encrypted data is held on the device side. By doing so, the data cannot be used beyond a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052541 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for electronic commerce including secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers employed in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052547 - Circuit and method for generating an internal power supply voltage: A circuit and method for generating an internal power supply voltage are disclosed. The circuit includes an internal power supply voltage pre-processing unit configured to generate a first internal power supply voltage in response to an external power supply voltage in a power-up mode and a deep power-down (DPD) exit... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080052546 - Inline power policing: In a wired data telecommunication network power sourcing equipment coupled to a powered device performs policing of power drawn by the powered device. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring power drawn by powered devices at power sourcing equipment, each powered device having a policing limit associated therewith. If power... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080052545 - Method and apparatus for power management: An electronic device includes a processor configured to run a plurality of applications, a power supply coupled to the processor, and a database coupled to the processor The database is configured to store information identifying each of the plurality of applications as being in either a first set of applications... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080052544 - Portable electronic device using a plurality of power sources: A portable electronic device that can use a dc power and a renewable energy as power supplies. The portable electronic device includes a rechargeable battery as a spare power when the ac power is not available, a power management unit, and a plurality of loads. The power management unit selectively... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080052543 - Reduction of power consumption by throttling processor requests: In an electronic device including a processor interface and a processor interconnected to the processor interface by a bus, activity on the bus is monitored and in response to inactivity, the processor interface is placed in a lower power consumption mode. While in the lower power consumption mode, processor requests... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080052542 - System and method to optimize multi-core microprocessor performance using voltage offsets: A system and method to optimize multi-core microprocessor performance using voltage offsets is presented. A multi-core device tests each of its processor cores in order to identify each processor core's optimum supply voltage. In turn, the device configures voltage offset networks for each processor core based upon each processor core's... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080052548 - System for low power operation of wireless lan interfaces: In a network including a proxy server located between a wireless access point and an origin server; and a client module detecting the availability of the proxy server; a method for conserving power in the client module includes: configuring a wireless interface to promote energy savings when using a proxy... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080052549 - Semiconductor data processing device and data processing system: Disclosed herewith is a semiconductor data processing device that realizes low power consumption at the standby time and at the operation time, as well as speeds up the interfacing operation. The semiconductor data processing device can connect a non-volatile storage device to a general-purpose bus of a host system. The... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080052550 - Control circuit of power supply unit, power supply unit and control method thereof: The control circuit 30 of power supply unit and power supply unit 10 controlling output power with electric power supplied from the external power 15, comprise a monitoring portion 40 monitoring current I1 and voltage outputted from the external power supply 15 and output power of the external power supply... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080052551 - System for controlling an array of point-of-load regulators and auxiliary devices: A power control system comprises at least one programmable voltage regulator, at least one non-programmable auxiliary voltage regulator, and a system controller operatively connected to the at least one programmable voltage regulator and to said at least one auxiliary voltage regulator via a common serial data bus. The at least... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080052552 - System and method for routing asynchronous signals: A router, for routing at least one input signal to at least one output, comprises at least one input module and at least one output module. Each of the input and output modules includes at least one clock selector circuit for selecting from among a first and second clock signal,... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080052553 - Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting distributed queing system and data queuing receiver reference voltages: A method for automatically setting DQS (Distributed Queuing System) and DQ (Data Queuing) receiver reference voltages, the method including: using a delay string to measure a number of delay elements that match a DQS high time and a number of delay elements that match a DQS low time; wherein when... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080052554 - Automation system and method for clock time, process, and/or machine optimization: Automation system with computerized numerical control includes at least two data processing levels, particularly a data block preparation level and a data block processing level, and a clock time-registering unit assigned to the particular data processing levels for registering clock times of subsystems in the particular data processing levels, and... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080052555 - Microcomputer and control system having the same: A microcomputer includes a main oscillator for generating and outputting a main clock signal, a sub oscillator for generating and outputting a sub clock signal, a central processing unit that operates based on the main clock signal, a signal output circuit that operates based on the sub clock signal and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080046706 - Remote monitor module for computer initialization: A remote monitor module is provided to monitor initialization events of a computer host domain on a local mainboard. The remote module includes an event monitor to detect certain initialization events during system initialization process, and then generates and transmits event signals to a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller). A decoder... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080046707 - Remote monitor module for power initialization of computer system: A remote monitor module for power initialization of a computer system includes a monitor logic and a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller). The monitor logic is in circuit connection with a power-up sequence controller and several basic voltage domains on a system board of the computer system. The monitor logic also... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080046705 - System and method for flexible smp configuration: A system and method are provided to enable flexible symmetric multi-processor (SMP) configuration. The system includes plural bootable domains and a glue logic. The bootable domains include plural processors, one or more boot image and one or more bridge interface. Each of the bootable domains links to another through the... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080046711 - Computer system and boot code accessing method thereof: A computer system comprising an embedded system and a main computer system is provided. The embedded system comprises a memory device and a virtual firmware hub. The memory device is for storing a boot code of the main computer system. The virtual firmware hub is connected to the main computer... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080046709 - File manipulation during early boot time: A system and method for enabling access to user-level data is described. One embodiment includes accessing user-level data associated with a kernel-level function using a portable executable (PE) file. The user-level data is accessed during a boot-time of a computer. In this embodiment, the PE file is also accessed using... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080046710 - Switching firmware images in storage systems: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for switching firmware images in storage systems. One method of software execution includes transferring a new firmware image to a secondary storage location in an automated storage system while the automated storage system is online to execute a data backup application; and rebooting a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080046708 - System and method for management and installation of operating system images for computers: Shown is a method and system for provisioning a target computer with an operating system, which calls for booting the target computer in a pre-operating system environment, collecting configuration information for the target computer, and transmitting the configuration information to a predetermined server. The approach shown also provides for searching... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080046712 - Hardware abstraction for set-top box operating systems: A standardized system for developing hardware platforms and operating systems for computer systems. The system comprises: (1) a first standardized protocol for developing hardware platforms, wherein the first standardized protocol requires each hardware platform to include a bios program having: a first system for setting up a plurality of control... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080046713 - Overriding processor configuration settings: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for setting an entry in an override register corresponding to a processor feature to override a processor configuration setting for the processor feature and overriding the processor configuration setting for the processor feature using the entry. The entry may be set... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080046714 - Systems and methods for bulk encryption and decryption of transmitted data: A method for using a network appliance to efficiently buffer and encrypt data for transmission includes: receiving, by an appliance via a connection, two or more SSL records comprising encrypted messages; decrypting the two or more messages; buffering, by the appliance, the two ore more decrypted messages; determining, by the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080046715 - Method and apparatus for converting authentication-tokens to facilitate interactions between applications: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that converts authentication-tokens to facilitate interactions between applications. During operation, the system receives a command-execution request from a first application, wherein the command-execution request specifies a command to execute on a second application. Subsequently, the system verifies a first authentication-token included... Agent: Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080046719 - Access point and method for supporting multiple authentication policies: An access point and a method supporting multiple authentication policies for a WLAN are disclosed. The access point according to the present invention includes an authentication policy detector for detecting an authentication policy of a terminal from a signal transmitted by the terminal, a plurality of authentication modules for performing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080046716 - Portable certification authority: A portable electronic device is operable as a portable certification authority. The portable electronic device stores a pair of keys of a public key infrastructure, issued by a parent certification authority and generates a certificate dependent upon the pair of keys. The private key and corresponding public key certificate are... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080046717 - Systems and methods for optimizing ssl handshake processing: A method for enabling efficient SSL handshakes through precomputing of handshake messages, the method includes: receiving, by an appliance, a server certificate identifying a server; generating, by the appliance, at least one of: (i) an SSL server certificate message comprising the received server certificate, (ii) an SSL client certificate request... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080046718 - Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems: Federated systems for issuing playback certifications granting access to technically protected content are described. One embodiment of the system includes a registration server connected to a network, a content server connected to the network and to a trusted system, a first device including a non-volatile memory that is connected to... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080046720 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and program management method: A management server is disclosed that is connected to an image processing apparatus. The management server includes an authentication unit that performs authentication of authentication information sent from the image processing apparatus, a certificate issuing unit that issues a certificate containing program identification information for identifying a program and expiration... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080046721 - Dynamic multiprovider: A selection of a plurality of data sources which characterize characteristics and key figures are received. Thereafter, a multiprovider is dynamically generated that is based on the selection and which includes characteristics and key figures from each of the selected data sources. Queries may then be run on top of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20080046722 - Data generating device and control method thereof, data analyzing device and control method thereof, data processing system, program and machine-readable storage medium: A data generating device comprises a variable-length data input unit adapted to input variable-length data, an embedding unit adapted to embed identification data corresponding to format information indicating the format of the variable-length data to the variable-length data; an location information acquiring unit adapted to acquire location information showing locations... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080046723 - Multi-factor authentication: Methods and devices are provided for two-way authentication. In one example, a method prompts a user for an account number and a PIN. Upon authentication of the account number and the PIN, an e-mail having a link to a new session is sent to the user. If the account number... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080046725 - Fast system call method: A method of a fast system call is provided. First, a logical operation to compute a kernel service routine is used. Then the logical operation result is compared with ciphertext from a key register. At least one input for the logical operation is from the relevant information of the required... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080046724 - Method for governing interaction between code within a code base: A separation management system (32) for governing interaction between code within a code base (50) operable on a computer (30) determines a region in a memory (44) of the computer (30) in which the code base (50) resides and defines container boundaries (118, 124, 130, 135) in the region for... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080046726 - Assessing a community of particle capability: The capability level of a community of practice is assessed. A community model is provided having key areas of focus each defined by levels. The levels have attributes. The community is compared to the attributes in the model to determine community levels for all key areas of focus. Individual community... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080046727 - Systems and methods for optimizing ssl handshake processing: A method for buffering SSL handshake messages prior to computing a message digest for the SSL handshake includes: conducting, by an appliance with a client, an SSL handshake, the SSL handshake comprising a plurality of SSL handshake messages; storing, by the appliance, the plurality of SSL handshake messages; providing, by... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080046728 - Method and apparatus for encrypting data transmitted over a serial link: A system for implementing a content protection protocol to encrypt data, including transmitters and receivers to which key selection vectors of a vector set have been distributed, wherein a subset of the key selection vectors in the vector set has not been distributed to any of the transmitters or any... Agent: Alfred A. Equitz Girard & Equitz LLP

20080046729 - Methods and apparatus for authenticating data as originating from a storage and processing device and for securing software and data stored on the storage and processing device: Techniques are described for using unique features of a storage medium for authentication of data as originating from the storage medium, and also for installing software and data to a storage medium in a way which inhibits unauthorized copying of the software and data to another storage medium. Cryptoprocessing keys... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20080046732 - Ad-hoc network key management: An ad hoc network includes a first node, a second node, and a third node. The first node and second node share a first shared secret key, and the first node and third node share a second shared secret key. The second node and third node share a temporal key.... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080046731 - Content protection system: A content protection system for securely delivering audio/video data from a content server to a content client through an unsecured channel is disclosed. For each session, the content protection system comprises two phases. The first phase is client-server mutual authentication and session key establishment. In this phase, the content server... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080046730 - Method and apparatus for providing content encrypted using broadcast encryption scheme in local server: A method and an apparatus for providing content encrypted in a broadcast encryption scheme to a plurality of devices in a local network are provided. The method includes: storing a minimal number of keys needed by the devices to decode the encrypted content among a plurality of keys that can... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046733 - Method and system for command authentication to achieve a secure interface: Aspects of a method and system for command authentication to achieve a secure interface are provided. Command authentication between a host and a slave device in a multimedia system may be achieved by on-the-fly pairing or by an automatic one-time-programming via a security processor. In an on-the-fly pairing scheme, the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080046734 - Securing access to an application service based on a proximity token: A system for providing secured access to an application service includes a security token that couples to the application service. The security token performs a first element of a cryptographic technique, such as, for example, encryption or decryption. A. proximity token is provided that is associated with the security token.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080046735 - Secure network deployment: In one embodiment, a Manufacturer Installed Certificate (MIC) and a personal identification number are sent to a call controller to request a configuration profile. When the configuration file is received, the IP phone is provisioned according to the configuration profile.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080046738 - Anti-phishing agent: A phishing detection agent is provided. In one embodiment, a user's browser includes a plug-in application or agent that may capture a visual record of a webpage and, with a cached copy of known, authentic websites provided to it via periodic updates, perform a series of image comparison functions to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080046740 - Authentication of a peer in a peer-to-peer network: A method of authentication of a verifying device by a confirming device includes the confirming device receiving and storing a shared secret derived from at least a password of a user and sending a challenge. The method further includes the confirming device receiving a response to the challenge using the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080046736 - Data processing system and method for reducing cache pollution by write stream memory access patterns: A data processing system includes a system memory and a cache hierarchy that caches contents of the system memory. According to one method of data processing, a storage modifying operation having a cacheable target real memory address is received. A determination is made whether or not the storage modifying operation... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080046739 - Hash of a certificate imported from a smart card: A certificate from a smart card is imported into a computerized device via a smart card reader. The computerized device calculates a hash of the imported certificate and stores the hash in memory. The hash may be stored in a region of the memory that is unaffected by upgrades to... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080046741 - Protecting signatures using collision-resistant hash functions: A message is hashed with a first hash function to generate a first hashed message, and then the first hashed message is hashed with a second hash function to generate a second hashed message. The second hashed message is then signed. The first hash function may be a domain extender,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080046737 - Secure storage of data: A secure memory system binds an encrypted first data value stored in a memory with a state of the memory by selecting, at random, an address in the memory and mixing a second data value, stored at the address, with a hash value of the first data value to produce... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080046743 - System and method for automatically signing electronic documents: A computer-based method for automatically signing electronic documents is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: creating an electronic document, and notifying a specified signer to digitally sign the electronic document; confirming whether or not to digitally sign the electronic document; obtaining a copy of a digital certificate of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080046746 - Data decoding apparatus and method, charge information processing apparatus and method, data reproducing apparatus and method, electronic money, electronic use right, and terminal apparatus: Reproduction data is supplied to a decoder and encryption is decoded. A reproducing conditions label is detected by a reproducing conditions label detecting unit. Compression encoding is decoded by a decompressor. A watermark detecting unit discriminates whether the reproducing conditions label has been falsified or not. In a listening right... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080046744 - Data processing apparatus and method: To realize device authentication which is highly resistant to attacks with simple procedures. Hence, an authentication unit of an image input apparatus transmits first data to an authentication unit of an information holding device, and receives, from the authentication unit, encrypted key information and second data which is generated from... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080046745 - End-to-end authentication of session initiation protocol messages using certificates: End-to-end authentication capability based on public-key certificates is combined with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to allow a SIP node that receives a SIP request message to authenticate the sender of request. The SIP request message is sent with a digital signature generated with a private key of the sender... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080046742 - 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

20080046747 - Authorization system and method: A system including a device having a screen and a memory to hold card data necessary to complete POS/ATM transactions. The device has an authorization, signature, PIN button and scroll wheel. Branding areas allow distributors to leverage space on the device. When the merchandise has been processed and ready to... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080046748 - Data management apparatus, data management method, data processing method,and program: A data management apparatus, data management method, data processing method, and program that enable a high degree of security against leakage or loss of personal information to be achieved. A data management apparatus (100) sets a division range for dividing personal information into identification information that enables a specific individual... Agent: Gary M Nath The Nath Law Group

20080046749 - Apparatus and method for disabling an original password of an electrical apparatus: Apparatus and method for disabling an original password of an electronic device are provided. The apparatus comprises a message generator, an interface, and a processing unit. The message generator is configured to generate a message code. The interface is configured to receive an input password and communicate with the electronic... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080046750 - Authentication method: A computer implemented method of authenticating a user. Method comprises reading an identifier from a token, the token being in communication with a computer. An attempt is made to locate a record in a data store on the basis of the identifier, the record comprising authentication data. If the attempt... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080046751 - System, apparatus and method for providing data security using usb device: Disclosed is a data security system using a USB device for maintaining security for files made while various kinds of application programs are used. The data security system comprises: a local computer having the various kinds of application programs installed therein and performing various works by executing the installed various... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080046752 - Method, system, and program product for remotely attesting to a state of a computer system: A method, system, and program product for remotely attesting to a state of computing system is provided. Specifically, the present invention allows a remote system to establish trust in the properties of the computer system. The properties to be trusted are expanded from the usual system software layers and related... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080046753 - Methods and apparatus for managing user access to a computing environment: Methods and apparatus for controlling user access to a computing environment. In one embodiment, a user gains access to at least one computing device at a first time by providing credential information to authenticate the user's identity; presents to a first user interface for the at least one computing device... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080046754 - Electronic locking system for vehicles: An electronic vehicle locking system includes a stanchion affixed to a solid surface, a housing affixed to the stanchion and one or more elongated securing members operable to wrap around a portion of a vehicle. The elongated securing members include a first locking element which is operable to engage a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080046755 - System and method for interapplication communications: A first executable program on a computer system is enabled to exchange communications with a second executable program on the computer system by determining that the first executable program requests to exchange information with the second executable program, using the second executable program to challenge the first executable program for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080046756 - Display of decrypted data by a graphics processing unit: A system, method, and processor executable instructions are disclosed for offloading encryption and/or decryption processing to a system having a parallel processing structure that may include a graphics processing unit. Lookup tables support executing encryption/decryption transformations solely on the graphics processing unit. In one version, the look-up tables support Rijndael... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080046757 - Method, apparatus, and program product for flexible redaction of content: A selectively encrypted data unit is generated from an unencrypted data unit. This is accomplished by accessing a list of attributes related to the unencrypted data unit that identify classifications of sensitive information within the unencrypted data unit. In addition, a protection key that is responsive to a random number... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080046758 - Digital rights management using trusted processing techniques: The present invention discloses several methods to strengthen the integrity of entities, messages, and processing related to content distribution as defined by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Digital Rights Management (DRM). The methods use techniques related to the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) specifications. A first embodiment uses TCG techniques to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080046759 - Id installable lsi, secret key installation method, lsi test method, and lsi development method: In an LSI, a decoding section decodes an ID signal received externally and outputs the decoded signal. A fuse circuit writes the value represented by the decoded signal therein when an operation setting signal is active, and holds the written value when the operation setting signal is inactive. An ID... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080046762 - Protecting system control registers in a data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus and method for protecting system control registers is provided. Processing logic is providing for executing software routines and a plurality of system control registers are used to store access control information for a plurality of system resources available to the processing logic when executing at least... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080046761 - Method and system for strongly encrypting .zip files: The present invention provides a method of integrating existing strong encryption methods into the processing of a .ZIP file to provide a highly secure data container which provides flexibility in the use of symmetric and asymmetric encryption technology. The present invention adapts the well established .ZIP file format to support... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080046760 - Storage device for storing encrypted data and control method thereof: A storage device includes a secure region including a plurality of pages. Each of a plurality of pages includes a first storage region in which a plurality of data items is stored and a second storage region in which a plurality of identification data items corresponding respectively to the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046764 - Data shredding raid mode: A method of storing sensitive data by generating randomization values, transforming the sensitive data and the randomization values into a result, and storing separate portions of the result on at least two storage devices, such that the sensitive data cannot be disclosed if any one of the storage devices is... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080046763 - Method for sharing encrypted data region among processes in tamper resistant processor: In the method for sharing encrypted data region among two or more processes on a tamper resistant processor, one process creates the encrypted data region to be shared according to the common key generated as a result of the safe key exchange, and the other process maps that region to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046766 - Computer system performance estimator and layout configurator: A method, system and computer readable medium for maximizing the performance of a computer system that includes at least one computing unit. Temperature and location data for each computing unit is received by a server unit and the location of each computing unit within a given environment is reevaluated and... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080046765 - Methods and apparatus for cooling integrated circuits: A system and method are disclosed which may include measuring a leakage current level of a processor or multiprocessor chip; and storing an indicator value indicative of the leakage current level in a memory associated with the processor or multiprocessor chip.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080046767 - Power supply and computer using the same: The present invention provides a power supply and computer using the same. The power supply includes a housing having a first surface and second surface. An audio input connector is arranged on the first surface for receiving audio signal. An audio output connector is arranged on the second surface. An... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080046768 - Transmission of a power loss condition over a network: A system is disclosed as including a power supply, a secondary capacitive storage device connected to the power supply, and multiple network devices powered by the power supply. The system further includes a designated device for transmitting a power loss condition over a network, where upon detection of an imminent... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080046769 - Information processing apparatus and control method therefor: A mutual electrically connecting part mutually connects a plurality of information processing parts, wherein the mutual connecting part comprises a phase adjusting part configured to adjust a phase from each of the respective ones of the plurality of information processing parts; and the mutual connecting part further has a power... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080046770 - Synchronization clocking scheme for small scalable multi-processor system: A clocking scheme is provided to synchronize system clock across plural independent SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) domains of the multi-processor system. Each of the SMP domains is connected with another through an interconnection board and two or more identical connectors. The clocking scheme includes a clock source, a SPLL (Select Phase-Locked... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080046771 - Adjustable delay compensation circuit: A data transmitting end utilizes a clock signal to transmit at least a data signal to a data receiving end. An adjustable delay compensation circuit for compensating data transmission delay between the data transmitting end and the data receiving end includes an adjustable delay circuit, a clock gating circuit, and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080046774 - Blade clustering system with smp capability and redundant clock distribution architecture thereof: A redundant clock distribution architecture is provided for a blade clustering system to achieve SMP (symmetric multi-processor) capability and flexible system configuration. The architecture mainly provides a central clock signal from a central clock and a local clock signal from an operative local clock configured on each blade module of... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080046772 - Shifting inactive clock edge for noise reduction: A method and system for reducing clock noises are disclosed. A clock signal includes active edges and inactive edges. Inactive edges produce clock noise but are not critical to the functionality of the clock signal. That is, only active edges are critical to proper timing of an integrated circuit (IC).... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080046773 - Systems and methods for dynamic clock frequencies for low power design: Circuits for generating multiple clocks for computer systems are disclosed. One such system includes a circuit configured to generate a core clock, a system bus clock, and a peripheral clock. The frequency of one of the clocks can be reduced or altered without altering the frequencies at which the other... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080046775 - Memory card control chip: The invention discloses a memory card control chip. The memory card control chip comprises a clock generator, a first memory card interface, and a control circuit. The clock generator generates a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The second clock signal is a spread spectrum clock signal. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080046776 - System and method for switching digital circuit clock net driver without losing clock pulses: A system and method for switching digital circuit clock net driver without losing clock pulses is presented. A device uses glitchless clock selection logic, which includes an edge detector, to select a clock signal to provide to device circuitry based upon the device circuitry's performance requirements. When the rising edges... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080040594 - Electronic apparatus and method for performing initialization using data localization: An electronic apparatus for performing an initialization using data localization includes a first memory which stores first data necessary for an initialization, a first device which performs an initialization using the first data, a second memory which stores second data necessary for an initialization, a second device which performs an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040595 - Disk apparatus and electronic apparatus: A disk apparatus has a memory storing boot-information; and a stop section which reads, upon receipt of a stop event, the boot-information from a disk and checks the read information against the boot-information in the memory. This section updates contents of the memory to store therein the same boot-information as... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080040596 - Embedded system and boot code auto-copy method thereof: An embedded system includes a CPU, a section-swapping control device, a memory device and a section mapping device. The CPU has a boot code initializing address. The section-swapping control device detects a boot condition of the CPU and thus outputs a swap signal. The memory device includes a first memory... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080040597 - Information processing apparatus and controlling method thereof: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a chip set, an input unit executing inputting of a power-on request, a micro-controller inputting the power-on request to the chip set if the power-on request is input from the input unit, a display unit, if a response signal to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040599 - Electronic appliance and startup method: An electronic appliance which is carried by a user, the electronic appliance includes: a first processor configured to perform a first operating system, and to perform a first process of a user interface when the booting of the first operating system is completed; and a second processor configured to perform... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080040598 - Flash micro-controller with shadow boot-loader sram for dual-device booting of micro-controller and host: A flash microcontroller has a Static Random-Access-Memory (SRAM) buffer that stores several blocks of boot code read from a flash memory. The boot code includes an initial boot loader, boot code and a control program that are executed by the flash microcontroller, and an operating system OS image and an... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080040601 - Boot security using embedded counters: The present disclosure provides a system for providing a security and method of providing an enhanced security booting environment. The system and method includes a basic input/output system (BIOS) stored in memory. The system and method also includes a counter embedded in the memory configured to monitor the number of... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080040600 - System and method for reducing instability in an information handling system: A system and method for reducing instability in an information handling system are disclosed. A method includes detecting a configuration change of a first memory device. Next, the method determines a device identifier for a second memory device depending on the configuration change. The method proceeds to update a Configurable... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080040602 - Systems and methods for public-key encryption for transmission of medical information: The invention is directed to systems and methods for communicating sensitive and/or confidential medical information with the use of encryption. Specifically, the invention is directed to transmitting a request for sensitive medical data, where the request includes a public key for encryption as an XML node. The public key may... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080040603 - Multiple level security system and method for encrypting data within documents: A multiple level security system and method for encrypting data within documents is disclosed. The method includes one or more different encryption algorithms, and can employ the one or more different encryption algorithms to achieve the multiple levels of encryption. More particularly, a first encryption algorithm is based upon multiple... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080040605 - Information storage device and method of controlling the same: According to one embodiment, an information storage device, includes an input unit, a converter converting an input signal from the input unit, a verifying unit verifying a signal obtained by the conversion of the converter and authentication information which is read from a storage unit storing the authentication information, and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040604 - System and method for providing authenticated encryption in gpon network: A system and a method for providing a secured transmission through an authenticated encryption for each ONU in downlink transmission of an OLT in GPON are provided. The GPON system includes an OLT for generating a GTC downlink frame by receiving data from an external service provider and ONUs for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040606 - Method and apparatus for binding multiple authentications: Techniques for binding multiple authentications for a peer are described. In one design, multiple authentications for the peer may be bound based on a unique identifier for the peer. The unique identifier may be a pseudo-random number and may be exchanged securely between the peer, an authentication server, and an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080040607 - Software execution randomization: A method of processing programming instructions may include identifying an instruction to be fetched; determining if the identified instruction is protected; if the identified instruction is protected, selecting an alternate instruction from a plurality of alternate instructions corresponding to the identified protected instruction, and fetching the selected alternate instruction; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080040611 - Method and apparatus for path concealment in networks and graphs: A method for data concealment between two parties in a system, including: permitting the system to solicit one or more data from a user; permitting the system to generate a traversed path in a graph by using the one or more data provided by the user to generate the traversed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080040608 - Security memory device and method for making same: A security memory device includes a memory cell array that stores a plurality of contents, including a mine, which is stored as a portion of the plurality of contents. The mine is triggered when it is accessed, typically such that the mine erases the memory contents. Also, control logic is... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080040610 - Systems and methods for client screening in the financial services industry: Systems, methods, and interfaces for screening clients for security compliance with a Customer Identification Program are disclosed. An illustrative system for screening clients can include a client screening engine adapted to filter client account data based on one or more filtering criteria, a database adapted to store client account information... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080040609 - Linked account system using personal digital key (pdk-las): One embodiment of the invention includes a system comprising: a personal digital key and a computer readable medium that is accessible when authenticated by the personal digital key.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080040612 - Glyphword-based security: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for glyphword-based security. Embodiments include establishing a glyphword comprising a plurality of glyphs; and creating a plurality of glyphsheets wherein each glyphsheet includes one or more glyphs included in the established glyphword and one or more glyphs not included in the established... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080040613 - Apparatus, system, and method for secure password reset: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for secure password reset. In one embodiment, an authentication module authenticates a user. An authorization key module retrieves an authorization key from a backup key blob using a backup password. In a certain embodiment, the authorization key module retrieves the authorization key in... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080040616 - Authentication apparatus, authentication method and program: An authentication apparatus includes: image processing means for performing predetermined image processes on biometric trait image data sequentially supplied from image pickup means at predetermined intervals, the predetermined image processes including at least a binarization process; detection means for detecting, over time, correlation values between adjoining images of the image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080040614 - Authentication systems and authentication method: An authentication system and method thereof are provided. A threshold value determination unit determines a threshold value Xth so that a Mahalanobis distance defined by a mean value μt of a true profile and a standard deviation σt and the Mahalanobis distance defined by a mean value μo of the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080040615 - Biometric embedded device: A biometric device, in one embodiment, comprising an interface for communicating with a device reader; a first processor coupled to the interface; a biometric acquisition device coupled to the first processor; a switch coupled to the interface; and a second processor coupled to the interface through the switch. A method,... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080040617 - Apparatus and method for secure field upgradability with unpredictable ciphertext: An apparatus and method for enabling functionality of a component, wherein the apparatus includes a random number generating module for generating a random number, and a hash function module in communication with the random number generating module. A host is provided in communication with the random number generating module, and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080040618 - Method for distributing content to a mobile device with digital rights and mobile device therefor: The invention relates to a method for distributing content to a mobile device using a digital rights management (DRM) scheme, adapted for the case when files are exchanged over an external memory or over a serial connection between a computer (PC) and the mobile device, and a mobile device (ME)... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080040620 - Method for guaranteeing freshness of results for queries against a non-secure data store: A method for guaranteeing freshness of results for queries against a non-secure data store extends a read operation to include steps of: receiving a read instruction for application data to be read; determining a location within the data store for the application data to be read; validating a message authentication... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080040619 - Systems and methods for providing time-and weight-based flexibility tolerant hardware id: Systems and methods for implementing a hardware ID with time- and weight-based flexibility use a hardware ID (HWID) including identifying information about hardware components. When software is run, a current HWID is generated. When the current HWID is compared to a stored HWID to determine if the two HWIDs match,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080040621 - Power management: Embodiments of power management are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080040622 - System and method for limiting processor performance: A system and method for managing performance states of a processor. An enclosure comprises a first processing board with a processor and a second processing board with a processor. A service processor may also be coupled to the enclosure via an interconnect. The second processing board is configured to store... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20080040623 - Storage control device and control method therefor: A storage control device comprises: a first I/O control unit for controlling read/write of data from/to one or more HDDs (Hard Disk Drives); a second I/O control unit whose current consumption is approximately equal to that of the first I/O control unit; two or more first power supply devices supplying... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080040624 - Interface frequency modulation to allow non-terminated operation and power reduction: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for using interface frequency modulation to allow non-terminated operation and power reduction. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an interface having a termination mode and a power management controller coupled with the interface. The apparatus may also include... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080040625 - Apparatus and method for monitoring for a maintain power signature (mps) of a powered devide (pd) in a power source equipment (pse) controller: Power over Ethernet (PoE) communication systems provide power and data communications over the same communications link, where a power source device (PSE) provides DC power (for example, 48 volts DC) to a powered device (PD). The DC power is transmitted simultaneously over the same communications medium with the high speed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080040626 - Systems and methods providing input/output fencing in shared storage environments: Systems and methods for I/O fencing in a shared storage environment are provided. Prior to initiating an I/O request, when feasible, the current time from a local timer is compared to the current state of an interval obtained for the target device. As a result, a device reset occurring while... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080040627 - Digital clock divider: Digital Clock Divider and Method for Operating a Digital Clock Divider A digital clock divider includes an adder and a clock division device configured to receive a first clock signal with a first frequency and to output a second clock signal having a lower frequency relative to the first frequency.... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20080034195 - Method and apparatus for using filesystem operations to initiate device naming: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses filesystem operations to initiate device naming and/or device discovery. The system operates by receiving a command to boot a computer system. In response to the command, the system loads a portion of a filesystem hierarchy that includes a device... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080034196 - Storage system and data management setting method: Proposed are a storage system and a data management setting method capable of preventing the destruction of data while alleviating the management burden of system administrators and the like. This storage system has one or more host systems, and a storage control unit for providing a data logical volume configured... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080034197 - Method of encrypting or decrypting data packets of a data stream as well as a signal sequence and data processing system for performing the method: This invention relates to a method of encrypting data packets of a data stream and decrypting plurally encrypted data of a data stream that provides an increased level of data security and can be automated using a signal sequence (a computer program product) or a data processing device. A data... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080034198 - Systems and methods for using a client agent to manage http authentication cookies: Systems and methods are described for using a client agent to manage HTTP authentication cookies. One method includes intercepting, by a client agent executing on a client, a connection request from the client; establishing, by the client agent, a transport layer virtual private network connection with a network appliance; transmitting,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080034201 - agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability: A plurality of computer nodes communicates using seemingly random IP source and destination addresses and (optionally) a seemingly random discriminator field. Data packets matching criteria defined by a moving window of valid addresses are accepted for further processing, while those that do not meet the criteria are rejected. In addition... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080034199 - High performance data encryption server and method for transparently encrypting/decrypting data: High-performance data encryption/decryption server and method for transparently encrypting/decrypting data. System and method for encryption and/or decryption cryptographic services that have applicability small and large databases and especially to encryption and/or decryption of bulk data. Method for transparently applying a cryptographic operation to application-specific data. Encryption server for transparent encryption... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080034200 - System and method for automatically configuring remote computer: A system and method for automatically configuring a remote computer to establish a VPN connection with a network is disclosed. According to the system and method, a configuration generator determines information necessary for the remote computer to establish the VPN connection, and generate an executable file to be run the... Agent: The Fleshner Group, PLLC

20080034202 - Method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface: A method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface are provided. With the method and apparatus, a unique identifier (UID) is created by a server process when the server process is started. Anytime the server process, i.e. a server runtime environment, instantiates a new credential object... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080034203 - Non-transferable anonymous credential system with optimal anonymity revocation: The present invention relates to a method and system for securely proving ownership of pseudonymous or anonymous electronic credentials. A credential system is described consisting of users and organizations. An organization knows a user only by a pseudonym. The pseudonyms of the same user, established for use with different organizations,... Agent: Robert P.tassinari, Jr. Intellectual Property Law Dept.

20080034204 - Communications network security certificate revocation: The distribution of security certificate revocation information on a communications network is disclosed. An issuer node (82) of said network periodically generates data representative of base certificate revocation lists (CRLs) (10). The issuer node (82) periodically generates data representative of incremental CRLs (50), the incremental CRL data (50) including attributes... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20080034205 - Methods and systems for providing access control to electronic data: Techniques for providing pervasive security to digital assets are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, a server is configured to provide access control (AC) management for a user (e.g., a single user, a group of users, software agents or devices) with a need to access secured data. Within... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080034206 - Encryption method: The present invention relates to a method for encrypting digital information using communication devices, which have an interface for a replaceable or writable storage medium, whose content may be read out and duplicated, having a storage medium which is connected to the interface, a supply of symbols for encryption being... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20080034207 - Method and apparatus for selecting an appropriate authentication method on a client: In one embodiment, a method for facilitating authentication and ease the configuration of authentication includes receiving a credential type selection and selecting one or more authentication types based on the credential type selection and one or more policies set by the administrators. The policies can be preconfigured or dynamically pushed... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080034208 - Resource restriction systems and methods: Resource restrictions are associated with a user identifier. A resource restriction agent receives operating system calls related for resources and provides resource request data to a resource agent. The resource agent determines whether the resource is restricted based on the resource request data and resource restriction data and generates access... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034209 - Context sensitive dynamic authentication in a cryptographic system: A system for performing authentication of a first user to a second user includes the ability for the first user to submit multiple instances of authentication data which are evaluated and then used to generate an overall level of confidence in the claimed identity of the first user. The individual... Agent: Don J. Pelto Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080034210 - Systems and methods for securely providing and/or accessing information: The invention is directed to a secure data communication system and method for use in connection with a potentially untrusted host computer. The system includes a storage medium that is connectable with the potentially untrusted host computer. The system also includes a hardened, stand alone, browser stored on the storage... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080034211 - Domain name ownership validation: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for validating ownership of a domain name. According to one embodiment, a validating ownership of a domain name can comprise retrieving one or more domain name ownership records. For example, the one or more domain name ownership records comprise Who Is records.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080034212 - Method and system for authenticating digital content: A method and system is described to authenticate the sender of digital content, by combining the functionality of a key distribution server with the one of a mail server. This system allows the distribution of a person's public key or keys by simply knowing that person's email address. Senders upload... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080034213 - Electronic document management system: A method, apparatus and program product provide a mechanism for managing the execution of electronic documents using electronic signatures. Documents requiring electronic signatures are automatically identified, mined, trimmed and split from a printer control data language stream. Status information pertaining to needed data, signatories, signature completions and authentication attempts is... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080034214 - Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments: Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent third party—tests the load modules or other executables to verify that their corresponding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034215 - Locked element for use in a graphical modeling environment: In a graphical modeling environment, a method of providing varying levels of protection relating to functionalities associated with at least some elements of a block diagram model, the method including: receiving a selection of one of the elements; receiving an indication of a desired authorization required to use at least... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080034216 - Mutual authentication and secure channel establishment between two parties using consecutive one-time passwords: A communication system and method are configured for mutual authentication and secure channel establishment between two parties. In one embodiment a first party generates a first one-time password and sends it to a second party. The second party authenticates the first party by generating a one-time password using the same... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080034217 - Security for a personal communication device: Security is provided to a communication device configured to accept a physical key device. A public mode of operation is activated for the communication device when the physical key is not accepted by the personal communication device. The public mode of operation allows access to a first set of functions... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080034219 - Biometric authentication for remote initiation of actions and services: In one aspect, the invention relates to generating a trusted communication channel with a client. An agent module is provided at the client along with a task set including one or more tasks. One or more client components needed to complete each of the tasks of the task set is... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080034218 - Key sequence rhythm guidance recognition system and method: A user recognition and identification system and method to identify keyboard users. Key text is evaluated against previously recorded keystrokes by the user for the presence of repeatable patterns that are unique to an individual. Users may be prompted with a rhythm to emulate by a rhythm guidance presenter. The... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080034220 - Method and system for using entertainment files as ring tones: A method and system, suitable for using an original entertainment file for playing as a ring tone on a communication device (104), is provided. The method includes decrypting (304) a part of the original entertainment file using an authorization key upon receiving an incoming call signal. The part of the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080034221 - Portable consumer device configured to generate dynamic authentication data: Embodiments of the invention provide a portable consumer device configured to store dynamic authentication data in memory. The portable consumer device also includes an interface for transmitting data to and receiving power from an external device. The dynamic authentication data is read from the memory by a read-write device located... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080034223 - Storage device and storage method, and information-processing device and information-processing method: A storage device that can be attached and/or detached to and/or from an information-processing device is provided. The storage device includes a storage unit including a first area provided to store an encryption key used to encode first information and first authentication information used to perform authentication, and a second... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080034226 - Information processing system having volume guard function: In a system comprising a first storage system providing plural first logical volumes including real logical volume and a virtual logical volume with a host, a second storage system having a second logical volume, and a management computer, when the first storage system receives an access request to the virtual... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080034224 - Method and apparatus for protecting data in a portable electronic device: Data in a portable electronic device is protected by using external and internal status detection means to determine if the device is misplaced, lost, or stolen. The device then takes, singly or in combination, one of several actions to protect the data on the device, including declaring its location to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080034222 - Mobile terminal, encrypted contents reproduction method and plaintext data generation method employed for the same: A mobile terminal adapted to reproduce an encrypted contents file stored in a predetermined storage area as an alert of an incoming call includes: a storage section for holding first plaintext data corresponding to a head portion of the encrypted contents file; decryption means for decrypting the encrypted contents file... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080034225 - System and method for virtual tape management with remote archival and retrieval via an encrypted validation communication protocol: Remote configuration and utilization of a virtual tape management system via communication of encrypted data. At least one security administrator CPU is communicably attached to a virtual tape management CPU. At least one remote data storage CPU is communicably attached to the virtual tape management CPU and to the security... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20080034227 - System 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

20080034228 - Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information: Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034230 - 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

20080034231 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for electronic commerce including secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers employed in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034229 - Systems and methods using cryptography to protect secure computing environments: Secure computation environments are protected from bogus or rogue load modules, executables and other data elements through use of digital signatures, seals and certificates issued by a verifying authority. A verifying authority—which may be a trusted independent third party—tests the load modules or other executables to verify that their corresponding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080034232 - System and method of managing heat in multiple central processing units: An information handling system is disclosed and can include at least one memory and at least two processor cores coupled thereto. Further, the information handling system can include a controller coupled to the at least two processor cores and the at least one memory. The controller can monitor the temperature... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080034233 - Circuit and operating method for integrated interface of pda and wireless communication system: A circuit for an integrated interface of a PDA and a wireless communication system is suitable for integrating the PDA and the wireless communication system. The circuit includes a first serial port has two terminals, in which one of the two terminals is electrically connected to the PDA, and another... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080034234 - Method and computer for reducing power consumption of a memory: Provided is a method of managing, in a computer including a processor and a memory that stores information referred to by the processor, the memory. The memory includes a plurality of memory banks, respective power supplies of which are independently controlled. The respective memory banks include a plurality of physical... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080034235 - Reconfigurable signal processor: A reduction in circuit size and in power consumption is provided. A signal processor includes: processor elements 501, which are mapped by circuit reconfiguration; processor elements 502a and 502b, which are not mapped by circuit reconfiguration; a power voltage supply area 503; a power voltage cutoff area 504; a system... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080034236 - Method and program for generating execution code for performing parallel processing: Provided is a method of reliably reducing power consumption of a computer, while promoting prompt compilation of a source code and execution of an output code. The method according to this invention includes the steps of: reading a code which is preset and analyzing an amount of operation of the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080034237 - Method and system for fast frequency switch for a power throttle in an integrated device: The ability to change from a first bus ratio to a second bus ratio without draining the transaction queues of a processor.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080034240 - Interface card, network device having the same and control method thereof: An interface card is capable of communicating with an external device and includes a power supplier; a non-volatile memory which stores executable instructions to operate in an active-mode and a sleep-mode; a small-capacity volatile memory which is supplied with power in the sleep mode; a transmitter-receiver which transmits and receives... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080034238 - Multiplexed graphics architecture for graphics power management: A computer system includes a processor, a memory, first and second graphical processors that have different operating characteristics, a switching mechanism coupled to the graphical processors, and a display coupled to the switching mechanism. The switching mechanism is configured to couple a given graphical processor to the display, and is... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080034241 - Power management system for use in laptop computer and management method thereof: A power management system for use in a laptop computer and a power management method are disclosed. The power management system includes an external power apparatus and a control unit and a switch disposed in the laptop computer. The external power apparatus is pluggable and supplies direct current (DC) between... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080034242 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit has an internal circuit to which operation power is supplied or interrupted, and a power supply control circuit for controlling the supply and interruption of operation power to the internal circuit in accordance with an operation mode. The power supply control circuit has a storage circuit... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080034239 - System and method of providing real time to devices within a server chassis: An information management system is disclosed and can include a server chassis having a chassis control panel. The chassis control panel can include a real time clock. Further, the system can include a chassis management controller connected to the chassis control panel. The chassis management controller can include logic to... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080034243 - Method, apparatus and system for exchangeable power sources: In some embodiments, a method, apparatus, and system are described for exchangeable power sources. The system may include a body, two or more contacts, and a power adapter. In some embodiments, a power source may be used to provide a supply of power via the two or more contacts. In... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080034244 - System and method of compensating for the effects of on-chip processing variation on an integrated circuit: A system and method of compensating for effects of on-chip processing variation on an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit is divided into a set of regions. Then, a region control logic, included in each region, predicts a processing variation in each respective region of the integrated circuit. Finally, each region... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080034245 - Cyclemaster synchronization in a distributed bridge: A method of synchronizing cyclemasters over a distributed bridge is disclosed. The method comprises: a local portal sending a synchronization signal to a peer portal through a bridge fabric upon occurrence of a cycle synchronization event on the local portal; the peer portal sampling its local cycle timer to obtain... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20080034246 - Apparatus and method to interface two different clock domains: A gearbox is placed between two clock domains to allow data to be transferred from one domain to the other. Although the two domains may operate at the same clock frequency, typically one domain has a faster clock speed than the other. The gearbox is disposed between the two clock... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080034247 - Reducing cpu and bus power when running in power-save modes: A processing system includes a bus and a processor whose core is constrained to have one or more core clock signal frequencies no lower than a predetermined multiple of the lowest of one or more bus clock signal frequencies. In a power-save mode, the processor is able to generate one... Agent: Mark J. Rozman Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.