Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 03/08

20080077784 - Electronic marketing on a computing device during select time windows: An apparatus and method that can be used for marketing and advertising during the system check of a computer, which is one of the busiest periods that the computer or computer type device has, which occurs just before the computer or computer type device initializes its operating system and after... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080077783 - Method of integrating image and release note of bios: In a method of integrating image and release note of BIOS, a memory space such as flash ROM used for storing machine codes of the BIOS is planned at least one independent block with a specific length, and each block is used for storing a release note of the BIOS.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080077785 - Method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized modifications to rental computer systems: A method for preventing unauthorized modifications to a rental computer system is disclosed. During boot up of the rental computer system, a determination is made whether or not a time-day card is bound to the rental computer system. If the time-day card is bound to the rental computer system, another... Agent: Dillion & Yudell LLP

20080077787 - Method and system of executing a software application in highly constrained memory situation: A method and system for executing a software application having a binary size that is larger than an available memory space in an embedded system from which the software application will execute. The software application is split into one or more initialization sequences and a main code sequence. The method... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080077786 - Rapid-boot computing device with dual operating systems: A computing device is booted in a manner that enables a software application to begin execution with minimal delay. When the device is powered up, a first processor system begins booting under control of a first operating system, and a second processor system begins booting under control of a second... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080077788 - Secure tunnel over https connection: Many secure tunnels require protocols that require special handling, authorization or security certificates, such as L2TP and PPTP. This often eliminates them for use between a corporate or agency network and outside, public networks. A secure socket tunnel protocol (SSTP) adds drivers in both the kernel and user mode to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080077789 - Server, method, and computer program product for mediating communication: An intermediate server mediates communication between a communication terminal and an authentication server for performing authentication of the communication terminal. The intermediate server includes a communication-request receiving unit that receives a communication request message for requesting the authentication server to start communication from the communication terminal; a communication mediating unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080077790 - Authentication system using electronic certificate: To speed up a handshake of mutual authentication conforming to a TLS protocol at the time when a session is not established. An authentication method includes notifying, when an electronic certificate of an authentication partner is stored in a storage area of an authentication terminal apparatus, the authentication partner of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080077791 - System and method for secured network access: A method and system for secured network access is provided in accordance with the present invention. The method begins with receiving a login request from a client on a router. Thereafter, a certificate transfer instruction for the router to an authentication appliance is generated where the client lacks a copy... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080077792 - Bidirectional receive side scaling: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to receiving a packet, determining a packet tuple; generating a hash result by performing a commutative hash function on the packet tuple; and processing the packet on one of a plurality of processors based, at... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080077793 - Apparatus and method for high throughput network security systems: An accelerated network security system includes, in part, a network security engine and a processing module configured to perform network security functions. The network security engine includes an input module configured to receive input data and generate an intermediate data in response, a core engine configured to perform security function... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080077794 - Method for controlling security function execution with a flexible, entendable, and non-forgable block: A method, article, and system for providing an effective implementation of data structures, and application programming interface (API) functions that allow secure execution of functions behind a secure boundary. The controlling mechanism is a flexible, extendable, and non-forgeable block that details how values and parameters behind the secure boundary can... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080077795 - Method and apparatus for two-way authentication without nonces: A method and logical apparatus for accomplishing the two-way authentication of two parties without the use of nonce values. In the prior art, authentication may be accomplished both through the use of stored and of generated password lists. Also from the prior art these methods may be extended by the... Agent: David M. Macmillian

20080077796 - System and method for facilitating secure online transactions: A method and system for mutually authenticating a client and a server is provided in accordance with an aspect of the present invention. The method commences with transmitting a token from the server to the client. Thereafter, the method continues with establishing a secure data transfer link between the server... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080077797 - Verification of encryption key: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture in which a non-reversible signature of a symmetric cryptographic key is computed, wherein the symmetric cryptographic key is used to symmetrically encrypt data at rest in a storage device. The non-reversible signature is stored in association with the symmetrically encrypted data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080077799 - Method and apparatus for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device: An authentication system is provided that includes a portable device and a decryption node. An individual uses the portable device, such as a portable device like a cell phone to compute a challenge and a response. The challenge and response is sent to a decryption node. In response, the decryption... Agent: David O. Caplan

20080077798 - System and method for secure verification of electronic transactions: The present invention relates to a system and method for secure verification of electronic transactions, and in particular secure processing of personal identification numbers when third party processors are involved. In an embodiment, a variable length PIN associated with a credit card or debit card is encrypted, then hashed using... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080077800 - Persistent security system and method: A persistent security system comprises a computing system comprising an operating system (OS), a basic input/output system (BIOS) and a hard disk drive (HDD), the OS configured to initiate a call to the BIOS to cause the BIOS to write an instance of a security routine to the HDD.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080077801 - Protecting interfaces on processor architectures: A method, an apparatus and a computer program product are disclosed for verifying the trustworthiness of a software in an apparatus, and switching a hardware signal in the apparatus into a first state when the software is not trustworthy.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080077804 - Delivery point validation system: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention encode a list so users of the list may make inquiries to the coded list without the entire content of the list being revealed to the users. Once each item in the list has been encoded by an encoder, a bit array... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077802 - Fuel cartridge authentication: Described herein are systems and methods that test authentication information on a fuel cartridge. A controller on a device that interfaces with the cartridge tests and validates the authentication information before permitting fuel provision from the cartridge. The authentication information can be used to prevent unauthorized cartridges from providing fuel.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080077803 - System and method for cryptographic data management: The embodiments of this invention relate to methods for managing encrypted data. An embodiment of this method includes sending data from a first application to a server, encrypting the data sent from the first application to the server to produce encrypted data, storing the encrypted data at the server; and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080077805 - Securing data exchanged in memory: Data exchanged between memory components is protected against possible misuse and breach of security by providing for encryption of data swapped out to another location such as a disk drive.... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080077809 - Credential vault encryption: A number of secondary passwords can be encrypted with a primary password and stored in a credential vault. An encrypted secondary password from the credential vault can be decrypted using the primary password and provided the secondary password to an application. Encrypted secondary passwords can be updated when the primary... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080077806 - Encrypting and decrypting database records: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for encrypting and decrypting database records. Encryption metadata is provided for a database file having fields, wherein the encryption metadata indicates at least one encryption key for the file. A request is received to perform a read or write operation with... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080077807 - Computer hard disk security: Computer hard disk security comprises encrypting data on a computer's hard disk with a cryptographic key depending partly on computer memory contents, RAM and/or BIOS memory. Memory contents changing with time are excluded. The SHA-1 algorithm cryptographically hashes the memory contents giving a hash for XORing with a user password.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080077808 - Method and system for maintaining backup of portable storage devices: Data stored in a portable storage device are encrypted, for example by a processor of the portable storage device itself, using a backup key and stored in a backup medium. The backup key is protected by being stored in a backup key storage medium, such as an internet server, a... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080077810 - Computer system sleep/awake circuit: A computer system sleep/awake circuit includes an infrared sensor for detecting a presence or absence of a user before a display of the computer system, and outputting a corresponding detecting result; a time circuit connected to the infrared sensor for receiving the detecting result and outputting a corresponding result after... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080077811 - Method and system for distributing power to networked devices: One embodiment disclosed relates to a system for power distribution to network devices. The system includes a plurality of network switches each having an internal power supply and a plurality of ports for connecting to the network devices and an external power supply having a plurality of output ports for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080077812 - Multi-function apparatus and control method thereof: A multi-function apparatus having a wider variety of uses and easily employed when carrying a USB cable only without having a power source cord. The apparatus includes means for detecting a connection between the USB interface and the PC, means for detecting a connection to the power line, and control... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080077813 - Fast l1 flush mechanism: In one embodiment, a processor comprises a data cache configured to store a plurality of cache blocks and a control unit coupled to the data cache. The control unit is configured to flush the plurality of cache blocks from the data cache responsive to an indication that the processor is... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080077814 - Link power saving state: Disclosed are embodiments of a method, apparatus and system for a low power state for a point-to-point link. During the low power state, the signal on both conductors of a differential transmit pair are driven to electrical idle. Analog activity detectors are enabled during the low power state and are... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080077815 - Power consumption reduction in a multiprocessor system: Methods and apparatus provide for reducing power consumption by decreasing operating frequencies of waiting processors in a multiprocessor system. Power consumption may be reduced by having a processor enter a low frequency mode when the processor is in a loop waiting for data that have been locked by another processor.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080077816 - Subsystem power management: A method according to one embodiment may include generating, by subsystem voltage regulator circuitry, a subsystem power supply for subsystem circuitry based on, at least in part, a main power supply; detecting, by subsystem power management circuitry, the activity of the subsystem circuitry, and turning off the subsystem power supply,... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Portfolio Ip

20080077817 - Apparatus and methods for managing power in an information handling system: A method of controlling power supplies in an information handling system, comprising measuring a power consumption of each of a plurality of electrical devices in the information handling system and adjusting a number of operating power supplies based at least in part on the measured power consumption of each of... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080077818 - Systems and methods for operational power management: Various systems and methods for power management are disclosed herein. For example, a synchronous semiconductor circuit is disclosed that includes two or more clock sources and a power management controller. The power management controller is operable to apply power to one of the clock sources and to select another of... Agent: Hamilton And Desanctis

20080077819 - Apparatus and method for real time tracking using a quadrature interface: An apparatus for tracking a real time clock comprising a delay element for receiving a first clock signal and providing a second delayed clock signal, a quadrature interface including a first input and a second input for respectively receiving the first and second clock signals, control logic adapted to provide... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080077820 - Method and apparatus for timing and event processing in wireless systems: A digital baseband processor is provided for concurrent operation with different wireless systems. The digital baseband processor includes a digital signal processor for executing digital signal processor instructions, a microcontroller for executing microcontroller instructions, and a timing and event processor controlled by the digital signal processor and the microcontroller for... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080072026 - Method of restarting a computer platform: Provided is a method for restarting a computing platform to a state in which applications run in less time than an initial start, comprising powering on a computing platform having a plurality of devices; identifying one or more of the devices which are not critical to running applications; storing information... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080072028 - Method of restarting a computer platform: Provided is a method for restarting a computing platform to a state in which applications run in less time than an initial start, including powering on a computing platform having a plurality of devices; identifying one or more of the devices which are not critical to running applications; storing information... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080072027 - Methods and apparatus to self-initialize a processor: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to self-initialize a processor. An example method disclosed herein detects a processor reset, receives initialization instructions from a core zone, establishes a core zone boundary, executes received initialization instructions, and publishes a data structure, the data structure comprising state information. Other embodiments are described and... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080072030 - Computer system and method for updating program code: A computer system includes: a processor for executing a program code, a first non-volatile memory for storing a first program code for starting the computer system, the first non-volatile memory being functionally connected to the processor, and a system monitoring module which is functionally connected to the processor and to... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080072031 - System embedding plural controller sharing nonvolatile memory: An embedded memory card system includes a CPU, a nonvolatile memory storing a booting code and data, a card slave controller controlling the nonvolatile memory, a card host controller communicating with the card slave controller, and a memory controller controlling a volatile memory. The CPU controls the memory controller to... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080072029 - Method for executing power on self test on a computer system and updating smbios information partially: A method for executing the power on self test (POST) on the computer system and a method for updating the SMBIOS information partially are provided for a computer system with a first memory and a second memory, wherein the first memory comprises a first storage block and a second storage... Agent: J.c. Patents

20080072032 - Configuring software agent security remotely: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for receiving information from a remote agent locally and responding to the locally received information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080072033 - Re-encrypting policy enforcement point: Providing end-to-end security poses many challenges to security solutions. In Internet Security (IPsec), securing data locally and remotely, as well as reducing the number of security associations and polices needed to secure that data are such challenges. The provided method and apparatus answer theses challenges by i) decrypting an encrypted... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080072035 - Securing multicast data: Systems and methods for securing multicast data are described. Data of a multicast, is protected through the use of at least double encryption keys, such as a community-of-interest key and session key. Data of a multicast is also split into portions of multicast in accordance with the session key, and... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080072034 - Security control in a communication system: The invention relates to a method of controlling security in a communication system comprising at least one node (1,1′,A-D) capable of routing traffic according to a plurality of security algorithms (9,9′) with respective security levels. The method comprises an estimation of at least one safety degree relating to said node,... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080072036 - Apparatus and method for enhancing complexity in user-selected password: An apparatus and method to enhance complexity in user-selected passwords. The apparatus includes an input module to receive a sequence of key presses and key releases from a user. A comparator module compares the sequence to a stored sequence of key presses and key releases, where the stored sequence functions... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080072038 - Key generation method for self-configuration: A key generation method for self-configuration is provided which includes selecting existing nodes as many as a predefined reference number t from nodes which configure a network; transmitting a partial key request message to the selected existing nodes; and generating a node key based on randomized partial keys received in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080072037 - Robust peer-to-peer networks and methods of use thereof: A method of authentication of peers of a peer-to-peer network includes a certificate issuer tracking at most a predetermined number of node IDs for each peer on the peer-to-peer network, a requesting peer requesting from the certificate issuer a certificate for authenticating a communicating peer and each certificate issued listing... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080072039 - Method and system for dynamic certificate generation using virtual attributes: A server, method and/or computer-readable medium system for secure communication includes a certificate authority for generating certificates signed by the certificate authority and associated public and private keys for a client. The server further includes a directory of client attributes and client virtual attributes. At least one of the client... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080072040 - Data transmitting system and method, drive unit, access method, data recording medium, recording medium producing apparatus and method: A security module is provided in a data recording medium, data to be written to the data recording medium is encrypted with an content key different from one data to another, and the content key is safely stored in the security module. Also, the security module makes a mutual authentication... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080072041 - Method and system for processing multicast in unicast-based voip system: In a system and method for processing multicast in a unicast-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system, the method includes the steps of: receiving, at a VoIP call server, subnet information from VoIP terminals authenticated by an authentication server, generating multicast group information, and then providing the multicast group information... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080072042 - Management system, management apparatus and management method: The present invention relates to a management system, and this management system comprises a storage unit for storing information specifying a terminal apparatus and a restoration user information file cipher key related to a security function module in a state associated with each other and a transmission unit for transmitting... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080072043 - Device management system and method of controlling the same: A device management (DM) system and a method of controlling the same, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DM system comprises a DM server for transmitting a notification message in response to a device control request of a user, the notification message including unique authentication information having previously stored... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080072044 - System and method for add-on services, secondary authentication, authorization and/or secure communication for dialog based protocols and systems: The present invention relates generally to a system and method that provides add-on services and/or facilitates authentication, authorization and/or secure communications of a user using a dialog based interactive protocol and accessing a first computer system, separately from the authentication and security mechanism(s) provided by a second computer system using... Agent: Symantec/ Fenwick Silicon Valley Center

20080072045 - Authentication method of random partial digitized path recognition with a challenge built into the path: An interactive method for authentication is based on two shared secrets, including a first shared secret in the form of an ordered path on the frame of reference, and a second shared secret in the form of locations on the frame of reference at which characters identifying a subset of... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080072046 - Communication apparatus: The conventional data transmitting/receiving system has problems: that a correct measurement cannot be performed because a measurement result is an addition of a verification processing time and a transmission time; that an authentication processing which is necessary for a transmission time measurement processing needs to be separately required; and that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080072047 - Method and system for capwap intra-domain authentication using 802.11r: An solution for a mobile station to perform intra-domain inter-access controller authentication using an 802.11r protocol in CAPWAP architecture is presented. The access controller is the authenticator that is configured to store a top-level and second-level shared authentication keys in a key hierarchy defined in 802.11r. The mobile station first-time... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080072048 - Enabling use of a certificate stored in a smart card: If a smart card is to be used for a particular purpose, and there is no certificate initialized on the smart card for this purpose, a computerized device enables a user to select one of the certificates already installed in the smart card for the particular purpose. The selected certificate... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080072052 - Authentication server, image formation apparatus, image formation authenticating system and computer readable storage medium storing program: An authentication server communicationally connected to an image formation apparatus through a communication network. The server includes: a registration information reception unit to receive registration information including individual information assigned peculiarly to the image formation apparatus and installation information from the image formation apparatus; a security information generation unit to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080072051 - Bi-processor architecture for secure systems: Systems, methods and program products for a first central processing unit (CPU) configured to perform tasks that do not require manipulation of sensitive information and a second CPU that is configured to perform tasks that manipulate the sensitive information on behalf of the first CPU. The first CPU and the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080072049 - Software authorization utilizing software reputation: Software is authorized in accordance with a reputation of the software. A trust in the author and/or publisher of the software is determined via digital signatures and/or CoAs, and a reputation of the software is utilized to determine the intent of the software. The reputation of the software can be... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080072050 - Systems and methods for using an access point for testing multiple devices and using several consoles: A system and method for testing computing devices is provided. A method for testing computing devices includes providing a suite of test programs on a server for execution by a computing device that is coupled to the server. A test console coupled to the server is used to initiate execution... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080072054 - Method of managing metadata: Managing metadata in a metadata transmission server by generating a plurality of metadata fragment data by partitioning metadata to be transmitted based upon predetermined segment units, selecting predetermined metadata fragment data from among the plurality of the metadata fragment data, generating metadata-related authentication information using the selected metadata fragment data,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080072053 - Web-based authentication system and method: A web-based authentication system and method provides centralized management of authentication data for web-based applications. Under typical operation of the system, a user need only remember to authenticate data to the system rather than have to remember various sets of authentication data for numerous web-based applications that the user may... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080072055 - Digital signature scheme based on the division algorithm and the discrete logarithm problem: A method of creating a secure digital signature, including one or more of the following: a sender, based on a private key K and message x, calculates a unique pair of integers q and r such that int(K)=int(h)q+r, then chooses a cyclic group G with generator g, for which the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080072056 - Challenge-based authentication protocol: Methods and apparatus for authenticating a user are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for authenticating a user includes displaying a first representation of a challenge. The challenge is based on a ruleset. The method also includes receiving a first input, determining if the first... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080072057 - Authentication and authorization in heterogeneous networks: A apparatus, system, and network elements for authentication and authorization of a mobile terminal (MT) roaming to or in a foreign network different from its home network is provided, the home network having an authentication and authorization home server (AAAH), and the foreign network having a plurality of domains each... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080072058 - Methods in a 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

20080072059 - System and methods for transportation and delivery using bar codes: A method of obtaining a package is described. A user is electronically notified that a package has arrived at a predetermined location. The user then prints a paper receipt including a two-dimensional bar code encoding the user's previously provided biometric information. At the predetermined location, the user scans the two-dimensional... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080072060 - Memory device for cryptographic operations: A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory configured to store a cryptographic communication application and the cryptographic communication application is configured to be associated with a web browser. The cryptographic communication application comprises computer instructions for receiving a message encapsulated in a protocol type from the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080072061 - Method for interacting with a memory device in cryptographic operations: A method for interacting with a memory device is provided. In this method, a cryptographic communication application is registered to be associated with a protocol type in a web browser. A message encapsulated in the protocol type from the web browser is received and thereafter transmitted to the memory device.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080072062 - Method and system for maintaining login preference information of users in a network-based transaction facility: The present invention relates to various aspects for maintaining and utilizing login preference information of users of a network-based transaction facility. In one embodiment, user interface information is communicated to a client via a communications network. The user interface information includes information concerning a plurality of features within the network-based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080072063 - Method for generating an encryption key using biometrics authentication and restoring the encryption key and personal authentication system: A personal authentication system using biometrics information. The system orders, when an characteristic element in the biometrics information (such as a characteristic point in a fingerprint) can be expressed with two types of information (such as, for instance, a coordinate values for a characteristic point in a fingerprint and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080072064 - Secure universal transaction system: A secure universal transaction system includes an operations and resource component, at least one communication device for enabling user interaction with the operations and resource component, and a secure token associated with each user of the system. The operations and resource component includes a first biometric security component, a second... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080072065 - Method and system for smellprint recognition biometrics on a smartcard: The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using smellprint recognition biometrics in a smartcard-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a smellprint sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying biometric samples. In one embodiment, the biometric security system includes a smartcard configured... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080072066 - Method and apparatus for authenticating applications to secure services: During a first time interval, an authentication system produces a fingerprint of a first application, encrypts it and stores the encrypted fingerprint in a memory. In second time interval the authentication system produces a fingerprint of a second application, and retrieves the encrypted fingerprint of the first application from the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080072067 - Methods for integrating revenue generating features within a software application and systems thereof: A method and system for generating revenue within an application includes determining when at least one of stored data associated with a user of an application, input data entered by the user of the application, and an action by the user of the application corresponds with at least one transactional... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080072068 - Methods and apparatuses for securing firmware image download and storage by distribution protection: A method for obtaining a firmware image from a second encrypted data having an encrypted firmware image. The encrypted firmware image is generated from the firmware image sequentially encrypted utilizing a first encryption key and a second encryption key. The first encryption key is specified for securing the firmware image.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080072069 - Protecting client-side code: Protecting client-side code is disclosed. In some embodiments, when a request for a page is received via a network from a client, an initial definition of the page is sent to the client wherein the initial definition comprises a client-side code configured to cause the client to request on an... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20080072071 - Hard disc streaming cryptographic operations with embedded authentication: A data storage system comprises a storage element, and an encryption and decryption unit connected between a host and the storage element, and using a key that is generated in the data storage system.... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080072074 - Information-protection device, information-protection system, information-protection method, and program-storage medium storing information protection program: Input data is decoded by a decoder. Decoded data that cannot be processed is stored in an unknown-data storage. The unknown data is encoded by an encoder at a time of user's check to be returned to clear data. The input checker shows the input data that has been returned... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080072073 - Portable storage device with encryption protection: A portable storage device with encryption protection is provided, including a memory interface connected to a data access host for inputting decryption information from the data access host and for outputting to the data access host, an encryption promotion unit connected to the memory interface for recording the data protection... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080072072 - Recording device and recording method: A recorder includes: a bound recording section for bound-recording at least one data file and at least one management information file for a content; a control section for giving an instruction to move the content to a storage medium; and a drive for recording the content's data on the storage... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080072070 - Secure virtual ram: A secure virtual RAM securely transfers data within a device having a secure, non-volatile memory and a host. The secure virtual RAM includes a memory management component configured to direct the transfer of the data between the non-volatile memory and a processor, and an encryption/decryption component coupled to the memory... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080072075 - Method of and apparatus for reproducing information, and security module: An information reproducing apparatus of the present invention includes a secure module and a main memory. The information in the secure module can not be accessed from outside. The secure module reads, using a direct access method, information relating to software stored in the main memory. The secure module checks... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080072076 - Method of and apparatus for reproducing information, and security module: An information reproducing apparatus of the present invention includes a secure module and a main memory. The information in the secure module can not be accessed from outside. The secure module reads, using a direct access method, information relating to software stored in the main memory. The secure module checks... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080072078 - Information processor and information processing method: An information processor includes a first storage device mounted in a main body of the information processor, a storage device attaching section to/from which a second storage device can be attached/detached, a network interface device, an instruction device configured to give a store instruction to store information, and a division... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080072077 - Notification of revocation in a device offering secure playback of content: A device, suitable for playback of content, identifies components, installed on the device, to be used during playback of the content. Additionally, the device obtains a list of revoked components, which it compares with the identified device components. If one or more of the device components matches one or more... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080072079 - System and method for implementing predictive capacity on demand for systems with active power management: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for predicting capacity on a data processing system. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a capacity manager estimates an incremental power value utilize for activating and maintaining an additional processor in the data processing system. The capacity manager calculates a power... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080072080 - Method and system for controlling and monitoring an array of point-of-load regulators: A power control system comprises a plurality of POL regulators, at least one serial data bus operatively connecting the plurality of POL regulators, and a system controller connected to the serial data bus and adapted to send and receive digital data to and from the plurality of POL regulators. The... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080072081 - System and method for dynamically managing groups of power supplies for a computer system: A system and method for dynamically managing groups of power supplies for a computer system has a plurality of first circuits, each of the first circuits responsive to an electrical condition of each of the plurality of power sources. A second circuit is coupled to the plurality of first circuits,... Agent: Foundry Networks, Inc.

20080072082 - Device for detecting impacts or vibrations: Taught is a detection device for detecting impacts and the like, comprising an integrated microcontroller (1) which includes an RFID interface (101) and a non-volatile memory (201), the integrated microcontroller (1) being interfaced with at least one suitable sensing means (2) through a suitable digital interface (102), the integrated microcontroller... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080072083 - Mobile multi-media interface and power pack for portable entertainment devices: A power supply and interface circuit assembly is used with a portable media player (PMP) to relay signals between the PMP and a peripheral device(s), such as a head-mounted display. A power supply in or attached to the assembly provides power to the circuitry, the PMP, and the peripheral device.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080072084 - Method for power management: A power management method is applied to a computer at a standby mode. When the computer in the standby mode idles more than a predetermined time, a firmware control program is activated. System state data contained in a first storage device of the computer is stored in a second storage... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080072085 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device having power reduction mechanism: A semiconductor integrated circuit device is composed of logic gates each provided with at least two MOS transistors. The logic gates are connected to a first potential point and a second potential point. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a current control device connected between the logic gate and the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080072086 - Apparatus and method for managing power-saving mode of portable terminal: An apparatus and method for managing a power-saving mode of a portable terminal are provided. The method includes when a application program is running, assigning a network traffic type of the application program with one of a class type selected from a plurality of predefined class types of a sleep... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080072087 - Method and apparatus for waking up a circuit: An indication that a power supply is ramped up to a threshold level is received. A circuit is woken up in response to receiving the indication if a control field of configuration information is in a first state, and the circuit is not woken up in response to receiving the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20080072088 - Method and apparatus for a zero voltage processor sleep state: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for a zero voltage processor sleep state. A voltage regulator may be coupled to a processor to provide an operating voltage to the processor. During a transition to a zero voltage power management state for the processor, the operational voltage... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080072089 - Method and control circuit for reducing instantaneous startup current of a computer system: A method and a control circuit for reducing an instantaneous startup current of a computer system by decreasing a fan rotational speed are provided. The computer system comprises a management controller coupled to a fan device through a tri-state buffer. In the present method, a duty cycle of a first... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080072090 - System and method for strategic power supply sequencing in a computer system with multiple processing resources and multiple power supplies: A system and method are provided for strategic power supply sequencing in a computer system. The system and method includes a plurality of processing resources that process data and a plurality of power supplies that provide power for the processing resources. A power management engine adjusts the power supplies in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. One Shell Plaza

20080072091 - Fuel cell based battery backup apparatus for storage subsystems: Fuel cell based backup unit apparatus for storage subsystems are provided. With the apparatus, at least one fuel cell is provided as part of a fuel cell power generation array that is used to provide backup power to a storage subsystem of a computing device, such as a RAM cache.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080072094 - Asynchronous data holding circuit: An asynchronous data holding circuit including a source synchronizer which acquires an enable signal synchronized with a destination clock, in response to a rising or falling edge of the enable signal, acquires the other one of the rising or falling edge of the enable signal in synchronization with a source... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080072093 - Dynamic clock phase alignment between independent clock domains: A design structure is described for dynamically aligning clocks in independent clock domains with minimal latency. In the preferred embodiments, a reference clock in the destination clock domain that is some multiple times the data clock of the destination clock domain is used to sample a data sample signal from... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080072092 - System and method for tuning power consumption and group delay in wireless rfics: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for tuning power consumption and group delay in circuits such as radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). In one example, a system includes first and second gating blocks configured to reduce a first clock signal operating at a first clock rate to... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20080072095 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided in which the timing margin for fetching data is prevented from being reduced even in the case where the duty ratio of a clock signal is different from 50%. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a clock input terminal for receiving a clock signal; a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080072096 - Pulse-per-second attachment for stp: A time synchronization apparatus, method and system are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises at least a time of day clock, a first port operable to receive at least first time information using a first time protocol, a second port operable to receive at least second time information using... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080072097 - Synchronization signal for tod-clock steering adjusment: A system, method and computer program product for synchronizing adjustment of a time of day (TOD) clock for a computer system having multiple CPUs, each CPU having an associated physical clock providing a time base for executing operations that is stepping to a common oscillator, and an associated logical TOD... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080072098 - Controller link for manageability engine: An embodiment of the present invention is an efficient interconnecting bus. A first clock source generates a first clock signal at a first frequency on a link bus line synchronized with first data to be transmitted to a device. The device has a second clock source to generate a second... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080065874 - System and method for dynamic determination of system topology in a multiple building block server system: A system and method for an initial boot of a system before adding or removing drawers to a system without requiring an n-level cable. Standby power is applied after all cables have been connected to the system. All available expansion ports for an SMP cable are searched. A unique ID... Agent: Janis E. Clements

20080065875 - Bios bootable raid support: A computing apparatus comprises a system Read-Only Memory (ROM) comprising a system Basic Integrated Operating System (BIOS) that implements Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) protection on a boot volume.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080065876 - Apparatus and method for user-defined tunables: A user-defined tunable, and an apparatus and a method for creating the user-defined tunable, are described. The user-defined tunable includes a tunable name, an assigned value, and an expression that relates the user-defined tunable to one or more kernel tunables. The kernel tunables have parameter values defined by the expression,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080065877 - Peer-to-peer communication method for near field communication: A peer-to-peer communication method for NFC is provided. A link-level security is started by exchanging a link-level security request and a link-level security response between an initiator terminal and a target terminal, then transmission data are encrypted at link-level security layers of the initiator terminal and the target terminal, and... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080065878 - Method and system for encrypted message transmission: A method for the secure transmission of an electronic message from a sender to a recipient. The method comprises receiving an encrypted sender transmission file transmitted from a sender computer station at a management server, wherein the sender transmission file comprises one or more signed hash values, a sender identifier... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080065879 - Method and system for detecting concurrent logins: Concurrent login detection system includes: a message receiving unit configured for receiving a log message which is indicative of a user identifier of a user, login/logout state of the user, and a session identifier, from an external server; a corresponding message retrieval unit configured for retrieving a corresponding message of... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080065880 - Securing a communications exchange between computers: For use in a distributed system where a client computer is operable to communicate with a server computer and to receive a digital certificate associated with a remote external component, apparatus for securing a communications exchange between computers includes a hasher, responsive to the client computer receiving a digital certificate,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080065882 - Configuring a storage drive to communicate with encryption and key managers: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for configuring a storage drive to communicate with encryption and key managers. A storage drive receives a request to access a coupled removable storage media for drive operations. The storage drive obtains encryption status for the coupled removable storage media from... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080065881 - Recovering remnant encrypted data on a removable storage media: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture recovering remnant encrypted data on a removable storage media. An end of data (EOD) marker is detected on a removable storage media, wherein a first encryption key is associated with data preceding the EOD marker. Following the EOD marker, an identifier... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080065883 - Authentication for devices located in cable networks: An extensible authentication framework is used in cable networks such as Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable networks. The authentication scheme allows for centralized authentication of cable modems, as well as authentication of the cable network by cable modems. Additionally, the authentication scheme allows a Cable Modem Termination... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080065885 - Data processing apparatus: In the configuration performing a data processing by a hardware processing circuit (accelerator), to provide a technology capable of improving a poorness of processing efficiency by multiple accesses to the data, the following solving means are provided. A network data processing accelerator of the present network data processing apparatus comprises... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080065884 - Method and apparatus for establishing security association between nodes of an ad hoc wireless network: A method and apparatus for establishing security associations between nodes of an ad hoc wireless network includes two authentication steps: an initial first contact step (authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)-based authentication), and a “light-weight” step that reuses key material generated during first contact. A mesh authenticator within the network provides... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080065886 - Method and system for establishing real-time authenticated and secured communications channels in a public network: A system and method comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for authenticating and encrypting and decrypting information transferred over a public network between a client application program running in a client computer and a server application program running in a server computer and a... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20080065887 - Secure authentication using hardware token and computer fingerprint: A method and apparatus for secure authentication of a hardware token is disclosed. In one embodiment, a host computer fingerprint is used to generate a partial seed for a challenge-response authentication which is performed on the hardware token. In another embodiment, the host computer fingerprint is used as a personal... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080065889 - Key generation and retrieval using key servers: Provided are techniques for key generation and retrieval. Unique identifiers of two or more key servers are stored, wherein each key server is capable of generating keys for encryption of data and of returning keys for decryption of data. A key request is received. A technique for selecting one of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080065890 - Secure support for hop-by-hop encrypted messaging: The disclosure relates to reducing the risk of security breaches in a multi-hop network. A decryption engine can decrypt at least a portion of a first encrypted packet using a first pair-wise transient key (PTK) to generate a first decrypted packet. A processor can then process the first decrypted packet... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080065888 - Security authentication and key management within an infrastructure based wireless multi-hop network: A system and method of security authentication and key management scheme in a multi-hop wireless network is provided herein with a hop-by-hop security model. The scheme adapts the 802.11r key hierarchy into the meshed AP network. In this approach, a top key holder (R0KH) derives and holds the top Pairwise... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080065892 - Authentication methods and apparatus using pairing protocols and other techniques: In one aspect, a first processing device, which may be an authentication token, establishes a shared key through a pairing protocol carried out between the first processing device and a second processing device. The pairing protocol also involves communication between the second processing device and an authentication server. As part... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080065891 - Opaque message archives: A system includes a server equipped to generate a split encryption key having at least a first key portion and a second key portion, that is used by the server to encrypt at least a portion of a message. Additionally, the first key portion of the split encryption key is... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080065895 - Method and system for implementing authentication on information security: Methods and systems for implementing authentication on information security are disclosed, and the process includes: receiving from a user an access request which carries an attribute certificate, wherein the attribute certificate includes an extension identifier for indicating a biometric certificate associated with the attribute certificate; acquiring the biometric certificate, determining,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080065893 - Schema signing: In one embodiment, an object in a database schema may be verified as having a valid digital signature associated with a trusted entity. An application may be permitted access to the object of the database schema only when the object of the database schema is verified to have a valid... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080065894 - Secure mailbox printing system with authentication on both host and device: A method for secure communication and printing, comprising: user entering user and destination information to host; authentication server producing, saving encryption key for the job, user, and destination information into database, and sending to host; host encrypting the job using encryption key and sending job to destination; user entering user... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20080065896 - Digital watermark systems and methods: A digital watermark is added to audio or visual content. An illustrative embodiment segments the content, permutes the segments, and transforms such data into another domain. The transformed data is altered slightly to encode a watermark. The altered data can then be inverse-transformed, and inverse-permuted, to return same to substantially... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080065897 - Enhanced security for display device: For securing a portable device, a first input is received to determine whether a security feature is enabled. A second input is received from a sensor to determine a presence of a physical lock for securing the portable device. A prompt for a password is output in response to determining... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080065898 - Use of device driver to function as a proxy between an encryption capable tape drive and a key manager: A tape system is provided with an encryption capable tape drive and an encryption enabled tape drive device driver for the encryption capable tape drive. The encryption enabled tape drive device driver functions as a proxy which connects the encryption capable tape drive to a key manager which serves keys... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20080065899 - Variable expressions in security assertions: A security scheme enables control over variables that are expressed in security assertions. In an example implementation, a security type is implicitly assigned to variables based on their syntactic position within a given assertion. In another example implementation, a security scheme enforces strong variable typing such that each variable in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080065901 - Biometrics authentication method, media for individual authentication, and biometrics authentication device: A biometrics authentication device which detects body characteristics, performs verification against registered biometrics data, and performs individual authentication, by which confidentiality is improved even when biometrics data is separated, distributed and stored. A biometrics information key is created from biometrics data detected by a detection device, the biometrics data is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080065900 - Method and apparatus for biometrics: An apparatus and method for biometrics are provided. The apparatus includes a user registration unit, a user authentication unit, and a transform key storing unit. The user registration unit store a second registration template that transforms a first registration template generated from user biological data using a random orthogonal matrix... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080065908 - Method and system for managing the functionality of user devices: A method for managing the functionality of a user device is provided that includes storing security information for a secure zone in a user device. The security information for the secure zone includes at least one peripheral associated with the secure zone. Based on the security information for the secure... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080065905 - Method and system for secure data storage: A secure storage device includes a storage medium configured to securely store data received from a host. The storage device further includes a host interface configured to transfer data between the host and the storage device and an encryption engine. The encryption engine is configured to encrypt data received from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080065904 - Reproduction of compact discs and dvds: A system and method for controlling duplication of data on discs on-line. There is a disc duplication device having software embedded therein for directing the transfer of information from an information source to multiple discs. There is also an I/O port for connecting a processor in the disc duplicating device... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20080065903 - Selective encryption of data stored on removable media in an automated data storage library: In an automated data storage library, selective encryption for data stored or to be stored on removable media is provided. One or more encryption policies are established, each policy including a level of encryption one or more encryption keys and the identity of one or more data cartridges. The encryption... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20080065907 - System and method for securely restoring a program context from a shared memory: A system and method for securely restoring software program context is presented. A special purpose processor core is included in a heterogeneous processing environment where each processor can access a shared memory. The isolated special purpose processor core includes an isolated local memory. The isolated special purpose processor core receives... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080065902 - Systems and methods for recording an encrypted interaction: Systems and methods for recording an encrypted contact center interaction.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080065906 - Validating an encryption key file on removable storage media: Provided are a method, system, removable storage cartridge, and article of manufacture for validating an encryption key file on a removable storage media. Copies of an encryption key file are written to multiple locations on a removable storage media, wherein data is encrypted and decrypted using an encryption key included... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080065910 - Information integration across autonomous enterprises: A system, method, and computer program product for processing a query spanning separate databases while revealing only minimal information beyond a query answer, by executing only specific information-limiting protocols according to query type.... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080065909 - Virtual disk management methods: Virtual disks management methods and systems. First, a file space is set and a first password is set. A first device code is acquired. The file space is encrypted according to the first password and the first device code to obtain an encrypted file. Thereafter, a designation of the encrypted... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080065911 - Apparatus for transferring licensed digital content between users: Techniques are described for reselling digital data content, such as books, other types of documents, music, video, software and games. Such data are stored in a small portable digital rights management (DRM) device, such as a non-volatile memory card or flash drive, along with a license that defines the extent... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080065912 - Controlling fan speed in electronic system: An electronic system includes a fan and a fan controller connected to the fan to control a speed of the fan. The fan controller has storage locations for storing thermal data used by the fan controller to control the speed of the fan. A thermal sensor generates a first portion... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080065913 - Portable information recording/reproduction device: According to one embodiment, in order to manage the remaining capacity of a secondary battery of an information recording/reproduction device, the remaining capacity of the secondary battery which supplies electric power to the whole device including a storage medium is monitored in accordance with current supply capacity and in accordance... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080065914 - Method for regulating system power using a power governor for dram in a multi-node computer system: A method for regulating system power using a power governor for DRAM in a multi-node computer system regulating memory power consumption of an entire computer system employs a closed ring that connects all the power governors within the system to enable them to work in concert so that each of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080065915 - System for circulating power usage information on a closed ring communication path with multi-node computer system: A method of regulating power for multi-node computer system components has a closed-ring path that links all the power governors and circulating in the ring is a system power number that represents the power consumption of the entire system. Meanwhile, all the governors keep counting its local power consumption. Each... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080065916 - Transitioning of a port in a communications system from an active state to a standby state: A method of transitioning a port in a communication system from an active state to a standby state includes the steps of transmitting a signal to transition the port to the standby state, and, upon transmission of the signal to transition the port to the standby state, transitioning the port... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080065917 - Information processing apparatus and resume control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is enabled to change a state from an operating state to a standby state, a hibernation state and a power-off state, and resume from the standby state, the hibernation state, and the power-off state to the operation state. The information processing apparatus... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080065920 - Microcontroller and arts related thereto: A power supply unit is arranged between a CPU and a power supply device for supplying power to the CPU. Information necessary in proceeding with a program is evacuated from the CPU to an information holding unit. When a power shutdown factor is generated, a power supply control unit outputs... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080065918 - Power saving electronic apparatus and method for saving power of the electronic apparatus: A method for saving power of an electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an input unit for receiving operational inputs, a backlight unit for providing lighting, a setting table for recording relationship between operation modes and predetermined time periods. The method includes: reading a corresponding predetermined time period from... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080065919 - Method and computer program for reducing power consumption of a computing system: In a computing system where multiple servers are connected through a network and one or more jobs are run, a power reduction facility of a supervisory server relocates jobs according to predetermined conditions, thereby reducing the amount of power consumed by the computing system. For relocating the jobs, the power... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080065921 - Method and apparatus for operating a power feed in a computer system: Method, and apparatus for operating a power feed in a computing system. One exemplary embodiment includes monitoring the power feed to ensure the power level of the entire system never remains above a first power level and only remains above a second power level for a period of time determined... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080065923 - Assigning clock arrival time for noise reduction: A method, system and computer program product reducing clock noise generated by clock signals in an integrated circuit (IC) are disclosed. Conventional IC design attempts to ensure coincident clock active edge arrival times for all clocked elements. The coincident active clock edges generate coincident noise currents, which elevates the total... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080065922 - Extended synchronized clock: Disclosed herein are methods and circuits to generate a clock signal.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080065924 - Technique to create link determinism: A technique for promoting determinism among bus agents within a point-to-point (PtP) network. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to techniques to compensate for link latency, data skew, and clock shift within a PtP network of common system interface (CSI) bus agents.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080065925 - System and methods for synchronizing performances of geographically-disparate performers: Additionally, when combined with various types of digital media devices, the techniques, mechanisms, and procedure of the invention can create a virtual online media environment. The online media environment can support the composition, performance, recording and playback of multiple live video images, the composite positioning of said multiple live video... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080065926 - Hvac synchronization: Systems and methods are described for synchronizing an HVAC control system. A method, includes: a synchronization sequence including: reading a base time from an internal clock at a first time and saving the base time; measuring an elapsed time interval, from the first time to a second time, by counting... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20080065927 - Circuit for controlling operations of universal serial bus (usb) device: A circuit for controlling operations of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device includes a frequency converter, a USB PHY, and a USB core. The circuit is provided with a first clock having a first frequency, where the first frequency is not a factor of a USB specified frequency. The frequency... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080059781 - Method and apparatus for efficiently arranging portable executable (pe) images: When a processing system boots, an image loader may determine whether a portable executable (PE) image for a platform firmware runtime service includes a discardable section. The image loader may load part of the PE image into runtime memory to be used by the platform firmware. In response to determining... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080059782 - Methods and systems to dynamically configure computing apparatuses: Methods and systems to dynamically configure computing apparatuses, such as desktop computers and portable computing devices, are disclosed. Embodiments generally comprise configuration systems that communicate with the computing apparatuses, retrieve hardware and/or software information from the apparatuses, and use the information to configure and/or load software onto the apparatuses. The... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20080059783 - Multimedia player and auto recovery method therefor: An auto recovery method for a multimedia player is disclosed. A microcontroller is initialized and a central processing unit (CPU) is activated. It is determined whether a power-off request from the CPU is received. If not, it is determined whether a monitor message from a monitor application is periodically received.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080059784 - Method for simulating an intelligent platform management interface using bios: A method for simulating IPMI using BIOS. A memory space is defined in a memory storing BIOS for storing a BMC module. The BIOS provides a setup menu comprising an enabling option for enabling or disabling a BMC function. It is determined whether the BMC function is enabled. If so,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080059785 - Method and apparatus for shutting down a computer system: A method for quickly shutting down a personal computer system using a non-volatile reprogrammable memory device. A compressed memory image of the contents of the system working memory, hardware configuration and other relevant information is stored in the non-volatile reprogrammable memory. When shutting down, the process detects changed hardware and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080059786 - Device initiated mode switching: Provided are a method, system, deployment and article of manufacture, wherein in one embodiment, a mode of operation may be switched to a service mode by detecting a device inserted into a connector of an input/output port of a system. In the illustrated embodiment, the device has a connector and... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080059789 - Method for securing an interaction between nodes and related nodes: The invention proposes a method for securing an interaction between a first node and a second node, wherein a security algorithm belonging to both a first set of security algorithms held by the first node and a second set of security algorithms held by a third node is selected to... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080059788 - Secure electronic communications pathway: A system and method to enable a transparent, outboard, proxy secure channel between two endpoints on a Local Area Network (LAN) using front-end network encryption devices are provided. A secure channel provides an encrypted, authenticated communications pathway that protects an otherwise insecure communications network against threats including passive eavesdropping, active... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080059787 - Unidirectional proxy re-encryption: A method for performing unidirectional proxy re-encryption includes generating a first key pair comprising a public key (pk) and a secret key (sk) and generating a re-encryption key that changes encryptions under a first public key pka into encryptions under a second public key pkb as rkA→B. The method further... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080059792 - Method of indexing security keys for mobile internet protocol authentication: The present invention provides a method involving a mobile node, a home agent, and an authentication server in a wireless communication system. The method includes generating, at the authentication server, a first security key that indicates a secure association between the home agent and the mobile node based on a... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080059790 - Methods, apparatus and systems for smartcard factory: An embodiment generally relates to a method of managing tokens. The method includes detecting a presence of a token at a client and determining a status of the token. The method also includes formatting the token at the client in response to the status of the token being unformatted.... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080059791 - Verification method for operation of encryption apparatus and its application to electronic voting: A verification method for encrypter operation and an electronic voting verification system using the same, which can verify the operation of the encrypter without having to execute corresponding decryption. In the verification method, the encrypter creates a plurality of ciphertexts corresponding to the plain text and presenting the ciphertexts to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080059793 - Methods and systems for phone home token registration: An embodiment relates generally to a method of binding a token to a user. The method includes receiving a token embedded with an address and inserting the token into a computer. The method also includes connecting to the address stored on the token and binding a user to the token... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080059794 - Method, apparatus and computer readable medium for secure conversion of confidential files: A method of secure file conversion is disclosed. The method includes storing a decrypted version of a previously encrypted file, the encryption and decryption occurring using public key infrastructure, in an allotted memory location of a memory for which read-only access to the stored decrypted file is provided. Next, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080059795 - Security-enabled storage controller: An apparatus and method are described for encrypting and decrypting information stored in a plurality of disk drives located within a large storage system. In various embodiments of the invention, encryption and decryption processes are implemented within a storage controller or controllers in the storage system.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080059796 - Communication system: A communication system is provided with an information processing device and a management device capable of outputting predetermined data to the information processing device. The management device is provided with a challenge input device, an encryption device, and a combination data output device. The challenge input device inputs challenge data... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080059797 - Data communication system, agent system server, computer program, and data communication method: In the data communication system, a portable communication terminal is authenticated by an agent system including an authentication unit, a decision unit and a communication unit. The authentication unit is adapted to perform, based on granted license information received from the portable communication terminal, at least one of a system... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080059798 - Entry control system: An integrated security system which seamlessly assimilates with current generation logical security systems. The integrated security system incorporates a security controller having standard network interface capabilities including IEEE 802.x and takes advantage of the convenience and security offered by smart cards and related devices for both physical and logical security... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080059801 - Authenticatable displayed content: Embodiments include a method, a computing device, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a method implemented in a computing environment. The method includes receiving an indication of a selected watermark. The method also includes incorporating a human-perceivable manifestation of the selected watermark in each visual area of at... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059799 - Mechanisms to control access to cryptographic keys and to attest to the approved configurations of computer platforms: Methods and arrangements to control access to cryptographic keys and to attest to the approved configurations of computer platforms able to access these keys, which include trusted platform modules (TPMs) are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to control access to a cryptographic key by creating... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20080059803 - Method for the authentication of printed document: The present invention intends to provide a method of generating document authentication data and authenticating documents by determining whether or not an authenticated document in question is consistent with the original document. The present invention provides an improved method of authenticating a digital or a printed document, capable of verifying... Agent: Tung, Tien-chun

20080059800 - Paper-based document logging: A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for paper-based document logging. In one embodiment, the method comprises scanning bits of a document, generating a cryptographic hash, converting the cryptographic hash into a machine readable code, and rewriting the document with the code contained thereon.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080059802 - Screening for masquerading content: Embodiments include a method, a computing device, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a method that includes receiving an instruction operable to create a visual presentation corresponding to a bitmap content. The method also includes determining if the instruction operable to create a visual presentation corresponding to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059805 - Biometrics authentication apparatus: In a biometrics authentication apparatus, a storage part stores a dictionary containing biometrics information of a registered person. An information acquisition part acquires biometrics information of a subject person. An authentication part authenticates validity of the subject person based on an index representing a degree of similarity between the biometrics... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080059806 - Vehicle information rewriting system: A rewriting tool for rewriting a content of a nonvolatile memory including vehicle information and the like provides a supplemental authentication process that detects a wireless authentication medium associated to an authorized rewriting tool user by wireless polling on an unconditional basis besides authenticating the authorized rewriting tool user based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080059804 - Method and apparatus for providing trusted single sign-on access to applications and internet-based services: A method and apparatus for password management and single sign-on (SSO) access based on trusted computing (TC) technology. The methods implement the Trusted Computing Group (TCG)'s trusted platform module (TPM), which interacts with both proxy SSO unit and web-accessing applications to provide a secure, trusted mechanism to generate, store, and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080059807 - Multimodal biometric platform: A multimodal biometric identification or authentication system includes a plurality of biometric clients. Each of the biometric clients may include devices for capturing biometric images of a plurality of types. The system includes a router in communication with the biometric clients. The router receives biometric images from, and returns biometric... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080059808 - Managing data access via a loop only if changed locking facility: The management of data access is facilitated. A loop only if changed locking facility is provided, in which reads and updates of the data being managed are permitted, unless an update to the data completes during the execution of the read or update routine. As long as an update to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080059809 - Sharing a secret by using random function: A physical random function (PUF) is a function that is easy to evaluate but hard to characterize. Controlled physical random functions (CPUFs) are PUFs that can only be accessed via a security program controlled by a security algorithm that is physically bound to the PUF in an inseparable way. CPUFs... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080059810 - Communication system: A communication system is provided with an information processing device, and a management device capable of updating old data stored in the information processing device by outputting new data to the information processing device. The management device is provided with an old data input device that inputs the old data,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080059811 - Tamper resistant networking: Methods and apparatus to provide tamper resistant networking are described. In one embodiment, one or more instructions corresponding to a device driver are stored in a memory of a network security module that is coupled between a network adapter and a host computing device. In an embodiment, the network security... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080059812 - Key transformation unit for a tamper resistant module: Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for securely transporting a software application onto a tamper resistant module (TRM) (103) by using an individualized TRM key set. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises: storing a key pair unique to the TRM (103) in a memory located on the TRM (103),... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080059813 - Adaptive power state management: In a power management scheme for a power-consuming (e.g. electronic) device, one of multiple predefined operating parameter sets is selected. Each of the sets comprises multiple operating parameter values for the device. Examples of operating parameters include clock frequency or voltage for example. The selection may be responsive to the... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080059815 - Control of link supply power based on link port mode: A system may include detection of a logical mode of a link port, and changing of a link supply power provided to the link port based on the detected logical mode. Detection of the logical mode may include a determination of whether the link port is terminated by a partner... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080059814 - Power source dependent program execution: An electronic device having a processor powered by a power source may be operated by providing a plurality of program portions individually executable by the processor for performing the same computing function. Each program portion causes the processor to exhibit a different instantaneous power consumption profile while performing the computing... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080059816 - Power supply capable of receiving digital communications from electronic devices: A power supply capable of receiving digital communications from an electrical device is described. The power supply includes a microprocessor and instructions, configured for execution by the microprocessor, to receive a digital communication from a device to be powered by the power supply. A method of supplying power is also... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080059818 - Device initiated mode switching: Provided are a method, system, deployment and article of manufacture, wherein in one embodiment, a mode of operation may be switched to a service mode by detecting a device inserted into a connector of an input/output port of a system. In the illustrated embodiment, the device has a connector and... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080059817 - Processor system: A processor system includes a processor which has an internal memory, an external memory, and a bus controller which controls a bus to which the processor and the external memory are connected. The processor system also includes a measurement unit for measuring an instruction-execution rate of the processor, a clock... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059819 - Computer, remote control system, control method of computer and remote control method: A computer including a main body in which a system is built, a peripheral device coupled to the main body, a power supplying part to supply power to the system and/or the peripheral device, an interface part to communicate with an external device, and a controller to control the power... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080059820 - Method of reducing power consumption of a computing system by evacuating selective platform memory components thereof: A method of reducing power consumption of a computing system by a predetermined amount comprises: selecting at least one memory component of the computer system for reduced power consumption based on the predetermined amount of power consumption reduction; and evacuating the selected at least one memory component to reduce the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080059821 - Communication device and method for saving static power consumption of communication device: A communication device and a method for saving static power consumption of communication device are disclosed. The communication device mainly includes a plurality of service units; and a power control circuit, cutting off power supply of at least one service unit of the plurality of service units according to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080059822 - Memory system for controlling power and method thereof: Example embodiments relate to a memory system and a method of controlling power thereof. The memory system may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device may be configured to be set to a specific power characteristic mode in response to a mode register set command so... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080059823 - Battery-powered device with reduced power consumption and method thereof: A device includes a processor that is operative to process a data stream such as executable code, encoded video or other suitable data stream, and has a plurality of processor portions. The device further includes a power management controller coupled to the processor portions that controls power consumption of the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080059825 - Information processing apparatus, external storage device and control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, a discrimination unit for discriminating whether a power supply mode is a battery or a AC power supply, a stop unit for stopping supply of power to each of a physical drives, a storing unit for storing a history of stopping the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080059824 - Method and apparatus for soft start power gating with automatic voltage level detection: A method and apparatus for selectively charging a secondary voltage rail includes selectively and partially charging a secondary voltage rail using at least one soft start power gate switch and using an initial power control indicator. The partially charged secondary voltage rail is selectively charged, using at least one main... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080059826 - Differential power analysis: Information leaked from smart cards and other tamper resistant cryptographic devices can be statistically analyzed to determine keys or other secret data. A data collection and analysis system is configured with an analog-to-digital converter connected to measure the device's consumption of electrical power, or some other property of the target... Agent: Joseph Yang, Ph.d. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20080059827 - Double data rate system: An extendable timing architecture for an integrated circuit is disclosed. The extendable timing architecture provides metal programmable components for use with different operational clock frequencies. In some embodiments the architecture utilizes master/slave DLLs with a double data rate memory circuit.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080059828 - Determining execution times of commands: Methods and apparatuses for determining a number of clock cycles during an execution of a command by a processor, determining a value associated with the number of clock cycles, storing an indicator indicative of the command, responsive to the value indicative of the execution time exceeding a threshold value.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client 007052

20080059829 - Clock generation for synchronous circuits with slow settling control signals: A circuit includes a clock generator for providing a clock signal to a synchronously operated digital circuit and a control signal generator for providing a control signal to the synchronously operated digital circuit. The control signal generator is interconnected to the clock generator to suppress the clock signal for a... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080059830 - Systems, methods and computer program products for high speed data transfer using a plurality of external clock signals: Methods, systems and computer program products for high speed data transfer. Methods include receiving a plurality of external clock signals including a first external clock signal and a second external clock signal. Each external clock signal has a first frequency, a first edge and a second edge. A clock period... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080059831 - Systems, methods and computer program products for high speed data transfer using an external clock signal: Systems, methods and computer program products for capturing data. The methods include receiving an external clock signal having a first frequency, a first edge and a second edge. A clock period of the external clock period is the amount of time between any two successive first edges. The external clock... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie