Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 06/08

20080155240 - Increasing performance of the creation of upgrade configurations based on heuristics: In an embodiment, a current configuration specifies original parts in an electronic device, and solution configurations are created that include candidate parts that meet a requirement that specifies an upgrade to the current configuration. The solution configurations are created by adding a specification of candidate parts to a solution configuration... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080155241 - Method and apparatus to facilitate logic control and interface communication: A method of distributing programmable control logic includes embedding substantially all of at least one programmable control logic scheme within at least one field device. A field device interface is embedded within the field device that includes firmware configured to facilitate execution of at least a portion of a programmable... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080155243 - Apparatus, system, and method for booting using an external disk through a virtual scsi connection: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for booting a Logical Partition using an external storage device. The method creates a virtual SCSI device assigned to a first logical partition (“LPAR”) of a first computer using a virtual I/O server by mapping a LUN of a storage volume to a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080155244 - Method for updating the timing of a baseboard management controller: The present invention discloses a method for updating the timing of a baseboard management controller (BMC) applied in a computer system. When a basic input output system (BIOS) installed on a motherboard of the computer system is initialized, the current time for the BMC to receive the BIOS is used... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080155245 - Network booting apparatus and method: An operating system deployment arrangement provides a database connected to a network for use in monitoring the boot status of machines connected to sub-networks of the network. A workstation connected to a sub-network is adapted to act as a server for a pre-installation environment to machines newly connecting to the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080155247 - Platform management processor assisted resume: In some embodiments, the invention involves system and method for resuming from sleep mode using protected storage accessible to an embedded controller. The boot script information is stored in memory that is available only to the embedded controller. Neither the firmware nor OS have access to the boot script. Upon... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080155248 - Smart cards including booting mode rotection and methods of operating: A memory chip can include a non-volatile memory that includes a plurality of memory cells, where each of the memory cells is configured to store separate instances of the booting mode selection information in each of the respective plurality of memory cells. A booting mode control block is configured to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080155242 - System and method for restoring a master boot record in association with accessing a hidden partition: A system and method for restoring a master boot record in association with accessing a hidden partition is disclosed. According to one aspect, a method of restoring a master boot record for a storage device is disclosed. The method can include initiating access to a hidden partition stored within a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080155246 - System and method for synchronizing memory management functions of two disparate operating systems: A memory management interface is provided to synchronize the operation of two disparate operating systems (OSes) that are executing on the same data processing platform. In one embodiment, the first operating system is a legacy OS of the type that is generally associated with an enterprise-level data processing system such... Agent: Unisys Corporation Ms 4773

20080155249 - Method and apparatus for setting and managing operational dynamics within cognitive radio networks: In certain embodiments, a method for managing operational parameters of a cognitive radio device to minimize non-compliance with a regulatory policy involves sensing a change in an operational condition that will affect compliance with a current operational policy; estimating a time at which the current operational policy will become invalid;... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080155250 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for authenticating communication terminal: An authentication apparatus includes a first storage unit that stores proxy information containing a proxy ID and capability data, an acquiring unit that acquires the proxy information from the first storage unit, a first transmitting unit that transmits a second message containing the acquired proxy information to a terminal, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080155251 - Electronic protocol converter: Systems and methods are provided allowing two or more electronic devices that each operate under different protocols to communicate. In one embodiment, a gateway component is configured to convert electronic signals or messages using a first protocol to messages or electronic signals in another protocol. In one such embodiment, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080155252 - Vlan tunneling: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for establishing multiple tunnels for each virtual local area network is described. Upon receiving information over a first tunnel associated with a first virtual local area network, a determination is made whether the information is from a network device assigned to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080155253 - Certified transmission system: The invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting a message from a sender to an intended recipient. The method includes encrypting a message using a symmetric key, sending the encrypted message to an intended recipient without the symmetric key and providing the symmetric key to a third party. If... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080155254 - Method and system for installing a root certificate on a computer with a root update mechanism: The invention discloses a method of installing or updating a root certificate on a computer with a root update mechanism by sending a client computer at least one root certificate and a legacy certificate chain. This method can be used to enable extended validation certificates on a computer with a... Agent: Alfred C. Roth

20080155255 - Encryption apparatus: There is provided an encryption apparatus including an idle data inserting unit that takes input of a frame including a fixed-length header and a variable-length payload and an encrypting unit that receives an output of the idle data inserting unit. If the length of a block to be processed, included... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080155256 - Launching a secure kernel in a multiprocessor system: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes verifying an initiating logical processor of a system; validating a trusted agent with the initiating logical processor if the initiating logical processor is verified; and launching the trusted agent on a plurality of processors of the system if the trusted... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080155259 - Computer readable medium storing electronic document processing program, electronic document processing system, key information recording system, document storage system and electronic document processing method: An electronic document processing method includes: storing, in a storage section, (i) a document identifier for uniquely identify each electronic document and (ii) key information of a storage of a non-electronic document which relates to each electronic document in association with each other; receiving a request for acquisition of key... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080155257 - Near field communication, security and non-volatile memory integrated sub-system for embedded portable applications: An architecture is presented that facilitates integrating memory, security functionalities and near field communication (NFC) capabilities in a mobile device. A memory module is provided that comprises non-volatile memory that stores security software, sensitive data, and keys and a security processor that accesses the security software from the nonvolatile memory... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155258 - Non-volatile memory sub-system integrated with security for storing near field transactions: An architecture is presented that facilitates maintaining a log of near field transactions in a memory module that includes security functionalities and near field communication (NFC) capabilities. The memory module comprises non-volatile memory that stores security software and a security processor that accesses the security software from the nonvolatile memory... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155261 - Authenticating method for short-distance radio devices and a short-distance radio device: The invention provides a method for making mutual authentication between short-distance radio devices automatically or after confirmation by users, and a short-distance radio device for realizing the method. In a condition where a plurality of radio devices exist, each of the radio devices comprising a data communicating unit for performing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080155260 - Method and apparatus for mutual authentication: Disclosed is a method for mutual authentication between a station, having a digital rights agent, and a secure removable media device. The digital rights agent initiates mutual authentication by sending a message to the secure removable media device. The secure removable media device encrypts a first random number using a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080155262 - System and method for tamper evident certification: A storage device has a storage medium, a set of credentials stored on the storage medium, and a controller. The controller within the storage device is coupled to the storage medium, and adapted to identify security status of the storage device. The controller is adapted to alter one or more... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080155263 - Systems and methods for tracking electronic files in computer networks using electronic signatures: Systems and methods for are provided tracking electronic files in computer networks using electronic signatures. A signature program installed on a network node inserts an electronic signature into certain encoded media files when they are transferred to other network users. Each network user is issued a unique electronic signature based... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155264 - Anti-virus signature footprint: A computer anti-virus system is disclosed. The computer anti-virus system can have multiple detection layers and can include a first memory and a second memory. The computer anti-virus system can have a reduced first memory size requirement for a fingerprint signature based anti-virus application program by putting off to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080155265 - Distributed rivest shamir adleman signature method and signature generation node: A distributed Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) signature generation method in an ad-hoc network and a signature generation node are provided, including steps for distributing key information to a plurality of nodes using an RSA parameter and a maximum distance separable (MDS) code, in a dealer node, generating a partial signature... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080155266 - System for registering sensing device with relay device: A system for registering a sensing device with a relay device is provided. The relay device allowing the sensing device to communicate with a computer system of the system. The computer system performs the registrating using a registration form having information relating to an interactive element coincident with tags mapped... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080155267 - Identity management system with an untrusted identity provider: An Identity Management system in which a User may use a single set of credentials to log into multiple Web Service Providers differs from traditional systems in that none of the WSPs have to rely on assertions issued by an Identity Provider. The Identity Provider remains unaware of the User's... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080155269 - Biometric authentication system and method thereof and user identification information product: The biometric authentication system of this invention includes user identification information product and authentication side system. The user identification information product acquires biometric information of user, encrypts the biometric information acquired using encryption key information provided by the authentication side system and provides encrypted biometric information to the authentication side... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080155268 - Secure data verification via biometric input: An architecture is presented that controls access to secure data via biometric verification. The system comprises a memory module that communicates with biometric data to establish a heightened level of security for controlling access to data stored in the non-volatile memory. The memory module includes a security processor, non-volatile memory,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155270 - Method and apparatus for nonlinear signal and data aggregation: A method (1500) and apparatus (700, 2300, 2400) for aggregating two or more input signals with a versatile reconfigurable signal aggregator. The aggregator (700, 2300, 2400) is reconfigured by adjusting a control signal λ, and can emulate a range of union type signal aggregators, a range of intersection type signal... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080155272 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device, program delivery method, and program delivery system: When an encrypted program and a decryption program are inputted to a first memory, a semiconductor integrated circuit device causes a bus port to disable access from the outside and enables access to the first memory and to a second memory, thereby transferring the encrypted program and the decryption program... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080155271 - Solid-state memory-based generation and handling of security authentication tokens: An architecture is presented that facilitates secure token generation and transmission capabilities in a mobile device. The system comprises at least one software application that includes a secure token assigned to a specific user and a memory module that communicates with an external processor. A security processor, non-volatile memory component... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155273 - Automatic bus encryption and decryption: A system, method, and logic are disclosed for automatic hardware bus encryption/decryption. The logic receives a memory access request comprising a physical address of a memory location from a processor. The logic translates the physical address, and uses the translated physical address and a seed value in a pseudo random... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080155274 - Protection of memory areas: A method for loading a program, contained in at least a first memory, into a second memory accessible by an execution unit, in which the program is in a cyphered form in the first memory, a circuit for controlling the access to the second memory is configured from program initialization... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080155277 - Hardware partitioned trust: An apparatus, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a trusted platform module to store a plurality of contexts, wherein each context includes stored security information for one of a plurality of physical partitions in a computer system.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080155276 - Secure storage system and method of use: A secure storage system is disclosed. The secure storage system comprises a crypto engine and a storage device. The crypto engine comprises a random number generator; a hash function; a general encryption engine; and a data encryption engine. The secure storage system further includes a storage device coupled to the... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080155275 - Systems and methods for distinguishing between actual data and erased/blank memory with regard to encrypted data: Systems and methods that facilitate processing data, such as by encryption/decryption, and storing and retrieving data to/from memory such that actual data can be distinguished from information associated with, or representative of, erased/blank memory locations. A processor can include a comparing component that compares information input to the processor to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155278 - Network security device and method: The invention describes a method for hardening a security mechanism against physical intrusion and substitution attacks. A user establishes a connection between a network peripheral device and a network via a security mechanism. The security mechanism includes read only memory (ROM) that contains code that initiates operation of the mechanism... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080155282 - Adaptive voltage scaling with age compensation: One embodiment of the present invention includes an adaptive voltage scaling system associated with an integrated circuit (IC). The system comprises at least one target performance circuit comprising a first semiconductor material and being configured to determine at least one voltage potential in response to achieving a target performance based... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080155281 - Method and apparatus to estimate energy consumed by central processing unit core: Briefly, a processor and a method of estimating an active energy consumption of two or more cores of a processor based on dispatching micro operations to one or more execution units of the processor.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080155283 - Network communication system and a power feeding apparatus for a network hub: To make such an ordinary hub as works on the power fed through a power adapter connected to a commercial power supply be capable of maintaining its hub-function without interruption even when a commercial power supply failure occurs. The ordinary hub is connected to a line securement power supply unit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080155284 - Power consumption adjusting apparatus and processing method: An apparatus measures a dynamic power consumption in each of component devices at a time intervals and subtracts the sum of the dynamic power consumptions from a predetermined maximum value to obtain a dynamic margin. When a request for connecting an emergency device to a power supply is issued, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080155280 - Reducing idle leakage power in an ic: A method to reduce idle leakage power in I/O pins of an integrated circuit using external circuitry. Initially, I/O pins on a package are subdivided into those that will also remain powered up and those that will power down during idle state. When a system enters a low power mode,... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080155279 - System and method for optimizing computational density: A system and method of designing a computer system having a plurality of processors. A computational density is selected for the computer system, wherein the computational density is expressed as a function of a desired computational power for a given volume. A number of processors is selected for used in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080155285 - External control of a multi-mode controller: a reference clock; and a multi-mode controller having a first mode in which the reference clock is disabled and a second mode in which the reference clock is enabled, the multi-mode controller being operable, when in the first mode, to monitor a voltage provided by the electrical energy storage device... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080155286 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for executing the method: An information processing apparatus is disclosed as an example. The information processing apparatus sends data to an image forming apparatus and causes the image forming apparatus to generate an image. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive information that is sent from an image forming apparatus... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080155288 - method and apparatus for thermal sensitivity based dynamic power control: A method and system provides dynamic power control based on thermal sensitivity of a processor system. The method and system includes a circuit that reduces the clock frequency for the processor system in response to thermal characteristics satisfying a pre-determined threshold that allows maximal thermal temperature limit utilization without substantially... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080155289 - Micro controller unit (mcu) with rtc: A microcontroller unit (MCU) is disclosed with a stand-alone Real Time Clock (RTC). The MCU includes a processing circuit for receiving digital information and processing said received digital information. A primary clock circuit provides the timing for the processing circuit. A power control circuit controls the power to the processing... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080155287 - Power saving in nand flash memory: Some embodiments of the invention may use a single control line signal as both a wake up signal and as an indicator of a device selection command. In a command-based protocol on a non-volatile memory bus, a host memory controller may assert a signal on a control line to bring... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080155290 - Power-supply control device, power-supply control method, and image forming apparatus: A power-supply control device controls power-supply timings for supplying powers from an external power supply unit to a plurality of circuit elements having different power-supply timings. The circuit elements are grouped into a plurality of power-supply lines based on power-supply timings required by the circuit elements. The power-supply timings for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080155291 - Method for resetting micro controller: A method for resetting a micro controller is disclosed. The method uses an improved micro controller reset circuit designed for loading micro controller options regardless of whether a reset key is pressed after the power is turned on. In this method, the initial values of the micro controller are recovered... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080155292 - Circuit for protecting computer system: A circuit for preventing a computer from being powered on before a CPU of the computer has been properly installed, the circuit includes a power supply (70) for the computer, a controller (60) connected to the power supply configured for controlling the power supply, a switch (10) exposed outside the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080155293 - Apparatus, systems and methods for reliably detecting faults within a power distribution system: At least one of input channel containing information relative to a power system or a subpart of a power system is analyzed by a computation engine along with a test data channel. The results of the computation performed on the test data channel are compared against a predetermined test result,... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080155294 - Power supply device, image forming apparatus, and power supply method: A power supply device supplies power to an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a load and a control unit. The load requires power, and is controlled by the control unit. The power supply includes a capacitor and a power-supply unit. The capacitor is charged by an external... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080155295 - Synchronization control apparatus: A synchronization control apparatus includes a first processing block that performs a first process and outputs a first signal upon completion of the first process, a second processing block that can change processing speed according to electric power supplied thereto, performs a second process associated with the first process out... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080155296 - Apparatus for controlling clock signals to processor circuit: Apparatus for controlling input clock signals to a microprocessor includes a clock generator for generating the input clock signals to the microprocessor, and a clock controller for producing a control signal for disabling the clock generator from outputting the input clock signals to the microprocessor for a predetermined time. The... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080155297 - Implementation of multiple clock interfaces: A method for implementing multiple clock interfaces in a single media player. The method and accompanying device are configured to utilize the preferred secure clock. If the remote host cannot support a secure clock, the method can alternately implement an anti-rollback clock interface. For each download session the clock data... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080155298 - Refreshing a transaction screen: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for refreshing a transaction screen. The techniques include displaying, on a display device, a transaction screen containing data for a transaction, the transaction being a set of actions that either commits or aborts, where user-provided data is required for the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080155299 - Method and system for providing a deterministic virtual clock: Taking the assumption that the user instruction counters are maintained synchronized in the operational and the replication computers, replacing the system clock access by a virtual clock when virtualizing applications thus turning the system clock acquisition into a deterministic event. Replicating the system clock access can be thus done by... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080148033 - Acpi to firmware interface: In one embodiment a computer system comprises a processor, a basic input/output system (BIOS) including logic instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to create a virtual AML device data structure, the data structure comprising a plurality of fields to hold arguments to a native firmware function,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080148034 - Method and apparatus for booting independent operating systems in a multi-processor core integrated circuit: A multiple-processor system and boot procedure are provided. The system includes an integrated circuit having first and second embedded processors. A volatile memory and a non-volatile memory are shared by the first and second processors. The non-volatile memory includes a set of boot load instructions executable by the first and... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20080148030 - Method and system for configuring electronic communication device: A method for configuring an electronic communication device (100) is disclosed. The method automatically configures the electronic communication device for a user. The method includes determining (304) an identity of the user. The method further compiles a user profile automatically (306), as a function of the manner in which the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080148031 - Methods and systems for configuring computers: A system is provided, the system includes a base computer having operating system (OS) settings and Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) settings. The system also includes a plurality of managed computers. An OS image file having the OS settings and the BIOS settings is transferred from the base computer to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080148035 - Reset device for computer system: A reset device for a computer system is provided. The reset device includes a hardware-reset signal generating circuit for outputting a hardware-reset signal to reset the computer system; a switch connected to the hardware-reset signal generating circuit, the hardware-reset signal generating circuit outputting the hardware-reset signal when the switch is... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080148032 - System and method for communication between host systems using a queuing system and shared memories: A system and method for communication between host systems using a queuing system and shared memories are provided. Memory address spaces of the host systems are initialized such that endpoints may be accessible by root complexes across host systems. These memory address spaces may then be used to allow system... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080148036 - Computer compliance enforcement: A security module for a pay-per-use computer supplies an appropriate BIOS for a given mode of operation. A power manager in the security module powers only essential circuits until the BIOS is operational to help prevent substitution of a non-authorized BIOS. The security module also includes a capability to monitor... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080148037 - Efficient platform initialization: A processor includes non-volatile memory in which platform state is saved in order to record the hardware resources present in the platform. The platform state information may be received by an out-of-band means, such as that provided to a secondary processor of a management engine. Rather than querying the individual... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080148038 - System and method for implementing boot/recovery on a data processing sysem: A system and method for implementing a boot recovery on a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, at least one processor compares contents of a first read-only memory (ROM) image and a second ROM image outputted from a memory. The first ROM image is initially... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080148039 - Selecting instrumentation points for an application: Instrumentation points are selected for an application by running the application with comprehensive instrumentation of its components in a development mode. The application can be run by a human operator and/or load simulator which provides requests to the application. The instrumented components are monitored as the application runs. A subset... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080148040 - Secure identity and personal information storage and transfer: The invention presented herein consists of systems and methods of secure storage for sensitive and confidential data, such as personal identity data, along with methods of securely accessing that data, and transferring information from that data, as necessary.... Agent: Lang Michener

20080148041 - Communicating packets between devices involving the use of different communication protocols: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for receiving an initial request from a first device to a second device. A response to the initial request is received from the second device to the first device. Each response and request received from the first device to the second... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080148042 - System and method for wiping and disabling a removed device: A system and method implemented at a server system, for securely wiping a remote mobile device after the device registration has been removed from the server system. Prior to removal of the device registration from the server system, a “pre-packaged” command is created and stored at the server system. In... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080148043 - Establishing a secured communication session: The present invention relates to a method for establishing a secured communication session in a communication system between a user using an untrusted device and a server. According to the present invention the user first obtains an authentication algorithm and an encryption algorithm and then creates a session key. Next... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080148044 - Locking carrier access in a communication network: An apparatus and method for locking carrier access in a communication network, including a first step (102) of installing a pattern matching string in a mobile subscriber station. A next step (104) includes embedding a service provider identity within a subject of a digital certificate. A next step (106) includes... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080148045 - Method for reducing fraud: Pirated certificates may be published or become available in an environment which includes computer networks and websites. An information appliance connected to the environment searches for certificates in the environment. When a certificate is found in the environment, the appliance determines whether to alert an entity having an interest in... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080148046 - Real-time checking of online digital certificates: Systems and methods designed to provide for real time checking of digital certificates from a two-factor authorization methodology utilizing a secure operating system on a host computer. The host computer utilizes an encryption methodology on all remaining information in the memory of the host computer. The system allows for real... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080148047 - Identity-based encryption system: A system is provided that uses identity-based encryption to support secure communications. Messages from a sender to a receiver may be encrypted using the receiver's identity and public parameters that have been generated by a private key generator associated with the receiver. The private key generator associated with the receiver... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080148048 - Virtualization hardware for device driver isolation: Hardware virtualization support is used to isolate kernel extensions. A kernel and various kernel extensions are executed in a plurality of hardware protection domains. Each hardware protection domain defines computer resource privileges allowed to code executing in that hardware protection domain. Kernel extensions execute with appropriate computer resource privileges to... Agent: Vmware / Fenwick C/o Fenwick & West, LLP

20080148049 - Secure access of resources at shared appliances: An exemplary method for providing secure access to resources at shared appliances comprises obtaining an instruction from a first user to send a resource to a secure repository, the resource being associated with a first identifier, receiving a second identifier from a shared appliance, determining a pseudo identity associated with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080148051 - Access control method for a storage system: In the computer system including at least one host computer, and at least one storage system, the storage system includes a physical disk and a disk controller, and provides the host computer with a storage area of the physical disk as at least one logical unit, and the host computer... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080148050 - Content-carrying device for carrying printed content that includes a key device programmed with information that enables the content-carrying device to be used to access other content via the key device: A printable or printed content-carrying device, such as, for example, a sheet of photographic paper, has a key device secured to it that is programmed to include or programmable to include information that associates the content-carrying device with content that is related to the content printed on the content-carrying device.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080148052 - Method and system for authentication bonding two devices and sending authenticated events: A method (20) and system (100) for sending authenticated events from a first device (36) to a second device (32) can include creating (21) a bond between the first and second device, creating (27) a signed event on the first device, and sending (28) the signed event from the first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080148053 - Wireless communication scheme with communication quality guarantee and copyright protection: A wireless base station which controls joining of a plurality of wireless terminals to a wireless network, stores a maximum joining possible terminal number which indicates a maximum number of the wireless terminals of each terminal type that can join the wireless network simultaneously, and which is set in advance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080148055 - Fast rsa signature verification: An RSA message signature can be verified by verifying that se mod n=F(m, n). If a value K, defined as K=se div n is computed in advance and provided as an input to the computing device verifying the signature, the signature verification can be significantly faster. To avoid transmission of,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080148054 - Secure signatures: Systems and methods for secure signatures are described. In one aspect, a secure signature is generated. The secure signature strongly binds an image of an electronic signature (an “electronic signature”) to content in either electronic or printed form. Responsive to receiving a request from a user, the systems and methods... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080148056 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080148057 - Security token: A security method comprises initiating a security token with a particular user through a personal computer client by accepting a personal identification number (PIN) as a code1 input, wherein a user is expected to remember the PIN in later accesses of the servers. And, generating a master key as code2... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel A Professional Corporation

20080148058 - Biometric device based on luminescence: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and/or method of identifying a user comprising illuminating a user with electromagnetic energy to induce luminescence and producing an output data signal. A reference data signal corresponding to the luminescence of a selected user may be identified and compared to the output data... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20080148059 - Universal, biometric, self-authenticating identity computer having multiple communication ports: An improved device for use in authorizing transactions, supplying information and performing applications is provided by the present invention, effectively implementing a secured individual and portable Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) terminal. The device uses a local processor and secure data storage in conjunction with a variety of sensors to perform... Agent: Hornkohl Intellectual Property Law, P.l.l.c

20080148060 - Maintaining code integrity in a central software development system: A central software development system comprises a code processor and a code authenticator. The code processor converts modified free source code received by the system to program code such as executable code or bytecode. The code authenticator selectively signs the program code using an encryption key associated with one or... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080148061 - Method for effective tamper resistance: A system, method, and computer program product for preventing a malicious user from analyzing and modifying software content. The one-way functions used in prior art systems using dynamically evolving audit logs or self-modifying applications are replaced with a one-way function based on group theory. With this modification, untampered key evolution... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080148062 - Method for the secure storing of program state data in an electronic device: The invention relates to a method in which program information is obtained to an execution environment in an electronic device. The program information comprises at least a program code. A key is computed of the program information and a device specific secret value. The key is used to decrypt program... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080148064 - Apparatus, system, and method for authentication of a core root of trust measurement chain: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for authentication of a core root of trust measurement chain. The apparatus for authentication of a CRTM chain is provided with a plurality of modules configured to carry out the steps of retrieving a decryption key from a predetermined location on the device... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080148065 - Direct memory access for compliance checking: A computer is configured for either full operation with metering or limited mode operation. When in limited mode operation, the system memory may be partitioned into active and restricted memory. The active memory may be limited to an amount needed to execute a limited mode operation application. The remaining restricted... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080148063 - Method and apparatus for content protection within an open architecture system: In a class of embodiments, the invention is an open computing system (e.g., a PC) in which a protected, closed subsystem is embedded. The closed subsystem typically includes multiple parts that ensure that content protection keys and protected content are never revealed outside the closed subsystem. Content (e.g., high-definition digital... Agent: Silicon / Blakely Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080148066 - Method and apparatus for protecting a software application against a virus: A method and apparatus for protecting computer systems from a virus are disclosed. For example, the present method protects against a class of computer viruses that replicate themselves by making use of the knowledge that a specific piece of software code or data component that always resides at a specific... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080148072 - Code conversion apparatus, code conversion method, and computer product: A code conversion apparatus, a disk drive, a code buffer, and an encryption buffer are included in a storage. The code buffer stores therein first encrypted data present in the disk drive, and the encryption buffer stores therein first unencrypted data present in the disk drive. An encrypting unit encrypts... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080148067 - Method and system for secure distribution of selected content to be protected on an appliance-specific basis with definable permitted associated usage rights for the selected content: The present invention relates to data rights management and more particularly to a secured system and methodology and production system and methodology related thereto and to apparatus and methodology for production side systems and are consumer side systems for securely utilizing protected electronic data files of content (protected content), and... Agent: Sitrick & Sitrick

20080148070 - Secure database access through partial encryption: The present invention generally is directed to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for securing sensitive information involved in database transactions. Embodiments of the present invention selectively encrypt only portions of transactions involving sensitive data, thereby reducing or eliminating the processing overhead resulting from wastefully encrypting non-sensitive data. The sensitive... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080148071 - Secure database access through partial encryption: The present invention generally is directed to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for securing sensitive information involved in database transactions. Embodiments of the present invention selectively encrypt only portions of transactions involving sensitive data, thereby reducing or eliminating the processing overhead resulting from wastefully encrypting non-sensitive data. The sensitive... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080148068 - Storage media to storage drive centric security: A secure data system employs a storage media and a storage drive. A storage media identification key is embedded in a non-user modifiable area of the storage media and associated with data recorded on the storage media. The storage drive includes a memory having a storage drive identification key embedded... Agent: Frank C. Nicholas Cardinal Law Group

20080148069 - Transferring electronic content: A method and apparatus for transferring electronic content. The method and apparatus include providing electronic content to a first user, providing the first user with a key packet, the key packet including a decryption key and content rights information, transferring the electronic content and the key packet from the first... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080148073 - Method for providing secure and trusted asics using 3d integration: A system and a method for providing secure and trusted application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) using three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) integration. The method includes fabricating a plurality of sub-circuits and assembling an overall 3D ASIC device from the plurality of sub-circuits. Each sub-circuit includes a plurality of input-output (IO)... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080148074 - Extension card incorporating power management device: The present invention provides an extension card incorporating a power management device applicable to electronic devices. During the operating process, if the removal of the top cover from the housing of the electronic device is detected, power supply to the electronic device is immediately cut off. The extension card incorporating... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080148077 - Memory card control apparatus and protection method thereof: A control apparatus for accessing a memory card includes a bus, a detecting circuit, and an adjusting circuit. The bus is regarded as a signal transmission line between the control apparatus and the memory card. The bus has a power signal transmission line for providing the memory card with a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080148075 - Method and system of controlling power states of devices: In a method embodiment, a method for controlling power includes receiving a user input to control the on/off state of one or more electronic devices plugged into a plurality of respective power sockets in a power strip. The method further includes determining, by the power strip, an electrical characteristic of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080148078 - Novel personal electronics device with thermal management: A novel personal electronic device includes a first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) processors including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first processor performs relatively limited functions, while the second processor performs relatively broader functions under control of the first processor. Often the second processor requires more power... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080148076 - Power aware software pipelining for hardware accelerators: Forming a plurality of pipeline orderings, each pipeline ordering comprising one of a sequential, a parallel, or a sequential and parallel combination of a plurality of stages of a pipeline, analyzing the plurality of pipeline orderings to determine a total power of each of the orderings, and selecting one of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080148079 - Electric power supply system, terminal, electric power supply method and computer readable medium: The electric power supply system includes a first terminal that electric power is supplied thereto from a first power supply to operate, a second terminal that is connected to the first terminal and that electric power is supplied thereto from a second power supply to operate, and a controller that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080148080 - Method and/or system for communication: An apparatus includes a transmitter, receiver or transceiver to couple to a communication link. An input receives one or more signals for a desired power level of the transmitter, receiver or transceiver. A power supply provides power to the transmitter, receiver or transceiver depending on at least the one or... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20080148082 - Power control system and method: A system and a method for power control are provided. In the present invention, a control switch is disposed in a power adapter, which is turned on/off by a monitoring device disposed in a portable electronic device. As a result, the power inputted into the power adapter can be controlled,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080148081 - System and method for controlling power delivered to a powered device based on cable characteristics: A system and method for discovering a cable type and resistance for Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Cabling power loss in PoE applications is related to the resistance of the cable itself. A PHY can be designed to measure electrical characteristics (e.g., insertion loss, cross talk, length, etc.) of the... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080148083 - Direct memory access controller: A system has a central processing unit (CPU) operable to operate in a sleep or low power mode and in an active mode, a plurality of system components operable to operate in a sleep or low power mode and in an active mode, and a direct memory access (DMA) controller... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080148084 - Intelligent power monitoring unit: It is disclosed an intelligent power monitoring unit (2) for the monitoring of a power supply (1), which comprises a power input (24) for the input of electrical power, a power output (25) for the output of electrical power, a power line connecting the power input (24) to the power... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080148085 - Memory interface configurable for asynchronous and synchronous operation and for accessing storage from any clock domain: An improved memory interface circuit is provided for accessing a storage array in one of two available modes, including a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode. The improved memory interface circuit also includes logic, which enables the storage array to reside within substantially any clock domain.... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel, LLP M/s: 5298

20080148086 - Sequencing control circuit: A sequencing control circuit includes a chip (30), a first control circuit (10), a second control circuit (20), and a lagging voltage terminal (700). The chip is connected to a first voltage terminal (100) and a second voltage terminal (300). The first control circuit is connected to the chip. The... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080148087 - Apparatus and method of time keeping for non-real-time operating system: An apparatus and method of time keeping for a non-real-time OS is provided. The apparatus includes a processor and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The processor requests performance of a Dual-Port Random Access Memory (DPRAM) read/write (R/W) operation in a DPRAM R/W time interval in a Time Division Multiple... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080148088 - Architecture for a physical interface of a high speed front side bus: A design structure for a high speed computer processor system includes a high speed interface for a graphics processor. In a preferred embodiment, the high speed interface includes a front side bus (FSB) that interfaces to a similar high speed interface on the graphics processor.... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080148090 - Method for adjusting working frequency of chip: A method for adjusting the working frequency of a chip is provided. The method detects a frequency adjustment range of a graphic chip when a system is booted. Then, an application program in full screen mode is executed, and a control hot key is enabled. Afterwards, an input of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080148091 - Signal bus, multilevel input interface and information processor: A multilevel input interface device connected to a signal bus including one or more data lines that transmit an M-level signal and a clock line that transmits a transmission clock signal indicating the timings of reading level information for the M-level signal, includes: a threshold value generation unit that produces... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080148089 - Single shared instruction predecoder for supporting multiple processors: Improved techniques for executing instructions in a pipelined manner that may reduce stalls that occur when executing dependent instructions are provided. Stalls may be reduced by utilizing a cascaded arrangement of pipelines with execution units that are delayed with respect to each other. This cascaded delayed arrangement allows dependent instructions... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080148092 - Signal processing circuit: A delay time of a reference clock CLK is changed to generate a memory control clock CLKd, a data value output from a write data generating section is written in a memory based on the memory control clock CLKd, while successively changing the delay time of the memory control clock... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080141016 - Computer system and related method for preventing failure of updating bios programs: A computer system includes a central processing unit, a memory bus, a memory unit, and a boot select unit. The memory bus is coupled to the central processing unit. The memory bus includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of address lines. The central processing unit is capable... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080141018 - Game apparatus and information processing apparatus: The present invention provides a technique of executing a suitable file from plural files of the same type. In a game apparatus, a ROM medium with game data recorded therein is loaded into a drive device. A patch file acquisition unit acquires a patch file for the game data, and... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080141017 - Gaming machine having a secure boot chain and method of use: An electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprises a memory storing boot program code comprising first code; a central processing unit (CPU) arranged to access the memory and initiate a boot process by reading the first code from the memory; and a monitoring device having or with access to validation code and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080141015 - System and method for operating system deployment in a peer-to-peer computing environment: A system, method, and program product is provided that deploys an operating system. The first computer system sends a Wake-on-LAN instruction and boots each of the second computer systems. The second computer system identifies a set of third computer identifiers that corresponds to each of the selected second computer systems.... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080141019 - Data processing apparatus including reconfigurable logic circuit: There is provided a data processing apparatus (1) including a logic circuit (10) that is reconfigurable in each cycle and a library (2) that stores hardware control information (20). The hardware control information (20) includes a plurality of pieces of cycle-based mapping information (21) for individually mapping a plurality of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080141020 - Method and apparatus for providing secure streaming data transmission facilities using unreliable protocols: The invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting data securely using an unreliable communication protocol, such as User Datagram Protocol. In one variation, the invention retains compatibility with conventional Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and SOCKS protocols, such that secure UDP datagrams can be transmitted between a proxy server and... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080141021 - Method and apparatus having null-encryption for signaling and media packets between a mobile station and a secure gateway: Disclosed is a method for efficient transport of packets between a mobile station and a secure gateway over a wireless local area network for accessing home services. In the method, a first encryption security association is established for transporting first-type packets from the secure gateway to the mobile station, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080141022 - Separate type mass data encryption/decryption apparatus and implementing method therefor: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a separate type mass data encryption/decryption apparatus and an implementing method therefor. The separate type mass data encryption/decryption apparatus includes a microprocessor and a storage unit for storing an encryption/decryption key. The apparatus further includes an external communication interface module connecting to a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080141023 - Chaining port scheme for network security: A networking method, microchip, and device are described in which a first security engine may be associated with a chaining port and configured to perform an inner processing for an inner layer of encryption for a frame of data, while a second security engine may be associated with an external... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080141024 - Extended trusted computing base: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for extending a trusted computing base (TCB). According to one embodiment, a first level trusted computing base (TCB) is generated having hardware components including a trusted platform module (TPM), and an extended TCB is formed by adding a second level software-based TCB to... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080141025 - Method and system for communication via a computer network: A method and apparatus for communication via a computer network (102) including registering a plurality of users (206, 222, 224) with a trusted body (110, 210). The trusted body (110, 210) verifies the identity of each user (206, 222, 224) and generates a random identifier (216) for each user (206,... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080141026 - E-mail system and method having certified opt-in capabilities: An opt-in email system in which a recipient that has opted in to an email list can recognize and trust that an email has actually come from a desired sender. When a recipient desires to opt-in to an e-mail list, the recipient is sent to a trusted third party certification... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080141027 - System and method of providing security: A method and system for providing security between a service providing server and a user device, the system including: a user device to request a service and to transmit a packet including a first public key; an authentication server to receive the packet, to authenticate the user device based on... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080141028 - Secure single sign-on authentication between wsrp consumers and producers: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates secure single sign-on (SSO) authentication for web-services communications. During operation, the system receives a Web Services for Remote Portlet (WSRP) request from a WSRP consumer and also receives a digital signature associated with the WSRP request. The system then... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080141029 - Digital content protection: A memory card used to store digital content can be secured by masking files in such a way that the files are not accessible via the FAT file system supplied on the card. The masking process can include pointing the directory entries for the protected file to a dummy file,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080141030 - Comparison of documents possessed by two parties: A method of zero-knowledge document comparison between two parties. Each party performs: exchanging a set of random data and a shared hash function, applying the hash function to concatenations of the document and the sets of random data, and comparing the hashes.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080141031 - Eap method for eap extension (eap-ext): This document describes an EAP method used for extending EAP functionality. The extended functionality includes channel binding and re-authentication. The EAP method also allows sequencing of multiple EAP methods inside it.... Agent: Watchstone P+d, Plc

20080141032 - Information processing apparatus and method: In order to limit use of content, when a source receives a request for transmitting content from a sink, the source performs an authentication process. When the authentication is successful, the source transmits to the sink key information necessary for decrypting the encryption applied to the content. The sink can... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080141033 - Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution: Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080141034 - Codeword-enhanced peer-to-peer authentication: Peer-to-peer authentication may be accomplished by sending a digital certificate to a responder, receiving a randomized codeword in response to the sending, creating a secure fingerprint based at least in part on the digital certificate and randomized codeword, creating a first bit sequence based at least in part on a... Agent: Robert E. Krebs Thelen Reid & Priest LLP

20080141036 - Hybrid signature scheme: A signature scheme is provided in which a message is divided into a first portion which is hidden and is recovered during verification, and a second portion which is visible and is required as input to the verification algorithm. A first signature component is generated by encrypting the first portion... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080141035 - Limited blind signature system: The present invention is aimed at the proposal of a limited blind signature system which is highly safe such that its safety can be proven without the assumption of a random oracle model. A signature presenting apparatus is supplied with a public key, a blind secret identifier, a blind public... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080141037 - System and method for automatic password reset: The loss of a computer's primary O.S. password, BIOS password, or HDD password (or even an application password) is sensed by a secondary O.S. based on a number of failed log on attempts to the affected component. The password can be reset by having the secondary O.S. generate an intermediate... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080141038 - Digital information recording apparatus and recording/reproducing apparatus: The information is recorded onto a hard disk drive through encryption thereof, with using an identification being number unique thereto, when it is recorded onto the hard disk. With this, normal reproduction is prevented, since the drive identification number necessary for decryption is different from, even if it is copied... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080141043 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing data using a data pipeline: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing data in a solid-state storage device. A solid-state storage and solid-state controller are included. The solid-state storage controller includes a write data pipeline and a read data pipeline The write data pipeline includes a packetizer and an ECC generator. The packetizer... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080141044 - Data management system, data processing system, and computer-readable medium having on which data management program is recorded: A data management system including a storage and activating an application so that the application accesses stored contents and processes the contents. The data management system also monitors access of the application to the contents by associating information for the activated application with information for the accessed contents. The system... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080141045 - Data management system, data processing system, and computer-readable medium having on which data management program is recorded: A data management system including a storage and activating an application so that the application accesses contents in the storage and processes the contents. The data management system also monitors access of the application to the contents by associating information for the application brought into an activated status with information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080141042 - Memory card and security method therefor: The invention presents a memory card for use with a computer installed with an operating system (OS), comprising a first memory area for storing a key code; a second memory area for storing contents encrypted with the key code; and a third memory area for storing a content protection program... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080141040 - Secure data protection during disasters: In situations, such as disasters, where the physical protection of data may be compromised, algorithmic protection of such data can be increased in anticipation of the disaster. An off-site mechanism can send a disaster preparation script to computing devices expected to be affected, resulting in the deletion of decryption keys... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080141039 - System for using a virtual tape encryption format: A system and method for storing electronic data in accordance with the present invention, requires receipt of the data to be stored from a back-up server. The data is then compressed, encrypted and formatted by the system to create a virtual file. An encryption key and “meta-data”, which includes information... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20080141041 - Wireless encryption key integrated hdd: A wireless encryption key integrated storage system is provided to prevent unauthorized access of data stored on the storage device without secure authentication between the storage device and a key device. In one embodiment, a data storage device comprises a magnetic disk; a head assembly having a read/write head which... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080141047 - Apparatus and method for controlling voltage and frequency: A method and an apparatus for controlling voltage level and clock signal frequency supplied to a system. The method includes: receiving at least one activity related signal; determining a voltage level and a clock signal frequency to be provided to the system by applying a first policy for increasing the... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080141048 - Distribution of network communications based on server power consumption: A network device is described that load-balances network traffic among a set of network servers based on electrical power consumption of the network servers. The network device may measure electrical power consumption in a variety of ways, and may generate and maintain a power consumption profile for each of the... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20080141046 - Partial data flow functional gating using structural or partial operand value information: The present invention relates to a methodology for controlling the power consumption in a computing device based upon extended register file extension values, the method further comprising the steps of identifying an upper bit data register value and a lower bit data register value for a data register value, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Austin

20080141049 - User configurable power conservation through lcd display screen reduction: A novel system and method increase battery life for portable computing devices through intelligent display management. A user interface allows a user to input threshold values and parameters such that power management actions are taken should battery power fall below the thresholds. Such actions include the reduction of size to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080141050 - Image processor and its control method: An object of the invention is to provide an image processing device having a sub-system performing a power saving control to support the use of a USB device or provided to allow the supporting of the use of a USB device, in which operational mismatching which may occur at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080141051 - Apparatus and method for controlling power in a communication system: A power control apparatus of a user terminal in a communication system. A transmission module transmits a signal, a reception module receives a signal, and a power supply module performs power supply to modules included in the user terminal under a predetermined control. A control module controls an operation of... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080141052 - System and method for detecting battery removal: A device having a plurality of contact points providing connectivity between the device and a further device, a detection point providing connectivity between the device and the further device, wherein, as the further device is disconnected from the device, the detection point is disconnected prior to at least a portion... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080141056 - Asset, poe and power supply, stack management controller: A command module is provided to couple and manage one or more patch panels having advanced features such as assets and/or PoE and/or power supply functions. The command module can query attached patch panels having additional capabilities, synchronize data, and act as an administrative server. The system and method can... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080141053 - Monitoring circuit: A monitoring circuit for preventing a malfunction of a microcomputer including a capacitor, charging means for charging the capacitor, discharging means for discharging the capacitor, voltage comparing means for comparing a certain reference voltage with a charging voltage of the capacitor, thereby generating a signal for resetting an operation of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080141055 - System and method for providing data redundancy after reducing memory writes: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for providing data redundancy in a plurality of storage devices. In operation, a number of writes to a plurality of storage devices is reduced. Additionally, after the reducing, data redundancy is provided utilizing a data redundancy scheme.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080141054 - System, method, and computer program product for providing data redundancy in a plurality of storage devices: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for providing data redundancy in a plurality of storage devices. In operation, storage commands are received for providing data redundancy in accordance with a first data redundancy scheme. Additionally, the storage commands are translated for providing the data redundancy in accordance... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080141057 - Cache coherency during resynchronization of self-correcting computer: A fault-tolerant computer uses multiple commercial processors operating synchronously, i.e., in lock-step. In an exemplary embodiment, redundancy logic isolates the outputs of the processors from other computer components, so that the other components see only majority vote outputs of the processors. Processor resynchronization, initiated at predetermined time, milestones, and/or in... Agent: Anatoly S. Weiser, Esq. Intellectual Property Legal Counsel

20080141059 - Flash memory devices with high data transmission rates and memory systems including such flash memory devices: A flash memory device includes a memory cell array, a clock signal input, an input for receiving a signal designating a writing operating mode, a plurality of data input/output pads, and a data input/output buffer circuit that is electrically connected to the clock signal input and to the plurality of... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080141058 - System, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing time of day clocks on first and second computers: A system, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing first and second time-of-day clocks on first and second computers, respectively, are provided. The first and second computers have first and second network interface cards with third and fourth clocks, respectively, thereon. The system utilizes time stamp values generated by the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080141060 - Fault tolerant computer: A fault tolerant computer comprises a first unit, a second unit, a delay buffer and a delay time setting unit. The first unit executes a computer program in response to an input signal. The second unit executes the computer program in the same execution environment as the first unit in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080141061 - Programmable local clock buffer capable of varying initial settings: A programmable local clock buffer for integrated circuit devices which is capable of varying initial settings is provided. The illustrative embodiments allow a single type of local clock buffer (LCB) to be used throughout an integrated circuit design while still being able to provide differing initial offsets and pulse widths... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080141063 - Real time elastic fifo latency optimization: In some embodiments, a method for optimizing EFIFO latency may include one or more of the following steps: (a) counting each clock cycle from a read clock for a predetermined period of time, (b) counting each clock cycle from a write clock for a predetermined period of time, (c) comparing... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080141062 - Systems and methods for reducing di/dt using clock signals having variable delays: Systems and methods for managing power consumption in an integrated circuit to reduce the rate of change of current (di/dt) in the integrated circuit. One embodiment comprises a system having multiple processor cores. A timing system provides each of the processor cores with a corresponding operating clock signal. The timing... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20080133902 - Method and system for booting an operating system from a virtual hard disk: A system for booting an operating system from a virtual hard disk. A partitioned memory segment is formed within a memory by a preconfigured amount. A boot application is loaded into the partitioned memory segment to form a virtual hard disk. In response to determining that the virtual hard disk... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080133901 - System and method of booting an operating system in an optimal performance state: The present invention provides a method of booting an operating system for use with an information handling system. The method comprises identifying an operating system dependent configuration, and determining an operating system type of the operating system. Further, the method includes changing the operating system dependent configuration in response to... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080133904 - Extensions to coupling channels to support multiple coupling facility sharing, interrupts, and message passing: Computer System for extending coupling channels through the addition of specific hardware interrupts and controls to allow 1) sharing of receiver resources among multiple Coupling Facility (CF) logical partitions (LPARs), 2) direct CEC to CEC message passing, and 3) CF interrupts.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080133903 - System and methods for efficient and cooperative operating system switching: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing operating system (OS) switching. In one embodiment, the method comprising enabling a plurality of operating systems to run concurrently on a computer, wherein a first operating system in the plurality of operating systems is actively being run, the method comprising, identifying... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133905 - Apparatus, system, and method for remotely accessing a shared password: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for remotely accessing a shared password. A storage module stores identifiers, passwords, and keys within a secure key structure of a client. The passwords and keys include a shared password encrypted with a shared password key that is encrypted with a service structure... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080133906 - Efficient security information distribution: Methods and software for distributing several data objects containing status information about security certificates, and a directory of the data objects, through a peer-to-peer data distribution network. Other methods and software for preparing a certificate status object containing validity information about a security certificate, and a reaffirmation object identifying the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133908 - Distribution of certification statements into repository: A method and apparatus for distributing certification statements. Digital certificates are stored in a plurality of entries in a repository. Certification statements that include revocation status information for the stored digital certificates are received and stored in corresponding entries of the repository. Upon receiving a client request for a digital... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133907 - Propagation of certificate revocation information: A method and apparatus for propagating certificate revocation information. A certificate revocation list is received that includes a plurality of entries. The plurality of entries are grouped other than by order of appearance in the certificate revocation list. Certification statements are generated based on the grouped entries.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133909 - Method and apparatus for inserting authentication code, and method and apparatus for using data through authentication: Provided is a method of inserting authentication code into a data packet. The method includes determining whether to insert authentication code into a data packet based on at least one of an importance of the data packet and a type of the data packet, and inserting the authentication code into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080133910 - Method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface: A method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface are provided. With the method and apparatus, a unique identifier (UID) is created by a server process when the server process is started. Anytime the server process, i.e. a server runtime environment, instantiates a new credential object... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080133912 - Authentication system, authentication method, attesting device, verification device, their programs, and recording medium: A verification device stores verification information and first random information in a first storage section. The verification information depends upon the contents of comparative information and does not depend upon an information volume of the comparative information. Further, the verification device generates an authentication information generation factor by using the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080133913 - Emergency information management system: A wide-area emergency information management system includes a broadcasting entity (10) and delivers content to authorized receiver clients (20), such as PC's, laptops, wireless devices, etc. The specific content (26), which can include voice, text, video or any other information content related to a planned response to a given crisis... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20080133911 - System and method for making encrypted content available to derivable related parties: A new system and method have been invented to allow a sender/author/user who wishes to send e-mail or a calendar meeting document to someone and make it available to her or his assistant or manager without the need of the sender/author/user finding out who the assistant or manager is. That... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080133914 - Authentication cache and authentication on demand in a distributed network environment: A computer receives a request for authentication from a client. The computer forwards the authentication request to an authentication source. Once the authentication source has validated the authentication request, the computer requests authentication and cache control information from the authentication source. The computer uses the authentication and cache control information... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c. - Novell

20080133915 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication system performs a communication after establishing a channel from an external host device in an external network to an internal host device in an internal network, where a firewall blocks communications from the external host device in the external network to the internal host device in the internal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080133921 - Message authentication system and message authentication method: This invention provides a message authentication system including: a message sending device having a send notice information generating unit that generates a first authentication code to certify a message and a second authentication code to certify the first authentication code and that sends the message and an authentication code generation... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080133919 - Method and apparatus for performing authentication: A method and apparatus for performing authentication are provided. The method includes: receiving an authentication request signal for requesting authentication from an external device; determining whether authentication has been performed with the external device that has transmitted the authentication request signal; based on the determination, selectively outputting an indication representing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080133918 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data using authentication: A method and apparatus of transmitting data using authentication between a first device and a second device are provided. The method includes transmitting an encrypted certificate of the first device using a shared key shared by the first device and the second device, receiving authentication key generation information for generating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080133917 - Ring authentication method for concurrency environment: A ring authentication method for a concurrency environment, the method capable of providing unforgeability, sender anonymity, and deniability in the concurrency environment, in which, when a receiver receiving a message requests a sender of the message to certify the message, the sender requested to certify the message sends a message... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080133916 - Secure authentication using digital certificates with individual authentication data: r

20080133920 - System and computer program product for secure authentication using digital certificates:

20080133928 - A computer-implemented method and system for embedding and authenticating ancillary information in digitally signed content: A computer-implemented system and method for embedding and authenticating ancillary information in digitally signed content are disclosed. The method and system include loading digital content containing a digitally signed executable into memory for execution, while checking for the integrity of a digital signature and the contents of the executable; and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/macrovision

20080133923 - Data communication apparatus and data communication method: A mobile device 100 of transmitting side accepts a domain ID specifying a detachable IC memory uniquely from an application 102, a communication driver 105 obtains an IP address of the device of correspondent on the basis of the accepted domain ID from a name server 300 storing the domain... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080133922 - File update availability checking in a hierarchal file store: A device includes a computer processor and a file store coupled to the computer processor. The file store includes a hierarchal file system. A plurality of files is located in the hierarchal file system. Each of the plurality of files is associated with digital signature metadata determined by a content... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133927 - Method and system for digital watermarking: A method for applying a digital watermark to a content signal is disclosed. In accordance with such a method, a watermarking key is identified. The watermarking key includes a binary sequence and information describing application of that binary sequence to the content signal. The digital watermark is then encoded within... Agent: Scott A. Moskowitz

20080133924 - Method for checking electronic authorizaiton inspection information, tester and computer program: A method for checking electronic authorization inspection information, in which an electronic authorization inspection information item comprises text and/or graphics information describing usable services, a reference to a user identification document and a digital signature which is calculated from the text and/or graphics information and the reference to the user... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080133925 - Signature assigning method, information processing apparatus and signature assigning program: A signature object extraction module of computer A extracts, from a message including a plurality of document elements constituting a structured document read from a storage, a signature object including document elements belonging to a particular namespace. A signature assigning module assigns an electronic signature to the signature object extracted... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080133926 - Signature schemes using bilinear mappings: Methods and systems are provided for generating and verifying signatures of digital messages communicated between signers and verifiers. Using bilinear mappings, such as Weil or Tate pairings, these methods and systems enable generation and verification of efficient multisignatures, identity-based ring signatures, hierarchical proxy signatures, and hierarchical online/offline signatures.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080133929 - Secure loading and storing of data in a data processing device: Disclosed is a method of loading data into a data processing device. The method comprises receiving a payload data item by the data processing device; performing a cryptographic authentication process to ensure the authenticity of the payload data item; storing the authenticated received payload data item in the data processing... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080133930 - Methods to authenticate access and alarm as to proximity to location: Methods for authenticating access and proving positional awareness using mobile phones. Embodiments for authenticating access include receiving identification indicia from a person seeking access, sending a message to a person having authority for access, and receiving either a second message indicating that the person has taken an affirmative action to... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080133931 - Failure diagnosis method: A method of detecting abnormality of an information processing apparatus to be started by biometric authentication without being started when the apparatus is inoperable. The information processing apparatus performs the biometric authentication using obtained biometric data of a user and pre-registered reference biometric data of the user in order to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080133933 - Key sequence rhythm recognition system and method: A user recognition and identification system and method is presented in which text entered by a user at a keyboard is evaluated against previously recorded keystrokes by the user for the presence of repeatable patterns that are unique to an individual.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080133932 - Portable data support with watermark function: A portable data carrier (1) is proposed, which comprises a non-volatile memory (11), a processor (15) and a watermark application (131) executable by the processor (15) which is also stored on the data carrier (1). The watermark application (131) is adapted to check (152) data (110, 140) stored on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080133934 - Configurable data masking for software testing: A data masking tool can support a wide variety of data sources and execution mechanisms. For example, any of a wide variety of data masking techniques can be achieved via a web interface, API, command line, SOA, or the like. Connectivity to mainframe environments can be achieved. Multiple data source... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080133936 - Input display device, input display method, recording medium storing input display program, and electronic device: An input display device, including: a display area that displays a plurality of input keys; and a display controller that controls display of the plurality of input keys displayed in the display area. The display controller includes: a combination data creating portion that creates combination data of a first input... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080133937 - Remote access system, gateway, client device, program, and storage medium: Disclosed is a secure remote access system for improving convenience of a user by utilizing a storage device including an anti-tampering device as a user authentication device in the secure remote access system for making access and execution of job while a user is making the encrypted communication to a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080133938 - Self-protecting digital content: Technologies are disclosed to transfer responsibility and control over security from player makers to content authors by enabling integration of security logic and content. An exemplary optical disc carries an encrypted digital video title combined with data processing operations that implement the title's security policies and decryption processes. Player devices... Agent: Marc P. Schuyler

20080133935 - Structure preserving database encryption method and system: A database encryption system and method, the Structure Preserving Database Encryption (SPDE), is presented. In the SPDE method, each database cell is encrypted with its unique position. The SPDE method permits to convert a conventional database index into a secure one, so that the time complexity of all queries is... Agent: Roach, Brown, Mccarthy & Gruber

20080133940 - System and method for creating, vaulting, transferring and controlling transferable electronic records with unique ownership: A system for securely vaulting, auditing, controlling and transferring electronic transferable records (TRs) with unique ownership, including at least one registry for registering the electronic transferable record with unique ownership in a TR registry record; at least one secure storage manager (SSM) associated with the registry, the SSM storing the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080133939 - System and method for transparent disk encryption: A data storage system providing transparent encryption. The data storage system has a hardware encryption/decryption engine and a register coupled to the hardware encryption/decryption engine. The register is for securely storing a key for encrypting and decrypting data. The key may not be read from outside the data storage system.... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20080133941 - Apparatus and method for frustrating unwanted access to data stored with a host device: An apparatus for frustrating unwanted access to data stored with a host device includes: (a) A data disrupting unit coupled with the host device for disrupting the data in response to an action signal. (b) At least one power source unit coupled with the host device. (c) A sensor unit... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080133945 - Bidirectional inline power port: A method and apparatus for bidirectional provision of inline power over data telecommunications cabling permits power to be received at a local powered device (PD) from remote power sourcing equipment (PSE) via at least one conductor at a first time and power to be provided by the local device to... Agent: Cisco - Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080133943 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: A method for on-demand power management monitors a processing demand in a processing system operating at a first set of voltages and frequencies and generates a second set of voltages and frequencies in response to the processing demand. The method switches from the first set of voltages and frequencies to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133944 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: Embodiments of on-demand power management have been presented. In some embodiments, a set of processing events on a system bus within a processing system is detected. Further, a processing event pattern may be recognized, and the processing event pattern may be correlated with a processing demand in the processing system.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133942 - Method of installing software on storage device controlling apparatus, method of controlling storage device controlling apparatus, and storage device controlling apparatus: A method of installing software on a storage device controlling apparatus which includes at least one channel controller having a circuit board on which are formed a file access processing section receiving requests to input and output data in files as units from an information processing apparatus via a first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080133946 - Methods and apparatus for provisioning phantom power to remote devices: An apparatus provisions power from a power budget to remote devices configured to obtain phantom power. The apparatus includes, among other things, a controller which is configured to identify a power demand for a remote device (e.g., a power demand based on an actual cable loss), and generate a comparison... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc

20080133948 - Apparatus for controlling power management of digital signal processor and power management system and method using the same: Provided are an apparatus for controlling power management of a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and a power management system and method using the same. The power management system includes a command decoding device for decoding a program into which a PSM (Power Saving Mode) command and a general command are... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080133947 - Central processing unit: [Means for Solution] A control value is calculated by performing proportional and integral processing on a deviation of a target instruction execution number from a measured instruction execution number. Unification processing or unification cancellation processing is performed in accordance with the control value. The unification processing stops supply of clocks... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080133951 - Electronic device with serial ata interface and power saving method for serial ata buses: In an electronic device with a serial ATA interface, upon detection of the issue or reception of a preset command, a confirmation device, such as a CPU, confirms the completion of execution of the command. Upon confirming the completion of execution of the command, a controller, which may also be... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080133949 - Power saving display mode for organic electroluminescent displays: An improved organic electroluminescent display includes a plurality of normal mode colors and a plurality of user-selected power saving mode colors. The display is switchable between a normal display mode and a power saving display mode. In the normal display mode, the normal mode colors are displayed by the display.... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080133950 - System device including nic and power-saving controlling method of the same: The object is to realize reasonable power-saving operation in a NIC portion depending on a link status for the Ethernet in a system device including a NIC. For the protocol process functional portion and/or the encryption process functional portion in the NIC portions, the energy-saving process is executed in accordance... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080133952 - Power saving for isochronous data streams in a computer system: For isochronous data steams processed by a computer system, for example high definition audio streams, embodiments keep track of the free space available in the input and output buffers for the data streams. The available free space in the buffers determines whether various low power entry and exit thresholds are... Agent: Seth Kalson C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080133953 - System device including nic and power-saving controlling method of the same: The object is to realize power-saving operation in a NIC portion while maintaining a processing ability necessary for services to be performed in a system device having a controller for a multi-CPU process including a NIC. A service request status in a predetermined period is comprehended through a total value... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080133954 - Power mode transition in multi-threshold complementary metal oxide semiconductor (mtcmos) circuits: In one embodiment, a method for power mode transition in a multi-threshold complementary metal oxide semiconductor (MTCMOS) circuit includes clustering logic cells in the circuit to a number of logic clusters and optimizing wake-up times of the logic clusters to reduce a total turn-on time of the circuit while keeping... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080133955 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products supporting automatic network identification for power supplies: An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) apparatus can include an uninterruptible power supply circuit configured to provide electrical power to a load corresponding to a loss of line power, a network communications interface circuit associated with the uninterruptible power supply circuit, configured to be coupled to a network and a self-identification... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080133956 - Power consumption management for functional preservation in a battery-powered electronic device: Methods and apparatus for managing power consumption in a multi-function electronic device powered by one or more batteries are provided. In one embodiment, when the power available from the one or more batteries is diminished (e.g., below a certain threshold), management of power consumption in a battery-powered electronic device (e.g.,... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20080133957 - Circuit to reduce power supply fluctuations in high frequency/high power circuits: The present invention provides for a circuit for transitioning clocking speeds. A counter is coupled to the clocking means. A comparator is coupled to an output of the counter. A first divider is coupled to the output of the counter. A processor means is coupled to the output of the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20080133958 - Method for on-chip diagnostic testing and checking of receiver margins: A method and system for determining the eye pattern margin parameters of a receiver system during diagnostic testing is presented. The circuitry in the receiver's front end comprises a series of latches, XOR gates and OR gates which first provide the data samples and edge samples, i.e., data sampled at... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080133959 - Memory controller and signal synchronizing method thereof: A memory controller includes an output buffer for receiving a clock signal and outputting the clock signal to an external memory; and a replica buffer for receiving the clock signal and outputting the clock signal to a counting circuit; wherein the replica buffer and the output buffer have the same... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP