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

20080209193 - Manageability extension mechanism for system firmware: A method and system to manage an extension mechanism for firmware is described. A firmware binary file is stored in an extension area of a storage device of a computer system. The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of the computer system is modified to access the stored firmware binary file stored... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080209195 - Self-restoring on-board information system: a second non-rewritable memory (120) containing an operating system (121) as well as a set of executable files (123), said boot program being adapted to load the operating system and at least a portion of the executable files into the volatile memory when the on-board information system is initialised.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080209194 - Systems and methods for providing configuration change information on a per setting basis: Computer systems and methods are provided for presenting configuration change information on a per setting basis. This includes displaying one or more configuration settings, and receiving a user input that identifies a selected configuration setting. Configuration change information for the selected configuration setting is then displayed in response to the... Agent: Patrick R. Scanlon Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP

20080209201 - Apparatus and method for updating boot logo image in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for updating a boot logo image in a portable terminal are provided. In the method, a boot logo image selected by a user and a boot loader are separately stored in a memory unit.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080209202 - Apparatus operable under an operating system, method of controlling apparatus and computer-readable recording medium: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus operable under an operating system having an input device for inputting information, the apparatus being activated by booting a BIOS and the operating system successively comprises, a storage for storing information; and a processor receiving specific information inputted by the input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080209198 - Boot acceleration for computer systems: Boot acceleration for computer systems is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method of boot acceleration for a computer system may comprise monitoring data requests during a boot procedure. The method may also comprise pre-fetching data from a storage device during a subsequent boot procedure based at least in part... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080209199 - Boot negotiation among multiple boot-capable devices: A first device discovers the capabilities of a second device. The first device determines which of the first device and the second device is to execute a controlling boot image based at least in part on the capabilities of the first device and the second device. A first boot image... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209200 - Method for protecting data in a hard disk: The present invention discloses a method for protecting data in a hard disk, which is applied to the hard disk, such that if a computer executes boot codes of the hard disk and a hard disk identification code recorded by the hard disk is determined to be identical to a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080209197 - Method to add ipv6 and dhcp support to the network support package: Extending the network support package to accept network addresses in IPv6 format and allow the use of other boot discovery protocols, such as DHCP, to acquire the information needed to boot a system using a file on a remote server. A mechanism is added to the network support package to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080209196 - Method to enable firmware to boot a system from an iscsi device: A method and system that enable system firmware to efficiently boot an operating system (OS) and/or client program from a network-connected Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) device. The method generally comprises: (1) defining the firmware representation of the iSCSI device within the hierarchical data structure that represents the system... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080209203 - Data encryption apparatus, data decryption apparatus, data encryption method, data decryption method, and data transfer controlling apparatus: A crypt processor is connected to a host computer and a storage apparatus. Data from the host computer is transferred to the crypt processor via DMA (Direct Memory Access) to be encrypted and then stored in the storage apparatus. The crypto processor acquires a descriptor defining a DMA number for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080209204 - Security enhancement for snmpv2c protocol: A method of enhancing security in network management for SNMPv2c packet traffic over internet between a (sending) manager location and an (receiving) agent location uses a pluggable security application function. The manager location has a manager side security application (MSA) and may include one or more managers. The agent location... Agent: Global Ip Services, Pllc

20080209205 - Zero knowledge attribute storage and retrieval: Some embodiments of zero knowledge attribute storage and retrieval have been presented. In one embodiment, the content of a piece of data is encrypted at a client machine. Further, an identifier of the piece of data is hashed at the client machine. The encrypted content and the hashed identifier may... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209206 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing enforcement of operator lock: A data blob has an operator's certificate that specifies a network. The data blob is encrypted by the network using a private key that authenticates that a user device owns a MAC address. The network sends the encrypted data blob to the user device, which decrypts it using a private... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080209207 - Automated certificate provisioning for non-domain-joined entities: A method of certificate provisioning is provided for entities that are not associated with a domain. In some implementations, certificate provisioning methods allow non-domain-joined entities to request and receive certificates through an automated process with a certificate provisioning portal. Through the automated process, the identity of the client may be... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080209208 - Method and apparatus for managing digital certificates: Method and apparatus for managing digital certificates are described herein. In one embodiment, an encryption certificate is extracted from an email received from an owner of the encryption certificate, where the encryption certificate being issued from a trusted party other than the owner. Then the encryption certificate is associated with... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080209209 - Method and system for authentication when certification authority public and private keys expire: A system for enabling the use of valid authentication certificates when the public key and private keys of any of the certifying authority have expired. The enabling by the system includes obtaining a server certifying authority chain (SCAC) certificate by the server from the certifying authority, presenting the original valid... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080209210 - Master key trust grants and revocations for minor keys: A method and apparatus is provided that allows code signed by a master key to grant trust to an arbitrary second key, and also allows code, referred to as an antidote and also signed by the master key to revoke permanently the trust given to the second key.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080209211 - Security, safety, and redundancy employing controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates employing safety within an industrial environment. An enhancing component can implement at least one of a security level, authentication, authorization, or an access right to a validated action to at least one of the controller or the controller engine... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080209212 - Integrated secure and non-secure display for a handheld communications device: A handheld communications device is created with a touch sensitive display, a secure computing component, and a non-secure computing component. The secure component may comprise a secure CPU executing a secure operating system. The non-secure component may comprise a separate non-secure CPU executing a separate non-secure operating system. The touch... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080209213 - Authorizing secure resources: A system receives a request to access a secure resource and a verification telephone number from a first device, establishes a secure session with a second device associated with the verification telephone number, requests an authentication mechanism from the second device to verify the secure resource request, verifies the received... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080209216 - Method and system for automated authentication of a device to a management node of a computer network: A first computer-based device is authenticated at a second computer-based device communicatively coupled thereto through use of a unique identifier and an encrypted token, each received from the first device. Following the authentication, configuration information for the first device is sent from the second device to the first device and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080209214 - Method of authentication based on polyomials: There is provided an authentication method for a system (10) comprising several devices (30). The method involves: a) providing each device (30) with an identity value (pi: i=1, . . . , n) and a polynomial (P) for generating a polynomial key; (b) including a verifier device (p1) and a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209215 - Method of physical authentication and an electronic device: The present invention relates to a method of physical authentication and an electronic device for implementing the method. According to the method of the present invention, using an operation control list stored in an electronic device, a valid user authenticates the operation implemented by the electronic device in a physical... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.c.

20080209217 - System and method for implementing a robot proof web site: e

20080209219 - Method of embedding a digital watermark in a useful signal: Method of embedding a digital watermark in a useful signal, wherein a watermark bit sequence is embedded into the frequency domain of the useful signal using adaptive frequency modulation of two given frequencies by tracking amplitudes of the chosen frequencies of the original signal and modifying them according to the... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080209220 - Method of quantization-watermarking: There is provided a method of detecting a watermark included in a signal by way of quantization index modulation (QIM). The signal with the embedded watermark may have been geometrically transformed (e.g. spatially or temporally scaled) prior to detection. In order to detect the watermark even in such case, the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209218 - Methods and systems for providing independent verification of information in a public forum: A social networking site host includes, in a user's profile, information that has been attested to and verified by both the user and an independent verifier. The independent verifier is an accepted authority with direct knowledge of the information. Both the user and verifier attest to the information by digitally... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080209221 - System, method and apparatus for cryptography key management for mobile devices: A technique that binds encryption and decryption keys using a UID, a UDID, and a Pswd to a client mobile device in an enterprise. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by creating a new user account using the UID and the DPswd in an inactive state and communicating the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080209222 - Method of creating password schemes for devices: A method of creating a password scheme for a mobile device includes partitioning a storage space on the mobile device into a public portion and a secure portion and encrypting access to the secure portion of the storage space by creating a long password, where the long password being composed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080209224 - Method and system for token recycling: Embodiments of the present invention provide for recycling a locked token in an enterprise. A secure connection can be established between a locked token and a server and a security process activated to determine an identity of an authorized user of the locked token. An unlock procedure can be activated... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080209225 - Methods and systems for assigning roles on a token: An embodiment relates generally to a method of assigning roles to a token. The method includes determining a first role for a first participant on a token and providing exclusive access to a first section of the token for the first participant base on the first role. The method also... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080209223 - Transactional visual challenge image for user verification: A method and a system generate a transactional visual challenge image to be presented to a user thereby to verify that the user is human. For example, an image module generates a visual challenge to be presented to a user as part of a challenge-response to verify that the user... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080209228 - Method and apparatus for a merged power-communication cable in door security environment: A method controlling access to a door using a merged power-communication cable. An access controlled door lock in door is operated using merged power-communication cable. Access control identification mechanism in door may operate using merged power-communication cable. The access controlled door lock may include a piezoelectric controlled door lock or... Agent: Gss Law Group

20080209230 - Method and system for quantitative determination of software ease of use: The present invention uses biometrics for the quantitative determination of software ease of use by collecting biometric data from a software user, identifying changes in the biometric data as the user uses the software, determining if the changes are indicative of software ease of use issues, and generating a signal... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.c.

20080209229 - Method of and system for selecting and presenting content based on user identification: Methods of and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user identification are provided. A user-interface method of selecting and presenting content items in which the presentation is ordered at least in part based on inferring which user of a collection of users is using an input device includes... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080209226 - User authentication via biometric hashing: Techniques for authenticating biometric parameters via biometric hashing are described. In one implementation, a biometric parameter of a user (e.g., fingerprint image, blood-vessel pattern, retina scan, etc.) is captured. One or more biometric hashes are produced from the biometric parameter. To generate hashes that appear random, pseudorandom metrics are applied... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080209227 - User authentication via biometric hashing: Techniques for authenticating biometric parameters via biometric hashing are described. In one implementation, a biometric parameter of a user (e.g., fingerprint image, blood-vessel pattern, retina scan, etc.) is captured. One or more biometric hashes are produced from the biometric parameter. To generate hashes that appear random, pseudorandom metrics are applied... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080209231 - Contents encryption method, system and method for providing contents through network using the encryption method: Disclosed are a contents encryption method, and a system and method for providing contents through a network using the contents encryption method. In order to provide contents through the network more securely, at least one piece of contents and corresponding metadata are recursively multi-encrypted at least once, and encrypted data... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080209232 - Method and device for controlling access to encrypted data: The invention concerns a method for controlling access to encrypted data by control words (CW), said control words being received by a security module in control messages (ECM) and returned to a unit operating on (STB) the encrypted data. The method includes the following steps: receiving a first control message... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080209237 - Computer apparatus and power supply method thereof: A computer apparatus includes an information processing unit that processes information, a storing unit having a storage space in which the information being processed is stored, a main power supply that supplies power to the information processing unit, an auxiliary power supply including a thermoelectric element that converts heat generated... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080209238 - Controller for processing apparatus: DVS control is established by determining a voltage frequency profile for a processing resource completing a task within a timing deadline. The voltage frequency profile is determined by way of constraining the available operating frequency to a number of discrete permitted operating frequencies. In one embodiment, acceptance of the voltage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080209236 - Gate drive voltage selection for a voltage regulator: A system comprises a load and a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator is configured to select a gate drive signal from among a plurality of input voltages. The voltage regulator is configured to use the selected gate drive signal to turn on a power transistor to produce a regulated voltage... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080209239 - Managing voltage supply in multiple linked systems: In a data processing system having elements grouped into a plurality of power domains, each one of which has at least one processing element and at least two power supplies, power domains are interconnnected by sensing and switching circuitry which senses the conditions of power supply and demand in and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080209235 - Power switching circuit: A power switching circuit includes a flip-flop for receiving an abnormal power-off signal output by shutdown software of an electronic device, and outputting a trigger signal when a power supply of the electronic device is in an abnormal shutdown status and the abnormal power-off signal. The power switching circuit further... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080209240 - Pre-emptive power supply control system and method: A control system for controlling a power supply having an operating function. The power supply to supply an output current to an integrated circuit having at least one circuit block that is controllable by an enable signal or a clock signal. A receiver to receive the enable signal. A controller... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080209233 - Techniques for operating a processor subsystem: A technique of operating a processor subsystem masks interrupts to the processor subsystem during a power-down sequence of a processor of the processor subsystem. A boot vector for the processor of the processor subsystem is set. The boot vector provides an address associated with a saved processor state. A current... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080209234 - Water-based data center: A system includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center comprising a plurality of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator in electrical connection with the plurality of computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to the plurality of computing units.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080209241 - Power supply controller with multiple setting segments: The present invention relates to a power supply controller with multiple setting segments, which comprises a display, a plurality of setting buttons, a standby indicator light and a PC connection terminal and is provided for allowing a user to easily conduct power supply control with respect to the multiple setting... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080209242 - Modem card configured to compensate for power supply: A modem card includes a connector configured to be detachably connected to a computer. The card also includes electronics configured to be powered by a power supply located in the computer and to transmit wireless signals to a communications network at a transmit power. The electronics are configured to vary... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080209243 - Scheduling processor voltages and frequencies based on performance prediction and power constraints: A power management system schedules the voltage and frequency of processors in a data processing system based on two criteria. The first criterion is a prediction of the performance that the work currently running on the processor will experience at the different frequencies that are available. The second criterion is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080209245 - Accounting for microprocessor resource consumption: Techniques for accounting microprocessor resource consumption. The present invention provides an automatic method to timely determine the current microprocessor clock frequency. Information provided by timer facilities of the microprocessor is reused by sampling this information at constant intervals. Such direct derivation of the microprocessor clock frequency is a real-time method... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080209244 - Centralized service for awakening a computing device: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing and interacting with a centralized wake service. A server-side wake service is provided that is operable to allow applications to subscribe to the wake service. The wake service receives a wake request directed to a particular computing device from a particular one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209247 - Monitoring and synchronization of power use of computers in a network: A method and system for controlling the power management profiles of computers connected through a network. The method and system monitoring the electrical power use of each computer in the network, and reports this information to an authorized party, such as the network administrator. According to the method and system,... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080209246 - System and method of managing power consumption of communication interfaces and attached devices: A system and method of managing power consumption of communication interfaces and attached devices is disclosed. In one form of the disclosure, a communication module can include a communication interface operable to receive link utilization information of a plurality of communication channels of the communication interface. The communication module can... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080209248 - Method for power reduction and a device having power reduction capabilities: A method for power reduction, the method includes determining whether to power down the at least portion of the component in response to a relationship between an estimated power gain and an estimated power loss resulting from powering down the at least portion of the component during the low power... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080209250 - Single wire communication circuits and methods: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods of control using a single wire. The systems and methods presented allow sending or receiving commands and data through a single wire. In one embodiment, commands and data are received by the control system through a single terminal. In another embodiment,... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group Pc

20080209249 - Use of a uuid as a time epoch to determine if the system clock has been reset backwards in time: A method, system and program are provided for determining if a system clock has been reset backwards in time by using a randomly generated set of bytes (such as a randomly generated or type 4 UUID) as a time epoch. By generating a time epoch at boot time and whenever... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP Ibm Austin

20080209251 - Method and device for clock changeover n a multi-processor system: A unit and method for clock changeover in a system having at least two processing units, in which switchover device(s) are provided by which a switchover between at least two operating modes of the system is able to be implemented in which a clock pulse changeover is carried out in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080209252 - Pipelined clock stretching circuitry and method for i2c logic system: A system for increasing the data throughput of an I2C bus including a serial clock conductor (3) for conducting a serial clock signal (SCK) and a serial data conductor (2) for conducting a serial data signal (SDA) includes clock-stretching control circuitry (15) coupled to the serial clock conductor (3) for... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080201569 - Dual cpu inverter system and method for the same: A dual CPU inverter system includes a power module and a control module electrically connected to each other and each having a CPU, a RAM and a ROM. After power on, the two modules can read the respective ROM data to the respective RAM to speed up the ready state.... Agent: Hdsl

20080201568 - Version-resilient loader for custom code runtimes: A method and system for dynamically identifying and loading a version of a runtime for custom code of a host application without modifying the host application is provided. A loading system dynamically identifies the version of the runtime during execution of the host application. The loading system is also dynamically... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080201570 - Apparatus, method and product for selecting an iscsi target for automated initiator booting: An apparatus, method and product for selecting an iSCSI target for us in automatically booting a remote initiator is disclosed. A policy engine is created for use in a discovery domain of an iSCSI device. A boot attribute setting within the policy engine is set for selecting an iSCSI target... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080201572 - Method and system for uniformizing product data embedded in a computer platform: A method uniformizes product data embedded in a computer platform equipped with a first-type control unit stored with first product data, and a second-type control unit stored with second product data. The method includes recording a first time value when the first product data are modified; recording a second time... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080201573 - Operating system rebooting method and apparatus for continuing to execute a non-stop module even during rebooting: A method of rebooting an operating system including a plurality of load modules in a single computer. One load module which is to be operated during rebooting of the operating system is held in a memory, while establishing a state capable of accepting interrupt to be processed by the one... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080201571 - System and method for managing boot images in a retail store environment: The present invention is a system for managing boot images in a retail store environment. The system includes a server. The system further includes a plurality of client devices communicatively coupled with the server. A first client device included in the plurality of client devices is configured for downloading a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080201574 - Data encryption apparatus, data decryption apparatus, data encryption method, data decryption method, and data relay apparatus: A RAID system includes a RAID controller that sends to a disc apparatus data to be encrypted by a data relay apparatus connected to the RAID controller and the disk apparatus. When receiving a data transfer request packet indicating a first receivable size, the data relay apparatus establishes a second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080201575 - Systems and methods for automating certification authority practices: Systems and methods for efficiently verifying identities and for generating and signing digital certificates associated with those identities are disclosed. Generation of a digital certificate of an entity may begin by receiving a certificate signing request from the entity at a certification authority, the certificate signing request including verification information.... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080201577 - Authentication device and method: An apparatus for generating intermediate cryptogram data corresponding to a dynamic password for a first cryptographic scheme, the intermediate cryptogram data being suitable for display using a device designed for a second, different cryptographic scheme, the apparatus including: a communications interface for communicating with a said device; and a processor... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201576 - Information processing server and information processing method: An information-processing server (30) (a) receives an action request with first level private information from a first terminal (20); (b) authenticates the first terminal (20) based on the first level private information; (c) issues authentication information to the first terminal (20); (d) receives from the first terminal (20) second level... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080201578 - Computer security using visual authentication: A physical token to the user in the form of a unique card having a grid of images thereon. Each column and row of images has a unique text string of text. In addition, each user knows a special image, not necessarily present on the token card, on which one... Agent: Barber Legal

20080201579 - Biometric based repeat visitor recognition system and method: A biometric authorization method, system, and program product Biometric data associated with a subject can be detected and acquired. Thereafter, particular biometric features can be segmented and extracted from the biometric data. These particular biometric features are then compared to biometric data previously stored in a database in order to... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20080201581 - Method and apparatus for storing data: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises providing a matrix comprising m rows and n columns, each of the rows and columns comprising elements of zero and one, dividing data into n data blocks, associating each of the data blocks with each of the columns, calculating an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080201580 - Trustworthy timestamps and certifiable clocks using logs linked by cryptographic hashes: A method and apparatus for creating and/or using trustworthy timestamps and certifiable clocks using logs linked by cryptographic hashes. In one embodiment, the method comprises maintaining a first, chained-hash log; associating a first clock with the chained-hash log, and entangling the first log; with a second by adding a time-stamped... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080201586 - Integrated circult device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes a digital power supply regulation circuit, an analog power supply regulation circuit, a control logic circuit, an analog circuit, and a power supply wiring region. A digital power supply line which supplies a digital power supply voltage and an analog power supply line which supplies... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080201582 - Method for setting an electrical field device: A method for adjusting an electric field device in order to simplify its operation includes the following steps: an electronic control unit of the field device identifies an external data storage module that is connected to the field device; the electronic control unit reads personal data allocated to a user... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080201585 - Multifunctional machine and method of controlling multifunctional machine: A multifunctional machine includes a first component section that starts up taking a first time period, and a second component section that starts up taking a second time period shorter than the first time period. An operation start prediction information obtaining section is provided to obtain operation start prediction information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080201583 - Power supply control circuit: A power supply control circuit has an input unit which receives a supply of a power supply from one or a plurality of power supply source apparatuses, and has plural input lines including a first input line and a second input line at least, an output unit which outputs the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080201584 - Semiconductor intergrated circuit and method for controlling semiconductor intergrated circuit: Herein disclosed is a method for controlling a semiconductor integrated circuit having plural domains, the method including controlling plural power supplies which supply power to the plural domains, controlling an asynchronous bridge section being provided between each of the domains, receiving and transmitting data for dynamically changing a power supply... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080201587 - Anticipatory power management for battery-powered electronic device: Methods and apparatus for managing power consumption of a battery-powered electronic device are disclosed. According to one embodiment, power management can take action to reduce power consumption to accommodate estimated power requirements. According to another embodiment, power management can notify a user when a power deficiency is anticipated. According to... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080201588 - Semiconductor device and method for reducing power consumption in a system having interconnected devices: A system includes a plurality of memory devices connected in-series that communicate with a memory controller. A memory device designated by an ID number performs operations at a normal power consumption level. The other devices not designated perform signal forwarding operations at a reduced power consumption level. The designated memory... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20080201589 - Maximum power usage setting for computing device: A maximum power usage setting for a computing device is based on one or more of: a user-specified setting corresponding to how often a frequency of a processor of the computing device is likely to have to be decreased to reduce power usage by the computing device; an average frequency... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080201590 - Method and apparatus to adapt the clock rate of a programmable coprocessor for optimal performance and power dissipation: A coprocessor executing one among a set of candidate kernel loops within an application operates at the minimal clock frequency satisfying schedule constraints imposed by the compiler and data bandwidth constraints. The optimal clock frequency is statically determined by the compiler and enforced at runtime by software-controlled clock circuitry. Power... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080201592 - Hibernating a processing apparatus for processing secure data: A data processing apparatus for processing secure data is disclosed. The data processing apparatus comprising: processing circuitry comprising a plurality of state retention cells in the form of scan chains for holding a current state of said processing circuitry, at least some of the state retention cells being arranged in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080201591 - Method and apparatus for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling: A machine learning technique is used to improve dynamic prediction of processor utilization for multi-threaded user-level applications in a dynamic run-time environment based on processor utilization history. Processor supply voltage and processor clock frequency may be dynamically scaled based on the predicted processor utilization in order to reduce processor power... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080201594 - Electronic appliance, method of setting return interface, return communication method and computer program: An electronic appliance designed for low power consumption mode having a plurality of hardware interfaces mounted thereon for communication with an external device is disclosed. The electronic appliance includes a return interface setting part configured to variably set a part of the plurality of the hardware interfaces as a return... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080201593 - Storage control device: The storage control device of the present invention reduces the power consumption amount by stopping the transmission of power to enclosures that are not accessed. A plurality of additional enclosures are switch-connected via backend switches to a base enclosure. Drives that have not been accessed for a predetermined time or... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080201595 - Intelligent power control: An intelligent power control system for intelligently controlling startup and shutdown sequences of IT equipment to reduce peak power requirements is provided. The intelligent power control system sends an indication to power up to a power module connected to an electronic device. The system monitors the power consumption of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080201596 - Clock buffer circuit of semiconductor device: A clock buffer circuit of a semiconductor device is disclosed which receives an external clock signal and generates an internal clock signal with no duty distortion. The clock buffer circuit includes a first clock buffer for receiving and buffering a normal-phase clock signal, a second clock buffer for receiving and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080201599 - Combined alignment scrambler function for elastic interface: An interface alignment pattern for de-skewing data bits received on an elastic interface is disclosed. The interface alignment pattern is “busy” in that it has a high number of logic state transitions. The busy interface alignment pattern can be used for scrambling and unscrambling operational data. The interface alignment pattern... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080201598 - Device and method for preventing lost synchronization: A method and device for preventing a defect in a CDR circuit from hindering synchronization between connection nodes and for preventing connection failures. The CDR circuit generates a synchronization clock from received data. A connection failure processor performs a connection failure process if synchronization based on the synchronization clock between... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080201597 - Write-leveling implementation in programmable logic devices: Circuits, methods, and apparatus for memory interfaces that compensate for skew between a clock signal and DQ/DQS signals that may be caused by a fly-by routing topology. The skew is compensated by clocking the DQ/DQS signals with a phase delayed clock signal, where the phase delay has been calibrated. In... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/ 015114

20080195852 - Enabling a client device in a client device/data center environment to resume from a sleep more quickly: A method, computer program product and system for enabling a client device in a client device/data center environment to resume from sleep state more quickly. The resource in the server blade used for suspending the activity of the computing state of the client device in order to enter the client... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick Pc

20080195853 - Bios file switching method and controller device thereof: A file switching method of a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) file is disclosed. Upon a received read instruction, a timer for a predetermined timing is initiated, and a first data page having a requested data is read from a first BIOS file. An error correction check on the first data... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080195855 - Computer program product for generic and flexible collection of a hardware data image: A method of processing data is proposed. In response to determining that a reconfiguration of a data processing system has occurred, one or more system items are surveyed to identify a change to the data processing system. One or more requests for status instructions for the one or more system... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080195854 - Electronic systems using flash memory modules as main storage and related system booting methods: Electronic systems using flash memory modules as a main storage, and a booting methods thereof, are provided. The booting method may include reading FAT (file allocation table) information for each of the flash memory modules coupled to the electronic system when it is detected that the number of the flash... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080195856 - Target device programmer: A programmer 10 for a target device 16 is provided with a mass storage interface 12 for connecting to a host 2 so as to appear as a mass storage device to the host 2. A target programmer 18 is responsive to an image transferred from the host 2 to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080195857 - Techniques for automatic registration of appliances: Techniques, in accordance with embodiments of the present technology, include automatic registration of appliances and delivery of location specific information utilizing the registration.... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080195858 - Method and apparatus for accessing an electronic device by a data terminal: This invention pertains to methods and apparatus for accessing an electronic device by a data terminal, as well as a computer program product, an electronic device and a data terminal.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080195860 - Method and apparatus for detecting a compromised node in a network: A secured message indicates that a node (104) in a network (102) is operating correctly and detecting that the node is compromised such that a device (106) should not communicate with the node. When the node is detected to be compromised, the secured message ceases to be transmitted to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080195859 - Safe, alert, biz, gold and com2 software: A system in which users can access a website to sign up and select from a variety of alert options, targeted messages can then be sent to them from our software via text messages on their cellular phone. The user's information is input into a database that is used by... Agent: Ipadvisors

20080195861 - Method and system for authenticating peer devices using eap: A system and method for authenticating a peer device onto a network using Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). The key lifetime associated with the keying material generated in the peer device and the authentication server is communicated from the authenticator to the peer device within the EAP Success message. The peer... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080195862 - Providing personal certificate warnings in a system and method for processing messages composed by a user: A system and method for processing messages composed by a user of a computing device is described herein. After an instruction is received from the user to send an encoded message (e.g. a message that is encrypted, signed, or both encrypted and signed, depending on the implementation), a status verification... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080195863 - Securing wireless communications between devices: The authentication of a data receiving device prior to the transfer of data from a data storage device to the data receiving device over a wireless radio frequency communications channel is described. One disclosed embodiment comprises conducting an authentication communication exchange in which one or more of an authentication request... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195864 - Method for implementing drm function and additional function using drm device and system thereof: A digital rights management (DRM) function performing method and system using a DRM device are provided, in which a DRM device connected to a second communication device decodes encoded contents when a first communication device requests to play the contents, the DRM device re-encodes the contents using a session key,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080195865 - Host identity protocol method and apparatus: A modified Host Identity Protocol, HIP, base exchange method is provided for use by first and second HIP hosts (Initiator and Responder) having a shared state from a pre-existing relationship. In the modified HIP base exchange method, an authentication message (I2′) is sent (S2) from the first host (Initiator) to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080195866 - System and method for human assisted secure information exchange: A system that assures a user that two specific devices have exchanged information correctly over an insecure communication channel. In a typical application, the channel would be a wireless network connection and the information would consist of the public keys of the two devices. The exchanged public keys would subsequently... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195867 - Authenticating security parameters: A method for authenticating communicating parties is disclosed. In the method biometric information associated with a first party is generated based on a recording of the first party presenting a predefined input parameter. Said biometric information may then be transmitted to a second party. Authenticity of a security parameter associated... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080195868 - Rollback-resistant code-signing: A code signature methodology that allows recovery from incorrectly signed software while preventing rollbacks is described herein. When software is signed, the code signature is based not only on the current version of executable code and information corresponding to the current version of executable code, but also includes a history... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080195869 - Method and system for updating time information of a drm device: A method and system for updating time information of a digital rights management (DRM) includes a time server transmitting a time information message to a consumer electronics (CE) device, the CE device transmitting the time information message to a digital rights management DRM device when the CE device receives the... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20080195870 - Time-domain reflectometry used to provide biometric authentication: An electronic device includes one or more Time-Domain Reflectometor (TDR) channels and a security block embedded at a silicon or software level to measure human electrical impedance and characteristics for biometric identification and provide biometric authentication.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080195871 - Producing a new black box for a digital rights management (drm) system: A new ((n)th) black box is produced for a digital rights management (DRM) system. The (n)th black box is for being installed in and for performing decryption and encryption functions in the DRM system. The (n)th black box is produced and delivered to the DRM system upon request and includes... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080195872 - Method and device for protecting data stored in a computing device: A device (10) for protecting data, comprising a first interface (18) for connection to a computing device, a second interface for connection to a data storage (20), an encryptor (22) located in-line between the first interface (18) and the second interface, a control system (30), and a memory (24). The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195873 - Controller having discrete driver circuitry connected to a single processor port: A controller having discrete driver circuitry for driving an electrical load and a method are provided. The controller includes a microprocessor having ports configurable to operate as inputs or outputs. The controller also includes discrete driver circuitry connected to ports of the microprocessor. The discrete driver circuitry is configured to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080195877 - Conserving power by reducing voltage supplied to an instruction-processing portion of a processor: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates reducing static power consumption of a processor. During operation, the system receives a signal indicating that instruction execution within the processor is to be temporarily halted. In response to this signal, the system halts an instruction- processing portion of... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080195874 - Control device for a power supply with zero power consumption in standby mode: The present invention discloses a kind of control device for a power supply with zero power consumption in standby mode, which includes a driver, an intermediate relay, a power relay, a signal induction circuit, a working power supply monitoring circuit for controlled equipment, a power switching circuit, a single-chip microcomputer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080195875 - Low power mode data preservation in secure ics: Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for reducing power consumption in a device. One method includes identifying a plurality of addressable areas for storing data in a volatile memory element of a device and, responsive to a detection of a power condition in the device, enabling power to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080195876 - System and method for reducing power consumption: A method for reducing power consumption, and a system having power reduction capabilities, the method includes: storing, at a first circuit, data representative of a state of a second circuit, entering a low power mode, exiting low power mode, providing a default data value to the second circuit after exiting... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080195878 - Control scheme for binary control of a performance parameter: The present invention relates to a control system and method of controlling at least one performance parameter of an integrated circuit. The at least performance parameter is controlled based on a control word. However, the signaled control information is reduced to a binary control signal simply instructing increase or decrease... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080195879 - Efficient communication power usage: A media player may be adapted to organize and display nearby media device information between communicating media devices before a complete connection is established. In one embodiment, a sleep message is received telling the receiving device to turn off the receiving function for a period of time or until a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080195880 - User space power controller: A method and apparatus is provided for controlling power consuming devices within a user space. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of power control devices where each power control device of the plurality of power control devices controls a power consuming device within the user space, a... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Jon P. Christensen

20080195881 - Method and apparatus for providing on-demand backup power for an optical network terminal: There is demand in the marketplace for smaller optical network devices, such as Optical Network Terminals (ONTs). As a result of decreasing the ONT's size, the size of the backup power source, such as the batteries that power the ONT during periods of back-up power usage, may also have to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080195882 - Method and device for synchronizing cycle time of a plurality of ttcan buses based on determined global time deviations and a corresponding bus system: A method, a device, and a bus system for synchronizing at least two TTCAN buses having at least one bus user, there being cycle times of the basic cycles in the TTCAN buses, a global time being determined in each TTCAN bus and the deviations of the global times of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080195883 - Method and system for hardware implementation of resetting an external two-wired eeprom: Methods and systems for hardware controlling of an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) are described herein. Aspects of the invention may include generating a clock signal at a frequency suitable for EEPROM operation and resetting an EEPROM utilizing the generated clock signal and a hardware generated data signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080195884 - Oversampling-based scheme for synchronous interface communication: In one embodiment, an apparatus to synchronously communicate on an interface that has an associated interface clock for a circuit that has an internal clock used internal to the circuit comprises a control circuit coupled to receive the internal clock and the interface clock. The control circuit is configured to... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080195885 - Integrated circuit with bi-modal data strobe: A memory device that has two operating modes. In the first mode the data strobe is source synchronous and is driven by the memory device when data is being transmitted. In the second mode the data strobe is not driven by the memory device. In this mode the data strobe... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080189537 - Hmi configuration with limited interoperability: A configurable HMI is connected to one or more devices with which it is to operate via a network link. The HMI is also coupled to a configuration station, and configuration of the HMI may take place by interaction with the configuration station. Where one or more of the networked... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080189536 - Interoperably configurable hmi system and method: A configurable HMI is coupled to a configuration station and to one or more networked components, such as an industrial controller. Connections may be established with the networked component, such as to read from or write to registers within the component. A list of available connections or registers is accessed... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080189538 - Supporting multiple operating systems in media devices: Techniques and tools for supporting multiple operating systems in consumer electronic devices. For example, techniques and tools are described that allow quickly switching between operating systems in video disc players that support different media types while reducing wait time and mitigating possible negative impacts to user experience.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080189540 - Automatic electronic-service-guide selection: Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying a bootstrap electronic service guide (“ESG”), determining how many ESGs that use a selected specification/standard are declared in the bootstrap ESG; and if the bootstrap ESG declares more than 1 ESG that uses the selected specification/standard, selecting, from the bootstrap ESG, based... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080189541 - Bios setting method: A basic input output system (BIOS) setting method is applicable to a BIOS setting procedure of a data processing unit having a display unit and an input unit. After the data processing unit is turned on and a power on self test (POST) procedure of the BIOS is being executed,... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080189539 - Computer system for authenticating requested software application through operating system and method thereof: The present invention discloses a computer system. The computer system includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device stores a loader authenticator, a boot loader, an operating system, and at least a software application. The processor is coupled to the storage device for executing the loader authenticator to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080189542 - Computerized apparatus and method for version control and management: Disclosed is a computerized apparatus and method for version control and management. The apparatus includes a cryptography boot loader, a control module on key usage, and one or more agents. After the user's device is powered on, the cryptography boot loader stores a user key, and checks an operating system... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080189544 - Method and apparatus for preferred business partner access in public wireless local area networks (lans): A method (and system) of providing preferred access to a service includes linking an authorization server of a service provider with a certification scheme provided by a business enterprise.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080189543 - Method and system for reducing a size of a security-related data object stored on a token: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system, including a client and security token, for reducing a size of a security-related object stored in the token. The object is stored in a storage structure that is indexed according to an identity reference to a certificate associated with the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080189545 - Method and system for certificate revocation list pre-compression encoding: Embodiments of the present invention provide a pre-compression encoding capability for encoding a CRL, such as an X.509 CRL, stored as a file, data structure or data object in a computer system having a certification authority (CA) and a security client prior to compression. An exemplary method provides for accessing... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080189546 - Method and apparatus for providing and using content allowing integrity verification: Provided are methods and apparatuses for providing and using content allowing integrity verification for determining whether the content has been altered. In the method of providing content allowing integrity verification, the content is divided into a plurality of parts, and integrity verification information for each of the plurality of parts... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080189547 - Information processing device and information processing system: An information processing device is provided with a tamper-proof IC chip that includes a storage area and that can process data from the storage area, and with a storage module that includes a storage area external to the IC chip. First key data stored in the IC chip storage area... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080189548 - Key exchange verification: Key exchanges between peer-to-peer devices can be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Verification of the key exchanges can be made on a channel, network and/or device different from the channel, network and/or device used for the key exchange to determine whether the key exchange was secure. Verification of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189549 - Secure serial number: A serial number for a software product is secured with an authenticator value. The authenticator value and the serial number are evaluated entirely by a remote authentication server such that no cryptographic authentication occurs on a local computer on which the software product is being installed. An abbreviated portion of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189551 - Authority-neutral certification for multiple-authority pki environments: A method for facilitating electronic certification, and systems for use therewith, are presented in the context of public key encryption infrastructures. Some aspects of the invention provide methods for facilitating electronic certification using authority-neutral service requests sent by an application, which are then formatted by a server comprising a middleware... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080189550 - Secure software execution such as for use with a cell phone or mobile device: A method and system for securely executing software or securely loading data generates a secret value at a destination device based on a value transmitted to the destination device, which is algorithmically combined with a secure value stored at the destination device. The destination device, such as a cell phone,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080189552 - Advanced stream format (asf) data stream header object protection: A header object for a data file is comprised of sub-objects which specify properties of the data stream and contains information needed to properly verify and interpret the information within the data object. In order to allow the protection of any set of sub-objects without requiring that the sub-objects follow... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080189553 - Memory based authentication system: An authentication system for authenticating an identity of a user which has a database having a plurality of training questions about the user's past and a corresponding testing question for each of the training questions stored thereon. The authentication system also has a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP/portland

20080189554 - Method and system for securing communication between a host computer and a secure portable device: A secure portable electronic device for providing secure services when used in conjunction with a host computer having a central processing unit. The secure portable device communicates with the host computer via a host agent program executing on the host computer from the secure portable device. Periodically, the host agent... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20080189556 - Multi-network cryptographic device: A Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) card is disclosed. The PCMCIA card may include a cryptographic module, a communications interface, and a processor. The cryptographic module may perform Type 1 encryption of data received from a computer into which the card is inserted. The cryptographic module may support... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080189555 - Smart cards including separate clocks for key processing and non-volatile memory interface communications and methods of operating the same: A memory controller for a smart card including a non-volatile memory can include an internal circuit that is configured to perform cryptographic key processing responsive to a first clock and a non-volatile memory interface circuit for transferring/receiving a signal to/from the internal circuit in synchronization with the first clock and... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080189559 - Computing device, with data protection: Computing device with a processing system inclduing a plurality of user sub-systems, a plurality of user sub-system identifiers respectively identifying one user sub-system of the plurality of user sub-systems, a processor configured to run the processing system, a cryptography unit configured to provide at least one cryptographic mechanism, a cryptography... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080189557 - Method and architecture for restricting access to a memory device: A memory device including at least one storage area for storing data and a protection control structure adapted to selectively allow an external device access to the at least one storage area of the memory, the storage area being not freely accessible by the external device if protected. The memory... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20080189560 - Secure data access methods and apparatus: Embodiments include systems and methods for securely accessing data in the context of a data transaction. A system may include a memory block, within which a memory partition may be allocated to the data transaction. The memory partition includes a data storage block and at least one binding register. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20080189558 - System and method for secure data storage: A system and a method for secure data storage includes one or more data storage devices. A storage area network places the one or more data storage devices in communication with one or more user interfaces. A secure data solution includes a log structured driver interfacing with the one or... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20080189565 - Automatically switching power supply sources for a clock circuit: In one embodiment, a power supply switching circuit may automatically provide power to a clock circuit from one of an auxiliary power supply and a main power supply, based on a voltage of the main power supply. To provide automatic switching, a switch circuit coupled between the power supplies and... Agent: Mark J. Rozman Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080189561 - Instruction dependent dynamic voltage compensation: A method for compensating for dynamic IR (voltage) drop for instruction execution. In a data processing system having a memory, and a central processing unit (CPU), where the CPU includes an adaptive power supply, a method is provided for determining the power required for instruction execution, adjusting power supplied by... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080189563 - Integrated waking/while-awake power management system: A system for activating and deactivating a hardware device and comprising a first stage electronic deactivation unit operative, responsive to a deactivation request, to perform a first deactivation operation comprising deactivation of a first portion of the hardware device having low wake-up latency at a first time t1; and a... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080189564 - Method for supplying power to memory card and memory card system: A method for supplying power to a memory card in a memory card system includes detecting a completion time of a write operation of the memory card, generating a power off strobe signal, the power off strobe signal supplied to the memory card after a predetermined delay time passes from... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080189562 - Reducing power usage in a software application: A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and computer usable program code for reducing the amount of power used when executing a set of applications is provided. A controller determines an operating condition for the data processing system. Responsive to the operating condition being above a threshold, the controller switches the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080189566 - Computer system and control method thereof: A computer system. The computer system includes a communication unit to receive power to perform communication with an external apparatus; and a controller to check whether at least one program to make the communication unit perform the communication is executing, and controls the communication unit to decrease consumption of power... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080189567 - System for method of predicting power events in an intermittent power environment and dispatching computational operations of an integrated circuit accordingly: A system and method of predicting power events in intermittent power environments and dispatching computational operations of an integrated circuit accordingly. A power management prediction system includes a controller executing a prediction algorithm, an arrangement of computation circuitry, a non-volatile storage device containing a power requirements log and a power... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080189568 - System and method for an accuracy-enhanced dll during a measure initialization mode: A clock generator having a delay locked loop and a delay control circuit. The delay locked loop receives an input clock signal and adjusts an adjustable delay circuit to generate an output clock signal that is synchronized with received input clock signal. The delay control circuit coupled to the delay... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080189569 - Adjusting performance method for multi-core processor: An adjusting performance method for a multi-core processor is provided. A plurality of processing cores of the multi-core processor at least includes a first processing core and a second processing core. The adjusting performance method includes the steps of detecting the multi-threadedness of the multi-core processor and the load of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC