Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 09/08

20080235503 - Event-based dynamic tunables: Various approaches are disclosed for run-time update of a configurable kernel parameter that controls runtime operations of in an operating system kernel. In one approach, a first request is received to change a current value of a first configurable kernel parameter to a first new value. The first new value... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080235504 - Firmware controlled dynamic voltage adjustment: Methods, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and systems for providing a supply voltage to an electronic component, such as a processor, are provided. An executable software component, such as system firmware, may access a voltage selection value embedded in the component and retrieve a voltage setting, from a table of voltage... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080235501 - Method for detecting and correcting firmware corruption: A method for detecting and correcting firmware corruption in a system having a host communicatively coupled to an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus having a hardware unit communicatively coupled to a non-volatile memory, includes determining via the hardware unit whether firmware on the non-volatile memory is corrupted; if the firmware... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080235502 - Using a live operating system to set up and configure an active management technology device: An active management technology device may be provisioned using a live operating system stored on a disk, in one embodiment. After disk insertion, no further operator involvement may be needed in some cases.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080235506 - Method, system, and product for identifying provisioning operations via planning methods: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for automatically determining a valid ordering of provisioning operations, and their needed parameters, so that a provisioning system can configure a desired resource state. This is accomplished by formally describing the pre-conditions and effects of provisioning operations, the current state of... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235505 - Methods and systems to selectively scrub a system memory: A computer system is provided, the computer system having a processor and a system memory coupled to the processor. The computer system also includes a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) in communication with the processor. The BIOS selectively scrubs the system memory during a shutdown process of the computer system.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080235507 - Encrypted communication method: A DNS Proxy unit (A12a) holds the domain name of an encrypted communication target node in a CUG setting table (A125a), intercepts a name resolution request for a communication partner node output from an application (A11x) to a DNS server (B1a), determines by looking up the CUG setting table (A125a)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235508 - Reducing processing load in proxies for secure communications: In one embodiment, a method for providing secure communications using a proxy is provided. The proxy negotiates with a client and a server to determine a session key to use with communications between the client and the proxy and between the proxy and the server. Encrypted data may then be... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080235509 - Method for exchanging messages and verifying the authenticity of the messages in an ad hoc network: A method for exchanging messages containing reliable information between nodes in an ad hoc network, such as a vehicle ad hoc network. The method includes the steps of providing a public key for a PKI encrypted certificate authority signature to all nodes known to transmit reliable information. Each node transmits... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20080235510 - Multi-party encryption systems and methods: A cryptographic communication system and method having a first plurality of stations, each of the first plurality of stations having at least one encryption key Kj, were j is a number greater than 2, a data packet D to be viewed by each of the first plurality of stations, means... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080235511 - Device authentication and secure channel management for peer-to-peer initiated communications: A method and system for providing secure access to a device initiating communications using a peer-to-peer signaling protocol, such as a SIP or H.323. In a device registration phase, the device contacts a secure access server, and authenticates to the secure access server by providing an identification, such as its... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080235512 - Print data communication with data encryption and decryption: A printing job containing printing data is transmitted to a specified image forming apparatus through a communications medium so that the printing data can be printed by the specified image forming apparatus. The printing data is encrypted in an encrypting method specified for printing the printing job, the information about... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080235514 - Safeguarding router configuration data: Systems for safeguarding router configuration data are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a system that includes a network router, a configuration device comprising configuration data used to configure the network router, and a connector capable of detachably coupling the configuration device to the network router and further capable of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080235513 - Three party authentication: A trust provider uses established relationships with a client device and a server of an e-commerce merchant or service provider to assure the identity of each to the other. The e-commerce merchant can request an encrypted token from the client. The client may use a trust-provider key to generate the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080235516 - Portable electronic door opener device and method for secure door opening: A portable computing device for opening a door (an electronic door opener) and a method for its use is disclosed. The computing device has a shared secret key, a standard certificate, means for communicating with the door, and a processor adapted for performing operations with shared secret keys and standard... Agent: George Sai-halasz

20080235515 - Pre-processing biometric parameters before encoding and decoding: Biometric parameters acquired from human faces, voices, fingerprints, and irises are used for user authentication and access control. Because the biometric parameters are continuous and vary from one reading to the next, syndrome codes are applied to determine biometric syndrome vectors. The biometric syndrome vectors can be stored securely, while... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080235517 - Update system for cipher system: There is a demand for a device handling information with the use of encryption technology to safely and simply update the encryption schemes. The present invention offers an information security device having a plurality of encryption schemes and handling information safely and reliably, characterized by selecting one of the plurality... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080235518 - Application protection systems and methods: Application protection systems and methods. The system comprises a security platform device comprising a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit comprises a root security key and an application security key. The security platform device receives a unique key from an application. The processing unit encrypts the unique... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080235519 - Data processing method and data processing device: An object is to achieve improvement in efficiency in a case where encoding processing of data and encryption processing are executed in parallel with each other. A program of a first accelerator core out of multiple accelerator cores is reconfigured for encryption processing in order to perform encryption processing on... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080235520 - Transportable, configurable data carrier for exchanging data between electrical devices, and method therefor: Adequately designed transportable data carriers are used for different applications. In order to allow for individual, particularly automatically adjustable, interactive configuration and allow also inexperienced users to rapidly transfer data, the invention relates to a data carrier comprising a single interface circuit to be connected to the respective device, a... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080235522 - Content playback method and recording and playback device: Where a follow-up playback is realized for content data that is recorded by changing an encryption key at predetermined intervals for copyright protection, fast feed and playback operations are provided that can get close to a video scene of a present point of time. There are two areas on the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080235521 - Method and encryption tool for securing electronic data storage devices: The present invention relates to a method and an encryption tool for securing electronic data storage devices. The method and encryption tool of the present invention install a file system on the electronic data storage device. Then, an input module of the encryption tool receives a user password. A key... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080235525 - Personal electronic device with appliance drive features: 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

20080235523 - Power over ethernet connector with integrated power source equipment (pse) controller supporting high power applications: In a Power over Ethernet (POE) system, a power source equipment (PSE) device configured to deliver power to one or more powered devices (PDs) over a plurality of Ethernet transmission lines. The PSE interface includes a multi-port transmission line connector capable connecting to multiple Ethernet transmission lines, and a power... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080235524 - System for peripheral re-enumeration: The present invention reduces the need for peripherals to be physically removed and re-installed when a malfunction occurs. In one embodiment, a device is placed in series between the system and the peripheral. This device controls the passage of power to the peripheral. When the peripheral malfunctions, the device disallows... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080235527 - Operation of computer display using auxiliary display controller: A computing apparatus includes a display, a Central Processing Unit (CPU) having active and switched-off operational states and an auxiliary display controller, which is active when the CPU is in the switched-off operational state. The computing apparatus further includes a switch, which is operative to connect the CPU to the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080235526 - Power-saving clocking technique: A method and system for providing a clock signal having reduced power consumption is provided, called the hybrid clock system. The hybrid clock system uses a PLL for high-speed data transfers, but provides a power-saving mode for transferring data while consuming less power. In the normal mode, the hybrid clock... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235529 - Information processing apparatus and cellular phone: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a control unit configured to allow a device to perform an operation consuming a first amount of electrical power when the processing unit uses the device and allow the device to perform an operation consuming... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080235528 - Progressive power control of a multi-port memory device: A method and system for progressively reducing the power consumption of a serial memory device is provided, called the power control system. The power control system monitors the ports of a multi-port serial memory so that they can be enabled or disabled on a per-port basis. When data is not... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235530 - File information generating method, file information generating apparatus, and storage medium storing file information generation program: A method and apparatus for generating file information including setting clock information regarding a clock condition and a clock speed to be used by a speed conversion circuit block, reconstructing the clock circuit block including a new clock for accommodating insertion of the speed conversion circuit block, and associating connection... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080229087 - Cmos clearing circuit: A CMOS clearing circuit mounted on a motherboard of a computer includes a south bridge chip and a switch member respectively mounted on the motherboard. The south bridge chip includes a reset terminal and an input terminal. The switch member is configured for controlling one of the reset terminal and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080229088 - Method, a device for configuring at least one firewall and a system comprising such device: A method and a device to configure at least one firewall are provided comprising the steps of (i) transmitting at least one mobility report to a firewall controller; (ii) transmitting at least one session report to the firewall controller; and (iii) configuring the at least one firewall according to the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080229086 - Methods and systems for firmware access and modification: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for accessing and modifying device firmware.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080229085 - Switching drivers between processors: Systems, methods, and computer software for operating a device can be used to operate the device in multiple modes. The device can be operated in a first operating mode adapted for processing data, in which a first processor executes a driver for a nonvolatile memory and a second processor performs... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080229090 - Memory card, memory system including the same, and operating method thereof: Provided is a memory card device. The memory card device includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a boot area storing boot data, and a user area storing user data. The controller accesses the boot area or the user area according to an external command. Boot... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080229091 - Remote activation device for a computer: A remote activation device for enabling WOL capability in a target computer that is not connected to a wired network is disclosed. The remote activation device is WOL compatible and simulates a network host computer using WOL technology for “waking-up” the target computer. The remote activation device generally comprises a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080229089 - Remote network device provisioning: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to remote network device provisioning. A method is disclosed, the method comprising discovering a network address associated with a device on a network based on a discovery response received in response to a discovery request provided to the device. One or more configurable boot options... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080229092 - Secure boot across a plurality of processors: Boot code is partitioned into a plurality of boot code partitions. Processors of a multiprocessor system are selected to be boot processors and are each provided with a boot code partition to execute in a predetermined boot code sequence. Each processor executes its boot code partition in accordance with the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080229093 - System for reconfiguring a processor array: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system for reconfiguring a processor array while it is currently operating. The reconfiguration system uses configuration chains streamed down communication channels that are set for the re-configuration process, then re-set after the reconfiguration process has completed.... Agent: Ambric, Inc. C/o Marger Johnson & Mccollom PC

20080229094 - Method of transmitting contents between devices and system thereof: A method of transmitting content between devices and a system therefor are provided. The method of transmitting encrypted content in a state in which the encrypted content and license information is stored and in which an external device is connected, includes: transmitting the license information corresponding to the encrypted content... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080229095 - Method and apparatus for dynamically securing voice and other delay-sensitive network traffic: A method comprises receiving a request for secure network traffic from a device having a private network address at a source node, obtaining the private network address of a requested destination device at a destination node from a route server based on signaling information associated with the request, obtaining the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080229096 - Network identity management system and method: Users of Internet services (e.g., SKYPE messaging service, GOOGLETALK messaging service, AOL INSTANT MESSENGER messaging service, and MICROSOFT MESSENGER messaging service) that are initially identified using separate identifiers that may be associated with respective service providers (e.g., email addresses) can manage network identities using a single unified set of account... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080229097 - Privacy-protecting integrity attestation of a computing platform: Systems, apparatus and methods for privacy-protecting integrity attestation of a computing platform. An example method for privacy-protecting integrity attestation of a computing platform (P) has a trusted platform module (TPM), and comprises the following steps. First, the computing platform (P) receives configuration values (PCR1 . . . PCRn). Then, by... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080229098 - On-line transaction authentication system and method: A system and method for authenticating an on-line user by authenticating the computing device being used by the user. The method may comprise reading device information from a computing device, creating a device credential from the device information; and, communicating the device credential to an authenticating body for authentication. The... Agent: Lang Michener

20080229099 - Method for generating standard file based on steganography technology and apparatus and method for validating integrity of metadata in the standard file: An apparatus for validating integrity of metadata in a standard file includes: a metadata acquiring unit for acquiring metadata from a protected file; an integrity evidence value acquiring unit for acquiring an integrity evidence value from a file or a database; a secret information extracting unit for extracting secret information... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080229100 - Secure data management using non-volatile memory: In one embodiment, encrypted data is received from an authenticated remote host at a non-volatile memory. The encrypted data includes received user data, received data volatility information, and received data validity rules. The encrypted data is stored in the non-volatile memory, and a data volatility flag and data valid flag... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080229101 - Authenticated correspondent database: A system that can intelligently drive down false positive rates with regard to identification and/or classification of spam correspondence is disclosed. Authentication information from sending domains can be stored and used to establish confidence and drive down the false positives related to acceptance and/or classification of communications. A correspondent database... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080229103 - Private entity authentication for pervasive computing environments: A method is provided for authenticating an entity having a plurality of keys in a digital form residing on a claimant computing device. The method comprises: generating a first code word by applying a hash function to a first key residing on the claimant computing device; encoding the first code... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080229102 - System and method for platform activation: A platform discrimination indication register is stored in a wireless network card. This register holds a platform discrimination indication that indicates whether the wireless network card can be used to transfer data with notebook computers or whether the wireless network card is restricted to transferring data from a personal digital... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080229105 - Efficient method for providing secure remote access: A remote user, two-way authentication and password change protocol that also allows parties to optionally establish a session key which can be used to protect subsequent communication. In a preferred embodiment, a challenge token is generated and exchanged which is a one-time value that includes a random value that changes... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080229104 - Mutual authentication method between devices using mediation module and system therefor: A mutual authentication method using a mediation module and a system therefor are provided. The method includes: storing a first partial private key obtained by dividing a first private key of a device; storing a second partial private key obtained by dividing a second private key of a host device;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080229106 - Information processing apparatus and data transmission method of information processing apparatus: An apparatus stores first divided trust information which is one portion resulting from division of trust information generated by a transmission target apparatus that is a transmission target for data, receives a transmission request for the data from the target apparatus and receives second divided trust information which is the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080229108 - Private information exchange in smart card commerce: A method, system and computer program product for private information exchange in smart card commerce is disclosed. The method includes, in response to determining that an item of biometric data received on a biometric reader corresponds to an authorized user, unlocking a communication channel on a communication port, exchanging public... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080229107 - Token-based dynamic key distribution method for roaming environments: A method for establishing a new security association between a mobile node and a network source, the method comprising creating a first token comprising a security association between a network source and a mobile node, the first token being encrypted using a first key known to the mobile node and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080229110 - Fast authentication over slow channels: A method of providing secure communications over a network includes receiving, at a receiving computer, a public key of a sending computer, and a hash of a sending random number over a first communication channel, transmitting, from the receiving computer, a public key of the receiving computer and a receiving... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc

20080229109 - Human-recognizable cryptographic keys: A visual authentication scheme for websites is provided that binds an image to a website so that a user can by visually authenticate whether he/she is viewing an intended/trusted website. An authentication or cryptographic key (associated with a web page) is rendered as a unique key-identifying image or unique sequence... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20080229111 - Prevention of unauthorized forwarding and authentication of signatures: A forwarding signature comprises a modified digital signature, modified using a predetermined parameter between a sender and an intended recipient. An intended recipient of the forwarding signature can verify that the forwarding signature corresponds to the message, but, can neither derive the original digital signature nor generate a new forwarding... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080229112 - Access controller: A deciding unit causes a database, by employing a table joining function, to join a plurality of real tables to generate a virtual table containing target data that can be provided to an authentic user, acquires the target data from the virtual table, and decides data to be displayed on... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080229114 - Information processing apparatus, software update method, and image processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus, a software update method, and an image processing apparatus capable of encrypting and decrypting information using values uniquely calculated from booted primary modules or booted backup modules with less effort are disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes primary modules and the same kinds of backup modules,... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080229113 - Trusted time stamping storage system: Data stored in a data storage system is hashed to generate a hash value. The hash value and a request for a time stamp are then sent to a time stamping authority. A time stamp token and/or a time stamp certificate is received from the time stamping authority. The time... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080229117 - Apparatus for preventing digital piracy: A method for preventing digital piracy in a computing environment comprises loading an application into the computing environment, wherein the application is encrypted using a cryptographic key; assigning a virtual address space to the application; loading the cryptographic key for the application into a register which is accessible only by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080229116 - Performing aes encryption or decryption in multiple modes with a single instruction: A machine-readable medium may have stored thereon an instruction, which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform a method. The method may include combining a first operand of the instruction and a second operand of the instruction to produce a result. The result may be encrypted using... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080229115 - Provision of functionality via obfuscated software: In an example embodiment, executable files are individually encrypted utilizing a symmetric cryptographic key. For each user to be given access to the obfuscated file, the symmetric cryptographic key is encrypted utilizing a public key of a respective public/private key pair. A different public key/private key pair is utilized for... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080229119 - Information carrier authentication with a physical one-way function: The present invention relates to a method of enabling authentication of an information carrier (105), the information carrier (105) comprising a writeable part (155) and a physical token (125) arranged to supply a response upon receiving a challenge, the method comprising the following steps; applying a first challenge (165) to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080229118 - Storage apparatus: Provided is a storage apparatus capable of encrypting data without affecting the business performance. This storage apparatus includes a cache memory, a first controller for controlling the writing of data in the cache memory pursuant to the write command, a second controller for controlling the writing of the data written... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080229126 - Computer system management and throughput maximization in the presence of power constraints: Methods are provided for maximizing the throughput of a computer system in the presence of one or more power constraints. Throughput is maximized by repeatedly or continuously or periodically optimizing task scheduling and assignment for each of a plurality of components of a computer system. The components include a plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080229125 - Power managing method of a scheduling system and related scheduling system: A scheduling system includes a main processor, a micro control unit and a power supply. The main processor has a first memory module for storing a plurality of scheduled times. The micro control unit has a second memory module for storing a first scheduled time of the plurality of scheduled... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080229124 - Power supply controlling circuit and scanner unit: A power supply controlling circuit includes: power supplied portions, adapted to receive power supply from at least one external apparatus; a first power unit, adapted to be driven by a first power; and a second power unit, adapted to be driven by a second power. In response to a change... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080229123 - Power transmission line for power supply clusters: A power transmission line for power supply clusters is electrically connected to a personal computer and a power supply cluster to allow the power supply cluster to receive ON/OFF signals and has a signal delay circuit to generate a time difference for the ON/OFF signals so that the power supply... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080229121 - Selectively powered data interfaces: A plurality of separately powered data interface circuits, a controller circuit, and power switch circuits that collectively enable a supply of power to only one of the data interface circuits and disable the supply of power to the other data interface circuits. Alternatively, the separately powered circuits need not be... Agent: Robert J. Stern

20080229122 - State change sensing: Application of too much voltage to a memory cell will cause damage to the cell or even destroy the cell. Tracking current that arises from an application of voltage upon a memory cell allows for minimization of damage upon the memory cell. If there is a change in current, then... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080229120 - System and method for continual cable thermal monitoring using cable resistance considerations in power over ethernet: A system and method for continual cable thermal monitoring using cable resistance considerations for Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Cable heating in PoE applications is related to the resistance of the cable itself. By periodically monitoring the resistance of the cable, it can be determined whether the cable has exceeded... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080229127 - Method and system for estimating processor utilization from power measurements: A method and system for estimating processor utilization from power measurements provides an estimate of processor utilization that can be computed outside of the processor and operating system. Measurements of the processor power consumption are gathered over short intervals in a histogram. The idle power consumption of the processor is... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20080229128 - System and computer program product for dynamically managing power in microprocessor chips according to present processing demands: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for dynamically managing power in a microprocessor chip that includes physical hardware elements within the microprocessor chip. A process is selected to be executed. Hardware elements that are necessary to execute the process are then identified. The power in the microprocessor... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080229129 - Remote control save and sleep override: An approach is provided that handles a power down signal received by a device. Other types of signals, such as suspend or save and sleep, may also be handled. A device, such as a parent device, sends a power down signal to another device, such as a child device. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080229130 - Power reduction for system on chip: Disclosed herein are SOC devices with peripheral units having power management logic.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080229131 - Storage system and management information acquisition method for power saving: The object of the invention is to control the power consumption in a storage subsystem. In a storage system, when a monitor in a host computer acquires information concerning a storage region to manage the storage region, a monitor in the host computer checks whether or not the power supply... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080229132 - Image processing apparatus and control method, and program and storage medium thereof: An object is to provide an image processing apparatus which can reduce power consumption during the power saving standby mode. The starting factor monitor unit and the power saving standby mode voltage control unit are driven with the USB bus power can be supplied during a shift to the power... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080229133 - Power reduction device for data backup: A power reducer for data backup stops a power supply one after another for each memory whose backup has been completed, thereby reducing power consumption for battery during the backup lengthening a data backup time. The power reducer for data backup in a device includes an external power supply unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080229134 - Reliability morph for a dual-core transaction-processing system: In processors having buffers to manage instruction flow referred to as a ReOrder Buffer (ROB) it is shown that these buffers are of the same approximate size of a checkpoint array for architected state. In a particular “morphing mode” in which a pair of processors can be configured to provide... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080229136 - Controlling asynchronous clock domains to perform synchronous operations: A mechanism for controlling asynchronous clock domains to perform synchronous operations is provided. With the mechanism, when a synchronous operation is to be performed on a chip, the latches of the functional elements of the chip are controlled by a synchronous clock so that the latches are controlled synchronously even... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080229135 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, memory system, memory controller and memory control method: Aspects of the embodiment provide a semiconductor integrated circuit including a control terminal coupled to a memory through a control bus, a data terminal coupled to the memory through a data bus, a memory controller coupled to the control terminal and the data terminal and a first master and a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080229138 - Directly obtaining by application programs information usable in determining clock accuracy: Information usable in determining the quality of time produced by a clock of a processing environment is obtained. The information is obtained directly by an application program absent use of a supervisor service, such as an operating system or operating system service. The application program invokes an instruction that returns... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080229137 - Systems and methods of compression history expiration and synchronization: Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficiently and speed. A network device may also use application specific parsing to improve... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080222405 - Computer initialization system: An initialization data generator includes a task database in which task descriptions for initializing a computer are specified related with task IDs and an initialization database in which initialization data descriptions for initializing a computer are stored related with initialization data IDs. The initialization data generator takes input of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080222406 - Hot-pluggable information processing device and setting method: A generator generates configuration information of a virtual hardware unit based on configuration information in a PCIBOX. The generator generates recognition information for recognizing the virtual PCIBOX as a PCIBOX that is connected with a slot from the configuration information of the virtual PCIBOX. When PCIBOX is connected with the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080222404 - In-system programming system and method for motherboard: An in-system programming system and method is provided, which is applicable for chip programming of a computer motherboard. Firstly, a programming interface is configured in the computer motherboard, in which one end of the programming interface is connected to an on-board programmer, and the other end is connected to a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080222402 - Method and apparatus for product comparison: A method of comparing products is disclosed. The method includes selecting a first configuration representing a first product with a first attribute, selecting a second configuration representing a second product with a second attribute, and displaying the first attribute and the second attribute. As will be noted, the first attribute... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080222403 - System and method to provide device unique diagnostic support with a single generic command: An embodiment of this invention provides a system and method for a diagnostic computer application executing on a host computer to extract vendor unique diagnostic information from an attached peripheral device. The peripheral device is pre-configured to respond with device unique information in response to certain standard interface protocol inquiries.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rochester Division

20080222408 - Circuit for protecting motherboard: A circuit for protecting a motherboard includes a power button (30), a first heat-generating component (10) of the motherboard with a first output terminal, a second heat-generating component (40) of the motherboard with a second output terminal, a first switch circuit (20) connected between the first heat-generating component and the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080222409 - Memory access system and memory access method thereof: A memory access system for accessing a basic input output system (BIOS) program is provided. The memory access system includes a flash memory, a CPU, a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) slave, an address converter and a flash memory controller. The flash memory stores a number of BIOS data of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080222407 - Monitoring bootable busses: A security circuit in a computer monitors data busses that support memory capable of booting the computer during the computer reset/boot cycle. When activity oil one of the data busses indicates the computer is booting from a non-authorized memory location, the security circuit disrupts the computer, for example, by causing... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080222410 - Apparatus, method, computer program and recording medium for processing information: An information processing apparatus for transitioning from an operating state for performing a process in accordance with an application program to a pause state and for transitioning back from the pause state to the operating state in one of a plurality of startup methods, may include a startup method determination... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080222411 - System for managing program applications storable in a mobile terminal: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080222413 - Method and apparatus for integrated provisioning of a network device with configuration information and identity certification: According to one aspect, a provisioning server comprises a configuration module that configures a network device and an identification certification module that certifies the identity of the network device. With use of the provisioning server, the network device does not require configuration with network connectivity in order to obtain its... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080222412 - Network data security system and protecting method thereof: The invention presents a network data security system and a protecting method applied in network data transmission. Meanwhile the network data security system includes a client, an authentication dispatching server and a number of distributed servers. The authentication dispatching server includes a first determination device and a user certificate generator;... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080222414 - Transparent authentication of continuous data streams: A system, apparatus and method for transparently authenticating continuous data streams. A continuous data stream is divided into data blocks. Block authentication code(s) are determined using the data in the data blocks, a hash function and a key. The block authentication code(s) are embedded into the data block(s) by adjusting... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080222415 - Agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability: A plurality of computer nodes communicate using seemingly random Internet Protocol source and destination addresses. Data packets matching criteria defined by a moving window of valid addresses are accepted for further processing, while those that do not meet the criteria are quickly rejected. Improvements to the basic design include (1)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080222416 - Secure network connection: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a secure network connection for remote access, e.g., to building automation systems. A secure network connection may be established according to one implementation between a remote client and a system host for the building automation system. The system host provides its network address to... Agent: Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, P.c

20080222417 - Method, system, and apparatus for nested security access/authentication with media initiation: The disclosure details a nested security access system that manages access points/verification requests to create a series of layered security applications for securing access/user identification data. The NSA system works in coordination with an access point/verification module to generate a series of instructions as a login/verification module that may be... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080222419 - Content management of public/private content, including use of digital watermarks to access private content: A public version of content includes information to access a private version. The private version is typically of higher value, as it is a complete version and/or of higher audio or video quality than the public version. The public version can be shared or played without restriction, which enables the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080222422 - Managing electronic documents utilizing a digital seal: A method for storing electronic documents can include associating a digital seal with at least one electronic document. An image within a user interface can be displayed, wherein the image is a user selectable representation for the digital seal. At least one metadata attribute can be stored as a characteristic... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080222418 - Signature generation device and signature verification device: A signature generation apparatus capable of preventing transcript attack on signature data is provided. The signature generation apparatus performing a digital signature operation with the use of a signature key: stores the signature key; performs the digital signature operation on signature target data with the use of the signature key... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080222421 - Signature information processing method, its program and information processing apparatus: A signature information processing method using a relay apparatus which executes information processing on data containing signature information which is information concerning a signature is provided in order to prevent a signature from being invalidated. A signature information extraction unit conducts extraction processing to extract signature information from the data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080222420 - Systems and methods for authenticating and protecting the integrity of data streams and other data: Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a recipient of a cryptographically-signed electronic communication to verify the authenticity of the communication on-the-fly using a signed chain of check values, the chain being constructed from the original content of the communication, and each check value in the chain being at least... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080222424 - Method and apparatus for path concealment in networks and graphs: A method for data concealment between two parties in a system, including: permitting the system to solicit one or more data from a user; permitting the system to generate a traversed path in a graph by using the one or more data provided by the user to generate the traversed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080222423 - System and method for providing secure authentication of devices awakened from powered sleep state: In one embodiment, a system wake-up vector points to a native OS wake-up routine. As the native OS awakens from sleep it passes the wake-up message to the appropriate device drivers. A hardware device whose security context to be restored hooks the appropriate driver in order to intercept and handle... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080222425 - System and method for expressing and evaluating signed reputation assertions: A method for expressing and evaluating signed reputation assertions is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first entity receives a request to generate a signed assertion relating to a piece of content. The first entity generates a reputation statement about a second entity from reputation-forming information (RFI) about the second entity... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080222426 - Security device: A security device comprising means for authenticating an entity using biometric data, characterized by means for alternatively authenticating the entity using a security code such as a personal identification number. Also a system configured to grant an authorization upon a successful authorization by the security device, in which the authorization... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080222427 - Device and method with reduced information leakage: The invention is directed to a data-processing system comprising a processor and first encrypted information in a first persistent memory whose level of information leakage is higher than that of a second persistent memory. In the second persistent memory is stored a first cryptographic key for decrypting the first encrypted... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080222429 - Data management system: A data management system and method are provided. Specifically, the present invention includes a system for controlling access to data and ensuring that the confidentiality of the data maintained. In addition, the present invention provides a system for updating data so that confidential data, which has become non-confidential, can be... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080222428 - Method for securing authenticity of data in a digital processing system: The invention describes a method and a corresponding digital processing system for ensuring that data is unmodified while reducing the amount of one-time programmable memory in the system. The data is stored in modifiable memory and an authentication value of the data is stored in unmodifiable memory. Before the data... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080222430 - Protection of secure electronic modules against attacks: A method and apparatus is disclosed for preventing the unintended retention of secret data caused by preferred state/burn in secure electronic modules. Sequentially storing the data, and its inverse on alternating clock cycles, and by actively overwriting it to destroy it, prevents SRAM devices from developing a preferred state. By... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080222432 - Apparatus, system and method for supplying a portable electronic device by combining a plurality of i/o ports belonging to at least one other electronic device: Apparatus for combining powers coming from a plurality of I/O ports. Use of the apparatus to power electronic appliances that can require more power than can be delivered by a single I/O port, e.g. in order to charge more quickly energy storage means forming part of the portable electronic appliance... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080222433 - Method and apparatus for supplying power, and display device: A power supply apparatus for a display device includes a power unit for receiving commercial power, converting the commercial power into main power, supplying or cutting off a supply of the main power to the display device, and supplying the main power to a device installed in the display device,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080222434 - Method of power-aware job management and computer system: Provided is a method used in a computer system which includes at least one host computer, the method including managing a job to be executed by the host computer and a power supply of the host computer, the method including the procedures of: receiving the job; storing the received job;... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080222431 - Power adapter capable of communicating digitally with electronic devices: A power adapter capable of communicating digitally with a device or a legacy adapter associated with a device is described. The power adapter includes an input port to receive power from a power source, a regulator to convert the received power from the power source, an output port configured to... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080222435 - Power management in a power-constrained processing system: Systems and methods are provided for managing power in a processing system. In one embodiment, a target system having a plurality of electronic devices is operated within a net power limit. A local controller detects power consumption for each device, and communicates the power consumption to a power management module.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080222436 - Power supply voltage regulator circuit and microcomputer: A power supply voltage regulator circuit including a power supply circuit which switches to a first through a fourth state; the first state being the state wherein voltage is supplied to neither a normal circuit nor a backup system circuit based on the combination of logic for the normal circuit... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080222437 - Low power computer with main and auxiliary processors: An architecture for a computer includes a primary processor that consumes power at a first rate, that is operated when the computer is in an high power mode and that is not powered when the computer is in a low power mode. A primary graphics processor communicates with the primary... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080222438 - Apparatus for automatically detecting and differentiating between usb host and device: An apparatus for automatically detecting and differentiating between a USB host and a USB device is provided. In a device with a USB interface, the present invention is coupled with the VBUS pin of the USB interface of the device. By monitoring the voltage change on the VBUS pin, the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080222439 - Notebook battery replacement time-saving method and battery detector thereof: A method to save time needed in battery replacement for a Notebook and a battery detector thereof is comprised of having placed the battery detector containing a voltage detection circuit and a register module in the Notebook. When the power level of the battery falls below a first threshold, a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080222440 - Real time clock calibration system: A temperature-based real time clock calibration system and method for performing the same. The system in one embodiment includes a real time clock calibrated against a reference frequency, a temperature sensor being operative to measure a instantaneous temperature T1, and control circuitry operative to receive and sense the temperature T1.... Agent: Duane Morris, LLP

20080222441 - Software programmable timing architecture: One disclosed circuit comprises a clock cycle counter circuit, a memory, and a clock cycle count comparison circuit. The clock cycle counter circuit may be configured to produce an output count. The memory may be configured to store at least first and second count values. The cycle count comparison... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080222442 - Circuit for generating output enable signal in semiconductor memory apparatus: A circuit for generating an output enable signal in a semiconductor memory apparatus which can include an interval setting unit capable of delaying a burst length signal in synchronized with a clock, thereby generating an interval setting signal, and a signal generating unit for generating an output enable signal in... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080222443 - Controller: The invention relates to a controller for generating control signals (evload_o, odload_o, st_chgclk_o, clk_o , clkorfiford_i) synchronous with a continuous clock signal (clk_hr_i) input to it for a device (1) to be controlled synchronously with the clock signal (clk_hr_i), wherein the controller (SE) has: register means for registering at least... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080222444 - Variable instruction width software programmable data pattern generator: A method for generating a digital signal pattern at M outputs involves retrieving an instruction from memory comprising a first set of bits identifying a first group of N outputs that includes fewer than all of the M outputs, and a second set of N bits each corresponding to a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080222445 - Bias and random delay cancellation: A system and method for digital communication wherein a host provides a host clock and a clockless device transmits to the host a bit stream synchronized according to the clock at a data rate that is an integer multiple of the clock rate. A training mechanism using training data detects... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080215868 - Bios management device and method for manging bios setting value: The invention provides a BIOS management device and a method for managing a BIOS setting value. The invention determines whether to shut down a computer and to restore the BIOS setting value to a default state by detecting whether a restoring event occurs. In addition, the computer is shut down... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080215869 - Managing configuration of computer systems on a computer network: A system configuration manager provides a graphical user interface that allows a system administrator to easily administer configuration settings for different computer systems and platforms on a computer network. The system configuration manager allows identifying one system configuration or a settings profile as a “model system”. Once the model system... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215867 - Method and system for automatically transitioning of configuration settings among computer systems: A method and system for automatically transiting configuration settings among computer systems. Multiple configuration settings comprising a computer “personality” are located on a source computing system using multiple transition rules from a personality object. The computer personality includes customization choices, data files, electronic mail, system preferences, application customization choices, the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080215870 - Method and apparatus for loading boot code: Apparatus for loading boot code including a non-volatile memory for the storage of the boot code, a micro-control unit for the storage of a small boot code, a microprocessor, and a volatile memory; and wherein the microprocessor copies the boot code from the non-volatile memory into the volatile memory using... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080215872 - Method of booting electronic device and method of authenticating boot of electronic device: Provided is a method of booting an electronic device including a host central processing unit (CPU) and a security module. The method includes: the host CPU starting to boot a system by using boot information in response to a reset or power on event of the electronic device; and when... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080215871 - Swapping \"fixed system\" hard disk: Method for ‘Cool-Swap’, ‘Warm-Swap’ and ‘Hot-Swap’ of ‘Fixed’ ‘System’ hard disk(s) in and out of the computer and for re-cycling the computer between ‘diskly’ state to ‘diskless’ state by combining the following features in one way or the other: separating the power supply of the ‘Fixed’ ‘System’ hard disk(s) from... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20080215874 - System and method for masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor: A system and method for masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor are provided. With the system and method, one of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute masking code that generates electromagnetic and/or... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080215873 - System and method for presenting copy protected content to a user from a portable storage device: A device for presenting content to a user is utilized in combination with a general purpose computer. The computer has a processor, a computer communications interface, a computer memory and an operating system. The operating system has one or more file management tools. The device has a housing, a device... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080215876 - Computer and bios clear button thereof: A computer and a BIOS clear button thereof are provided. The BIOS clear button is adapted to be electrically connected with a motherboard of the computer. The BIOS clear button includes a body, a key, and a connecting part. The body has a recessed portion and a plurality of protrusion... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080215875 - Method and apparatus for establishing safe processor operating points: A system and method is provided for establishing safe processor operating points. Some embodiments may include a tamper resistant storage element that stores information regarding one or more operating points of an adjustable processor operating parameter. Some embodiments may further include an element to determine what the current processor operating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080215877 - Offload processing for secure data transfer: Improvements in security processing are disclosed which enable security processing to be transparent to the application. Security processing (such as Secure Sockets Layer, or “SSL”, or Transport Layer Security, or “TLS”) is performed in (or controlled by) the stack. A decision to enable security processing on a connection can be... Agent: Jerry W. Herndon IBM Corporation T81/503

20080215878 - Service management system and method: The delivery of services is managed by a system that includes a portable device and a management apparatus which receives and decrypts a first identifier generated and encrypted by the portable device. One of the devices also digitally signs a second identifier, which is validated at the other device.... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20080215879 - Method and system for authenticating a widget: A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The widget is portable, embeddable and for dynamically displaying multimedia content. The method and system include receiving a request corresponding to the widget and performing an authentication corresponding to the request. The method and system also include fulfilling... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080215880 - Multi-domain dynamic group virtual private networks: Systems and/or methods of secure communication of information between multi-domain virtual private networks (VPNs) are presented. A dynamic group VPN (DGVPN) can reside in one domain and a disparate DGVPN can reside in a disparate domain. An administrative security authority (ASA) can be employed in each domain. Each ASA can... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215881 - Method of encrypting/decrypting the document and a safety management storage device and system method of its safety management: A method of encrypting/decrypting the document and a safety management storage device and system method of its safety management, using for the safety management of electronic documents, the said system comprising a PC or mainframe installed with common reading software and a storage device of safety management connected to the... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20080215882 - Assigning security levels to a shared component: Security levels are assigned to a shared component. A workflow manager receives a workflow request that corresponds to a plurality of workflow steps. For each workflow step, the workflow manager determines whether the workflow step uses a shared component or an unshared component for execution. If the workflow step uses... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080215883 - Providing secure inter-application communication for a mobile operating environment: Providing for secure and efficient communication for mobile applications executed in a mobile operating environment is described herein. As an example, a primary mobile application can initiate a handshake that includes a unique identifier of the primary application and a random number for signing and/or certifying responsive requests. A recipient... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080215884 - Communication terminal and communication method thereof: A communication terminal capable of helping make communication with the other end more active and of enabling even elder people or the like, who are unaccustomed to operating information devices, to have telephone conversation, while readily displaying various video information through simple operation, thereby furthering warm communication. In this apparatus,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080215885 - System and method for guaranteeing software integrity via combined hardware and software authentication: A system, method, and computer program product enabling individual user devices to authenticate and validate a digital message sent by a distribution center, without requiring transmissions to the distribution center. The center transmits the message with an appended modulus that is the product of two specially selected primes. The transmission... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080215886 - Function license authentication method and function license authentication system: A function license authentication method comprising: a step in which an authentication server generates a function code based on order in which functions used have been coded; a step in which a user transfers an equipment-specific code to the authentication server; a step in which the authentication server generates a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080215887 - Card authentication system: A card authentication system. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method for authenticating a data card having an intrinsic magnetic characteristic and recorded data on the data card, the method including reading information from the data card, the data card information including the intrinsic magnetic characteristic and the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080215889 - Efficient watermark detection: A system and a method of effectively detecting watermarks in a significant amount of data signals. The method, in overview, consists in pre-filtering the significant amount of data signals in order to eliminate from the final watermark detection the segments of the data signals which have no significant relevance to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215888 - Method and arrangement for authentication and privacy: The present invention improves privacy protection and authentication over prior art GAA/GBA system specifying a Bootstrap Server Function (BSF) that creates an Authentication Voucher asserting to a network application function NAF authentication of a. BSF generates keys Ks and Ks NAF with corresponding key identifiers B_TID and B_TID_NAF. In order... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080215890 - System and method for secure remote biometric authentication: Systems and methods for secure remote biometric authentication are provided. A network-based biometric authentication platform stores biometric templates for individuals which have been securely enrolled with the authentication platform. A plurality of sensor platforms separately establishes secure communications with the biometric authentication platform. The sensor platform can perform a biometric... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080215891 - Systems and methods for watermarking software and other media: Systems and methods are disclosed for embedding information in software and/or other electronic content such that the information is difficult for an unauthorized party to detect, remove, insert, forge, and/or corrupt. The embedded information can be used to protect electronic content by identifying the content's source, thus enabling unauthorized copies... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215892 - Data transmission between modules: In a method for transferring data (D) between a first module (1) and a second module (2), data (D) can be transferred from a data memory (4) of the second module (2) to the first module (1) either in a secured or not secured manner. The time required for authentication... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080215894 - Method, system and devices for digital content protection: This invention relates to a system (and a corresponding method and devices) of digital content protection the system comprising a first digital content protection system (101) comprising a digital content item (106), a content access device (105) outside of the first digital content protection system (101), and at least one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215893 - Multiple levels of guided scrambling: Multiple levels of guided scrambling. Selective scrambling is performed on user data (or any information) that is to be output. The selection of which scrambling is to be employed can be based on whether or not a baseline error constraint and/or randomness constraint is met. The writing of the scrambled... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080215895 - Electronic book secure communication with home subsystem: The invention, an electronic book selection and delivery system, is a new way to distribute books and other textual information to bookstores, libraries and consumers. The primary components of the system are a subsystem for placing text in a video signal format and a subsystem for receiving and selecting text... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080215896 - Issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights management (drm) system: A publishing user publishes digital content and issues to itself a corresponding digital publisher license to allow itself to render the published digital content. The publishing user is supplied with a publishing certificate from a digital rights management (DRM) server, where the publishing certificate allows the publishing user to so... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080215897 - Security containers for document components: Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby document components are secured or controlled using “security containers” which encapsulate the components (and other component metadata). A “security container” encapsulates the component (i.e., content) that is to be controlled within a higher-level construct such as a compound document.... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080215901 - Battery powered device with dynamic and performance management: A computing device operates over a range of voltages and frequencies and over a range of processor usage levels. The computing device includes at least a variable frequency generator, a variable voltage power supply and voltage supply level and clocking frequency management circuitry. The variable frequency generator is coupled to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080215898 - Computer device having display device capable of being automatically turned off or turned on according to switch motion of host: An exemplary computer device (10) includes a host (11) configured for generating a turn on signal when the host is turned on, and a turn off signal when the host is turned off; and a display device (13) including a display unit (131) and an automatic control circuit (12). The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080215899 - Method and apparatus for negotiating power between power sourcing equipment and powerable devices: The present invention provides a power negotiation protocol that enables PDs and PSEs to negotiate the amount of inline power that a PD consumes and the corresponding PSE provides. This power negotiation allows the PDs provide fine-grained power consumption level to PSEs, and the PSEs are able to manage inline... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080215900 - Power-managed server and method for managing power consumption: A power-managed server and method for managing power consumption is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a power-managed server data processing system is provided among a plurality of server data processing systems which comprises a power management communication port to communicatively couple the power-managed server data processing system to a power... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080215902 - Method and apparatus for negotiating power between power sourcing equipment and powerable devices: The present invention provides a power negotiation protocol that enables PDs and PSEs to negotiate the amount of inline power that a PD consumes and the corresponding PSE provides. This power negotiation allows the PDs provide fine-grained power consumption level to PSEs, and the PSEs are able to manage inline... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080215903 - Power management of non-volatile memory systems: Methods and apparatus for placing a non-volatile memory systems in one of a number of power-down modes in response to events being monitored are useful in reducing power consumption of the non-volatile memory system. The power-down modes provide for successively less functionality, thus providing for successively less power consumption. A... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20080215904 - Interface circuit: When a USB-BUS power source voltage VBUS is not normally supplied to the substrate gates of PMOS transistors of switches of a first switching circuit which controls connecting a terminal D+/RXD to a terminal D−/TXD in an HS driver circuit, and to the substrate gates of PMOS transistors of switches... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080215905 - Interface device, circuit module, circuit system, device for data communications and method for calculating a circuit module: An interface device allows data communication between a controller and a plurality of circuit units. The interface device has a first interface for a connection to the controller, a second interface for a connection to a second circuit unit, and a third interface for a connection to a second circuit... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080215906 - Method for fault tolerant time synchronization mechanism in a large scaleable multi-processor computer: Redundant time-of-day (TOD) oscillators are aligned, within a master oscillator path, to local logic oscillator and used to create independent step-sync signals. A step checker validates and provides selection signals to identify which of the TOD oscillators operates according to a criterion. Independent step-sync signals are transmitted to several sibling... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080215907 - Method and apparatus for the generation and control of clock signals: Methods and apparatuses for the dynamic configuring of profiles used for the control of the frequency of clock signals. At least one embodiment of the present invention provides a means of dynamically generating, storing, updating and using spread spectrum profiles in a clock circuit to provide spread spectrum modulated clock... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080215908 - Sleep watchdog circuit for asynchronous digital circuits: The sleep watchdog circuit for asynchronous circuits of the present invention contains clock means, counting means with multiple trigger input function and a digital supply. When the circuit is in the normal operation state, a periodic reset or activity signal is present that will reset the watchdog counter. As a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department