Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 10/08

20080263343 - Multi-channel algorithm infrastructure for programmable hardware elements: System and method for implementing multi-channel operations in a programmable hardware element (PHE). A hardware configuration program, including a processing function, inputs and outputs of the processing function, a plurality of channels, and channel scanning functionality for the plurality of channels, is specified. A PHE is configured with the hardware... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080263349 - Booting system, boot program, and method therefor: A booting system, a boot program, and a method therefor are provided. A boot source device and a boot target device are connected to each other via a transfer interface. The transfer interface is an interface where booting is supported by a BIOS of the boot target device. The boot... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263345 - Dual boot strategy to authenticate firmware in a computing device: Methods for authenticating firmware in a computing device include partitioning functions critical to the intended role of the computing device so that, upon successful authentication of the firmware, all functions of the device are made operational. Otherwise, the computing device behaves in a diagnostic mode of operation to assist users... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080263348 - Dynamic asymmetric partitioning of program code memory in network connected devices: A novel asymmetric memory partitioning mechanism for providing resolving and reducing memory limitations when an increase in software image size is required. Two partitions are created in non-volatile memory, one smaller than the other. The smaller partition stores a degenerated version of the full-functionality software comprising only essential program code... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080263346 - Method and device for securely sending bootstrap message in device management: A method and device for securely sending a bootstrap message from a server (i.e., a device management (DM )server) to a device in a device management system, the method comprising acquiring first information by the device, receiving, by the device, a bootstrap message from the server, acquiring, by the device,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080263347 - Network device and rebooting method thereof: A network device connected to a server includes a firmware upgrading determining module, a communication module, a storage module, a reboot determining module, and a reboot scheduling module. The firmware upgrading determining module determines whether current firmware of the network device needs to be upgraded. The communication module downloads the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080263344 - Pre-loading data: A battery-powered device comprising: a memory storing software essential to the provision of normal functions of the device; a first processing section (16) comprising a data processor capable of executing the software, the device being capable of operating the first processing section in a normal mode in which it can... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080263350 - Update in-use flash memory without external interfaces: A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable non-volatile memory references, creating a temporary, volatile-memory file system for allocation of volatile memory space as needed for the non-volatile memory update... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263351 - Method for centralized dynamic link configuration: A method for centralized dynamic link configuration (CDLC), performed by a processor and a chipset is provided. In the method, the processor first notifies the chipset of CDLC enablement. The chipset then issues a command to the processor after receiving notification of CDLC enablement. The processor broadcasts a preparation completion... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080263352 - Authentication system and method: A security protocol for use by computing devices communicating over an unsecured network is described. The security protocol makes use of secure data provided to a peripheral memory device from a server via a secure connection. When the peripheral memory device is coupled to a computing device that attempts to... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080263353 - Autoconfigured prefix delegation based on distributed hash: In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a router, an unsolicited first router advertisement message from an attachment router that provides an attachment link used by the router, the first router advertisement message specifying a first IPv6 address prefix owned by the attachment router and usable for address autoconfiguration... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080263354 - Authentication of data transmitted in a digital transmission system: A method of authenticating data transmitted in a digital transmission system, in which the method comprises the steps, prior to transmission, of determining at least two encrypted values for at least some of the data, each encrypted value being determined using a key of a respective encryption algorithm, and outputting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080263355 - Method and system for encrypting files based on security rules: The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for encrypting files based on security rules. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, a request to store a file on a storage device is received. At least one security parameter associated with a security profile of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080263357 - Identity-based-encryption extensions formed using multiple instances of an identity based encryption scheme: IBE extensions to IBE schemes may be provided by creating multiple instances of the same IBE scheme, where each instance has an associated IBE master key and corresponding IBE public parameters. During encryption, an IBE extension identity for each instance of the IBE scheme may be mapped to a corresponding... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080263356 - Security enforcement point inspection of encrypted data in an encrypted end-to-end communications path: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to security function processing of encrypted data in a security enforcement point and provide a method, system and computer program product for security enforcement point inspection of a traversing encrypted data in a secure, end-to-end communications path. In... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080263358 - System and method for limiting spyware activity: A system and method of detecting and limiting unsolicited data uploads. Downloaded content such as web pages and emails are scanned for web forms and/or links. A watermark is added where appropriate and the modified downloaded content is forwarded to the person who requested the content. A check is made... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263359 - Water mark embedding and extraction: A watermarking key consisting of a sequence of elements is embedded into a data sequence. Each element may take on two or more values. In order to embed a watermarking key, first a reference sequence is divided into blocks. Each element of the watermarking key is associated with a respective... Agent: Martin D. Moyniham Prtsi, Inc.

20080263360 - Generating and matching hashes of multimedia content: Hashes are short summaries or signatures of data files which can be used to identify the file. Hashing multimedia content (audio, video, images) is difficult because the hash of original content and processed (e.g. compressed) content may differ significantly. The disclosed method generates robust hashes for multimedia content, for example,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263361 - Cryptographically strong key derivation using password, audio-visual and mental means: A security system that uses a cryptographic key derived from human interaction with media. The system employs a set of parameters that includes user responses to graphical media and/or audio data, among other parameters. The architecture adds a fourth dimension to the conventional authentication means in order to make at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263362 - Method and apparatus of secure authentication for system on chip (soc): A SoC may be utilized to authenticate access to one or more secure functions. A password may be generated within the SoC which is unique to each SoC instance and unique to each iteration of authentication. The SoC may challenge external entities attempting access to provide a matching password. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080263363 - Portable data encryption device with configurable security functionality and method for file encryption: A portable encryption device with logon access controlled by an encryption key, with an on board cryptographic processor for reconstituting the encryption key from a plurality of secrets generated by a secret sharing algorithm, optionally shrouded with external secrets using an invertible transform resistant to quantum computing attacks. Another embodiment... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20080263365 - Integrating legacy application/data access with single sign-on in a distributed computing environment: The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modern distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing on to the modern computing environment is leveraged, and is mapped to user credentials... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080263364 - System and method for providing access to a computer resource: There is provided a device and method for providing access to a computer resource. An exemplary device that is adapted to provide access to a computer resource comprises a Universal Serial Bus (USB) security token having a pressure sensor that is adapted to detect pressure applied to the USB security... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263366 - Self-verifying software to prevent reverse engineering and piracy: Reverse engineering and piracy of software is prevented by encrypting code blocks of a program. A program is modified to include additional protective code, including a protective code launcher which is launched with the program. Decryption and execution code is also provided for the protective code launcher and one or... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080263368 - Computer system, management terminal, storage system and encryption management method: To provide a computer system in which an encryption-decryption process performed by one encryption-decryption module can be moved to the other encryption-decryption module without stopping the process for a read/write request from a host computer. The computer system has a host computer 200, and a storage system 400, 500 for... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263370 - Cryptographic role-based access control: A hierarchical tree structure is used to facilitate the communication of encrypted keys to particular users having access to the tree. All users are in communication with a root node, but the information content of the material at the root node is decipherable only by the intended users of this... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263367 - Digital content protection system: The media inherent key storing unit 220 prestores an inherent key Ki, the conversion unit 230 generates an encrypted inherent key Ji from the inherent key read from the media inherent key storing unit 220, the random number generating unit 331 generates a random number R1, the encryption unit 252... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20080263369 - Method and apparatus for encrypting and processing data in flash translation layer: A method for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus for encrypting and processing data in a flash translation layer includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash translation layer searches at... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080263372 - Method and apparatus for transmitting content data and recording and/or reproducing apparatus: A data transmission method and apparatus for transmitting data, such as encrypted content data. A device that is to be a destination of transmission is authenticated. If the device has not been authenticated, encrypted data read out from a storage unit is decrypted to give decoded data which then is... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080263371 - Protected volume on a data storage device with dual operating systems and configurable access and encryption controls: A method provides a protected region of a data storage device associated with a computational device, where data in the protected region is primarily protected by preventing access without proper access authorization. The method comprises the steps of providing, in an unprotected region of the data storage device, a first... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20080263374 - System and method for modeling a power over ethernet component in a computing device platform using a common information model: A system and method for modeling a power over Ethernet component using a common information model. With the profiling of components based on the common information model, a remote agent can query status/capabilities or configure a power over Ethernet component based on messaging that is consistent with a power over... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080263373 - Token based power control mechanism: A token-based power control mechanism for an apparatus including a power controller and a plurality of processing devices. The power controller may detect a power budget allotted for the apparatus. The power controller may convert the allotted power budget into a plurality of power tokens, each power token being a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20080263376 - Frequency and voltage scaling architecture: A method and apparatus for scaling frequency and operating voltage of at least one clock domain of a microprocessor. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to techniques to divide a microprocessor into clock domains and control the frequency and operating voltage of each clock domain independently of the others.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263375 - Method and system for managing activities in a battery powered device: A method for managing activities in a battery powered device includes receiving activity information, a start time that is different from a present time, and either a duration or an end time for performing the desired activity. The method also includes determining a required energy amount needed for performing the... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080263377 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: An apparatus for on-demand power management including a system controller, a clock domain manager coupled to the system controller and a power distribution manager coupled to the system controller. The system controller monitors a processing demand in a processing system. The clock domain manager provides one or more clock frequencies... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263378 - System and method for protecting disk drive password when bios causes computer to leave suspend state: To unlock a HDD when a computer is in the suspend state, at both BIOS and the HDD a secret is combined with a password to render a new one-time password. BIOS sends its new one-time password to the HDD which unlocks itself only if a match is found. The... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080263379 - Watchdog timer device and methods thereof: To detect a non-responsive condition at a processor, a counter is associated with an operation at a first stage of an instruction pipeline. A value stored in the counter is periodically adjusted towards a threshold value. An error indicator is provided in response to the value stored in the counter... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080263380 - Gps time syncronization for data device: A method is presented to improve the accuracy of time synchronization of data. The invention consists of a timing module compromising a GPS interface with ability controller-based timing standard, high speed inputs and outputs and an asynchronous interface to an external processor system. It attaches a time-stamp referenced to an... Agent: Joseph E. Dryer

20080263381 - Dynamic phase alignment: A clock signal may be aligned with a data signal by delaying the signals relative to each other until an edge of one signal aligns with an edge of the other signal, and then causing an inversion of the clock signal. A further variation may limit the relative delay period... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080263383 - Frequency modification techniques that adjust an operating frequency to compensate for aging electronic components: A number of performance parameters for the electronic system are determined at a particular age of the electronic system. The performance parameters can be correlated to maximum operating frequency of electronic components of the electronic system for the particular age of the electronic system. Operating frequency of the electronic components... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080263382 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: An apparatus for on-demand power management including a system controller, a clock domain manager coupled to the system controller and a power distribution manager coupled to the system controller. The system controller monitors a processing demand in a processing system. The clock domain manager provides one or more clock frequencies... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263384 - System and method for prioritization of clock rates in a multi-core processor: A system and method for prioritization of clock rates in a multi-core processor is provided. Instruction arrival rates are measured during a time interval Ti−1 to Ti by a monitoring module either internal to the processor or operatively interconnected with the processor. Using the measured instruction arrival rates, the monitoring... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080263343 - Multi-channel algorithm infrastructure for programmable hardware elements: System and method for implementing multi-channel operations in a programmable hardware element (PHE). A hardware configuration program, including a processing function, inputs and outputs of the processing function, a plurality of channels, and channel scanning functionality for the plurality of channels, is specified. A PHE is configured with the hardware... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080263349 - Booting system, boot program, and method therefor: A booting system, a boot program, and a method therefor are provided. A boot source device and a boot target device are connected to each other via a transfer interface. The transfer interface is an interface where booting is supported by a BIOS of the boot target device. The boot... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263345 - Dual boot strategy to authenticate firmware in a computing device: Methods for authenticating firmware in a computing device include partitioning functions critical to the intended role of the computing device so that, upon successful authentication of the firmware, all functions of the device are made operational. Otherwise, the computing device behaves in a diagnostic mode of operation to assist users... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080263348 - Dynamic asymmetric partitioning of program code memory in network connected devices: A novel asymmetric memory partitioning mechanism for providing resolving and reducing memory limitations when an increase in software image size is required. Two partitions are created in non-volatile memory, one smaller than the other. The smaller partition stores a degenerated version of the full-functionality software comprising only essential program code... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080263346 - Method and device for securely sending bootstrap message in device management: A method and device for securely sending a bootstrap message from a server (i.e., a device management (DM )server) to a device in a device management system, the method comprising acquiring first information by the device, receiving, by the device, a bootstrap message from the server, acquiring, by the device,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080263347 - Network device and rebooting method thereof: A network device connected to a server includes a firmware upgrading determining module, a communication module, a storage module, a reboot determining module, and a reboot scheduling module. The firmware upgrading determining module determines whether current firmware of the network device needs to be upgraded. The communication module downloads the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080263344 - Pre-loading data: A battery-powered device comprising: a memory storing software essential to the provision of normal functions of the device; a first processing section (16) comprising a data processor capable of executing the software, the device being capable of operating the first processing section in a normal mode in which it can... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080263350 - Update in-use flash memory without external interfaces: A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable non-volatile memory references, creating a temporary, volatile-memory file system for allocation of volatile memory space as needed for the non-volatile memory update... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263351 - Method for centralized dynamic link configuration: A method for centralized dynamic link configuration (CDLC), performed by a processor and a chipset is provided. In the method, the processor first notifies the chipset of CDLC enablement. The chipset then issues a command to the processor after receiving notification of CDLC enablement. The processor broadcasts a preparation completion... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080263352 - Authentication system and method: A security protocol for use by computing devices communicating over an unsecured network is described. The security protocol makes use of secure data provided to a peripheral memory device from a server via a secure connection. When the peripheral memory device is coupled to a computing device that attempts to... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080263353 - Autoconfigured prefix delegation based on distributed hash: In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a router, an unsolicited first router advertisement message from an attachment router that provides an attachment link used by the router, the first router advertisement message specifying a first IPv6 address prefix owned by the attachment router and usable for address autoconfiguration... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080263354 - Authentication of data transmitted in a digital transmission system: A method of authenticating data transmitted in a digital transmission system, in which the method comprises the steps, prior to transmission, of determining at least two encrypted values for at least some of the data, each encrypted value being determined using a key of a respective encryption algorithm, and outputting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080263355 - Method and system for encrypting files based on security rules: The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for encrypting files based on security rules. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, a request to store a file on a storage device is received. At least one security parameter associated with a security profile of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080263357 - Identity-based-encryption extensions formed using multiple instances of an identity based encryption scheme: IBE extensions to IBE schemes may be provided by creating multiple instances of the same IBE scheme, where each instance has an associated IBE master key and corresponding IBE public parameters. During encryption, an IBE extension identity for each instance of the IBE scheme may be mapped to a corresponding... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080263356 - Security enforcement point inspection of encrypted data in an encrypted end-to-end communications path: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to security function processing of encrypted data in a security enforcement point and provide a method, system and computer program product for security enforcement point inspection of a traversing encrypted data in a secure, end-to-end communications path. In... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080263358 - System and method for limiting spyware activity: A system and method of detecting and limiting unsolicited data uploads. Downloaded content such as web pages and emails are scanned for web forms and/or links. A watermark is added where appropriate and the modified downloaded content is forwarded to the person who requested the content. A check is made... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263359 - Water mark embedding and extraction: A watermarking key consisting of a sequence of elements is embedded into a data sequence. Each element may take on two or more values. In order to embed a watermarking key, first a reference sequence is divided into blocks. Each element of the watermarking key is associated with a respective... Agent: Martin D. Moyniham Prtsi, Inc.

20080263360 - Generating and matching hashes of multimedia content: Hashes are short summaries or signatures of data files which can be used to identify the file. Hashing multimedia content (audio, video, images) is difficult because the hash of original content and processed (e.g. compressed) content may differ significantly. The disclosed method generates robust hashes for multimedia content, for example,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263361 - Cryptographically strong key derivation using password, audio-visual and mental means: A security system that uses a cryptographic key derived from human interaction with media. The system employs a set of parameters that includes user responses to graphical media and/or audio data, among other parameters. The architecture adds a fourth dimension to the conventional authentication means in order to make at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263362 - Method and apparatus of secure authentication for system on chip (soc): A SoC may be utilized to authenticate access to one or more secure functions. A password may be generated within the SoC which is unique to each SoC instance and unique to each iteration of authentication. The SoC may challenge external entities attempting access to provide a matching password. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080263363 - Portable data encryption device with configurable security functionality and method for file encryption: A portable encryption device with logon access controlled by an encryption key, with an on board cryptographic processor for reconstituting the encryption key from a plurality of secrets generated by a secret sharing algorithm, optionally shrouded with external secrets using an invertible transform resistant to quantum computing attacks. Another embodiment... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20080263365 - Integrating legacy application/data access with single sign-on in a distributed computing environment: The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modern distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing on to the modern computing environment is leveraged, and is mapped to user credentials... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080263364 - System and method for providing access to a computer resource: There is provided a device and method for providing access to a computer resource. An exemplary device that is adapted to provide access to a computer resource comprises a Universal Serial Bus (USB) security token having a pressure sensor that is adapted to detect pressure applied to the USB security... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263366 - Self-verifying software to prevent reverse engineering and piracy: Reverse engineering and piracy of software is prevented by encrypting code blocks of a program. A program is modified to include additional protective code, including a protective code launcher which is launched with the program. Decryption and execution code is also provided for the protective code launcher and one or... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080263368 - Computer system, management terminal, storage system and encryption management method: To provide a computer system in which an encryption-decryption process performed by one encryption-decryption module can be moved to the other encryption-decryption module without stopping the process for a read/write request from a host computer. The computer system has a host computer 200, and a storage system 400, 500 for... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263370 - Cryptographic role-based access control: A hierarchical tree structure is used to facilitate the communication of encrypted keys to particular users having access to the tree. All users are in communication with a root node, but the information content of the material at the root node is decipherable only by the intended users of this... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263367 - Digital content protection system: The media inherent key storing unit 220 prestores an inherent key Ki, the conversion unit 230 generates an encrypted inherent key Ji from the inherent key read from the media inherent key storing unit 220, the random number generating unit 331 generates a random number R1, the encryption unit 252... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP

20080263369 - Method and apparatus for encrypting and processing data in flash translation layer: A method for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus for encrypting and processing data in a flash translation layer includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash translation layer searches at... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080263372 - Method and apparatus for transmitting content data and recording and/or reproducing apparatus: A data transmission method and apparatus for transmitting data, such as encrypted content data. A device that is to be a destination of transmission is authenticated. If the device has not been authenticated, encrypted data read out from a storage unit is decrypted to give decoded data which then is... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080263371 - Protected volume on a data storage device with dual operating systems and configurable access and encryption controls: A method provides a protected region of a data storage device associated with a computational device, where data in the protected region is primarily protected by preventing access without proper access authorization. The method comprises the steps of providing, in an unprotected region of the data storage device, a first... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20080263374 - System and method for modeling a power over ethernet component in a computing device platform using a common information model: A system and method for modeling a power over Ethernet component using a common information model. With the profiling of components based on the common information model, a remote agent can query status/capabilities or configure a power over Ethernet component based on messaging that is consistent with a power over... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080263373 - Token based power control mechanism: A token-based power control mechanism for an apparatus including a power controller and a plurality of processing devices. The power controller may detect a power budget allotted for the apparatus. The power controller may convert the allotted power budget into a plurality of power tokens, each power token being a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20080263376 - Frequency and voltage scaling architecture: A method and apparatus for scaling frequency and operating voltage of at least one clock domain of a microprocessor. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to techniques to divide a microprocessor into clock domains and control the frequency and operating voltage of each clock domain independently of the others.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263375 - Method and system for managing activities in a battery powered device: A method for managing activities in a battery powered device includes receiving activity information, a start time that is different from a present time, and either a duration or an end time for performing the desired activity. The method also includes determining a required energy amount needed for performing the... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080263377 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: An apparatus for on-demand power management including a system controller, a clock domain manager coupled to the system controller and a power distribution manager coupled to the system controller. The system controller monitors a processing demand in a processing system. The clock domain manager provides one or more clock frequencies... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263378 - System and method for protecting disk drive password when bios causes computer to leave suspend state: To unlock a HDD when a computer is in the suspend state, at both BIOS and the HDD a secret is combined with a password to render a new one-time password. BIOS sends its new one-time password to the HDD which unlocks itself only if a match is found. The... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080263379 - Watchdog timer device and methods thereof: To detect a non-responsive condition at a processor, a counter is associated with an operation at a first stage of an instruction pipeline. A value stored in the counter is periodically adjusted towards a threshold value. An error indicator is provided in response to the value stored in the counter... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080263380 - Gps time syncronization for data device: A method is presented to improve the accuracy of time synchronization of data. The invention consists of a timing module compromising a GPS interface with ability controller-based timing standard, high speed inputs and outputs and an asynchronous interface to an external processor system. It attaches a time-stamp referenced to an... Agent: Joseph E. Dryer

20080263381 - Dynamic phase alignment: A clock signal may be aligned with a data signal by delaying the signals relative to each other until an edge of one signal aligns with an edge of the other signal, and then causing an inversion of the clock signal. A further variation may limit the relative delay period... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080263383 - Frequency modification techniques that adjust an operating frequency to compensate for aging electronic components: A number of performance parameters for the electronic system are determined at a particular age of the electronic system. The performance parameters can be correlated to maximum operating frequency of electronic components of the electronic system for the particular age of the electronic system. Operating frequency of the electronic components... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080263382 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: An apparatus for on-demand power management including a system controller, a clock domain manager coupled to the system controller and a power distribution manager coupled to the system controller. The system controller monitors a processing demand in a processing system. The clock domain manager provides one or more clock frequencies... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263384 - System and method for prioritization of clock rates in a multi-core processor: A system and method for prioritization of clock rates in a multi-core processor is provided. Instruction arrival rates are measured during a time interval Ti−1 to Ti by a monitoring module either internal to the processor or operatively interconnected with the processor. Using the measured instruction arrival rates, the monitoring... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080256348 - Method for configuration of a processing unit: A method for configuration of an Auxiliary Processing Unit (APU) of multiprocessor system is presented. The multiprocessor system has at least a Main Processing Unit (MPU) coupled to the APU via a communication link. The APU has at least a first memory and a second memory. The method includes a... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080256350 - Motherboard, information processor, setting method and computer-readable recording medium in which setting program is stored: A motherboard can be installed commonly in each of a plurality of electronic devices of various types different in configuration without modifying the BIOS setting by comprising a setting information retaining section retaining setting information for a setting process for each electronic device; a specification information obtaining section obtaining specification... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080256349 - System and method of enabling use of software applications using stored software licensing information: A system and method of enabling use of software applications using stored software licensing information is disclosed. In one form, a method of enabling use of a software application is disclosed. The method can include accessing a first software licensing information of a first software application within a non-volatile memory... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080256351 - Bios configuration and management: The present invention provides a system and method for a modular and enhanced kernel device manager (KDM). KDM is passed control during POST after Enhanced Device Initialization Manager (eDIM) has performed device initialization. KDM configures and manages all the devices enumerated by the eDIM. KDM groups these devices into Input... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20080256352 - Methods and systems of booting of an intelligent non-volatile memory microcontroller from various sources: Methods and systems of booting an intelligent non-volatile memory (NVM) microcontroller from various sources are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, a NVM microcontroller comprises multiple memory interfaces. Each of the memory interfaces may connect to one of the various sources for booting. The sources may include... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20080256353 - Method and apparatus for hiding information in communication protocol: A method and apparatus for hiding information in a communication protocol signal are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a bit selection unit, an information encoding unit and an information decoding unit, wherein the bit selection unit selects suitable bits in the signal for hiding information, the information encoding unit encodes the... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080256355 - Communication apparatus, control method for a communication apparatus, computer program product, and computer readable storage medium: A communication apparatus for outputting e-mail to a network including a storing part configured to store e-mail addresses and related encryption information signifying whether e-mail directed to the addresses should be encrypted or in plain text; a displaying part configured to display the e-mail addresses stored in the storing unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080256354 - Systems and methods for exception handling: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080256357 - Methods and apparatus for access control in service-oriented computing environments: Improved access control techniques for use in a service-oriented computing environment are disclosed. For example, one method for authenticating a client in a service-oriented environment, wherein the service-oriented environment includes a plurality of services, includes the following steps. At least one service of the plurality of services is invoked. State... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080256356 - Secure media broadcasting using temporal access control: Improved key management techniques are disclosed for temporal access control of one or more services in a computer network. For example, a method for providing access control in a client-server system includes the following steps. A client obtains an authorization key for a time interval. A server derives an encryption... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080256358 - System and method for managing digital certificates on a remote device: A system and method for managing a digital certificate associated with a remote device is provided. The method includes providing a Web Service Application Programming Interface (API) and communicating digitally between the Web Service API and a remote device, including one of requesting the remote device to perform a task... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080256359 - Method and apparatus for file sharing between a group of user devices with encryption-decryption information sent via satellite and the content sent separately: A communication system 100 includes a group of user devices 110, a first satellite 106 and a content delivery network 120 in communication with the group of user devices 110. The content delivery network 120 communicates encryption-decryption information to the plurality of user devices using the first satellite 106 and... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080256360 - Method and apparatus for authenticating a code image upon starting a device: A device such as a mobile receiving unit (28) may include a memory (74) having a software image (106) therein. The memory (74) has a first stored signature (104) therein. A controller (60) may include a boot loader module (69) that generates a second signature from a portion of the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080256361 - Watermarking of a processing module: The present invention relates to a method, for watermarking a processing module (105), said processing module (105) being configured to process an electronic signal thereby forming a processed signal, comprising the steps of applying a first functional operator (104) arranged to cause a significant alternation to said processed signal, said... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080256362 - Method and apparatus for digital signature authentication, and computer product: An apparatus for digital signature authentication includes a dividing unit that divides streaming data into plural pieces of partial data in a predetermined unit; a first creating unit that creates a hash value string including plural hash values corresponding to the pieces of partial data; a second creating unit that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080256363 - Trusted component update system and method: A trusted component update system comprises verify logic configured to validate integrity of an update to a trusted component of a computing device, and logic disposed in the trusted component and configured to validate integrity of the verify logic.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256365 - Apparatus for writing information on a data content on a storage medium: An apparatus for writing checksum information on a data content on a storage medium. The apparatus has a provider for providing checksum information based on the data content and a writer for writing the data content and the checksum information on the storage medium such that a baseline reader and... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080256367 - Duo codes for product authentication: Systems and methods are provided that employ two or more cryptographically linked codes. The codes, when encrypted, become cipher texts that appear unrelated. The codes described herein are characterized by a series of bits including one or more switch bits. The cipher text of a code having a switch bit... Agent: Peters Verny , L.L.P.

20080256364 - Dynamic negotiation of security arrangements between web services: The present invention relates to computer-based devices and methods negotiate and implement security arrangements between two or more web services. More particularly, it relates to devices and methods that specify input and output interfaces, computation and generation of a security contract consistent with inputs, and implementation of security in accordance... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080256366 - System and method for booting a multiprocessor device based on selection of encryption keys to be provided to processors: A system and method for booting a multiprocessor device based on selection of encryption keys to be provided to the processors are provided. With the system and method, a security key and one or more randomly generated key values are provided to a selector mechanism of each processor of the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080256369 - Disc drive counterfeiting countermeasure: Counterfeiting of optical disc drives used with game systems is prevented by storing an obfuscated authentication key in firmware of the disc drive. Each disc drive can implement a different obfuscation scheme. The authentication key is parsed into components and the components are stored in various locations in firmware of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080256368 - Method and device for protecting digital content in mobile applications: The present invention provides methods and devices allowing a secure way of sharing protected content. A content holder may share the content under certain restrictions. The invention offers a secure sharing method preventing copyright violations and preserving the copyright owners control over the content use, while also offering new marketing... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080256372 - Inline power controller: An inline power controller includes at least one analog interface circuit module (AICM) having a first analog input node for receiving an inline power port voltage, a second analog input node for receiving an inline power port current, a first analog output for effecting an inline power port voltage, a... Agent: Cisco - Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080256370 - Intrusion protection for a client blade: Receiving, by a blade management module from a client blade, notification of a loss of communications between a remote desktop apparatus and the client blade; responsive to the notification, accepting, by the blade management module from the remote desktop apparatus, an instruction to alter a power setting of the client... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080256371 - System and method for power management in a computing device for power over ethernet: A system and method for operating system power management in a computing device for power over Ethernet (PoE). Computing devices such as portable computers or embedded devices having an operating system (OS) can leverage power management features in an OS. Power management state information such as user parameters, computing device... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080256382 - Method and system for digital frequency clocking in processor cores: Disclosed are a method of and system for digital frequency clocking in a processor core. At least one-processor core is provided, and that processor core has a clocking subsystem for generating an output clock signal, which may be an analog signal at a variable frequency. Digital frequency control data are... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080250236 - Configuration appliance and method for configuration of electrical appliances: A parameterization device generates parameterization signals fixing operating parameters for electrical devices of an electrical arrangement. The parameterization device, or configuration device, is particularly user friendly and permits a subsequent alteration of operating parameters for electrical devices which takes little time and is hence particularly economical. The parameterization device is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080250238 - Method and system for controlled media sharing in a network: A method for controlling media sharing among a plurality of nodes in a network. The present method is comprised of availing to the network an instance of media content for sharing among the plurality of nodes by a source node communicatively coupled to the network. The present method further includes... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20080250239 - Method and system for controlled media sharing in a network: A method for controlling media sharing among a plurality of nodes in a network. The present method is comprised of availing to the network an instance of media content for sharing among the plurality of nodes by a source node communicatively coupled to the network. The present method further includes... Agent: Wagner Blecher LLP

20080250237 - Operating system independent architecture for subscription computing: A system for managing a subscription-based computer independent of an operating system of the computer may include a security module that accesses, decrements, and stores subscription data during operation of the subscription-based computer. Additionally, the system may include a network module in communication with the security module and comprising a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080250240 - Remote informed watermark detection system: A system and a method for secure remote informed watermark detection making use of a side-information. The system in overview comprises a remote detector and a server computing system wherein a database with side-information assigned to specific descriptors of data signals is stored at the server computing system and wherein... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080250241 - Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution: Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080250242 - Method for passing selective encrypted attributes of specific versions of objects in a distributed system: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for selective encryption of a data transmission. A data transmission is received. When the data transmission is received, the data transmission is unmarshaled. When the transmission is unmarshaled, objects and a set of sensitive fields within the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250243 - Method and system for secure position determination: A system and method of security for navigation, positioning, and localization systems, and applications of cryptography thereto are provided. The security can be applied to navigation, aircraft landing guidance, air traffic control, location-based access control, the prevention of relay attacks against financial and legal transaction protocols and protection of other... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080250244 - System and method for distribution of credentials: The invention relates to a method for distribution of a set of credentials from a credential issuer to a credential user. The credential user is provided with a user device. A first channel and a second channel are provided for communication between the user device and the credential issuer. A... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080250245 - Biometric-based document security: Embodiments of methods and systems for securely transmitting electronic data are disclosed. One embodiment of a method includes a security server authenticating the identity of a sender utilizing a collection of biometric data obtained from the sender. A sender client encrypts electronic data with an encryption key obtained from the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080250246 - Method for controlling secure transactions using a single multiple dual-key device, corresponding physical deivce, system and computer program: A device is provided for controlling secure transactions using a physical device held by a user and bearing at least one first pair of asymmetric keys, including a first device public key and a first corresponding device private key. The control includes, prior to implementing the device, certifying a first... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080250247 - Authentication method for an electronic document and verification method of a document thus authenticated: d

20080250249 - Data access method against cryptograph attack: The present invention discloses a data access method accomplished by the following steps of: creating a predetermined password; generating a first encryption key; encrypting data based on the first encryption key; prompting for the predetermined password upon receipt of an access request; decoding a header of the NAND flash memory... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080250248 - Identity management system with an untrusted identity provider: e

20080250250 - Method and apparatus for using usb flash devices and other portable storage as a means to access prepaid computing: A form of removable memory, such as a universal serial bus (USB) flash device (UFD), may allow secure storage of and access to a time balance of a pay-per-use or subscription computing system. A computing device may establish a secure connection to a portable secure computing device to access a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080250253 - System and method for accessing information resources using cryptographic authorization permits: A system and method for securing information associates a party with a node that communicates messages over one or more channels based on a channel access privilege. One or more authorities sign a cryptographic authorization permit (CAP) to authorize the channel access privilege, which can be a write privilege or... Agent: Venable LLP

20080250252 - Systems and methods for bios processing: Methods and systems for Basic Input/Output System BIOS processing such as hashing are disclosed. In one embodiment, there is a direct interface between a security module and a non-volatile memory storing the BIOS in a computing system so that the security module may directly access the BIOS without using the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080250251 - Systems and methods for hardware driven program execution: Systems and methods for storing and accessing encrypted content are described. At least one embodiment includes a system for storing and accessing encrypted content comprising a secure hardware device coupled to a memory comprising a trusted module, wherein the hardware device is configured to receive content from a remote location,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080250254 - Application settings migration using virtualization: Application setting virtualization for a user. Application settings from a source computer are copied to a user-specific location on a destination computer and layered under corresponding application settings associated with one or more applications installed on the destination computer. In response to receiving a request from an application for an... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080250256 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling power thereof: Backup control means controls processing for backing up data in storage means. In a state in which the storage means is not being supplied with power from the main power supply, a backup power supply supplies power to the storage means in order that backup processing by the backup control... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080250255 - System and method for applying power over ethernet to portable computing devices: A system and method for applying Power over Ethernet (PoE) to portable computing devices. Portable computing devices such as portable computers have unstable power profiles due to the wide variability in tasks that are undertaken by users. This unstable power profile makes it difficult for power source equipment (PSE) in... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080250257 - Energy efficient memory access technique for single ended bit cells: A method for conserving power in a device. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a polarity signal by analyzing a current one of a plurality of data items having a plurality of data bits, the polarity signal having an inversion bit indicating that the current data item... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20080250258 - Network processor and energy saving method thereof: A network processor includes a transceiver circuit, a network data processing unit, and a clock signal control unit. The transceiver circuit transmits and receives a network signal, compares a voltage level of the network signal with a threshold value, outputs a comparison result, and operates under a first clock signal.... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20080250259 - Power machine or vehicle with power management: Power management control for a power machine or vehicle is disclosed. In illustrated embodiments, a user interface of the power machine or vehicle includes a power management selection for activating and deactivating power management control. In illustrated embodiments, power management control is implemented through a power management control component based... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080250260 - Information processing apparatus, scheduler, and schedule control method of information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a CPU including a plurality of instruction processors, a monitoring unit which monitors an operating power supplying environment, and a power saving unit which controls the number of operating instruction processors provided in the CPU in accordance with the operating power... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080250261 - System and method for enabling functionality based on measured power: According to one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises an input port, a measuring circuit and a processor. The measuring circuit is adapted to measure a power parameter associated with power supplied over a communication media to the input port. The processor includes a plurality of logic units. Each... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080250262 - Semiconductor memory device and method for generating internal control signal: A semiconductor memory device includes: a command input unit configured to receive a plurality of external commands in synchronization with a rising edge of an internal clock to generate a plurality of pre-control signals; an output control signal generating unit configured to receive the plurality of external commands to generate... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080250263 - Integrated circuit input/output interface with empirically determined delay matching: An integrated circuit input/output interface with empirically determined delay matching is disclosed. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit input/output interface uses empirical information of signal traces coupled to the integrated circuit to adjust a transmit/receive clock of each pin of the interface so as to compensate for delay mismatches caused... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080244248 - Apparatus, method and program product for policy synchronization: Applications which function under a first operating system also function when it becomes necessary to call into action a second operating system due to provision having been made for configuration and other settings necessary to the execution of such applications (here generically called policy settings or policy source data) to... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080244250 - Instant on video: In some embodiments, the invention involves speeding boot up of a platform by initializing the video card early on in the boot process. In an embodiment, processor cache memory is to be used as cache as RAM (CAR). Video graphics adapter (VGA) card initialization uses the CAR instead of system... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244249 - Managed redundant enterprise basic input/output system store update: A basic input/output system may be stored on two different memories coupled to active management technology firmware and a trusted platform module. The trusted platform module ensures that access to the correct memory. One of the memories is selected to store an update of the basic input/output system.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244251 - Predictive model implementation system and methodology: The invention relates to a methodology and computer executable instructions configured to implement a prediction system. The invention deals with the use of a configuration file specifying at least the interactions to be completed between components of the prediction system, where this configuration file is transmitted to an implementation site.... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20080244252 - Using protected/hidden region of a magnetic media under firmware control: A method and firmware for accessing a protected area of a magnetic storage device via firmware control. During early system initialization, various firmware components are loaded and executed to initialize a computer system. These firmware components include a firmware driver for accessing magnetic storage devices connected to the computer system.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244255 - Method for not resetting memory while booting computer through hardware booting button thereof: A method for not resetting a memory while booting a computer through a hardware booting button is adapted to utilize a general hardware booting mode and increases steps that judges whether preset values are respectively stored in specific address of the memory. If it is the preset value, allowing the... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20080244254 - Multi-mode computer operation: A mobile device, such as a laptop or notebook computer, capable of booting from at least two environments. If a remote environment is present, the mobile device may boot from the remote environment. The mobile device may also boot from the local environment.... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080244256 - Parallel link reset in link based system: A link based system including a plurality of processors is reset when transitioning from a slower speed to a higher speed mode during a booting process. One processor may coordinate the simultaneous establishment of link resetting of a plurality of other processors. In one embodiment, the processors may operate beginning... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244257 - Server active management technology (amt) assisted secure boot: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to secure booting of a platform. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to securely boot a platform using one or more signature keys stored in a secure location on the platform, where access to the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244253 - System, method and program for selectively rebooting computers and other components of a distributed computer system: Selectively rebooting components of a computer system. One or more tables which list respective costs to reboot the components and respective likelihoods that reboots of the respective components will correct respective problems with the computer system are generated. Each of the costs is based on a time to reboot or... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080244259 - Component firmware integration in distributed systems: A plurality of platforms may be defined in a distributed system. Each of the platforms may include a processor and a chipset from a common source on a single motherboard. Extensible firmware interface drivers are provided for the processors and the chipsets. Each of the platforms may be defined pursuant... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244258 - Instrumenting configuration and system settings: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080244260 - System and method for managing interoperability of internet telephony networks and legacy telephony networks: A system and method for providing interoperability between Internet telephony networks and legacy telephony networks includes conveying an address of an Internet telephony endpoint in a legacy telephony protocol. A globally unique Uniform Resource Identifier, referred to as a Universal Global Title, may be assigned as the address of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080244262 - Enhanced supplicant framework for wireless communications: The present disclosure provides a method that may be used in wireless communications. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method may include partitioning a first device into a user operating system including a supplicant client and a secure operating system including a supplicant core. The method may also include performing... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244261 - Separation of logical trusted platform modules within a single physical trusted platform module: A device, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes storage to contain more than one trust root, and logic to associate each command ordinal sent to the device with one of the trust roots.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244263 - Certificate management system: A system and method for generating and storing a large number of public key certificates that enables a revocation status to be determined while providing a smaller amount of storage than is typically required.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080244264 - Public key certificate validation system: To validate a certificate of a service provider apparatus, a service receiving apparatus determines a certificate validation method on based on a combination of the performance of the service receiving apparatus, the performance of a CRL repository apparatus, the performance of a certificate validation apparatus, and the performance of a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080244265 - Mobility device management server: A mobility device management server (MDMS) for use as part of a mobility device platform allowing for secure mobile computing is provided. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary mobility device platform (MDP) comprises a mobility device (MD) operable to communicate with at least one computing environment through a communications interface... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080244266 - Authenticating a communication device and a user of the communication device in an ims network: IMS networks and methods are disclosed for authenticating a communication device and a user of the communication device. When a communication device attempts to register with an IMS network, the IMS network receives a register message from the device that includes device authentication information, such as a public or private... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080244268 - End-to-end network security with traffic visibility: Both end-to-end security and traffic visibility may be achieved by a system using a controller that derives a cryptographic key that is different for each client based on a derivation key and a client identifier that is conveyed in each data packet. The controller distributes the derivation key to information... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244267 - Local and remote access control of a resource: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for local and remote access to a resource. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a configurable hardware resource. In addition, the integrated circuit may also include access control logic to authenticate agents that attempt to configure the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244269 - Data processing system, memory device, data processing unit, and data processing method and program: To provide an improved management structure of memory devices storing service-use applications. A card for a memory device applied to use various services is provided as one child card or more corresponding to each of the services, a parent card stores data for child-card issue management, and the child-card issue... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080244271 - Method and system for authentication based on wireless identification, wireless identification and server: The invention discloses a method and a system for authentication based on a wireless identification, and a wireless identification. The method comprises steps of: obtaining, by a mobile device, wireless tag information and connection configuration information from the wireless identification; establishing, by the mobile device, a connection with the server... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080244270 - System and method for signature based data container recognition: A system and method for signature based data container recognition is provided. When a new data container, such as a lun, is created, a security appliance generates a signature of the data container, by, e.g., examining the contents of one or more data blocks of the data container. The generated... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080244272 - Hand cryptographic device: Disclosed is a hand cryptographic device for keeping a secret code inside confidential and being convenient to be carried about. The hand cryptographic device of the present invention includes an input module, a memory and a user interface. The input module is used for being inputted the secret code and... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080244273 - Cryptographic method using redundant bits and adaptive clock frequency: The present invention discloses a cryptographic method using redundant bits and an adaptive clock frequency, which adds redundant bits and modifies clock frequency to change the contents and transmission rate of the bit sequence to encrypt data. The present invention can combine with the existing security mechanism or cryptographic algorithm,... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080244274 - Methods and systems for processing of n-state symbols with xor and equality binary functions: Multi-valued or n-state with n=2p Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) in binary form are provided for scramblers, descramblers and sequence generators using addition and multiplication functions over a Finite Field GF(n) in binary form. N-state switching functions in an LFSR are implemented by using implementations of reversible binary functions. LFSRs... Agent: Diehl Servilla LLC

20080244275 - Instruction transform for the prevention and propagation of unauthorized code injection: A method and structure of instruction transformation. Applying the principals of biodiversity to instruction transformation applicable to devices and embedded systems and networks containing many devices not only protects individual devices from attack from unauthorized code, but additionally retards propagation of such unauthorized code to other devices in the system... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080244276 - Method and device for creating a group signature and related method and device for verifying a group signature: A method for creating a group signature of a message to be implemented by a member of a group in a system, the system including a trust authority, the group including at least the member provided with a secure portable electronic entity including storage elements and computing elements wherein are... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080244277 - Secure data parser method and system: The present invention provides a method and system for securing sensitive data from unauthorized access or use. The method and system of the present invention is useful in a wide variety of settings, including commercial settings generally available to the public which may be extremely large or small with respect... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080244278 - Leakage power estimation: Methods and apparatus to provide leakage power estimation are described. In one embodiment, one or more sensed temperature values (108) and one or more voltage values (110) are utilized to determine the leakage power of an integrated circuit (IC) component. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244282 - Managing power allocation to ethernet ports in the absence of mutually exclusive detection and powering cycles in hardware: A method of allocating power to ports in an Ethernet switch, including: (1) assigning a configuration power to a selected port, wherein the assigned configuration power is less than a power supplied by the selected port to a powered, (2) enabling and powering the selected port in a single indivisible... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP 2099 Gateway Place

20080244281 - Method and system for associating power consumption with a network address: A system for associating power consumption with a network address. Network traffic is inspected to determine network addresses. The network addresses are assigned to one or more servers. A power output of a plurality of power outlets is measured to determine a power consumption of the one or more servers... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080244285 - Method to control core duty cycles using low power modes: A processor starting a duty cycle timer with a specified duty cycle period and a specified power state, and if the duty cycle timer expires, placing the processor in the specified power state in response to the expiry of the timer, if the timer has not expired and if an... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244284 - Methods and apparatus providing advanced classification for power over ethernet: A system conducts a plurality of cycles on the powered device. Each cycle has a detection phase and a classification phase. A classification voltage is applied to the conductors during each cycle. The system measures a current in the conductors while the classification voltage is applied. The system determines a... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080244279 - Methods and apparatus to detect voltage class of a circuit: A method including monitoring whether an externally originating signal reaches a predetermined threshold value in a host, producing an output value based on the monitoring, and identifying a power environment for the host based on the output value is described. Also described is a method for determining the power environment... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080244286 - Starting device: A starting device includes a first transform device that restores a first transfer signal, which is converted from an input signal supplied from an input device, to the input signal, and outputs the input signal to a computer, and a power connecting device that starts the computer when the input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080244280 - System and method for hardware manipulation in a computing device: A device having an operating system including a power control policy for a component of the device and an effector program controlling power for the component based on the power control policy and power control hardware controlled by the effector program to implement the power control policy for the component.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080244283 - System and method for thresholding system power loss notifications in a data processing system: A system and method for thresholding system power loss notifications in a data processing system are provided. Power loss detection modules are provided in a data processing system having one or more data processing devices, such as blades in an IBM BladeCenter® chassis. The power loss detection modules detect the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080244287 - Platform communication protocol: A host chipset heartbeat may be utilized, in some embodiments, to handle interrupts from external devices on a power efficient basis. The availability of the host chipset heartbeat may be signaled to external devices and those external devices may time their activities to a period of time when not only... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244288 - Power supply system, management system, and computer readable medium: A power supply system includes: a first device that commands an external device to perform processing, and is configured to supply electric power to the external device; a second device that is connected to the first device through a communications line, and that performs the processing in accordance with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080244289 - Hybrid operating system for battery powered computing systems: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for hybrid operating systems for battery powered computing systems are described herein. The hybrid operating systems (OS) may include a full-power OS component that enables the computing system to operate in a full-power mode, and a low-power OS component that enables the computing system to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080244290 - Power saving device controlled by controller or disk: This is a disk array device comprising means for operating a plurality of controller modules or disks, means for determining the a future operating state, based on operation history of the controller module or the disk and setting means for setting an operating state of the controller module or disk... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080244292 - Method and apparatus to re-create trust model after sleep state: A processing system features random access memory (RAM), a processor, and a trusted platform module (TPM). When the processing system enters a sleep mode during which the RAM is to stay powered, the processing system may measuring a VMM and one or more secure VMs in the processing system. However,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244291 - Resource power controller: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for a resource power controller. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a resource power controller to control whether a resource is in an up state or a down state. In some embodiments, the resource power controller heuristically... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244294 - Dynamic power reduction: Some embodiments of the invention include systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamically reducing requested supply voltage based on idle functional blocks.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244295 - Method of saving power consumed by a storage system: Provided is a method of saving power consumed by a storage system that is connected to a host computer via a network, including a disk device for storing to be written data requested by the host computer, and controllers that control access to the disk device, in which the controllers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080244293 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing for automatically closing application widgets based on markup language elements: Methods and systems are described for providing for automatically closing application widgets based on markup language elements. In one embodiment, a markup element defined in a markup language to specify a condition for automatically closing the first widget is detected while processing a resource for presentation in a widget. It... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080244296 - Computer system fault detection: A computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a core processor, a power supply including a first output in power communication with the core processor, and a power switch in signal communication with the power supply for controlling a state of the first output. The computer system also includes... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20080244297 - Automatic power management of a network powered device: A system delivers power to a powered device through a local area network using a power sourcing equipment to process data of an interconnected network and to receive power from a first power source coupled to the power sourcing equipment. The system may include a powered device coupled at a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244298 - Clock synchronization scheme for deskewing operations in a data interface: A technique includes providing transmitters that are each associated with a data bit line of a bus, and each transmitter is clocked by an associated transmit clock signal. The technique includes determining a baseline offset to apply to a base clock signal to synchronize the base clock signal to a... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244299 - Data processing apparatus and method for translating a signal between a first clock domain and a second clock domain: The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for translating a signal between a first clock domain and a second clock domain. The data processing apparatus may comprise a first component for generating a signal, the first component operating in the first clock domain having a first clock... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080244300 - Fault tolerant time synchronization mechanism in a 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

20080244301 - Real-time clock correction methods and apparatus: A real-time clock (RTC) correction method is provided. Correction data for correcting an RTC of the electronic device is calculated and stored before a power off operation of an electronic device. When the power off operation is performed between two correction operations of the RTC, the period between the two... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080244302 - System and method to enable an event timer in a multiple event timer operating environment: An information handling system including a local event timer operably associated with a management application interface is disclosed. The information handling system can also include a remote event timer accessible by a system management application. The remote event timer can be used relative to use of the local event timer.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080244303 - Nibble de-skew method, apparatus, and system: De-skew is performed on a nibble-by-nibble basis where a nibble is not limited to four bits.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20080244304 - Deriving accurate media position information: Various embodiments utilize different counters or clocks, working in concert, to smooth out position information that is derived for a rendering/capturing device. Specifically, in at least some embodiments, each counter or clock has a different speed. A faster counter or clock is used to determine intra-transition position offsets relative to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244305 - Delayed lock-step cpu compare: The present invention relates to an electronic device comprising a first CPU, a second CPU, a first delay stage and a second delay stage for delaying data propagating on a bus, a CPU compare unit, and wherein the first delay stage is coupled to an output of the first CPU... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated