Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 12/08

20080320293 - Configurable processing core: A configurable processing core includes a configuration module and a plurality of functional blocks, each including a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver. The configuration module is operable to determine configuration of at least some of the plurality of functional blocks based on at least one instruction of an algorithm, generate a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080320292 - Self programming slave device controller: A self programming slave device controller is described which comprises interface circuitry and control circuitry. The interface circuitry is responsive to one or more configuration parameters to communicate data between the slave device controller and a slave device in accordance with the one or more configuration parameters. The control circuitry... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080320295 - Method and apparatus for virtualization of appliances: A method and apparatus for the virtualization of appliances provides an embedded operating system (OS) which is included in the system boot ROM of a personal computer. When the system boots, the OS is launched and looks for all available virtual appliances from, for example, the following places: local USB,... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080320294 - User selectable configuration options application for inaccessible nonvolatile storage at bootstrap: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to applying user configurable options during bootstrap and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for user selectable configuration options application for inaccessible nonvolatile storage at bootstrap. In one embodiment of the invention, a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080320296 - Methods and systems for secure remote mobile printing: Systems and methods for for secure, remote printing includes a mobile device (e.g., cell phone or PDA) establishing a secure communication connection with a mobile printer and a server, such a connection using one or more encryption protocols (e.g., SSL, TLS, etc.). The server encrypts the requested data and transmits... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080320297 - Method and system for monitoring encrypted data transmissions: A method for efficiently decrypting asymmetric SSL pre-master keys is divided into a key agent component that runs in user mode, and an SSL driver running in kernel mode. The key agent can take advantage of multiple threads for decoding keys in a multi-processor environment, while the SSL driver handles... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20080320298 - System and method for protecting electronic devices: An electronic safe includes apparatus ID codes of various electronic devices as well as security keys associated with the apparatus ID codes. In order for an electronic device to be operated, it must first make connection with the electronic safe in order to verify the security key. Once the security... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080320299 - Access control policy in a weakly-coherent distributed collection: A system is disclosed for creating and implementing an access control policy framework in a weakly coherent distributed collection. A collection manager may sign certificates forming equivalence classes of replicas that share a specific authority. The collection manager and/or certain privileged replicas may issue certificates that delegate authority for control... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080320300 - Authorisation and authentication: The invention relates to content distribution over a network and provides methods of controlling the distribution, of receiving the content and of publishing content. The method of controlling distribution of content over a network includes receiving a content description and location information for a source of the content from a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080320301 - Method and apparatus for restricting operation of device: A method of restricting operation of a device is provided. Based on a revocation list, which is a list regarding revoked devices, the method determines whether the device is the revoked device, based on the determination, decides whether to operate a Digital Rights Management (DRM) module of the device, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320302 - Method, apparatus, and manufacture for decryption of network traffic in a secure session: A network trace utility is provided. The network trace utility receives and copies packets in a secure session of (at least) two-way network communication between a client and a server. The network trace utility receives an administrator password, and uses a hash of the administrator password to decrypt the first... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080320303 - Vpn processing via service insertion architecture: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) sending a request to join a group to a service broker; (ii) receiving from the service broker a list of key servers servicing the group; and (iii) sending registration information to a selected one of the key servers in the list.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080320304 - Method of accessing data content in storage devices: There is provided a data storage device (110, 280). The device (110, 280) is distinguished in that it includes a data storage medium (280, SFFO) arranged to bear data content thereon as a master file (MF) having an associated file name (AD0) for identifying an address range for locating and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080320305 - Method and apparatus for secure communications and resource sharing between anonymous non-trusting parties with no central administration: A unifying network model with a structure and architecture configured to address security, interoperability, mobility, and resource management, including priority and quality of services is provided. The network of the network model is structured as a hierarchical mesh network, with dynamically generated routing tables. The configuration of the network model... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080320306 - Tag authentication system: An authentication method is disclosed that makes the identification information of an object public and performs authentication in referring, from the identification information, to the information of the object corresponding to the identification information. The method includes generating a third value through a predetermined operation of a temporary first value... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080320307 - Method for session security: A secret string is established so as to be known only to a client computing system and a server computing system. A non-encrypted version of a message, a message counter value, and first hash value are received by the server computing system from the client computing system. The first hash... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080320308 - Method for remote message attestation in a communication system: The invention relates to a method for remote attestation. In the method is created a first asymmetric key pair in a trusted platform module in an electronic device. A first public key and software platform state information are certified with an attestation identity key associated with the trusted platform module... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080320309 - Method of authenticating print medium using printing mobile device: A method of using a mobile device to authenticate a print medium offline before completing printing onto the print medium, the mobile device including processing means, a printhead and a sensor, the print medium comprising a laminar substrate, the method comprising the steps of: using the sensor to sense coded... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080320310 - Image based shared secret proxy for secure password entry: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate utilizing a shared secret to obscure a password within a sequence of characters. The sequence of characters can include the password as well as noise. The shared secret can leverage utilizing a set of known images that a user can... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080320311 - Apparatus and method for authenticating firmware: An apparatus and method to authenticate firmware stored in a firmware storage unit. The apparatus includes a controller to commands an authenticator to start firmware authentication, the authenticator, which performs authentication of the firmware using a signature read from the firmware storage unit, and a bus controller to controls a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080320314 - Apparatus for writing data to a medium: An apparatus for writing data to a medium. The apparatus has a receiver for receiving a write request and encrypted data from a data provider. The apparatus further has a creator for creating a medium ID upon reception of the write request. Furthermore, the apparatus has a provider for providing... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080320317 - Electronic device and information processing method: An electronic device is connectable to an information processing apparatus and includes a reading unit to read biologic information; an authentication unit to authenticate a user based on the biologic information; a storage unit including (i) a first storage area that is accessible from the information processing apparatus after authentication... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080320312 - Hardware-based computer theft deterrence: A hardware-based security module is used to protect an electronic device, especially a portable electronic device. The security module may determine either via timeout of a watchdog timer or via an explicit message to encrypt selected data on the electronic device. In addition, the electronic device may enter a limited... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080320315 - Method for creating a secure counter on an on-board computer system comprising a chip card: According to the inventive method, the chip card, a counting function (FC), a counter (Cpt) and a private key (Cf) stored in the write-only part of the memory region are stored in a persistent memory, the counter and the private key (Cf) being accessible only by the counting function (FC).... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080320316 - Selective encryption system and method for i/o operations: Upon occurrence of a trigger condition, writes of allocation units of data (including code) to a device, such as writes of blocks to a disk, are first encrypted. Each allocation unit is preferably a predetermined integral multiple number of minimum I/O units. A data structure is marked to indicate which... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080320313 - System and method to protect computing systems: A system and method for protecting computing systems, and more particularly a system and method which a dedicated hardware component configured to communicate with a protection program. A computer hardware subsystem includes a memory comprising content. The content is at least a list of files which have been modified within... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080320318 - Method and apparatus for data encryption and decryption: A method is provided for encrypting data to be stored in a data storage medium. The method includes encrypting the data using a special key associated with the electronic device. One example of the special key is a barcode of the electronic device. The encrypted data then is stored in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080320319 - System and method for encrypting secondary copies of data: A system and method for encrypting secondary copies of data is described. In some examples, the system encrypts a secondary copy of data after the secondary copy is created. In some examples, the system looks to information about a data storage system, and determines when and where to encrypt data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080320320 - Mobile power control apparatus and method: Disclosed herein are approaches for reducing the difference in voltage between a DC power source and a system supply voltage for a mobile system, for example, to reduce over-voltages, inrush currents, and power conversion inefficiencies when a DC source such as an adapter is connected to the mobile system.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080320321 - Computer with low-power secondary processor and secondary display: A computer having an active mode and an inactive mode includes a primary processor and a primary memory. A primary display is associated with the primary processor and the primary memory. The primary processor, the primary memory, and the primary display are operated when the computer is in the active... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080320322 - Dynamic converter control for efficient operation: Dynamically managing power consumption in a computer system having at least two parallel power converters in order to improve efficiency. A maximum power capacity for each of the power converters is determined and then power consumption of the computer system is monitored. If the power consumption of the computer system... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080320323 - Power management via dimm read operation limiter: A method and system for enabling directed temperature/power management at the DIMM-level and/or DRAM-level utilizing intelligent scheduling of memory access operations received at the memory controller. Hot spots within the memory subsystem, caused by operating the DIMMs/DRAMs above predetermined/preset threshold power/temperature values for operating a DIMM and/or a DRAM, are... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080320324 - Data recovery (cdr) architecture using interpolator and timing loop module: The present invention provides a method and mechanism for data recovery with phase synchronized clock using interpolator and timing loop module and a data latching circuit. The interpolator can be considered as a programmable delay circuit with a specified delay resolution over the clock period.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080320325 - Dll phase detection using advanced phase equalization: A system and method are disclosed to generate and terminate clock shift modes during initialization of a synchronous circuit (e.g., a delay-locked loop or DLL). Upon initialization, the DLL is entered into a ForceSL (Force Shift Left) mode and an On1x mode (i.e., left shifting on each clock cycle). The... Agent: Jones Day

20080313447 - Delegated pre-configuration: Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for delegated pre-configuration are described. In embodiments, an identification of a user is received. Further, in various embodiments, one or more pre-configuration instructions is received from a delegate. In various embodiments, one or more online service settings is processed in accordance with the one or... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080313449 - Offloading the processing of a network protocol stack: A computer system is partitioned during a pre-boot phase of the computer system between a first partition and a second partition, wherein the first partition to include a first processing unit and the second partition to include a second processing unit. An Input/Output (I/O) operating system is booted on the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080313448 - System and method for network setup of wireless device at point of sale: A network device such as a wireless network device is configured using information obtained at the point of sale (POS) for a specific home network to which the device will belong. This may be accomplished by obtaining from the buyer at the POS account information, which is sent to a... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080313453 - Boot validation in imaging devices: A boot validation system and method may be used in a computer system to validate boot code before allowing the computer system to execute the boot code. In particular, a secure hash algorithm may be used to compute a hash value of the boot code and the computed hash value... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080313451 - Data recovery method: The present invention provides a data recovery method in a system with storage of default values and prior configuration values, including executing initialization of the system; loading the default values; detecting a status of a first flag to generate a first detection result; and, determining whether a boot-up sequence is... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080313450 - Distributed bootstrapping mechanism for peer-to-peer networks: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a distributed bootstrapping mechanism for peer-to-peer networks. In particular implementations, the de-centralized bootstrapping mechanism utilizes an allocated set of anycast addresses from the public IP space. Routing nodes or peer nodes corresponding to respective autonomous systems select an anycast address by computing a hash... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080313452 - One wire boot loader: A power tool system component has a microprocessor, a one wire communication terminal connecting the microprocessor to an external device, and a flash memory storing: (a) an application program governing operation of an application mode during which the power tool system component is operated; and (b) a boot loader program... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080313454 - System and method for rapid boot of secondary operating system: The primary operating system of a computer such as a notebook computer is stored on disk in a hard disk drive and a smaller, secondary operating system such as an email operating system, wireless phone operating system, DVD player operating system, etc. is stored on disk and is transferred to... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080313455 - Key support for password-based authentication mechanisms: According to an example embodiment, a session key (e.g., MSK/EMSK) may be determined for a password-based authentication method based on a secret and one or more security parameters used for peer authentication of the method. For example, a session key (e.g., EMSK) may be determined for a EAP-MSCHAP (Extensible Authentication... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080313456 - Apparatus and method for irrepudiable token exchange: A server apparatus is operable in communication with mobile client apparatuses for securely recording the occurrence of a transactional exchange meeting between holders of the mobile client apparatuses. A token component sets up a meeting arrangement mediated by the server and to communicate a first issued token to a first... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080313457 - Secure physical distribution of a security token through a mobile telephony provider's infrastructure: The present invention discloses a system and method of leveraging mobile telephone provider assets and distribution network to securely deliver security tokens, such as PKI certificates. The invention is not limited to using a mobile telephony infrastructure and other pre-existing distributions can also be used. In the invention, a user... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080313458 - System and method of per-packet keying: A method of per-packet keying for encrypting and decrypting data transferred between two or more parties, each party having knowledge of a shared key that allows a per-packet key to differ for each packet is provided. Avoiding the use of a static session key during encryption offers several advantages over... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080313459 - Method and system for protecting against computer viruses: A method for delivering an update to at least one user, including creating an electronic communication including an update and a unique signature identifying, the electronic communication as including the update and sending the electronic communication to the user.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080313460 - 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.

20080313462 - Apparatus and method for deriving keys for securing peer links: Apparatus and methods to establish a secure peer-to-peer link in which the construction of a link authentication and key encryption keys are separated from the session encryption key are described herein. In an embodiment, a secure peer-to-peer link is established in a wireless mesh network.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080313463 - Method and apparatus for use in a downloadable conditional access system: In a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS), preferably all DCAS-specific code is implemented in a configurable secure (CS) processor that is in communication with the host processor. Preferably, no DCAS-specific code is executed in the host processor. The host processor delivers commands to the CS processor, which the CS processor... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080313461 - Security association verification and recovery: Example embodiments herein include a verification process that provides a safe and efficient mechanism for recovering security associations between network devices. More specifically, the verification process transmits a secured message from a first network device to a second network device across a network. Furthermore, the security association includes a parent... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20080313464 - System and method of creating and sending broadcast and multicast data: A method of encrypting broadcast and multicast data communicated between two or more parties, each party having knowledge of a shared key, is provided. The key is calculated using values, some of which are communicated between the parties, so that the shared key is not itself transferred. Avoiding the transfer... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080313467 - Authentication processor using a signature encoded in a number of data portions: A method of authenticating an object using a processor, the object being associated with a surface having disposed thereon or therein coded data having a number of coded data portions, each coded data portion encoding: an identity of the object; and, a fragment of a signature, the signature being a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080313466 - Method and apparatus for digitally signing electronic mail that originates from a browser: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for digitally signing electronic mail that originates from a browser. The system operates by first receiving a message from a browser at a mail server. The mail server formats the message and returns the formatted message to the browser so that... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080313465 - Signature schemes using bilinear mappings: Methods and systems are provided for generating and verifying signatures of digital messages communicated between signers and verifiers. Using bilinear mappings, such as Weil or Tate pairings, these methods and systems enable generation and verification of efficient multisignatures, identity-based ring signatures, hierarchical proxy signatures, and hierarchical online/offline signatures.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080313468 - Information terminal and user domain management method: When a user domain is to be segmented or a plurality of user domains are to be grouped, user domain management information before segmentation or grouping is inherited and stored as old-generation user domain management information. In addition, the domain generation of each of user domains after segmentation or grouping... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080313469 - Stateless methods for resource hiding and access control support based on uri encryption: An apparatus and method are disclosed for enabling controlled access to resources at a resource provider server. The invention may encrypt or decrypt a portion of a uniform resource identifier (URI), according to a stateless method for hiding resources and/or providing access control support. Upon receipt of a URI having... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080313470 - Multiple user authentications on a communications device: A communications device provides a biometric reader to authenticate users onto the communications device based on a single biometric input. The communications device maintains a local copy of the strong authentication credentials, such as a user identification and password, and the biometrics which were previously input by users of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313471 - Electronic system and digital right management methods thereof: An electronic system is provided, in which a smart chip, a smart chip controller, a processor, a system memory, and an access management module is provided. The smart chip controller communicates with the smart chip. The processor performs a mutual authentication with the smart chip. The system memory is accessible... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080313472 - Method and apparatus for changing and adding activation keys for functions of digital content without having to change and recompile the digital content: A method and apparatus for changing and adding activation keys for functions of digital content without having to change and recompile the digital content. The rules for validating activation keys, the code for providing instructions for executing the rules for validating the activation keys and a template for identifying possible... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080313473 - Method and surveillance tool for managing security of mass storage devices: The present invention relates to a method and a surveillance tool for managing security of mass storage devices. The method and surveillance tool installs a surveillance tool on a computer, and verifies whether there is a mass storage device connected to the computer. Then, the method determines whether the mass... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080313474 - Super encrypted storage and retrieval of media programs with smartcard generated keys: A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving program material for subsequent replay is disclosed. In summary, the present invention describes a system and method for storing and retrieving program material for subsequent replay. The method comprises the steps of accepting encrypted access control information and the program material encrypted... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080313475 - Methods and systems for tamper resistant files: Embodiments of the present invention provide a tamper proof file system. In particular, the present invention utilizes a virtual block device that is coupled with a real block device and a private/public key pair. The virtual block device receives the original data and then digitally signs it with the private... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080313476 - Method and system of determining computing module's power requirements: By supplying auxiliary power to a blade's optional components, instead of polling the blade for the power requirements of a fully configured module, each installed component can be individually polled and the values summed to produce a more accurate value representing the actual power needs of a blade system prior... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080313477 - Information processing apparatus and method for controlling power supply of the apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit, an interface supplying electrical power to and communicating a signal with an external electronic device through a single connector, a unit supplying electrical power to the electronic device through the interface and including a rechargeable battery. Detection units detect a connection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080313479 - Device and method for media access control: A device including multiple components that are connected to a data line, and adapted to transmit information over the data line at a transmission rate responsive to a first clock rate. The device is characterized by further including a clock signal provider that is adapted to provide a high frequency... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080313478 - Mechanism to gate clock trunk and shut down clock source: An apparatus, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a clock source unit that generates a clock signal, multiple clock trunk lines that supply the clock signal to multiple devices, and a clock control unit that instructs the clock source unit that can gate or supply... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080313480 - Architecture incorporating configurable controller for reducing on chip power leakage: The present invention provides a method and system for controlling leakage power consumption at a System on Chip (SoC) level during a normal run or a boot-up mode. The leakage power reduction is achieved by incorporating a central programmable controller in the SoC architecture and test structures of idle SoC... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080313481 - Systems and methods for wake-on-lan for wireless lan devices: A system and method for wireless waking computing devices over a computer network is provided. A signal is broadcast over the network that includes one or more device specific wake-up data sequences. Each device specific wake-up data sequence includes multiple iterations of the hardware address of the wireless network card... Agent: Conexant Systems , Inc.

20080313482 - Power partitioning memory banks: The present invention comprises a plurality of memory banks (102, 103) with independent power controls (110) such that any memory banks (102, 103) not actively engaged in storing partitioned data can be powered down by dynamic voltage scaling. A memory management unit (112) is used to re-map partitions so they... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080313483 - Method and system for power management: The present invention relates to power management and, in particular, to a method and system for power management of computers and other mobile devices. The power management of the invention would enable meeting the present day demands of effective power management in smaller and cheaper computing devices including mobile computing... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20080313484 - Parallel processing of multi-dimensional data with causal neighborhood dependencies: A method (which can be computer implemented) for processing a plurality of adjacent rows of data units, using a plurality of parallel processors, given (i) a predetermined processing order, and (ii) a specified inter-row dependency structure, includes the steps of determining starting times for each individual one of the processors,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080313485 - Data pipeline with large tuning range of clock signals: The invention relates to a data pipeline comprising a first stage with a data input for receiving a digital data input signal, a clock input and a data output, and a first bi-stable element being adapted to be switched in response to an edge of a first clock signal, and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080313486 - Devices, systems, and methods regarding programmable logic controller communications: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, which can comprise a signal interface that is adapted to transmit a signal between a programmable logic controller and an Input/Output (I/O) module. The programmable logic controller can be communicatively coupled to the I/O module via an opto-coupler, which can be adapted to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080313487 - Processing device and clock control method: A processing device comprises an interface and its control circuit for performing data transfer in synchronization with an external clock, an internal oscillator, and an interface and its control circuit for performing data transfer by using an internal clock generated by the internal oscillator. In the processing device, a clock... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080307212 - Data processing device: A data processing device is disclosed that is able to limit functions of a connected apparatus without providing additional components in the apparatus and without dependence on types of the apparatus. The data processing device includes a function limiting file storage unit to store a function limiting file; a function... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080307213 - Device allocation changing method: Switching of the allocation of a device to a guest OS is implemented through transmission of a virtual suspension interrupt to a guest OS in a VMM; a power control notification process module that causes the guest OS to start a return process from a suspended state; a guest power... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080307211 - Method and apparatus for dynamic configuration of an on-demand operating environment: A method is provided for systematic and dynamic configuration of an On Demand Operating Environment (ODOE) and the business solutions built upon the ODOE. The method provides a configuration specification that defines an On Demand Configuration Language (ODCL). An editor enables the business user to describe the consistency constraints applicable... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, Christofferson & Cook, P.C. Suite 340

20080307214 - Offline at start up of a powered on device: A method comprises a system comprising a host device coupled to a first remote device actively operating according to a state diagram that the host device and all remote devices follow during operation of the system. The method further comprises powering up a second remote device while the host device... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080307216 - Method and apparatus for booting a computer system: In investigating the cause of a fault in a computer storage system, it is considered useful to previously prepare maintenance logical units (LUs) of a simple structure, the operation of which has been confirmed. If the same number of LUs as servers are prepared for each server as in the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080307215 - Remote computer operating system upgrade: Methods of upgrading a kernel image of a remote computer are described. The method comprises, during a first connection between an update computer and a remote computer, storing a kernel version identifier of the active kernel image of the remote computer; storing active boot partition information comprising the active kernel... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080307217 - Contents transmitting/receiving apparatus and method: A contents transmitting apparatus includes an encryption algorithm storage section for storing a plurality of encryption algorithms; a key generation section for generating key information based on a mutual authentication result with a contents receiving apparatus; a control section for selecting one encryption algorithm from the encryption algorithm storage section... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080307218 - System and method for using an out-of-band device to program security keys: A provisioning device is provided that communicates over a trusted out-of-band communications channel to digital electronic devices in order to exchange security data such as passwords and private or public keys, thereby establishing a secure communications network between the devices.... Agent: Oleg Logvinov

20080307219 - System and method for distributed ssl processing between co-operating nodes: A secure communication protocol (e.g., SSL) transaction request from a client to a server is intercepted at a client-side proxy communicatively coupled to the client and logically deployed between the client and the server. The client-side proxy initiates a secure connection with the server and passes an attribute (e.g., a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080307220 - Virtual closed-circuit communications: A virtual closed circuit supports transactions between businesses and consumers. More generally, techniques are disclosed for supporting a secure, non-public, business-to-consumer communication link suitable for use with financial transactions and other data communications related thereto. The communication link may be deployed in a desktop widget or other application to integrate... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080307221 - Event-ordering certification method: An event-ordering certification system 100 includes a certification apparatus 1, a plurality of user apparatuses 2i (i=a, b, . . . , n), an audit apparatus 3 for performing an audit of an event-ordering receipt published by the certification apparatus 1 and a network 4 for connecting these elements with... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080307222 - Verifying authenticity of webpages: A certificate registry system is configured to issue authentication certificates issued to each one of a plurality of information providers and to maintain a root certificate corresponding to all of the authentication certificates. Each one of the authentication certificates links respective authentication information thereof to identification information of a corresponding... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20080307223 - Apparatus and method for issuer based revocation of direct proof and direct anonymous attestation: In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for issuer based revocation of direct proof and direct anonymous attestation are described. In one embodiment, a trusted hardware device convinces a verifier that the trusted hardware device possesses cryptographic information without revealing unique, device identification information of the trusted hardware device or... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307224 - Removable secure portable electronic entity including means for authorizing deferred retransmission: A removable secure portable electronic entity includes elements for receiving a broadcast digital content, elements for sending the received broadcast digital content, secure elements for deferred retransmission of the received digital content adapted to prohibit reproduction of the received digital content prior to sending it and to instigate the deferred... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080307225 - Method for locking on to encrypted communication connections in a packet-oriented network: There is described a method for locking on or legal interception of encrypted communication connections, preferably in a peer-to-peer network. If all users in a communication network have a digital certificate, a good authentication and an end-to-end encryption of communication data is possible. A modification of network elements is disclosed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080307226 - Verifying authenticity of e-mail messages: A certificate registry system configured to issue authentication certificates to each one of a plurality of information providers and to maintain a root certificate corresponding to all of the authentication certificates, wherein each one of the authentication certificates links respective authentication information thereof to identification information of a corresponding one... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20080307230 - Control device, update method and control software: To update the program, the file is updated by verifying according to a digital signature attached to the file having the program converted whether the file is not dishonestly falsified. To verify the digital signature, a time for verifying the signature can be shortened by verifying not the entire file... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080307227 - Digital-invisible-ink data hiding schemes: A novel steganographic approach analogous to the real-world secret communication mechanism, in which messages to be concealed are written on white papers using invisible ink like lemon juice or milk and are revealed only after the papers are heated, is proposed. Carefully designed informed-embedders now play the role of “invisible... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080307229 - Method and apparatus for certificate roll-over: A method and an electronic apparatus for rolling over from a first to second trusted certificate in the electronic apparatus. Information containing identification data for identifying the second trusted certificate is acquired in the electronic apparatus. Also, the second trusted certificate, which is preinstalled in the electronic apparatus, is activated... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080307231 - Secure handling of stored-value data objects: An approach to managing stored-value data objects, such as electronic tickets, comprises secure systems and procedures for ticket issuing, storage, and redemption. With these systems and procedures in place, stored-value data objects may be securely transferred to remote systems, such as a user's personal electronic device, for subsequent secure redemption,... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080307228 - Wedi: an encryption-based method and system for the identification and protection of printed documents or those being transmitted by electronic means: WEDI it is both a method and a system that uses symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms which makes feasible the identification of printed documents or those being transmitted by electronic means, and allows to hold responsible any person who discloses the information they contain in an illegal way or without... Agent: Eder Luiz Menezes De Faria

20080307232 - Method and a system for authenticating and recording digital documents and/or files: A method and a system are provided according to the present invention for authenticating and restoring digital files and/or documents, according to which, on the basis of each digital document to be authenticated, a bitmap file 3 is generated, a digital stamp 4 is added on a predefined area 3a... Agent: Paul A. Fattibene Fattibene And Fattibene

20080307233 - Encoded data security mechanism: A method and system for securing and tracing confidential data is described. A request to generate a hardcopy printout is received by a computing device. Document output instructions for the request then are generated and data to associate with the document output instructions is determined. Then the determined data is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080307234 - Use of mobile communication network credentials to protect the transfer of posture data: In one embodiment, a method for using credentials for a mobile node to protect the transfer of posture data is provided. A network access device receives a message from a mobile node for access to a network. The message includes posture data encrypted using credentials for the mobile node. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080307235 - Method of presenting feedback to user of chances of password cracking, as the password is being created: A method, system and computer program product for automatically displaying the potential risk associated with cracking a password. While creating or modifying a password, feedback is provided describing the risk associated with cracking the password. Risk assessment may be presented as a percentage, accompanied by an explanation of why the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080307236 - Method and apparatus for password output: A method and an apparatus for account and/or password output are disclosed. In the present invention, a hot-key corresponding to an account and/or a password is set in advance. By entering the hot-key, the related account and/or password is transferred and login automatically, thus the purpose of making login more... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080307237 - Method for improving accuracy of a time estimate used to authenticate an entity to a memory device: A method for improving accuracy of a time estimate used to authenticate an entity to a memory device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory device receives a request to authenticate an entity. Before attempting to authenticate the entity, the memory device determines if a new time stamp is needed.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20080307238 - System for unified management of power, performance, and thermals in computer systems: A system is provided for unified management of power, performance, and thermals in computer systems. This system incorporates elements to effectively address all aspects of managing computing systems in an integrated manner, instead of independently. The system employs an infrastructure for real-time measurements feedback, an infrastructure for regulating system activity,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080307239 - Electronic device and power supply method: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a switch which switches between connection and disconnection of a sideband signal transmitted by a device attached to the electronic device; a power switch circuit which switches between supply and interrupt of power to the device; a nonvolatile memory which holds a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307243 - Anticipatory power management for battery-powered electronic device: Methods and apparatus for managing power consumption of a battery-powered electronic device are disclosed. According to one embodiment, power management can take action to reduce power consumption to accommodate estimated power requirements. According to another embodiment, power management can notify a user when a power deficiency is anticipated. According to... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080307242 - Computer system power source with improved light-load efficiency: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that supplies power in a computer system. The system includes a power adapter coupled to a source of electrical power and a set of a set of power consumers coupled to a power bus in the computer system. A full-power mechanism coupled... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080307241 - Microcontroller circuit and power saving method thereof: A microcontroller circuit provides proper clocks to a central processing unit of a microcontroller and peripherals according to a power saving mode and operating conditions of the peripherals. The microcontroller circuit comprises a prescaler, a second multiplexer, a central processing unit, a first switch, a second switch, a first peripheral,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080307240 - Power management electronic circuits, systems, and methods and processes of manufacture: An electronic circuit including a power managed circuit (2610), and a power management control circuit (3570) coupled to the power managed circuit (2610) and operable to select between at least a first operating performance point (OPP1) and a second higher operating performance point (OPP2) for the power managed circuit (2610),... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080307244 - Method of and apparatus for reducing power consumption within an integrated circuit: An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of processing cores, characterised by comprising electrically controllable switches for controlling the supply of power to one or more of the processing cores, a memory for saving state data from at least one of the processing cores and a controller adapted to control the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080307245 - Methods and systems to dynamically manage performance states in a data processing system: Methods and apparatuses to dynamically manage a performance state of a data processing system are described. The data processing system includes a plurality of components; one or more buses coupled to the plurality of components, and a dynamic performance state manager unit coupled to the components. The dynamic performance state... Agent: James C. Scheller Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307246 - Synchronizing content between content directory service and control point: In one embodiment, a method is performed at a control point (CP) in a network. An action is invoked to create a synchronization data structure on a media server that includes a content directory service (CDS) in the network, wherein the synchronization data structure includes a synchronization relationship describing a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080307247 - Time certifying server, reference time distributing server, time certifying method, reference time distributing method, time certifying program, and communication protocol program: An object is to perform time certification at a low cost while ensuring high precision and high reliability. In a time stamp server according to the present embodiment, a time is measured by the unit of, for example, 100 milliseconds, and a time stamp is issued by using the time.... Agent: Bruce L. Adams Adams & Wilks

20080307248 - Cpu clock control device, cpu clock control method, cpu clock control program, recording medium, and transmission medium: A program execution time determining portion determines an execution start time and a processing volume per unit time of a program in such a manner that a processing volume necessary to execute the program is made equal to the extent that registered request for the execution time and allowable range... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080301423 - Information processing device and activation control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a receiving section configured to receive a trigger signal from a device connected thereto, a verifying section configured to verify the trigger signal when the receiving section receives the trigger signal, and an activating section configured to activate the system when... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301422 - Method and apparatus for remote bios configuration control: Apparatus and methods for remotely configuring a computer BIOS of a testing computer system are provided. In one aspect, a method of testing is provided that includes establishing an interface between a first computer system and a second computer system. The second computer system includes a computer readable storage device... Agent: Timothy M Honeycutt Attorney At Law

20080301427 - Basic input/output system memory simulation module: A basic input/output system (BIOS) memory simulation module includes a first transmission interface unit adapted to receive an updated BIOS data from an external source, a second transmission interface unit adapted to be connected electrically to a computer under test, a memory unit, and a control unit connected electrically to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080301428 - Information processing apparatus and start-up control method: According to one embodiment, if start-up of an application is abnormal after starting up the application, the information processing apparatus reports the fact to the basic input/output system (BIOS), and the BIOS locks a system.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301424 - Intelligent boot services: An information handling system is provided with an intelligent boot service which addresses and resolves unbootable system scenarios. The intelligent boot service detects and corrects adverse events before booting into the operating system. The intelligent boot service architecture is extensible to add newer events and is extensible to include extensible... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080301425 - Method and system to support iscsi boot through management controllers: An information handling system includes a host including a central processing unit, a management controller enabled to communicate with the host, a network interface resource in communication with the host and operable to enable the information handling system to communicate via an external network, and a target system in communication... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080301426 - Rootkit detection: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to rootkit detection and provide a method, system and computer program product for external rootkit detection and remediation. In one embodiment of the invention, an external rootkit detection tool can be provided. The tool can include external static... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080301432 - Direct mail decoder product: A direct mail decoder device is provided having a mailable carrier, an integral information panel, and an integral decoder. The carrier has a first side and a second side, and contact specific data, such as name and address information, on one of the first and second sides. The information panel... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080301429 - Dual cryptographic keying: A dual cryptographic keying system. In particular implementations, a method includes responsive to an initial session key negotiation, storing security association information for a tunnel in a security association memory; responsive to a session key renegotiation, storing security association information for the tunnel in a cache; decrypting received packets associated... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080301430 - Interoperable systems and methods for peer-to-peer service orchestration: Systems and methods are described for performing policy-managed, peer-to-peer service orchestration in a manner that supports the formation of self-organizing service networks that enable rich media experiences. In one embodiment, services are distributed across peer-to-peer communicating nodes, and each node provides message routing and orchestration using a message pump and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080301431 - Text security method: Disclosed herein is a text security method. The text security method encrypts both a font and a text constituting a text document in the same manner so that the encrypted text can be correctly viewed only when the encrypted font is provided. The text is encrypted by changing, in a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080301434 - Method and apparatus for combining internet protocol authentication and mobility signaling: Methods and apparatuses for combining internet protocol layer authentication and mobility signaling are disclosed. Various embodiments for providing authentication and mobility signaling when a mobile node moves from a 3GPP access network to a non 3GPP access network and vice versa are described.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080301433 - Secure communications: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an apparatus that includes a verification module to provide information used to identify a user of the apparatus, a memory for storing information used for securing communications transmitted to a remote device, a processing unit for generating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080301436 - Method and apparatus for performing authentication between clients using session key shared with server: Provided is a method and apparatus for performing authentication between clients that complete authentication with a server. The method includes receiving first authentication information generated using the second session key from the server; receiving second authentication information generated using the second session key from the second client; and determining whether... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301437 - Method of controlling access to a scrambled content: A method for access control to a digital scrambled content distributed to a set of installed reception terminals including one master terminal and at least one slave terminal dependent on the master terminal. In the method the slave terminal systematically or occasionally returns at least one item of information about... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080301435 - Peer-to-peer security authentication protocol: A salt transmitted by a second node is received at a first node. The received salt is used to decrypt encrypted data. Optionally, authorization to access a service provided by the second node is received by the first node. In some cases the service includes access to one or more... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080301438 - Peer-to-peer smime mechanism: A method and apparatus for sending a self-asserted certificate is described. In one embodiment, a mail client of a sender is configured to generate a public and private key pair, to create a self-signed certificate, and to form an introduction message addressed to a recipient to enable use of the... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301439 - Validation server, program and verification method: Identifiers, each of which is uniquely determined by a pair of a public key updated by a certificate authority and a hash algorithm, are stored in an identifier information storage area (131b). A verification processing part (132c) cross-checks a received validation request and the identifiers stored in the identifier information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080301440 - Updateable secure kernel extensions: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for providing an updateable encrypted operating kernel are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, secure initialization hardware decrypts a minimal secure kernel containing sensitive portions of data and/or code into a portion of the processor-accessible memory space, from which the kernel is... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20080301442 - Method and apparatus for local area networks: A mechanism for segregating traffic amongst STAs that are associated with a bridge, referred to herein as the personal virtual bridged local area network (personal VLAN), is based upon the use of a VLAN to segregate traffic. The IEEE 802.1Q-1998 (virtual bridged LANs) protocol provides a mechanism that is extended... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080301443 - Mobility device platform: A mobility device platform allowing for secure mobile computing is provided. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary mobility device platform comprises a mobility device operable to communicate with at least one computing environment through a communications interface and wherein the mobility device is operable to process and store secure web... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080301441 - Secure channel for image transmission: Systems, devices, and methods for establishing a secure session for the transmission of data from an input device to a remote server device is disclosed. The input device may be an electronic check scanner attached to a banking customer's home personal computer. The customer may visit a bank's Internet website... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080301444 - Apparatus and method for providing personal information sharing service using signed callback url message: An apparatus and method for providing a service that securely and easily shares personal information using a signed callback uniform resource locator (URL) message in a mobile terminal environment are provided. The mobile terminal providing a personal information sharing service using a signed URL message includes; a personal information sharing... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080301446 - Authorizing customer premise equipment into a network: Systems and methods for authorizing customer premise equipment into a network. A publicly available network membership key can be provided to enable initial connection to the network. Unique network membership keys associated with various customer premise equipment can be provided to enable service level access to the network and/or authorization... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080301445 - Hidden link dynamic key manager for use in computer systems with database structure for storage of encrypted data and method for storage and retrieval of encrypted data: A computer system is disclosed that contains cryptographic keys and cryptographic key identifiers. The system has a repository cryptographic engine that communicates securely with a remote cryptographic engine, and the repository cryptographic engine is associated with a user data store. The user data store includes a hidden link including a... Agent: Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne

20080301455 - Authentication system and authentication object device: To provide an authentication system for improving security, using fewer encryption keys. An authentication requesting device (20) and an authentication target device (10) hold common encryption keys. The authentication requesting device (20) encrypts an authentication code, then selects mutually different portions in the authentication code as switching target portions, and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080301456 - Efficient secure forensic watermarking: The invention relates to a watermark generation method for generating watermarks to be embedded in digital media, where said watermark is generated by combining at least two watermark patterns from a set of watermark patterns. The set of watermark patterns are divided into at least two subsets of watermark patterns,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080301454 - Information management system: An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications which allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or has... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080301450 - Modular signature verification architecture: It is difficult to provide a mechanism that is able to verify electronic signatures of different types in a simple and cost-effective manner. This is achieved by using a signature verification engine with an interface enabling signature modules to be removably plugged in. Each signature module has information about a... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080301453 - Office machine having identification unit and document management system including such office machine: The present invention relates to an office machine having an identity verification unit and a document management system including such an office machine. The office machine includes a processor and an identity verification unit. The processor is used for controlling operations of the office machine. The identity verification unit is... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080301447 - Secure offline activation process for licensed software application programs: A computer readable medium for activating a software application for execution on a designated computer, where the computer readable medium has stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the following steps: computing an installation identifier reflective of the software application and the designated computer; receiving an activation code generated in... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080301448 - Security against corruption for networked storage: Systems and methods for security against corruption for networked storage are described. In one aspect, a destination device receives a linear combination of packets. The linear combination of packets represents digitally signed blocks of content and public information used to digitally sign segmented blocks of content. The destination device recombines... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301449 - Signature apparatus, verifying apparatus, proving apparatus, encrypting apparatus, and decrypting apparatus: Provided are a signature apparatus, a verifying apparatus, a proving apparatus, an encrypting apparatus, and a decrypting apparatus capable of efficiently reducing a signature text counterfeit problem to a discrete logarithm problem. The commitment is a hash value of a set of a value to be committed. Data including a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080301452 - 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

20080301451 - Verifying authenticity of an attribute value signature: A method and apparatus for verifying authenticity of a digital signature for an attribute value. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a message including an attribute value of an attribute from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository entry and a digital signature, and verifying that the digital signature... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301457 - Authentication system and apparatus: When a document creation unit 1 is started, it calculates a hash value of each software piece therein and stores the hash value in a hash value holder 71 and a measurement log document holder 44. The document creation unit 1 accesses a time distribution unit plural times to receive... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080301458 - Power analysis attack countermeasure for the ecdsa: Execution of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) requires determination of a signature, which determination involves arithmetic operations. Some of the arithmetic operations employ a long term cryptographic key. It is the execution of these arithmetic operations that can make the execution of the ECDSA vulnerable to a power... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080301459 - Power analysis countermeasure for the ecmqv key agreement algorithm: Execution of the ECMQV key agreement algorithm requires determination of an implicit signature, which determination involves arithmetic operations. Some of the arithmetic operations employ a long-term cryptographic key. It is the execution of these arithmetic operations that can make the execution of the ECMQV key agreement algorithm vulnerable to a... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080301460 - Remote provision of consistent one-time password functionality for disparate on-line resources: Consistent one-time password (OTP) functionality is provided from a presentation server to secure various on-line resources. A seed file can be provided to or created by a service provider for execution as part of a hosted page displayed at a client to a user. A presentation server receives a call... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080301461 - Remote authentication and transaction signatures: The invention provides a method, apparatus, computer readable medium and signal which allows the usage of devices containing PKI private keys such as PKI-enabled smart cards or USB sticks to authenticate users and to sign transactions. The authenticity of the user and/or the message is verified. Furthermore the operation (authentication... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080301462 - System for protecting a user's password: The present invention relates to a system for protecting a password. A system for providing a protectable password including a storage device, an input mechanism for entering a protectable password in any position and a password validation engine coupled to the storage device and to the input mechanism for analyzing... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080301463 - Method for documenting property or possession and transfer of property or possession of a merchandise: e

20080301464 - Two-dimensional bar code for id card: A method and apparatus for an identity card having improved security features. The identity card can have a two-dimensional bar code or similar encoding of data allowing for verification of the authenticity of the identity card. The two-dimensional bar code can store security data such as codes or image data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301466 - Methods for program verification and apparatuses using the same: An embodiment of an apparatus for downloading and/or executing programs from a tool resident on a computer host is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an external flash memory storing a program, and a processor for validating the tool when detecting that the computer host connects to the apparatus. The processor permits... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080301465 - Protection of software transmitted over an unprotected interface: The same level of protection and ability to associate rights to media content available with a stand alone media player is provided with a software media player. In an example configuration, a peripheral device comprising an optical disc drive capable of reading HD DVD media, and comprising a flash memory... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080301467 - Memory security device: Embodiments of the systems and methods presented herein may provide memory security in a semiconductor device or a computing system using an address encryption section operable to encrypt a write address or a read address, a data encrypting section operable to encrypt data to be written, a write section operable... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080301468 - Cryptographic secure program overlays: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for executing larger-than-physical-memory applications while protecting sensitive program code (and also data) from unauthorized access in a memory space not subject to protection fault or page fault detection are disclosed. Large applications are accommodated by providing a mechanism for secure program... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20080301469 - Cryptographically-enabled privileged mode execution: A method, computer program product, and data processing system are disclosed for protecting sensitive program code (and also data) from unauthorized access in a memory space not subject to protection fault detection. In a preferred embodiment, secure initialization hardware loads the sensitive code from a storage location accessible only to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20080301472 - Method of encrypting and storing digital content using firmware regional code and apparatus therefor: A method of processing digital content performed by an apparatus for storing digital content. In the method, a hardware regional code extracted from a memory of a content storage device is compared with a firmware regional code extracted from firmware, and the digital content is selectively encrypted and stored according... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301471 - Systems and methods in electronic evidence management for creating and maintaining a chain of custody: Systems and methods are provided for electronic evidence management for creating and maintaining a chain of custody. The exemplary systems and methods comprise storing captured electronic evidence in a repository, and recording one or more interactions with the stored electronic evidence in one or more chain of custody logs, wherein... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080301470 - Techniques for securing content in an untrusted environment: Techniques for securing content in an untrusted environment are provided. Content is encrypted and stored with a content delivery service in an encrypted format. Encrypted versions of a content encryption/decryption key and a first key are also housed and distributed by the content delivery service. The first key is used... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080301473 - Method and system for hypervisor based power management: A method of hypervisor based power management, includes: allocating resources to a plurality of partitions defined within a virtual machine environment; monitoring performance of the plurality of partitions with respect to a service level agreement (SLA); tracking power consumption in the plurality of partitions; scaling power consumption rates of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080301474 - Performance analysis based system level power management: A multiprocessor system-on-chip 102 with dynamic adaptive power management for execution of data-dependent applications comprises strategically placed performance counters to collect run-time performance requirements of tasks. A power manager 130 issues DVS 132, DFS 134, time-out 136, and other controls to the various system resources being monitored. As the tasks... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080301475 - Performance conserving method for reducing power consumption in a server system: A method for managing power in a data processing system having multiple components includes determining a power budget for the system. Activity levels during a forthcoming time interval are then predicted for each of the components. Using the predicted activity levels, the power budget is allocated among the system components.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080301476 - Power supply and method of controlling same: A power supply supplying electric power through parallel operation of power supply units is disclosed. Each of the power supply units includes a transformer; a stopped state latch part configured to latch a control signal for controlling outputting of the power supply unit in a predetermined stopped state to stop... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080301478 - Electronic device and method for controlling current: An electronic device comprises a voltage regulator supplying a current to a load such as a micro-controller unit. The load controls the current provided to the load from the voltage regulator. Preferably, the load controls the level of current supplied to the load upon start-up, thereby avoiding power surges being... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080301477 - Power saving in signal processing in receivers: A method of receiving a signal in bursts comprising frames each including payload data and error correction data received in separate time periods, the bursts being separated by time intervals during which power is saved by disabling at least some signal processing components of the receiver, Signal processing components of... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080301479 - Method and system for managing data center power usage based on service commitments: A method of managing data center power usage based on service commitments. A power and capacity management utility measures performance characteristics of applications hosted by a data center that include power consumption and transaction processing time. When the performance characteristics are above (or below) a first pre-defined target range, the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080301480 - Computer system and method for controlling a processor thereof: A computer system and a method for controlling a processor thereof are provided. A processor management unit (PMU) is programmed by the processor itself or by another processor according to a change of the operating condition of the processor. Then, a notification signal is sent to the PMU by the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080301482 - Method and apparatus for connecting multiple multimode processors: A computer array 100 including a field of processors 101-124 each processor having a separate memory. The processors 101-124 are connected to their immediate neighbors with links 200. Several configurations of the links are described including differing types of data lines 210 and control lines 215. Along lines 215 Process... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080301481 - Power control system for car computer: A power control system for car computer includes a power switching circuit located between a power input terminal of a computer host and an external power source, such that the computer host outputs a keep-power-on signal when a key power is supplied thereto; a power ON/OFF circuit receiving the keep-power-on... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080301483 - Surge-protected peripheral devices: A computing system including: a host system; at least one device, mechanically connected to the host system, each device having an active state and an inactive state, wherein each device is conductively disconnected from the host system when the inactive state is enabled; and a mechanism for the host system... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080301484 - Information processing device: An information processing device, such as cellular phone, includes a first timer set for executing count processing applied to a preassigned first processing, a second timer set for executing count processing applied to the preassigned first processing, a display state determination unit configured to determine a display state of a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080301485 - Register with process, supply voltage and temperature variation independent propagation delay path: The digital data register has a plurality of parallel matched data paths, each data path having a data input for receiving a digital data input signal (CA/CNTRL), an output driver with a data output providing a digital data output signal (Q_CA/CNTRL) for application to an associated memory module and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated