Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 01/09

20090031122 - Mechanism for restoring an apparatus to factory default: A mechanism for restoring an apparatus to factory default is disclosed. A reset mechanism is provided in an electronic apparatus and can be activated or pressed when the electronic apparatus is powered off. A detection circuit, when the apparatus is powered on, is configured to detect whether the reset mechanism... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090031123 - Secure remote configuration of device capabilities: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for providing a secure remote configuration. The method includes obtaining a signed configuration file (S-CF) from a storage using a device identity of the device, wherein the device identity of the device is linked with a location of the device. A... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20090031124 - Method of and apparatus for informing user about setting state of wake-on-lan function: An apparatus for informing a user about a setting state of a Wake-on-LAN (WOL) function includes a WOL-setting determining module to determine a setting state of a WOL function of an information-processing device, and a WOL-setting display module to inform a user of the information-processing device about the setting state... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090031125 - Method and apparatus for using a third party authentication server: A method and apparatus for a third party authentication server is described. The method includes receiving a record ID for a user, and a one-time key generated by the server and encrypted with a user's public key by the server. The method further includes receiving the user's authentication data from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090031126 - Trust management systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods for making efficient trust management decisions. A trust management engine is provided that processes requests for system resources, authorizations or certificates, and the identity of one or more root authorities that are ultimately responsible for granting or denying the requests. To determine whether... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090031127 - Methods and systems for proofing identities using a certificate authority: A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions with a third party. A proofing workstation receives a request from a third party to validate the digital certificate. The proofing workstation communicates... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090031128 - Transparent aware data transformation at file system level for efficient encryption and integrity validation of network files: A mechanism for enabling efficient encryption and integrity validation of network files. When a request to read a file stored in a local network file system is received, the local network file system examines cryptographic attributes associated with the file to determine if the file is encrypted or integrity-verified. If... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090031129 - Hash-based systems and methods for detecting and preventing transmission of unwanted e-mail: A system (120) detects transmission of potentially unwanted e-mail messages. The system (120) may receive e-mail messages and generate hash values based on one or more portions of the e-mail messages. The system (120) may then determine whether the generated hash values match hash values associated with prior e-mail messages.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20090031130 - System, associated methods and apparatus for securing prefix-scoped binding updates: Route optimization between a mobile network and correspondent node may be achieved by having the mobile router of the mobile network sending prefix-scoped binding update messages to the correspondent node. In order to allow the recipient of a prefix-scoped binding update message to verify the mobile network prefix information contained... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090031131 - Token-based management system for pki personalization process: A system for token-based management of a PKI personalization process includes a token request and management system (TRMS) configured to gather request information from a requestor; and a token personalization system (TPS) configured to personalize a hardware token such that usage of the hardware token is constrained by the request... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090031132 - Apparatus and method for incorporating signature into electronic documents: There is presented a method and apparatus for incorporating digital signature to within a document for paper-less office. The method comprises generating the document to be signed on a computer and transferring it and displaying it on a device for incorporating digital signature wherein the device comprises a screen, signature... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Llc

20090031134 - Digital watermarking with variable orientation and protocols: A method of digital watermarking selects a mapping of a digital watermark to audio or video content and an embedding gain to produce uniquely watermarked copies for distribution. The embedding method is implemented at points of distribution, including content servers or receivers. By applying varying mapping protocols and random gain,... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090031136 - Hash-based systems and methods for detecting and preventing transmission of unwanted e-mail: A system (120) detects transmission of potentially unwanted e-mail messages. The system (120) may receive e-mail messages and generate hash values based on one or more portions of the e-mail messages. The system (120) may then determine whether the generated hash values match hash values associated with prior e-mail messages.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20090031133 - Method and system for screening and authorizing content: Apparatus and method are disclosed for preventing the use of disapproved received electronic content on a Mobile Station. The apparatus and method may include modules for extracting and comparing fingerprints of the received content on the Mobile Station to fingerprints of disapproved content, and for the activation of an authorization... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090031135 - Tamper proof seal for an electronic document: A method of generating a tamper proof seal 111 for an electronic document 104 includes retrieving information from data storage 102 to determine a process and data for generating a document signature. The document signature is created from contents of the electronic document 104 and using the process and the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090031137 - Blind signature method and its system: Signature requestor terminal device (10) codes a plurality of messages to a quantum state and transmits it to signer terminal device (20). Signer terminal device (20) issues a blind signature for the plurality of the messages coded to the quantum state, codes the messages and the signature to a quantum... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090031138 - Method and system for authentication confirmation using extensible authentication protocol: A method for secure and reliable authentication in a communication system. In an embodiment, the authentication method includes performing authentication of a user utilizing Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), and transmitting a result indication message to the user. The result indication message can include additional information for security and reliability. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090031140 - Methods for secure enrollment of personal identity credentials into electronic devices: A method and system for securely enrolling personal identity credentials into personal identification devices. The system of the invention comprises the manufacturer of the device and an enrollment authority. The manufacturer is responsible for recording serial numbers or another unique identifier for each device that it produces, along with a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090031139 - System and method for electronic certification and authentification: The invention relates to electronic document security systems and in particular to user authentication and to the certification and secure transfer of sensitive document information of various type, like whole documents, certificates, signatures, stamps, etc., especially by verifying its correctness and safety/immunity from fraud.... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20090031141 - Computer platforms and their methods of operation: A computer platform (100) uses a tamper-proof component (120), or “trusted module”, of a computer platform in conjunction with software, preferably running within the tamper-proof component, that controls the uploading and usage of data on the platform as a generic dongle for that platform. Licensing checks can occur within a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090031142 - System, method and computer program product for processing a memory page: A method for processing a memory page, the method includes: retrieving, in response to a request to provide a first memory page to a processor, first memory page metadata associated with first memory page address information; wherein the first memory page address information is stored in a memory page table;... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090031145 - Data processing apparatus, data processing system, and control method therefor: A data processing apparatus capable of using, without change, a password used at the time of backup as a password at the time of restoration to thereby realize backup and restoration which are high in security and user-friendliness. Upon being backed up into an external storage medium, data stored in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090031143 - Method and system for securing a disk key: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a trusted client includes a non-volatile memory programmed with an encrypted disk key. The encrypted disk key in the non-volatile memory is encrypted with a master key of a security processor. Accordingly, encrypted data received by the central processor from a... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090031146 - Obfuscated state store for rights management system and the like: A state store having state information therein is stored on a computing device. Information at least nearly unique to the computing device is obtained, and a number of locations at which at least a portion of the state store is to be stored at is determined. Pseudo-random file names and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090031144 - Revocation message cycling in a digital transmission content protection system: In a digital Content Protection System (CPS), System Renewability Messages (SRM's) are managed at an administrative level to prioritize and select SRM's depending on transmission region and/or time. The highest-priority SRM's may be selected to fit in a receiver memory size specified by a CPS. SRM's may be cycled so... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090031147 - Apparatus for waking up a device: Apparatus for waking up a device having a power supply. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a receive signal and an extractor configured to extract power from the receive signal. The apparatus further includes a deriver configured to derive wake up information from the receive signal, which is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090031148 - Distributed electrical power system for computer rooms: A scalable electrical power distribution system for air conditioned computer rooms has an uninterruptible power supply and at least one rack mounted power distribution unit to supply conditioned power to the critical loads. If the power demand of the rack mounted critical loads connected to any rack mounted power distribution... Agent: Gowan Intellectual Property

20090031151 - Information terminal device and option unit therefor: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information terminal device which receives power via a communication cable from a power sourcing device recognizes a class identifying power-sourcing characteristics on the basis of response characteristics to a defined value voltage given in authentication and which is configured to connect an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090031152 - Method for starting up at least one field device: Disclosed is a method for starting up of at least one first field instrument, wherein the method comprises the step of signaling a firs demand for electrical power output of the first field instrument over a first port to a supply unit. According to this method, the first field instrument... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090031150 - Storage controller and method for controlling the same: The storage controller includes: a plurality of nonvolatile memory modules having a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips for storing data from a host computer; and a nonvolatile memory control unit for controlling data input to and output from the host computer by controlling a power source for the nonvolatile memory... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090031149 - Storage subsystem and power supply system: The present invention includes a plurality of disk units for storing data from a host computer, a plurality of power supply apparatuses for supplying DC power to each of the disk units via main power supply wirings, and a redundant power supply apparatus for generating, with any one of the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090031153 - Power management server for managing power consumption: A power management server and method for managing power consumption is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a power management server data processing system is provided, where the power management server data processing system comprises a power management communication port to communicatively couple the power management server data processing system to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090031154 - Power saving method in nas and computer system using the method: Provided is a computer system which includes plurality of computers including a first, second, and third computers, and a storage device coupled to the plurality of computers via a network, in which: the first computer is configured to: access data in a storage area of the storage device; cut, based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090031155 - Method and apparatus for adaptive voltage scaling based on instruction usage: Different software applications may use a set of instructions having critical timing paths less than a worst case critical timing path of a processor complex. For such applications, a supply voltage may be reduced while still maintaining the clock frequency necessary to meet the application's performance requirements. In order to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090031156 - Electronic apparatus and method of conserving energy: An electronic apparatus and a method of conserving energy comprises providing an energy-conservation module to control use of one or more energy-saving mechanism by a hardware element. The energy-conservation module comprises a performance estimation module that estimates a performance level requirement of the hardware element and a slack time. A... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090031157 - Measuring ac power consumption using choke with inductive power sensor: An electrical device includes a choke with a sensor inductor in addition to inductors used for supplying AC power.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090031158 - Method and apparatus for providing symmetrical output data for a double data rate dram: An apparatus and method is disclosed to compensate for skew and asymmetry of a locally processed system clock used to synchronize an output signal, e.g., a data signal or a timing signal, from a logic circuit, for example a memory device. A first phase detector, array of delay lock loop... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090031159 - On-chip logic analyzer using compression: One embodiment disclosed relates to an integrated circuit including on-chip logic analyzer circuitry. The on-chip logic analyzer circuitry includes a triggering circuit configured to receive a source data signal and start/stop timing signals. The on-chip logic analyzer circuitry further includes a compression circuit configured to receive an uncompressed data signal... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090031160 - Digital watermark information adding device, data reproduction device and data recording device: In order to prevent content data from being illegally recorded or reproduced, information for detecting that the content data is illegally distributed or recorded is added to watermark information or other information. Two sets of WM (watermark) data, a WM1 data set and a WM2 data set are prepared. For... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090024843 - Computer having flash memory and method of operating flash memory: Provided is a method of variably establishing storage areas of a flash memory according to the status of a system in a computer having flash memory in which booting data and execution data are stored. The computer includes: a flash memory including a storage area that is divided into a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090024844 - Terminal and method for receiving data in a network: Terminal and Method for Receiving Data in a Network In embodiments of the present invention, a method of processing data in a network is provided. In the method, a terminal receives data from the network and is operated in two states. In the first state, in which the terminal is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090024845 - Method and system for encryption of messages in land mobile radio systems: A method and system for authentication of a plurality of sites in a land mobile radio (LMR) system and for encryption of messages exchanged by the sites. The plurality of sites are connected by a data network (e.g., IP network). The method includes transmitting by a first site its certificate.... Agent: Michael A. Rahman Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

20090024846 - Secured seeding of data in a distributed environment: Techniques for seeding data among client machines, also referred to as boxes herein, are disclosed. To prevent the data distributed among the boxes from being illegitimately accessed or possessed, according to one aspect of the present invention, each box is configured to perform what is referred to herein as a... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090024847 - Kvm switch: File management methods are disclosed, in which a host acquires at least one input signal from an input device via a keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switch having a security key and determines whether the input signal comprises a first request for encrypting or decrypting at least one specific file. When the input... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090024848 - Terminal identification method, authentication method, authentication system, server, terminal, wireless base station, program, and recording medium: A terminal identification method is provided which enables two-way communications between terminals and a network while identifying terminal IDs and protecting privacy. Also, authentication method and system are provided which require no complicated calculating process, less steps and smaller amount for wireless communications, and less power consumption. A server and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090024849 - Information acquisition device, information acquisition method, and information acquisition program: Conventionally, before reading content from a recording medium, a drive device and a playback device that plays back content perform device authentication, in order to verify whether the playback device is authorized or not. Once the playback device has been verified as authorized, the playback device is permitted to read... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20090024850 - User controlled anonymity when evaluating into a role: A method, system, and program for user controlled anonymity when evaluating into a role are provided. An anonymous authentication controller enables a user to control anonymity of the user's identity for role based network accesses to resources, without requiring reliance on any single third party to maintain user anonymity. First,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090024851 - Systems and methods for mutually authenticated transaction coordination messages over insecure connections: Systems and methods are provided that enable authentication of transaction coordination messages sent via insecure connections. Also provided are systems and methods for controlling transaction coordination and recovery. In many embodiments, there is an exchange between a coordinator and a sub-coordinator, such that the coordinator provides the sub-coordinator with a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090024852 - Group signature system, method, device, and program: A signature device 2 creates encrypted data by encrypting a first element of a member certificate through use of a first random number and public information disclosed by said group management device 1. The signature device 2 also creates first and second converted data by converting the first element through... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20090024853 - Method, system and apparatus for accessing a resource based on data supplied by a local user: A method, comprising: acquiring candidate data in association with a request for accessing a resource, said candidate data comprising first data and second data; processing said first data with a first key in an attempt to effect decryption of said first data, thereby to obtain first processed data; processing the... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20090024854 - Document outputting apparatus, control method thereof, and document output system: A document providing computer creates a JDF file and a PDF file, and associates them by embedding a path to the PDF file in the JDF file (S000). When guaranteeing this combination, a hash calculation is performed for the JDF file, and the obtained hash value is embedded in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090024855 - Display device with usb connectivity: The disclosure relates to a human figure toy. The toy includes a head with an aperture. A support member is placed within the head and a motor is secured to the support member. The motor includes a threaded motor shaft. A nose assembly, which is attached to the motor shaft,... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090024857 - Reducing power consumption of mirrored raid subsystems: Power consumption reduction of a mirrored RAID storage subsystems is disclosed, wherein data are mirrored to a secondary mirror disk system, the secondary mirror disk system alternates between an operational stage and a power-save stage, wherein data to be mirrored to the secondary mirror disk system is saved in a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090024856 - Systems, methods and devices for limiting current consumption upon power-up: Embodiments are described including those for controlling peak current consumption of a multi-chip memory package during power-up. In one embodiment, each memory device of the multi-chip package includes a power level detector used to compare an internal voltage signal to a threshold. A current limiter controls the ramping rate of... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090024860 - Lowest power mode for a mobile drive: A hard disk drive enters a low power mode to reduce power consumption. To maintain communication with a host device, a communication interface remains energized along with a circuit portion storing configuration data for the communication interface. The hard disk drive may have a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20090024859 - Structure and method to optimize computational efficiency in low-power environments: A method and structure to optimize computational efficiency in a low-power environment. A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process. The design structure includes a component to determine an optimal point for maximizing computational efficiency in a low-power environment, and a component to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090024858 - System and method for reserving information handling system battery charge to perform diagnostics: A power diagnostics module running on an information handling system initiates a power down state of the information handling system upon detection of a predetermined battery charge that is sufficient to allow the information handling system to recover from the power down state and run the power diagnostics module. The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090024861 - Pulse latch circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit: The disclosed invention is intended to decrease the power consumption of a pulse latch circuit. A pulse latch circuit that operates in sync with a pulsed clock signal, including a first operation mode in which shifting test pattern scan data is performed and a second operation mode in which shifting... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20090024863 - Method for improving accuracy in providing information pertaining to battery power capacity: A method is disclosed for providing information related to the power capacity of a rechargeable battery at a specified time, wherein the battery is disposed to supply power to a laptop computer or other electronic device. The method comprises the step of acquiring a set of cumulative data that represents... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20090024862 - Structure and method to optimize computational efficiency in low-power environments: A method and structure to optimize computational efficiency in a low-power environment. The method includes determining an optimal point for maximizing computational efficiency in a low-power environment, and selectively controlling operation of at least one processing unit of a plurality of processing units in accordance with the determined optimal point.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090024864 - Audio processor having dynamic automatic control function of operating frequency: A data processing system includes a processor for writing data processed based on a clock signal in a buffer for storing and outputting written data, and the processor changes a frequency of the clock signal supplied to the processor in accordance with an amount of data stored in the buffer.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090024866 - Digital vlsi circuit and image processing device into which the same is assembled: A digital VLSI circuit is provided with functions in which the number of switching operations to supply electric power to each arithmetic operation unit is reduced in a restricted period of time while electric power supply is controlled for each arithmetic operation unit, so that low power consumption can be... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20090024865 - Infrared remote control signaling generator: An IR signaling generator and method divides the functionality of generation between software and hardware to provide a flexible way to generate IR signals, such as remote control signals. The hardware includes a clock generator for generating a carrier clock signal and a data clock signal, a buffer memory that... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20090019274 - Data processing arrangement comprising a reset facility: A data processing arrangement (MPS) comprises a plurality of data processors (SPR, PM1, . . . , PM4) that can be reset individually. A reset module (RSM) handles various reset request signals (HRG, SRG, SRP1, . . . , SRP4) in accordance with a prioritization and timing scheme so as... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090019276 - Network terminal operated by downloadable operating system and operating method thereof: A network terminal operated by a downloadable operating system is provided. In the network terminal, a power supply supplies a power to an element of the network terminal, a nonvolatile storage medium stores a basic input/output system (BIOS) that automatically operates upon the supplying of the power, a controller is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090019277 - Network terminal operated by downloadable operating system and operating method thereof: A network terminal operated by a downloadable operating system is provided. In the network terminal, a power supply supplies a power to an element of the network terminal, a nonvolatile storage medium stores a basic input/output system (BIOS) that automatically operates upon the supplying of the power, a controller is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090019275 - Secure boot method and semiconductor memory system using the method: A semiconductor memory system includes an external memory, an internal memory, and a one-time programmable (OTP) memory. The external memory includes a kernel, a public key, first boot information used to authenticate the public key and generate a test secret key, and a second boot loader verifying integrity of the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090019278 - Method and system for a platform level data model and messages for transferring smbios structures and data: A platform may comprise a management controller (MC) and a BIOS that may store SMBIOS information that may comprise metadata. SMBIOS information may be stored in the SMBIOS structure table. SMBIOS information may be transferred to the MC and may be communicated from the MC to an entity external to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090019279 - User apparatus and program: A user apparatus cannot acquire as many distribution keys Ki, . . . as a threshold value, to restore a content encryption key KM, unless it decrypts as many encrypted sub-content items as the threshold value after it has played back a sub-content item SC1. The user apparatus monitors the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090019280 - Method of validating a digital certificate and a system therefor: A method of validating a digital certificate comprises retrieving from a first data store a digital certificate, retrieving from a second data store a plurality of certificate revocation lists (CRLs), and selecting one of the plurality of CRLs to validate the digital certificate as of a date which is before... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090019281 - Secure host network address configuration: A Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) card may establish, via a non-secure network, a secure communications channel between a computer and a secure network. The non-secure network may define a first address space. The secure network may define a second address space. The PCMCIA card may include a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090019282 - Anonymous authentication method based on an asymmetic cryptographic algorithm: P

20090019283 - System and method for a secure multi-level network access mechanism using virtual service set identifier broadcast: A method, system, and computer program product for network management, including masking a true service set identifier (SSID) in beacon frame; and broadcasting the beacon frame with the masked true SSID, whereby an authorized device retrieve the true SSID from the broadcast beacon frame.... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090019284 - Authentication method and key generating method in wireless portable internet system: An authentication method and authorization key generation method in a wireless portable Internet system is provided. In a wireless portable Internet system, the base station and the subscriber station share an authorization key when an authentication process is performed according to a predetermined authentication method negotiated therebetween. Particularly, the subscriber... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090019285 - Establishing a trust relationship between computing entities: A first computing entity provides evidence to a second computing entity to demonstrate that the first computing entity has a trusted configuration specification that is one of a set of such specifications agreed between the computing entities. This evidence comprises a computed commitment, made using (but not revealing) the configuration... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090019287 - Contents server, contents receiving apparatus and network system for adding information to digital contents: Method and system for embedding a unique and different digital watermark in digital contents for each access without increasing the overhear or load at the contents server. The contents server has a digital watermark-embedded contents storage unit for storing a plurality of digital contents where a different digital watermark is... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090019286 - Watermark detection: A detector (100) detects the presence of a watermark in an information signal. The information signal is correlated with an expected watermark (Wi) for each of a plurality of relative positions of the information signal with respect to the watermark to derive a set of correlation results (64). Part of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090019288 - Secure recovery in a serverless distributed file system: Systems and methods for secure file writes after a catastrophic event are allowed over an unauthenticated channel in a serverless distributed file system if an authenticator accompanies the secure file writes. The authenticator can be a power-of-attorney certificate with time limitations, a vector of message authenticated code, or a single... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090019289 - Negative authentication system for a networked computer system: The disclosed invention is a method for screening access to a computer system using a negative authentication system. Input login requests are compared against a set of detectors comprising anti-passwords and only allowed further access if they do not match any of the anti-passwords. A method of generating a set... Agent: Butler, Snow, O'mara, Stevens & Cannada PLLC

20090019290 - Method and central processing unit for processing encrypted software: The present invention provides a central processing unit for processing at least one encrypted software. The encrypted software comprises at least one encrypted software section. The encrypted software section is encrypted with a management key MK, and the MK being encrypted with a device key DK as a encrypted MK.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090019293 - Automatic data revocation to facilitate security for a portable computing device: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that automatically revokes data on a portable computing device. During operation, the system uses a key K1 to encrypt data on the portable computing device. The system then attempts verify that the portable computing device is secure. If the attempt to... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090019291 - Backup and restoration of drm security data: The present invention provides for a method of security data restoration for a user device for back-up purposes in which the said security data can be restored through the interaction of a first and at least a second portion of data, including the steps of storing the first portion of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090019292 - Secure management of information: Methods and system are devised to provide security with regard to position data recorded by an electronic pen. The position data originates from a specific area of a position-coding pattern and is destined for a specific Application Service Handler, ASH, which is allocated the specific area of the pattern. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090019295 - Motherboard and power supply module thereof: A motherboard and a power supply module thereof are disclosed. The power supply module provided by the invention can be directly fixed on a motherboard supporting an AM2 CPU and an AM2+ CPU. The power supply module provided by the invention utilizes a switching unit to switch between a group... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090019294 - Redundant power supply system: A redundant power supply system aims to balance power supply among main power units and stationary power units to achieve optimum output quality for the main power units and stationary power units, and also prevent interruption of power supply resulting from any main power units or stationary power units. It... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090019296 - Network system port thereof for transmitting various signals and power: The present invention is to provide a network system for transmitting various signals and power, which comprises at least a power sourcing equipment and at least a powered device over a network. Each of the power sourcing equipment and the powered device has at least a port, wherein a first... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090019297 - Semiconductor device: Semiconductor device reduces power consumption of total display system. A display memory 12 is operated by a power RVDD and stores display data WD at a determined timing based on various signals from a logic section 11. The display memory 12 outputs the stored display data WD as display data... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090019299 - Method and apparatus for adjusting wakeup time in electrical power converter systems and transformer isolation: An electrical power converter system adjusts a wakeup voltage periodically, to permit earlier connection and/or operation, to increase performance. The electrical power converter system selects between a mathematically adjusted wakeup voltage based on at least one previous period, and a table derived wakeup voltage that takes into account historical information.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090019298 - Method and system for managing ecosystem sleep: A method for managing sleep modes in an ecosystem of components, the method includes: receiving an inactivity signal from at least one component in the ecosystem of components, the inactivity signal indicating that a predefined period of inactivity has been exceeded for that component; sending a sleep command to one... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20090019301 - Storage apparatus: One aspect of the embodiments utilizes a storage apparatus includes a storage device through which data is input from and output to an external apparatus having an external interface. The storage apparatus includes a power supply control switch provided on a power supply line through which power is supplied to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090019300 - System and method for portable power source management: A system is provided that includes a host system configured with a portable power source and a host power manager. The host power manager is configured to monitor an available power level of the portable power source and at least one power usage by one or more auxiliary devices. The... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090019302 - Calculating apparatus having a plurality of stages: A calculating apparatus, or system, having a plurality of stages, such as in a pipeline arrangement, has the clocking rail or conductor positioned alongside the stages. With a large number, i.e., hundreds, of stages arranged in parallel sub-arrays, the clocking conductor is snaked alongside the sub-arrays. In individual stages it... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090019303 - Clock frequency adjustment for semi-conductor devices: A method and apparatus are provided for clocking data processing modules, which require differing average clock frequencies, and for transferring data between the modules. This comprises a means for providing a common clock signal to modules. Clock pulses are deleted from the common clock signal to individual modules in dependence... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090019304 - Method and apparatus for hardware timing optimizer: A method for optimizing signal operating parameters for a signal sent over a data transmission channel through a programmable logic device (PLD) is provided. A transmit test pattern is generated and is associated with a set of signal operating parameters for the transmission and receiving of the test pattern over... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090013162 - Managing a deployment of a computing architecture: Embodiments are provided to deploy a number of computing devices based in part on a deployment file, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a dispatch application can be used to deploy a number of computing devices, wherein the deployment includes a number deployment parameters and functions... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090013163 - Method and system for monitoring and adaptively pre-loading crucial dynamic link libraries: The invention provides a system and method for adaptively loading frequently loaded dynamic link libraries. The system comprises: a monitor for monitoring loading events of dynamic link libraries while an operating system is running, and logging a name and related loading information of the corresponding dynamic link library into a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090013167 - Computer device, method for booting the same, and booting module for the same: A method for booting a computer device can be applied to a basic input/output system (BIOS). Whether backup data of a master boot record (MBR) is stored in the BIOS is first determined. When the backup data of the MBR is not stored in the BIOS, actual data of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090013164 - Computer system and method of using power button to switch from one bios to another: A computer system, using a power button to switch from one BIOS to another, includes a power button, a detection device and a switch circuit. The power button is electrically coupled to the computer system. The detection device is electrically coupled to the power button, and outputs a switch signal... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090013169 - Method and system for migrating information between information handling systems: A system for migrating information includes a first information handling system (IHS). The first IHS is for, in response to a first boot event, booting from a computer readable medium, bypassing the first IHS user authentication requirement, and establishing a connection between the first IHS and a second IHS. The... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090013165 - Portable usb device that boots a computer as a server: Techniques for booting a host computer from a portable storage device with customized settings have been described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to detecting a portable storage device inserted into a first host computer having a first operating environment provided by a first operating system (OS) installed in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090013166 - Rom bios based trusted encrypted operating system: There is disclosed a device, system, and method for a ROM BIOS based trusted encrypted operating system for use in a gaming environment. The gaming device includes a ROM storing a BIOS, a secure loader, an encrypted operating system, and a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted operating system. The... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20090013168 - Systems and methods for automatic provisioning of storage and operating system installation: A method for provisioning a blade server is provided. The method includes creating a server boot image for a blade server, where the boot image includes an operating system image created from a donor server. Then, the method includes inserting the blade server into a chassis of an enclosure that... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090013171 - Computer docking system using hardware abstraction: One embodiment uses a virtual machine layer between software and hardware on both a portable computing device and on a docking station used by the portable computing device. A first virtual machine layer on the portable device is used to save the state of the portable device upon intermediate shutdown.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090013170 - Control device with configurable hardware modules: A control device for controlling components in a vehicle with an interface to an external databus is described. The device includes a hardware module and a memory for making available the data necessary for the data processing. Controller processes are executed by control processes which can be actuated chronologically in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090013172 - Method and devices for reproducing encrypted content and approving reproduction: A reproduction method capable of immediately revoking a leaked device key by dividing the device key into a first partial key and a second partial key is provided. The reproduction method includes the operations of receiving encrypted content to be reproduced, requesting a token for decrypting the received content from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013173 - Portable cross platform database accessing method and system: A user manages a database or other application through a remote graphical user interface on a server device through a client device. A cross platform database translation module resides on the client device. The client device may also store cross platform authentication, configuration, and report generating modules for validating a... Agent: Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090013174 - Methods and systems for handling digital rights management: Systems and methods according to the present invention address this need and others by providing methods and systems for translating media encrypted by various Digital Rights Management (DRM) techniques. This allows end user equipment to receive media in an IMS/IPTV environment when the end user equipment uses a DRM that... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090013175 - Method and apparatus for controlling the flow of data across a network interface: The present invention performs “flow control” based on the remaining encryption capacity of an encrypted outbound network interface link of a network routing device, such as a router or switch. As the encrypted link begins to run low on encryption key material, this invention begins to discard datagrams queued for... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090013176 - Application level integration in support of a distributed network management and service provisioning solution: An integrated data network management and data service provisioning environment is provided. The integrated environment includes legacy software application code and current software application code each augmented with code portions enabling exchange of information therebetween via an interworking layer. A facility for participation in and interacting with the integrated environment... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20090013177 - License management system and method: A license-management system and method is provided. A method of issuing a proxy certificate includes transmitting a proxy-certificate-issuance-request message to a license server in order for the local license manager to acquire an authority to issue a license by a local license manager; enabling the license server to verify the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013178 - Integrated circuit for the authentication of a consumable storage device: An integrated circuit for the authentication of a consumable storage device by an apparatus includes a memory space which contains encrypted data defined by a message authentication code (MAC) applied to data relating to a consumable stored by the device and by at least one secret key (K) shared by... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090013179 - Controlling with rights objects delivery of broadcast encryption content for a network cluster from a content server outside the cluster: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for delivering broadcast encryption content. Embodiments of the present invention typically include receiving in a cluster broadcast encryption content; receiving in a cluster a rights object defining device-oriented digital rights for broadcast encryption content; and administering the broadcast encryption content on one or more... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090013182 - Centralized identification and authentication system and method: A method and system is provided by a Central-Entity, for identification and authorization of users over a communication network such as Internet. Central-Entity centralizes users personal and financial information in a secure environment in order to prevent the distribution of user's information in e-commerce. This information is then used to... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20090013180 - Method and apparatus for ensuring the security of an electronic certificate tool: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for ensuring the security of an electronic certificate tool, the method comprising: A: inputting business information by using the input or confirmation function set up in the electronic certificate tool; and step B: encrypting, attaching signature to or/and authenticating the inputted business... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090013181 - Method and attestation system for preventing attestation replay attack: Provided are a method and an attestation system for preventing an attestation replay attack. The method for preventing an attestation replay attack in an attestation system including an attestation target system and an attestation request system, the method including: measuring associated components when an event that affects the integrity of... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090013183 - Confidential information processing method, confidential information processor, and content data playback system: In order to maintain the confidentiality of information at a high level even in cases where a confidential information processor in which multiple types of decryption sequences are applicable is used, decryption is performed according to the value of content decryption information 304. If the value of the content decryption... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090013184 - Method, system and apparatus for protecting a bsf entity from attack: A method, system and apparatus for protecting a bootstrapping service function (BSF) entity from attack includes: obtaining a first temporary identity and a second temporary identity after a user equipment (UE) performing mutual authentication with the BSF entity, where the first temporary identity is different from the second temporary identity;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090013185 - Compatible system of digital rights management and method for operating the same: Disclosed is a compatible system of digital rights management which enables the reproduction of the same contents between apparatuses each employing a different digital rights management system. The compatible system of digital rights management comprises: a user server including a first authentication document of a first apparatus; a second apparatus... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090013186 - Method and system for the authorization management: A method is provided for the authorization management of digital contents between at least one owner of authorizations with a first electronic work environment and at least one user of the contents with a second electronic work environment. The owner of the authorizations provides the digital contents to the user... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20090013187 - Secure storage device for transfer of digital camera data: A secure storage device with the external dimensions of a PCMCIA card, for securing digital camera data at the acquisition stage. Original digital camera data is saved in the memory of the secure storage device which has the capability of performing one or more security functions, including encryption, creation of... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090013189 - Method and devices for video processing rights enforcement: A system for protection against unauthorized modifications of digital content, in particular image content, in which a content processing system retrieves content, a fingerprint for the content and at least one modification limit expressing authorized modifications to the content. The content may then be modified, but before saving or exportation... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090013188 - Search for a watermark in a data signal: The invention relates to a method of searching for a watermark in a data signal, and to a watermark detector, such as a copy-control watermark detector. The search is conducted in order to find a watermark in content which possibly has been attacked and/or altered. The search is conducted by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090013190 - Secure memory device for smart cards: A secure memory device which can be used for multi-application smart cards for secure identification in data transfer, or for component verification in a computer system, without the requirement of an internal microprocessor. The secure memory device features a dual authentication protocol in which the memory and host authenticate each... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20090013191 - Multisystem biometric token: The method includes retrieving a public key from the system, obtaining a characteristic from the user and generating a biometric value from the characteristic, and creating the identification code by combining and encrypting the generated biometric value and the system supplied public key, and transmitting the identification code to the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090013193 - Circuit building device: The present invention provides an apparatus for securely acquiring a circuit configuration information set corresponding to a new cryptosystem without increasing the number of reconfigurable circuits. A content playback apparatus 100 includes an FPGA 122 that is reconfigurable. The content playback apparatus 100 stores a decryption circuit program that shows... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090013192 - Integrity check method applied to electronic device, and related circuit: An integrity check method applied to an electronic device includes: fetching at least one portion of external data into a specific memory, where the external data is stored within the electronic device; during fetching the portion of the external data into the specific memory, checking whether the size of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090013195 - Data storing method, data playback method, data recording device, data playback device, and recording medium: Provided is a method for performing high-speed search for a content key associated with encrypted content in the case of a key-separation-type content management method where content keys and their respective pieces of encrypted content are correlated by ID information and stored in different recording media. An external recording medium... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090013196 - Secure processing device, method and program: A secure processing device having a power saving mode, which is used for built-in apparatuses, calculates a hash value of secure data that needs to be saved when switching to the power saving mode, stores the calculated hash value in a protection storage unit whose data is not lost even... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090013194 - Technique for protecting a database from an ongoing threat: A system for stopping an ongoing threat to a database is described. During operation, if an ongoing threat to the database is detected, the system modifies a threat-assessment condition. Then, the system selectively restricts access to one or more cryptographic keys for the database based on the threat-assessment condition. Next,... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090013197 - Method and apparatus for trusted branded email: A trusted branded email method and apparatus in one aspect detects branded electronic messages and performs validation before it is sent to a recipient. In another aspect, an electronic messages is branded by embedding branding assets and validation signatures. Algorithms that generate validation signatures are dynamically selected to further strengthen... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090013199 - Digital power supply controller with integrated microcontroller: A digital power supply controller is disclosed for controlling the operation of a switched power supply. The controller is contained within an integrated circuit package enclosing an integrated circuit chip. A plurality of inputs are provided on the package for interfacing with the switched power supply for receiving sensed inputs... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090013198 - Electronic apparatus with improved memory power management: An electronic apparatus includes a battery holder, a detector detecting a battery, a non-volatile memory storing a program for initialization, a volatile memory, a first power supply for the non-volatile memory, a second power supply for the volatile memory, a power switch, a power supply controller activating the first power... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090013200 - Data processing apparatus and data processing apparatus control method: A data processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive data, a first processing unit configured to perform predetermined processing on the received data, a second processing unit configured to perform the predetermined processing on the received data, a first control unit configured to perform control so that the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090013201 - Method for reducing power consumption of processor: A method for reducing power consumption of a processor is disclosed comprising steps of applying time-frequency transformation to a plurality of load values of the processor to obtain the feature sampling cycle of the processor, and adjusting the voltage/frequency of the processor based on said feature sampling cycle. With the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090013202 - Portable information processing apparatus and method of the same: The present invention relates to a portable information apparatus which can realize electrical power for a longer period of time. Under the condition that the suspending mode is set, when an exclusive key is manipulated, a switch monitoring circuit detects this condition and issues an interruption to the CPU. In... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090013203 - Method and apparatus for power saving mode in hard disk drive: A method for implementing a power saving mode in a hard disk drive. The method includes the steps of flying a head over a data track of a disk that is covered with a lubricant. The speed of the disk is reduced. A voltage is applied to a heating element... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20090013204 - Information processing device and mobile phone: An information processing device, for use in a mobile terminal unable to obtain power consumption information from an external source, which can estimate, based on an actual performance value, a battery life, power consumption for processing that changes depending on the usage by the user, and so on, and ensures... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090013205 - Information leakage prevention apparatus and information leakage prevention method: A clock signal extractor (11) is connected to an interface of an information equipment (2) for processing an information signal, to extract a clock signal component from the information signal. A clock signal generator (12) generates a pseudo clock signal having an optional phase difference relative to the clock signal... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090013206 - Efficient utilization of a multi-source network of control logic to achieve timing closure in a clocked logic circuit: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for achieving timing closure in a clocked logic circuit. For each local clock buffer in a set of local clock buffers, a logic synthesis tool determines a clock control signal input from a set of clock control signal inputs that will... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090006830 - Encryption acceleration: The subject mater herein relates to data processing and, more particularly, to encryption acceleration. Various embodiments herein provide devices and systems including a standardized encryption application programming interface embedded in firmware to perform encryption services. Some such embodiments move encryption operations away from operating system processes into firmware. As a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090006827 - Firmware processing for operating system panic data: A processor includes firmware and at least one instance of an operating system (OS). When the OS encounters an unrecoverable error (a “panic”), data regarding the error is pushed to the firmware via capsule services, rather than immediately being displayed to the screen via legacy video INT10h services. The panic... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090006829 - Method and apparatus for changing a configuration of a computing system: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for caption detection are described. In some embodiments, during a non-quiesce state of a system, a configuration data for a configuration update of a configurable device of the system may be calculated, and it may be determined whether the configuration data is final configuration... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090006828 - Method and apparatus to simplify configuration calculation and management of a processor system: Methods and apparatus to simplify configuration calculation and management of a processor system are disclosed. An example disclosed method reads system configuration data from registers of a processing system, caches the system configuration data in an allocated memory, and calculates new system configuration data for the processing system by operating... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006832 - Method and system for linking firmware modules in a pre-memory execution environment: A BIOS includes a core and multiple modules. The modules include both those that are platform specific and those that are not platform specific. Each module has a standard interface that allows the core (or other module) to call the module. A platform vendor constructs a BIOS by selecting modules... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090006831 - Methods and apparatuses for configuring add-on hardware to a computing platform: In one embodiment a method is disclosed for adding hardware device to a computing platform and configuring the newly installed hardware device. The method may include coupling hardware device to a computing platform, where the hardware device has memory and the computing platform has memory. The operating system of the... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006835 - Electronic device and control method thereof: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a storage unit in which execution codes including a boot code and an application code are stored, a main memory in which the boot code is loaded, a CPU which performs booting by executing the boot code loaded in the main... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090006833 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware resource used in image formation; and a storage unit storing a program for processing the image formation; and a controller that is operable to: accepting rebooting commands for rebooting the hardware resource and the program; monitoring a state of the hardware resource and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090006836 - Information processing unit for automatically copying system information: An information processing unit is provided, which includes a first memory, a second memory, and a controller. The first memory stores a BIOS program beforehand that is executed at a startup of the unit so as to allow peripheral devices to operate normally. The first memory also stores initial BIOS... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090006834 - Proxied firmware updates: The subject mater herein relates to computing systems and, more particularly, to proxied firmware updates. Some embodiments provide one or more of systems, methods, software, and firmware that, upon receiving a source of power, initialize an out-of-band controller that, may initialize a network interface to facilitate communication by the out-of-band... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090006837 - Method and apparatus for improved memory reliability, availability and serviceability: Methods and apparatus dynamically reconfigure storage or channel capacities in a memory system. A fully-buffered dual in-line memory module (DIMM) is configured for a particular storage capacity and a particular channel capacity. An error may be detected at a memory address in some portion of the DIMM. To resolve the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006839 - Communication device, communication log transmitting method suitable for communication device, and communication system: A communication device collects encrypted packet data passing through the communication device. The communication device extracts parameters required to generate a decryption key used when the collected packet data is decrypted. The communication device notifies a key managing device of the extracted parameters. The communication device acquires the decryption key,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090006838 - Methods for downloading a digital work automatically bound with characteristics of a portable device: Disclosed is a method for downloading a digital work automatically bound with characteristics of a portable device, which refers to a technology of digital rights protection using an embodied system. The method achieves convenient and safe binding of digital works for a portable device. A storage space of the portable... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090006840 - Using an identity-based communication layer for computing device communication: A computer architecture for enterprise device applications provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. The identity-based communications layer is situated between a network layer... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Oracle International Corporation

20090006841 - System and method for testing network firewall for denial-of-service (dos) detection and prevention in signaling channel: A device may measure a first performance, associated with legitimate traffic without attack traffic, of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based protection device implementing authentication; measure a second performance, associated with legitimate traffic and attack traffic, of the SIP-based protection device implementing authentication; and measure a third performance, associated with legitimate... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090006843 - Method and system for providing a trusted platform module in a hypervisor environment: A method is presented for implementing a trusted computing environment within a data processing system. A hypervisor is initialized within the data processing system, and the hypervisor supervises a plurality of logical, partitionable, runtime environments within the data processing system. The hypervisor reserves a logical partition for a hypervisor-based trusted... Agent: Joseph R. Burwell Law Office Of Joseph R. Burwell

20090006842 - Sealing electronic data associated with multiple electronic documents: The description generally provides for systems and methods for a mobile communication network. Archives of seals can be sealed to protect the integrity of the seals and facilitate validation in the event a sealing party's sealed registration document is revoked. A document can be sealed multiple times to nest seals... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090006845 - Management of secure access to a secure digital content in a portable communicating object: The invention concerns a terminal (T) comprising an agent (AS) for processing a secure content encrypted with a key (KCN) and transmitted by a first server (SCN). In order to manage a secure access to the secure content, an application (AG) of a portable communicating object, such as a chip... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090006844 - Verifying cryptographic identity during media session initialization: An authentication agent may cryptographically identify a remote endpoint that sent a media initialization message even though intermediate devices may modify certain fields in the message after a signature is inserted. The originating endpoint's agent may create the signature over some fields of the message using an enterprise network's private... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090006846 - Bluetooth device as security access key: This application is directed to a system for remotely directing a host device to perform an operation using a key. The key may include a communications circuitry for transmitting data, for example a key identifier or an instruction to perform an operation, within a personal area network created by the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090006847 - Filtering kernel-mode network communications: Some embodiments of the invention are directed to techniques for determining whether a process on a computer system that is sending or receiving data, or is attempting to send or receive data, with another computer system is executing in kernel mode or user mode and providing an indicator of this... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090006849 - Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (pnrp) security infrastructure and method: A security infrastructure and methods are presented that inhibit the ability of a malicious node from disrupting the normal operations of a peer-to-peer network. The methods of the invention allow both secure and insecure identities to be used by nodes by making them self-verifying. When necessary or opportunistic, ID ownership... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006848 - Secure credential management: Apparatus and methods associated with providing secure credential management are described. One apparatus embodiment includes a data store to store authentication data and an authentication supplicant (AS) logic to provide a response to an authentication communication (ACM) received from an authentication process. An authentication management (AM) logic may receive the... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20090006850 - Computer system for authenticating a computing device: A computer architecture for enterprise device applications provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. A unique identity is assigned to each device, user and... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Oracle International Corporation

20090006851 - Confidential mail with tracking and authentication: A method for confidential electronic communication between a sender workstation and a receiver workstation is provided, whereby privacy is guaranteed for the electronic communications transmitted over the public Internet. The method of confidential communication is equipped with message tracking and message receipt verification. The system for implementing the method includes... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006852 - Method and apparatus for securing unlock password generation and distribution: A process may be utilized for securing unlock password generation and distribution. A first set of exclusive responsibilities, assigned to a trusted authority, includes random generation and encryption of an unlock password to compose a randomly generated encrypted unlock password. Further, a second set of exclusive responsibilities, assigned to a... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090006853 - Security protocols for hybrid peer-to-peer file sharing networks: In a hybrid peer-to-peer file sharing network including a receiver peer and a provider peer, the receiver sends the provider a ticket [710] obtained from a server authorizing the receiver to obtain a data object O. The receiver obtains a root value of a hash tree for the object, verifies... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20090006854 - Secure time source operations for digital rights management: Various embodiments utilize hardware-enforced boundaries to provide various aspects of digital rights management or DRM in an open computing environment. Against the backdrop of these hardware-enforced boundaries, DRM provisioning techniques are employed to provision such things as keys and DRM software code in a secure and robust way. Further, at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006855 - Securely computing a similarity measure: The present invention relates to a method and a system of securely computing a measure of similarity for at least two sets of data. A basic idea of the present invention is to securely compare two sets of encrypted data to determine whether the two sets of data resemble each... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090006856 - Adaptive authentication solution that rewards almost correct passwords and that simulates access for incorrect passwords: In the invention, incorrect authentication information for accessing at least one secured computing asset can be received. A similarity score between the incorrect authentication information and correct authentication information can be determined. One of many different access levels can be assigned to a computing session based upon the similarity score.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20090006857 - Method and apparatus for starting up a computing system: A computer system may be powered up or awakened from a power-saving state with one single user action. An authentication device may be used to detect a user action and to collect data from the user action. An authentication module may be used to authenticate a user based on the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090006858 - Secure seed provisioning: A method is used for secure seed provisioning. Data is derived from inherent randomness in an authentication device. Based on the data, the authentication device is provisioned with a seed.... Agent: Bainwood, Huang & Associates, LLC

20090006859 - System and method for out-of-band assisted biometric secure boot: In some embodiments, the invention involves using a dedicated service processor with out-of-band capabilities to enable a secure boot using biometric data to authenticate the user. In some embodiments, at least a secondary token is used enhance the secure boot. An off-line database may be accessed by the service processor... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006860 - Generating multiple seals for electronic data: The description generally provides for systems and methods for a mobile communication network. Archives of seals can be sealed to protect the integrity of the seals and facilitate validation in the event a sealing party's sealed registration document is revoked. A document can be sealed multiple times to nest seals... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090006861 - Method and apparatus for preventing internet phishing attacks: The invention provides secure access to a web page using a personal pass-phrase to prevent phishing attacks. Upon requesting a web page from a user device, a determination is made as to whether or not an encrypted cookie exists for the requested web page. An encrypted cookie includes the personal... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20090006862 - Provisioning a computing system for digital rights management: Various embodiments utilize hardware-enforced boundaries to provide various aspects of digital rights management or DRM in an open computing environment. Against the backdrop of these hardware-enforced boundaries, DRM provisioning techniques are employed to provision such things as keys and DRM software code in a secure and robust way. Further, at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006864 - Microprocessor with improved task management and table management mechanism: A tamper resistant microprocessor has a task state table for assigning a task identifier to a task that can take a plurality of states, and storing a state of the task in correspondence to the task identifier; a task register for storing the task identifier of a currently executed task;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090006863 - Storage system comprising encryption function and data guarantee method: This storage system includes a host computer for issuing a read command or a write command of data, a pair of logical volumes corresponding to a pair of virtual devices to be recognized by the host computer, and a device interposed between the host computer and the pair of logical... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090006865 - Efficient remotely-keyed symmetric cryptography for digital rights management: An efficient symmetrical-cryptographic method for using a fast but insecure host to perform encryption/decryption based on a secret key in a secure, but slow hardware token, such as a smartcard or similar device, without revealing the secret key to the host, and such that the ciphertext and plaintext are exactly... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090006870 - Method, system, and apparatus for dynamic data-driven privacy policy protection and data sharing: A method of sharing telematics data for a vehicle with service providers can include receiving the telematics data for the vehicle, where the telematics data dynamically changes over time, and comparing the telematics data with a privacy policy associated with the vehicle. The privacy policy can specify rules for selectively... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090006868 - Secure storage for digital rights management: Various embodiments utilize hardware-enforced boundaries to provide various aspects of digital rights management or DRM in an open computing environment. Against the backdrop of these hardware-enforced boundaries, DRM provisioning techniques are employed to provision such things as keys and DRM software code in a secure and robust way. Further, at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006866 - Storage apparatus, memory card accessing apparatus and method of reading/writing the same: A storage apparatus having a non-volatile memory and a controller is provided, wherein the non-volatile memory includes a root directory area and a data area, and a password file is stored in the root directory area. The controller identifies a user by using a password in the password file, and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090006867 - System, device and method for providing data availability for lost/stolen portable communication devices: A system, device and method for providing data availability for a portable communication device, including various combinations of the following steps: notifying an operator that the portable communication device is missing; triggering encryption of data on the portable communication device; sending a data retrieval command to the portable communication device;... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090006869 - Techniques for synchronizing and archive-versioning of encrypted files: Techniques are presented for synchronizing and archive-versioning encrypted files. Blocks of encrypted data are managed and metadata is maintained for the blocks. The metadata identifies a maximum number of blocks and an index or parameter string. The string includes transaction identifiers and relative block numbers. The metadata is used as... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090006871 - Method, system, and apparatus for a core activity detector to facilitate dynamic power management in a distributed system: A system and method to provide source controlled dynamic power management. An activity detector in a source determines expected future resource usage. Based on that expected usage, the source generates a power management command and sends that command to a destination. The destination then adjusts the power level of the... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006872 - Reproducer and reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an acquiring unit for acquiring content information and a playlist of the content information, processing units for processing the content information by a plurality of processing modules supplied with power to function, and managing units for managing power delivery to the plurality of processing modules based... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090006874 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: an information processing apparatus main body receiving a supply of power from power supplies disposed at outside or inside; one or a plurality of connection connectors constituted to be able to attach/detach an external apparatus, and having at least one signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090006873 - Power throttling of collections of computing elements: An apparatus and method for controlling power usage in a computer includes a plurality of computers communicating with a local control device, and a power source supplying power to the local control device and the computer. A plurality of sensors communicate with the computer for ascertaining power usage of the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090006875 - Media device power conservation: Power is dynamically conserved in a device by analyzing past processing performance of the device and predicting the amount of power required for future execution. In an example embodiment, a video frame is analyzed to determine what portion of the video frame was needed to render data. If less than... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090006876 - Storage system comprising function for reducing power consumption: For at least one of storage unit, processor and cache memory which are I/O process-participating devices related to I/O command process, when a load of one or more I/O process-participating devices or a part thereof is a low load equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, a processing... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090006877 - Power management in a storage array: A data storage system and associated method is provided within an enclosure supporting a self-contained plurality of discrete data storage devices configured for connecting with a network device via a network. The data storage system includes a redundant array of independent drives (RAID) container services module in the enclosure that... Agent: Mccarthy Law Group

20090006878 - Method and system for monitoring system processes energy consumption: A method and system for monitoring power consumption of software applications. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention a new feature is inserted in a system availability monitoring product which estimates the power consumption of the system, starting from the measurement of some parameters collected by a Monitoring tool.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090006879 - Session redundancy using a replay model: A mechanism for synchronizing states of components in a first routing engine to corresponding components in a second routing engine is provided. In order to reduce the amount of data required to synchronize the state of the components and the time and resources required to perform the synchronization, the state-related... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090006880 - System and method for power saving delay locked loop control: The delay locked loop (“DLL”) delay interval can be locked to stop the DLL from wasting power in unnecessarily switching to synchronize the device with the DLL is associated to the system clock. This is achieved by adding logic sensing when a DRAM device will not imminently be called upon... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20090006881 - Data fetch circuit, data fetch system and control method of the data fetch circuit: To provide a data fetch circuit, which reliably cuts off transmission of a high impedance state of a data strobe signal even if a manufacture condition or an operation condition is changed, and a control method thereof. The data fetch circuit includes an RL measuring part 10 measuring a latency... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090006882 - Method and apparatus for wireless clock regeneration: Methods and systems for operating a wireless clock system for multimedia datastream transmission and display. Source clock frames are compared with a reference clock frames and the clock difference are transmitted to a wireless clock receiver which also receives the same reference clock frames. Source clock frames are re-constructed using... Agent: Groover & Associates