Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 03/09

20090083530 - Computer system, data structure representing configuration information, mapping system, and mapping method: A configuration information storage section (108) stores configuration information for allowing a reconfigurable module to execute a predetermined function. A CPU (100) configures attached reconfigurable modules (103 to 106) according to the number thereof by referencing the configuration information stored in the configuration information storage section (108).... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090083529 - Memory switching data processing system: A memory switching data processing system including one or more central processing units (‘CPUs’); random access memory organized in at least two banks of memory modules; one or more memory buses providing communications paths for data among the CPUs and the memory modules; and a flexibly configurable memory bus switch... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090083533 - Method and device for configuring functional capabilities in a data processing system: m

20090083531 - System and method for modifying software routines: A system and method for modifying software routines is provided. The system includes a computer device and a hardware device. The hardware device is in communication with the computer device, and includes a memory device that stores at least one of an initialized software routine and a non-initialized software routine,... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090083528 - System information synchronization in a links-based multi-processor system: Various embodiments described herein include one or more of systems, methods, firmware, and software to synchronize system information between processors during system boot in a links-based multi-processor system. Some embodiments synchronize data block by block through memory rather than piece by piece through registers by allowing a System Bootstrap Processor... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090083532 - Verifying a trusted smi handler: A trusted system management interrupt handler may be verified by first locating a signed system management interrupt handler image in system memory. The digital signature of the signed system management interrupt handler image is verified. An existing basic input/output system management interrupt handler is erased and replaced with a new... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090083535 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes: a connection port to which an external device is connected; and a processor that executes a BIOS and runs an operating system, wherein, when executing the BIOS, the processor operates to: determine whether or not the external device is connected to the connection port; continues... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090083534 - Remote pc bootup via a handheld communication device: A method computer usable medium and computer system circuitry are disclosed for starting or “booting up” a computer from a remote location using a remote command device such as a cellular telephone. The method and system includes a secure means for remotely storing and transmitting security passwords.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090083536 - Method and apparatus for distributing group data in a tunneled encrypted virtual private network: A packet forwarding process, on a data communications device, forwards a packet to a plurality of destinations within a network from that data communications device using an “encrypt then replicate” method. The packet forwarding process receives a packet that is to be transmitted to the plurality of destinations, and applies... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20090083538 - Reducing latency of split-terminated secure communication protocol sessions: A method is provided for establishing a split-terminated secure communication connection between a client and a server. A first network intermediary intercepts a secure communication connection request directed from the client to the server. A second intermediary having a digital certificate in the name of the server (and a corresponding... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090083537 - Server configuration selection for ssl interception: A network intermediary device such as a transaction accelerator intercepts a client request for a secure communication connection with a server. The intermediary issues a substitute connection request to the server and receives a digital certificate during establishment of a secure communication session between the intermediary and the server. Based... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090083540 - Host device interfacing with a point of deployment (pod) and a method of processing certificate status information: A host device interfacing with a point of deployment (POD) and a method of processing certificate status information are disclosed. A communication unit transmits/receives data via a network. A controller collects information associated with a certificate of the host device and information associated with a certificate of the POD, updates... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090083539 - Method for securely creating an endorsement certificate in an insecure environment: A method and system for ensuring security-compliant creation and signing of endorsement keys of manufactured TPMs. The endorsement keys are generated for the TPM. The TPM vendor selects an N-byte secret and stores the N-byte secret in the TPM along with the endorsement keys. The secret number cannot be read... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090083541 - Method and apparatus for distributing digital content: The present invention provides a system in which audio files are distributed that include watermarks, digital signatures and/or encryption. The file may offer content owners some amount of playback control, while offering the consumer value-added content & services, and maintaining backward compatibility to existing digital file players such as MP3... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20090083542 - Method and system for controlled distribution of application code and content data within a computer network: A secure communication methodology is presented. The client device is configured to download application code and/or content data from a server operated by a service provider. Embedded within the client is a client private key, a client serial number, and a copy of a server public key. The client forms... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jvm)

20090083543 - Broadband certified mail: The present invention provides a system and method for providing certified voice and/or multimedia mail messages in a broadband signed communication system which uses packetized digital information. Cryptography is used to authenticate a message that has been compiled from streaming voice or multimedia packets. A certificate of the originator's identity... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090083544 - Security process for private data storage and sharing: A method and system for supplementing and/or replacing current security protocols and/or mechanisms used to store, manage and/or disseminate information for use on private data management devices and/or a private network and/or public network access provider's network. The system includes processing hardware, proprietary software, and firmware. The system protects private... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090083545 - Search reporting apparatus, method and system: A method of reporting search results of a collection of data is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a hash function and a pattern of data for which to search within the collection of data and searching the collection of data for one or more strings of data that match the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090083546 - System and method for providing private inference control: A system and method for providing private inference control is presented. A query count and database including records are maintained. Each record includes attributes, wherein the attributes form inference channels. A data structure is constructed including ciphertext keys, which each relate to one attribute and record. A seed for a... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090083547 - Confidential information processing host device and confidential information processing method: In the case where a target device stores: m keys {Ka1, . . . , Kam} (m is a natural number) in a manner that the Kai (i is a natural number satisfying 1≦i≦m) is encrypted with the Ka (i−1); and n keys {Kb1, . . . , Kbn} (n... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090083548 - Secure database access through partial encryption: The present invention generally is directed to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for securing sensitive information involved in database transactions. Embodiments of the present invention selectively encrypt only portions of transactions involving sensitive data, thereby reducing or eliminating the processing overhead resulting from wastefully encrypting non-sensitive data. The sensitive... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090083553 - Dual processor power supply: A power supply includes multiple power cells and a master control system in communication with each of the power cells. The master controller includes a control processor configured to receive power cell control information and a host in communication with the control processor wherein the host is configured to receive... Agent: Elsa Keller

20090083554 - Dynamic core swapping: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to dynamically swap processor cores. A first core has a first instruction set. The first core executes a program at a first performance level. The first core stops executing the program when a triggering event occurs. A second core has a... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090083551 - Dynamically managing thermal levels in a processing system: A technique to dynamically maintain the thermal levels of a plurality of cores of a processing system by interleave core hopping with throttling techniques. The interleaving logic may transfer execution of threads from a hot core to a cold if core hopping is applicable. Core hopping may be applicable if... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090083550 - Four-pair midspan powering in a power over ethernet application: A midspan power sourcing equipment (PSE) that supports four-pair powering in a power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. The midspan PSE can provide power to two separate end devices using a single cable. To ensure compatibility with legacy Ethernet devices, the ports used for transmission of data are designed with a... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090083552 - System and method for multiple poe power supply management: A system and method for multiple power over Ethernet (PoE) power supply management. Power supply status signals indicative of an operating condition of a plurality of PoE power supplies are provided to a plurality of power sourcing equipment (PSE) controller chips. Pre-configured combination logic within each of the PSE controller... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090083549 - Transmission impedance for midspan powering in a power over ethernet application: A midspan power sourcing equipment (PSE) for operation with power over Ethernet (PoE). The midspan PSE provides powering over wire pairs that are also used for data communication. To ensure compatibility with legacy Ethernet devices, the ports used for transmission of data are designed with a low effective impedance at... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090083557 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a first information processor, a plurality of second information processor, and a plurality of temperature detecting units detecting temperature in the vicinity of each of the plurality of second information processors. The first information processor includes an application program execution control unit controlling execution of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090083556 - Power supply input selection circuit: A power supply input selection circuit for selecting one of a plurality of power supply inputs to supply power to a driven circuit. The power supply input selection circuit includes a power supply input switching circuit configured to provide operating power to the driven circuit by routing a selected one... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090083555 - Remote computer lockdown: A method and system are disclosed for placing a computer in a safe and secure lock down state from a remote location using a remote command device such as a cellular telephone. The method and system includes optional security provisions before restarting the computer.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090083559 - Electronic device and method of controlling power thereof: In an electronic device having a plurality of processing elements PEs that operate in synch with a clock signal, each of the plurality of PEs generates its own operating clock signal in accordance with a clock enable signal that is input together with data from an outside or from a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090083558 - Storage apparatus and power saving method thereof: This storage apparatus includes an access history storage unit for storing, when there is a write request for writing data into the data storage unit or a read request for reading data stored in the data storage unit, history of the write request or read request as access history, an... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090083560 - Computing device power management: A system, method, and computer usable medium for computing device power management. The method includes identifying a correlation between active states of a computing device and active states of a connected device connected to the computing device through a network, the correlation indicating the desirability of the computing device being... Agent: Ibm Corp. (rcr) C/o Rolnik & Associates, P.C.

20090083562 - Convertible computer: A convertible computer is equipped with a notebook computer function and a tablet computer function. When a system power supply is turned on, a functionality or physical configuration such as rotation state of a display module can be detected, and an environment can be controlled such as an operating system... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090083561 - Dynamic power management of dimms: In some embodiments, an electronic apparatus comprises a processor, at least one non-volatile memory module, and logic to activate a first DIMM while placing at least a second DIMM in a sleep mode, assign operating system memory to grow from a first location in a first DIMM device, assign application... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090083563 - Power efficient data storage with data de-duplication: A storage system includes a first de-duplication scope comprising a first volume, a first table of hash values corresponding to first chunks of data stored on the first volume, and a first table of logical block addresses of where the chunks of data are stored on the first volume. A... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090083564 - Electronic circuit and electronic device: An electronic circuit according to the present invention has one or more circuit sections which operate according to a variable power supply voltage and a variable clock frequency. In the electronic circuit, active information related to load and/or processing time which changes in real time from a control processing section... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090083566 - Method and system for using meta-information to manage data object synchronization: A system and method for synchronizing data items in a data processing system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a synchronization request that specifies a set of data items that are subject to synchronization. The set of data items subject to synchronization are identified from the synchronization request and... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090083565 - Sdram sharing using a control surrogate: A system and method for sharing a single SDRAM unit between two chips, each having an SDRAM controller. Each SDRAM controller is effectively divided into a control block and a data block. The first SDRAM controller drives or reads directly from the SDRAM unit's data bus instead of employing a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090083567 - Apparatus and method for clock generation with piecewise linear modulation: An apparatus and method for generating a clock using piecewise linear modulation are provided. The apparatus includes: a modulation profile generator for outputting an M-bit digital profile obtained by quantizing a piecewise linear modulation profile consisting of two or more linear signals; a delta-sigma modulator for receiving the M-bit digital... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090083568 - Timer circuit, mobile communication terminal, using the same, and electronic device using the same: In a timer circuit mounted on a mobile communication terminal etc, a plurality of time measurements with different sets of measurement time are realized with measurement errors reduced, and the power consumption is reduced. The timer circuit includes a counter 101 that operates under a reference clock, a storage unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090083569 - Generating a local clock domain using dynamic controls: A method for generating a local clock domain within an operation includes steps of: receiving a clock frequency measurement for a slow portion of logic within the operation; generating a local signal to indicate commencement of the operation and to function as a clock gating signal; latching the clock gating... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090083570 - Transmission apparatus that transmits data according to a protocol, and method for measuring time in the transmission apparatus: A transmission apparatus that transmits data according to a protocol has a timer, a memory, a processor, and a transmission unit. The processor stores, in the memory, type data indicating a single type of time from a plurality of types of time that are to be measured according to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090083571 - System on chip with low power mode and method of driving the same: There are provided a system on chip (SoC) with a low power mode and a method of driving the SoC, the SoC including: a power part supplying a main clock signal and controlling analog and digital power supply at a normal mode and supplying a sub clock signal and turning... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090077362 - Configurable access kernal: A highly configurable kernel supports a wide variety of content protection systems. The kernel may reside in a host that interacts with a secure processor maintaining content protection clients. After establishing communication with the secure processor, the host receives messages from content protection clients requesting rules for message handling operations... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090077363 - Systems and methods of creating and accessing software simulated computers: The system and methods of the present application comprise one or more computers that generate and maintain a plurality of software-simulated computers. Each software-simulated computer is adapted to efficiently run an installed application program. Additional security layers provide access to the installed application through a remote user interface installed on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090077368 - Controller for a mass memory and method for providing data for a start process of a computer: In the process for providing data for a start process of a computer by a controller (3) for a mass memory (7), the following steps are executed. Data that was initially read from the mass memory during a first start process (e.g., booting) of the computer is identified by the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090077364 - Data-processing arrangement: A data-processing arrangement (MPS) comprises a main processor (MPR) and an auxiliary processor (APR). A system-program code (SYS) causes the main processor to write an application-program code (APCi+1) into a shared memory (DPRAM). The system-program code further causes the main processor to write an address indication, which indicates where the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090077367 - Managing reboot operations: If there are any outstanding reboot operations for the computer, an embodiment advises the user of the fact; and allows the user to reconsider whether or not they wish to shut the computer down (or reboot the computer), or hibernate the computer. An embodiment then reboots the computer or hibernates... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090077365 - System and method for analyzing cpu performance from a serial link front side bus: Monitoring of boot progress for a multiprocessor information handling system is performed with a test module running on a CPLD. RAM integrated in the CPLD stores boot progress information passed through an I/O buffer located between the processors and the firmware that boots the processors. Downloading of the boot progress... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090077366 - Workflow management to automatically load a blank hardware system with an operating system, products, and service: The exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a workflow for assembling a data processing system according to a specific customized software configuration. An installation request from a remote data processing system is received. The installation request comprises an identity associated with... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20090077369 - Data processing device and data processing method: A technology is provided which manages an environment appropriately when processing data. An operating environment information acquisition part acquires information on the operating environment of a document processing apparatus, such as information on computer hardware, and information including environment parameters for defining the operation of the document processing apparatus itself... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090077370 - Failover of blade servers in a data center: Failover of blade servers in a data center, including powering off by a system management server a failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, the failing blade server mapped to remote computer boot storage administered through a Storage Management Initiative—Specification (‘SMI-S’) provider; identifying, by the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090077371 - Systems and methods for a template-based encryption management system: An encryption management system provides a solution for embedded system device authentication, secure server-to-device communications, and encryption key management. It reduces implementation times and costs associated with using cryptography for authentication and data privacy with embedded systems applications by freeing application developers from having to develop, manage, or update security-based... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090077372 - Process for transmitting an electronic message in a transport network: In a process for transmitting an electronic message that contains protected and unprotected content, the authenticity of the header elements HE is ensured by obtaining a subsequent authenticity verification of the sender. For this purpose, a checking device which is inserted into the transmission network transforms the header elements of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090077373 - System and method for providing verified information regarding a networked site: A system and method are disclosed for presenting a message relating to a networked site on an end-user device, the message preferably originating from a third party that is not a provider of the site. The end-user device receives a message blob containing the message and associated verification information when... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090077374 - Method and system for secure remote transfer of master key for automated teller banking machine: A method for securely transferring a master key from a host to a terminal, such as an automated teller machine, is disclosed. Each of the host and terminal is initialized with a certificate, signed by a certificate authority, and containing a public key used in used in connection with public... Agent: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090077375 - Encapsulation of secure encrypted data in a deployable, secure communication system allowing benign, secure commercial transport: Sensitive, Type 1 KIV-encrypted data is encapsulated into IP packets in a remotely deployed, secure communication system. The IP packets are addressed to a matching IP encapsulator/decapsulator device over the public Internet or other IP protocol network, that then passes it to a similar Type 1 KIV device for decryption.... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20090077376 - Method and a system for secure execution of workflow tasks in a distributed workflow management system within a decentralized network system: There are provided a method, a system and an initiator server for a secure execution of workflow tasks of a workflow to be executed according to a given execution pattern in a distributed workflow management system within a decentralized network system with a plurality of servers (b0, b1, . .... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090077378 - Querying encrypted data in a relational database system: A client-server relational database system, wherein data from the client computer is encrypted by the client computer and hosted by the server computer, the encrypted data is operated upon by the server computer, using one or more operators selected from a group of operators comprising: (a) inequality logic operators, (b)... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20090077377 - System and method of protecting content of an electronic file for sending and receiving: A system and method of protecting the content of an electronic file for sending and receiving. The invention includes providing unique local encryption key data correspondingly associated with a sender, and providing unique remote encryption key data correspondingly associated with a receiver. In addition, the method includes orienting the electronic... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20090077379 - Network security system: A system for restricting access to encrypted content stored in a consuming device (12) which is part of a network (10) including other devices (14), the system including a content storage medium to store the encrypted content, a secret-share distribution module to distribute secret-shares to the other devices (14), a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090077380 - Resource scheduling in workflow management systems: A system for improved scheduling of resources within a Workflow-Management-System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). Based on a new resource specification comprised within a process model and associated with an activity, the WFMS determines the resources required for execution of said activity. The invention further schedules a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090077381 - Systems and method for the transparent management of document rights: Systems and methods are described for enabling documents to be controlled by a sender, in a manner which is transparent to any end recipients. The invention include mechanisms enabling a sender to control documents sent to recipient, in a manner that (1) encrypts the message to ensure its security, and... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20090077382 - Method for the preparation of a chip card for electronic signature services: The invention relates to a method for preparing a chip card for electronic signature services. According to said method, data is exchanged between a chip card user and a signature portal, an asymmetric pair of keys and a signature PIN that is associated with the asymmetric pair of keys being... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20090077384 - Accelerated signature verification on an elliptic curve: A public key encryption system exchanges information between a pair of correspondents. The recipient performs computations on the received data to recover the transmitted data or verify the identity of the sender. The data transferred includes supplementary information that relates to intermediate steps in the computations performed by the recipient.... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090077383 - System and method for authentication, data transfer, and protection against phishing: Methods and systems for secure electronic data communication over public communication networks. A secure data communication component may be utilized to implement a communication protocol. New versions of the data communication component may be generated, with each version containing a different communication protocol. Source code of the data communication component... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090077385 - Authenticating an object: A method of authenticating an object is disclosed. The method starts by receiving indicating data. The indicating data was generated in response to sensing of a coded data portion provided on or in a surface associated with the object. The indicating data is indicative of an identity, a position of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090077386 - Notary enforcement - fraud prevention: A system for electronically signing a document and verifying the signor's identity includes a computer having a processor, an input device, and a memory. A biometric scanner is in electronic communication with the computer for scanning at least one biometric feature of a signor. An instruction set is stored within... Agent: The Patel Law Firm, P.C.

20090077387 - Authenticating software using protected master key: A processing unit includes a read-only encryption key. Software is loaded into a system memory area from a non-volatile storage device. Software code image that resides in the system storage area includes a prefix value and a suffix value. The prefix value is combined with the master key from the... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090077388 - Information processing apparatus and computer readable medium: An information processing apparatus includes an information acceptance unit, a calculation unit and an encryption unit. The information acceptance unit accepts information relevant to a program. The calculation unit calculates one of a one-way function and a pseudo one-way function using one of the information relevant to the program accepted... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090077390 - Electronic file protection system having one or more removable memory devices: The electronic file protection system includes at least one first memory device removably disposable in communicative relation with one or more computers, wherein the first memory device includes a unique identifier. The system further includes unique, non-reproducible encryption key data disposed or otherwise saved on the first memory device. The... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20090077391 - Method and apparatus for protecting data during storage/retrieval: For protecting data during transmission between a host device and a data storage device, the host device encrypts command-related information and sends the encrypted command-related information to the data storage device. The data storage device decrypts the encrypted command-related information, interprets the decrypted command-related information to generate interpreted commands, and... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20090077389 - Security features in an electronic device: A method of establishing security in an electronic device. The method includes generating a statistically unique root key value and storing the root key value in a one-time programmable memory of the device. The method also includes isolating firmware in the device from access to the root key value. The... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090077392 - Computer apparatus, storage apparatus, system management apparatus, and hard disk unit power supply controlling method: To provide a storage system capable of minimizing a performance deterioration, saving power consumption, and realizing a high reliability. A storage system according to the present invention includes a computer, a storage apparatus 1 connected with the computer, and a storage management apparatus connected to the storage apparatus, the storage... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090077393 - Card-type electronic device and host device: A card type electronic device according to the present invention comprises a p MOS switch (110) connected to a power supply line (104), a step-down regulator (107) for stepping down a power supply voltage, a voltage detection circuit (111) for detecting a power supply voltage value and outputting information as... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090077396 - Techniques for collaborative power management for heterogeneous networks: Techniques for collaborative power management for heterogeneous networks are described. An apparatus may include a first node having a managed power system and a power management module to manage power states for the managed power system. The power management module may be operative to communicate power state information with a... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090077394 - Techniques for communications based power management: Techniques for communications based power management are described. An apparatus may comprise a managed power system having a communications sub-system and a computing sub-system, the communications sub-system to include a network state module operative to determine communications power state information, and send a power management message with the communications power... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090077395 - Techniques for communications power management based on system states: Techniques for communications based power management based on system states are described. An apparatus may comprise a communications sub-system having a control policy module, a controller and a first transceiver capable of operating at different communications rates. The control policy module may be operative to receive computing power state information... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090077397 - User interface for demand side energy management: A user interface is visibly displayed on a display device operatively connected to a first computer. The user interface enables an end user to enter at least one energy management rule for each of a plurality of electrical loads at a location, each rule including a command to be transmitted... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090077401 - Buffering techniques for power management: Buffering techniques for power management are described. A method may comprise modifying a power state for a communications sub-system and a computing sub-system from a higher power state to a lower power state, storing packets of information in a buffer for the communications sub-system during a communications idle duration period,... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090077399 - Controlling apparatus, controlling method, computer readable medium, image forming apparatus and information processing apparatus: The controlling apparatus is provided with: a memory that stores application software; a setting part that sets an operational manner related to power consumption of an apparatus running the application software, corresponding to the application software stored in the memory; and a controller that controls the power consumption of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090077403 - Integrated device, layout method thereof, and program: An integrated device includes at least one data processing device and at least one memory macro accessible by the data processing device. The data processing device and the memory macro are laid out so that a memory address and a power consumption have a correlation.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090077400 - Power control system: A power mode designating unit of a main system outputs an operation mode designating signal to a sub system. Upon shifting from the normal operation mode to the power-saving mode, a control unit of the sub system outputs a power-saving mode shift enable signal indicating that shifting to the power-saving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090077402 - Voltage-controlled device, method and computer device capable of dynamically regulating voltage and effectively saving energy: The invention provides a voltage-controlled device, method and computer device capable of dynamically regulating voltage and effectively saving energy. The voltage-controlled device receives a VID from a CPU, determines a core voltage according to a load line defined therein, and supplies the core voltage to the CPU. The voltage-controlled device... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090077398 - Workload apportionment according to mean and variance: An improved method is provided for managing workload on a multi-server computer system. In one embodiment, a subset of servers is selected according to an anticipated net workload. The remaining servers in the system may be powered off to conserve energy and prolong equipment life. Workload is dynamically apportioned among... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090077405 - Audio-visual system energy savings using a mesh network: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for powering, controlling, and operating a home audio visual system using a mesh network that includes an energy savings mode based at least in part on intermittently powered mesh network nodes that are associated with the home audio-visual system. In... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090077406 - Computer, power saving method and method for reducing output current of a web camera: A computer, a power saving method and a method for reducing output current are disclosed. The computer includes a driving module, an application module, and a daemon module. The driving module initializes the web camera when the web camera connects to the computer. When the web camera outputs signals to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090077404 - Method and system of reducing power consumption of system on chip based on analog-to-digital control circuitry: Methods and system of reducing power consumption of system on chip based on analog-to-digital control circuitry are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes converting an analog signal of external device coupled to the system on chip to a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the system on... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090077407 - Apparatus, system and method for power management: An apparatus which communicates with another apparatus includes a control unit which monitors a power consumption of the apparatus, supplies a power to the another apparatus when the power consumption includes a surplus, and requests the another apparatus to supply the power when the power consumption includes a shortage, and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090077408 - Information preservation on a portable electronic device: A system and method for information preservation on a portable electronic device is disclosed. A signal indicating an energy capacity threshold remaining in the battery of a hand held device may be generated. Then, responsive to such a signal, information may be copied from a volatile memory into a non-volatile... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090077409 - Circuits to delay a signal from a memory device: A circuit for delaying an input control signal, comprises a clock circuit to generate a clock signal having a frequency different from an input clock signal to delay and including a clock signal input, a derivative clock signal output, an input to program a frequency ratio between its input clock... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20090077410 - Method for setting actual opertation frequency of memory and setting module thereof: A method for setting an actual operation frequency of a memory is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a memory model list is provided for selecting a memory model. Then, an estimation operation frequency of the memory is obtained according to the selected model. Finally, the operation frequency... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090077411 - Memory control circuit, delay time control device, and delay time control method: A memory control circuit has a write leveling function and controls read/write operations by supplying a clock signal to a plurality of memories through a clock signal line which is wired to the plurality of memories through daisy chain connection. For each of the plurality of memories, a first variable... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090070572 - Method and apparatus for portable computing environment: A method and storage device for enabling a user to carry his or her computing environment with him, including an operating system, GUI preferences, applications, or data. Thus, a user can attach the storage device to a host computer and work on the host computer with its peripherals, while applying... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20090070571 - Networked physical security access control system and method: A distributed networked physical security access control system for controlling a plurality of security access devices comprises a plurality of access server appliances in communication with a primary network. Each access server appliance includes an appliance management module being accessible through a web browser in communication with the primary network.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090070573 - Reliability platform configuration measurement, authentication, attestation and disclosure: A platform configuration measurement device including: a configuration register; means for executing extension processing in which a predetermined operation is performed on a content of the configuration register by using a given additional value, a hash value is obtained by applying a predetermined hash function to a value obtained by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090070575 - Memory with data synchronization from and for a drive controller of a machine: The aim of the invention is to improve the start-up of an electrical machine drive control system comprised of at least one machine (80) and of at least one machine control (100; 90, 95). The start-up should proceed in such a manner that, during servicing, a quicker and more reliable... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090070574 - Remote diagnostic apparatus: Example apparatus and methods associated with remote diagnostics are described. One apparatus embodiment includes a logic to determine a state of a device associated with a computing platform to which the apparatus is operably connected. The apparatus embodiment may include logic to provide a signal to a remote logic regardless... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20090070576 - System and method for providing a secure computing environment: A system and method for providing a secure computing environment to untrusted computer systems is described. A carrier media and an interface are provided, the interface being connectable to a computer to enable communication between the computer and the carrier media. The carrier media encodes a secure computing environment and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090070577 - Securing proprietary functions from scan access: An electronic device as described herein implements a scheme to secure a data mapping function from scan access. The protection scheme can be used as a security measure for proprietary lookup tables, secret constants, digitally implemented algorithms, and the like. The electronic device employs a reconfigurable data mapping arrangement that... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20090070579 - Information processing system and login method: Targets are classified into groups, and an address is assigned to each group. An initiator stores the address of each group, and each target stores at least the address assigned to the group the relevant target itself belongs to and information for identifying the initiator that is permitted to connect... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090070578 - Methods and systems for transmitting secure application input via a portable device: Methods and systems are described for transmitting secure application input via a portable device. In one embodiment, a method includes connecting a portable device to a communication bus of a computing device for exchanging information between the portable device and the computing device. The method further includes connecting the portable... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090070580 - Portable electronic file protection system: The portable electronic file protection system includes at least one memory device removably disposed in communicative relation with any one of a plurality of computers. The memory device includes computer readable content contained thereon wherein the content includes electronic file protection software and at least one set of encryption key... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20090070585 - Measurement probe systems for co-ordinate positioning apparatus: A measurement probe, such as a touch trigger measurement probe, is described that comprises a measurement portion for measuring an object and a data transfer portion for receiving data from and/or transmitting data to an associated unit. The measurement device also comprises an authentication module for verifying the authenticity of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090070584 - Method for providing, distributing and engraving digital data and associated distribution server: The invention relates to a method for engraving digital data received from a remote server. The inventive method consists in acquiring an identifier of a secured disc used for receiving digital data, in transmitting the identifier and a digital data loading instruction to the remote server, in receiving digital date... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090070582 - Secure network location awareness: Secure network location awareness is provided whereby a client is able to use appropriate settings when communicating with an access node of a communications network. In an embodiment a client receives a signed message from the access node, the signed message comprising at least a certificate chain having a public... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090070581 - System and method for centralized user identification for networked document processing devices: The subject application is directed to a system and method for centralized user identification for networked document processing devices. A secure communications channel is first established between a document processing device designated as an authentication device and at least one additional document processing device of a plurality of document processing... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090070583 - System and method for secure transaction: Systems and methods for performing a secure transaction provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: reading data on a command token, reading data on a token; encrypting the token data with a key; encrypting an authentication data with a clear text token data; and transmitting the encrypted authentication data with... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090070586 - Method, device and computer program product for the encoded transmission of media data between the media server and the subscriber terminal: A request is transmitted from a subscriber terminal via a control channel of an access network to an application function for determining a set of encoding parameters. An encoding context is generated by the application function in accordance with the set of encoding parameters. The encoding context is transmitted from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090070587 - Advanced watermarking system and method: A method, computer program product, and computing device for obtaining an uncompressed digital media data file. One or more default watermarks is inserted into the uncompressed digital media data file to form a watermarked uncompressed digital media data file. The watermarked uncompressed digital media data file is compressed to form... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090070588 - Renewable watermark for theatrical content: The present invention relates to a method for a content provider of renewing the watermarking of theatrical content and for updating consumer devices to detect said renewed watermark, wherein a watermark is embedded in said theatrical content using at least a first watermark noise pattern. Renewing is performed by said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090070589 - Method and apparatus for verifying authenticity of digital data using trusted computing: A method and apparatus for authenticity and origin of Digital data such as recorded voice samples, video clips or still picture images etc. is provided. The method makes uses of the Trusted Computing principles to provide a secure, tamper detectable solution comprising of both software and hardware such that it... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090070590 - Digital signature and authentication method and apparatus: A signing technique of a disclosed identification/digital signature method hereof uses a mixing system based on multiplication in a ring and reduction modulo an ideal q in that ring, while a disclosed verification technique uses special properties of products of elements whose validity depends on elementary probability theory. The security... Agent: Martin Novack

20090070591 - Grid mutual authorization through proxy certificate generation: A mechanism for mutual authorization of a secondary resource in a grid of resource computers is provided. When a primary resource attempts to offload a grid computing job to a secondary resource, the primary resource sends a proxy certificate request to the user machine. Responsive to a proxy certificate request,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090070592 - Finger sensing apparatus using encrypted user template and associated methods: A finger sensing apparatus may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and encryption circuitry on the IC substrate cooperating with the array of finger sensing elements for encrypting a user template comprising finger template data and at least one user... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090070593 - Finger sensing apparatus using unique session key and associated methods: A finger sensor apparatus may include a finger sensor having an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and session key negotiation circuitry on the IC substrate. The finger sensing apparatus may also include a host platform external from the finger sensor and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090070597 - Method and apparatus for store and replay functions in a digital radio broadcasting receiver: A method includes: receiving a plurality of audio frames, assembling groups of the audio frames into logical recording units, storing a plurality of the logical recording units, retrieving the stored logical recording units, and decoding the retrieved logical recording units. An apparatus that performs the method is also provided.... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20090070596 - Secure read-write storage device: A method is described for securing a read write storage (RWS) device, the method comprising, providing the RWS device, the RWS device comprising a controller comprising a processor and a bit bucket and employing, in response to a decision making process, a sanction in the RWS device. Related apparatus and... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090070595 - System for implementing dynamic pseudorandom keyboard remapping: A system for implementing dynamic pseudorandom keyboard remapping includes a keyboard in communication with an operating system of a computing device; the keyboard configured to encrypt an original keyboard scan code corresponding to each of a plurality of keyboard keys, using a mapping algorithm, wherein the mapping algorithm encrypts the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20090070594 - Transient on-demand data security control: The present invention addresses the deficiencies of the art in respect to data security control and provides a method, system and computer program product for securing confidential data through transient on-demand data security control. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of securing confidential data can be provided. The... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090070599 - Memory card, application program holding method, and holding program: A memory card of the present invention is a memory card which receives an encrypted application program from a host apparatus, the encrypted application program being downloaded to the host apparatus, the memory card including: an Integrated Circuit (IC) card unit having a tamper resistant function; and a flash memory... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090070601 - Method and apparatus for recursively analyzing log file data in a network: Method and apparatus for processing log data produced by a network is described. In one example, entries in the log data are filtered using a plurality of filters to select first entries from the entries. The first entries are filtered using a plurality of false positive filters associated with the... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky, At&t Corp.

20090070600 - Method for etching and secure distribution of digital data, access device and writer: The invention relates to a method of receiving and securely recording digital data comprising a step for recording said digital data on a secured disk by a recorder/receiver belonging to a determined secured domain comprising several equipment items and defined by an identifier, a step for recording on the secured... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090070598 - System and method for secure data disposal: A system, method, and program product is provided that initializes expected PCRs stored in a TPM by generating and storing a random number, seeding expected PCRs with the random number, inputting a set of startup code processes to a hash algorithm resulting in a set of hash values, updating the... Agent: Lenovo - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20090070603 - System and method for secure communication for power over ethernet between a computing device and a switch: A system and method for secure communication for power over Ethernet (PoE) between a computing device and a switch. Various power management information can be used as inputs in a process for determining a power request/priority. This power management information can be communicated in Layer 2, Layer 3, or higher... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090070602 - System and method of executing instructions in a multi-stage data processing pipeline: A device is disclosed that includes an instruction execution pipeline having multiple stages for executing an instruction. The device also includes a control logic circuit coupled to the instruction execution pipeline. The control logic circuit is adapted to skip at least one stage of the instruction execution pipeline during execution... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090070604 - Image forming apparatus and electric power consumption control system: There is described an image forming apparatus that appropriately selects a specific image forming apparatus to be shifted to the power saving mode, to avoid the power shutdown of the system. The apparatus includes; an electric power consumption notifying section to notify other image forming apparatuses of its own electric... Agent: Cameron Kerringan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090070606 - Apparatus and method for dynamic backlight-control: An apparatus and a method for dynamic backlight-control in an electronic device are provided. The apparatus includes a battery power-level detection unit and a controlling unit. The battery power-level detection unit is used for detecting the power level of a battery in the electronic device. The controlling unit is coupled... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090070608 - Electronic control unit and signal monitoring circuit: An electronic control unit has a microcomputer and a signal monitoring circuit. When a brake pedal is pressed down and an analog signal from a brake pedal sensor is changed in a low power consumption operation mode of the microcomputer, the signal monitoring circuit operates cyclically, When the signal monitoring... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090070607 - Methods and apparatuses for reducing step loads of processors: Methods and apparatuses for reducing step loads of processors are disclosed. Method embodiments comprise examining a number of instructions to be processed by a processor to determine the types of instructions that it has, calculating power consumption by in an execution period based on the types of instructions, and limiting... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090070609 - Power throttling apparatus: Disclosed is an apparatus which deactivates both the AC as well as the DC component of power for various functions in a CPU. The CPU partitions dataflow registers and arithmetic units such that voltage can be removed from the upper portion of dataflow registers when the software is not utilizing... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20090070605 - System and method for providing memory performance states in a computing system: A system and method is disclosed for providing memory performance states in a computing system. The operating system power management component of the computing system establishes a set of performance states, with each performance state being defined by a number of factors, including the core frequency of memory. The operating... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. One Shell Plaza

20090070610 - Data processor: The data processor comprises a decoder 11 for decoding the compressed data into decoded data while reading the compressed data from a first data storage 21, a second data storage 22 for storing therein the decoded data, a DA converter 41 for converting the decoded data into an analog signal... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090070611 - Managing computer power consumption in a data center: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for managing computer power consumption in a data center. Embodiments include monitoring aggregate power consumption of a plurality of computers in the data center, each of the computers being supplied power individually from a shared circuit in the data center; determining whether... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090070612 - Memory power management: A memory system is described, where a plurality of memory modules is connected to a memory controller. The power status of each of the memory modules is controlled, depending on the functions being performed by the memory module. When no read or write operation is being performed on a particular... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090070613 - Power supply sequencing distributed among multiple devices with linked operation: A system and method is provided to accomplish distributed power sequencing function of a large electronics system with minimum number of signals in the sequencing network without compromising the flexibility and expandability. In one embodiment of the invention, the power sequencing function is accomplished with two signals of the sequencing... Agent: Chad R. Walsh, Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20090070614 - Method and system for enabling and disabling hardware based on reservations and usage history: A network device checkout system is accessed by another program that powers off unused systems. The checkout system keeps track of the usage of various systems on a network so that only the systems that need to remain on for productivity will consume power, with systems in a check-in state... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090070615 - Multiple power supply management scheme in a power over ethernet (poe) system: An apparatus and method is disclosed to manage multiple power supplies in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) communication system. The PoE communication system provides PoE to one or more powered devices (PDs) using one or more DC voltage supplies. The PoE communication system includes a power source equipment (PSE) controller... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090070616 - Network real-time electricity monitoring system: A network real-time electricity monitoring system has at least one power line communicating and AC power monitoring device, a power line network device and a monitoring computer. The power line communicating and AC power monitoring device is connected to a power line of a corresponding target device to retrieve and... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20090070617 - Method for providing a cluster-wide system clock in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture: A method for providing a cluster-wide system clock in a multi-tiered full graph (MTFG) interconnect architecture are provided. Heartbeat signals transmitted by each of the processor chips in the computing cluster are synchronized. Internal system clock signals are generated in each of the processor chips based on the synchronized heartbeat... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090070619 - Multi-cycle path information verification method and multi-cycle path information verification device: For example, multi-cycle path information is extracted from a logic synthesis constraint (S101), and a multi-cycle path verification property indicating details of verification is generated (S102). Thereafter, formal verification is performed according to a gate-level netlist that is separately generated by logic synthesis according to an RTL circuit description using... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090070618 - System and method for calibrating a tod clock: A system, method and computer program product for calibrating a Time Of Day (TOD)-clock in a computing system node provided in a multi-node network. The network comprises an infrastructure of computing devices each having a physical clock providing a time base for executing operations that is stepped to a common... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090063833 - Bootless activation: In an Internet Protocol (IP) based network having a distributed end devices that receive their respective IP routing and device specific configuration information from a central location using dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) and other related protocols, bootless activation enables the network operator to dynamically control and automatically switch an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063834 - Auto-switching bios system and the method thereof: An auto-switching BIOS system and the method thereof, switches to dual BIOS by a hardware control circuit. After the system has been started with the first BIOS to the predetermined period of time and the BIOS_READY signal is detected as disabled, the hardware control circuit switches the system from the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090063836 - Extended fault resilience for a platform: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for allocating a fail-over memory region, determining if multiple processors have reached a rendezvous state, and verifying a memory failure in a system software memory region associated with a non-rendezvousing processor and sending a message to the non-rendezvousing processor to update... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090063840 - Information processing apparatus and program: If a defect flag stored in a CF 19 while a BIOS is being booted, an information processing device 10 boots a second program stored in an external device 31 connected to a connection section 21, and if the defect flag is not detected, the information processing device 10 confirms... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090063839 - Low power data transfer mode for battery powered personal computing devices: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a low power data transfer mode for mobile computing devices. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for low power data transfer in a battery powered computing device can be provided. The method can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090063835 - Method for firmware isolation: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining if an isolation driver is present and a processor supports virtualization, launching the isolation driver in a first privilege level different than a system privilege level and user privilege level, creating a 1:1 virtual mapping between a virtual address... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090063841 - Motherboard, computer system and multi-monitoring method thereof: A computer system includes a center processor, a monitoring unit, a water-cooling system and a basic input output system (BIOS) unit. The monitoring unit is coupled to the central processor, and it is used for monitoring a plurality of processor working states of the central processor and generating a plurality... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090063838 - Multi-operating system document editing mode for battery powered personal computing devices: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a low power document editing mode for mobile computing devices. In an embodiment of the invention, a battery powered computing device can be configured for power optimized document editing, the computing device. The device can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090063842 - Printer: A printer includes: a nonvolatile storage unit, storing a plurality of types of software and enable keys for the respective pieces of the software; and a software update unit, when update information including several pieces of software and verification keys and new enable keys for the respective pieces of the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090063843 - Systems and methods for booting a codec processor over a high definition audio bus: Systems and methods for booting a programmable processor such as a DSP that is incorporated into an HDA codec. The codec and a system memory containing boot program instructions are connected to an HDA bus. In a first mode, the DSP receives boot program instructions via the HDA bus and... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090063837 - User influenced loading sequence: There is provided a method for altering a sequence in which programs and content are loaded upon startup of an electronic device. A user may change the loading sequence by selecting a program or content before the loading sequence has finished. In addition, the altered loading sequence may be saved... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090063844 - Radio frequency control for communication systems: Methods and systems for updating a source image file in a BIOS memory are provided. In one embodiment of the method, an initialization document is loaded to generate a first image file, and the initialization document comprises a function setting and first and second address information associated with the function... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090063845 - System and electronic device having multiple operating systems and operating method thereof: A system and an electronic device having multiple operating systems and an operating method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a display and a system having a first operating system, a second operating system, and an embedded controller. The first operating system consumes less power than the second operating... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090063847 - Content protection method and apparatus: There is disclosed a content protection method and apparatus. The content protection method and apparatus further improves such related schemes by facilitating spatial as well as temporal management of content. This is achieved by storing encrypted content and a corresponding decryption key and destroying the decryption key when suitable. In... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090063848 - Method and system for sending/receiving data, central apparatus, and computer readable storage medium thereof: A product data category for sale among product data to be stored in a memory unit of a wireless tag is sent from a first client to a web server. The web server sends the product data category to a second client. The second client sends purchase data for the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090063846 - Systems and methods for prevention of peer-to-peer file sharing: A secure digital content delivery system includes a content provider and a content user. The content provider delivers encrypted content to the content user in response to delivery requests. The content provider generates encryption algorithms on the fly and encrypts the content prior to delivery, using a different encryption algorithm... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090063849 - Device certificate based appliance configuration: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to configuring a computing appliance and provide a method, system and computer program product for device certificate based virtual appliance configuration. In one embodiment of the invention, a virtual appliance secure configuration method can be provided. The method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090063851 - Establishing communications: A method of establishing direct and secure communication between two wireless communications devices is disclosed. The wireless communications devices each have an existing trust relationship with an authentication server operable to authenticate access to a communication network on the basis of those existing trust relationships. The method comprises: (i) sending... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090063850 - Multiple factor user authentication system: The present invention describes a method and a system for multi-level authentication of a user and a server. The user registration process in the invention enables user to personalize the web page of the server. Further, the user authentication takes place in a multi-step process including entering credentials such as... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090063852 - Authentication for ad hoc network setup: A device (110) performs a method 200 for authentication and Ad Hoc network setup. The device (110) receives (210) a first security configuration; receives (220) a second security configuration based on location; authenticates (230) at least a second node (110) having the first security configuration and the second security configuration;... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090063853 - Information processing apparatus, server apparatus, medium recording information processing program and information processing method: A client PC 10 adapted to be connected to a server apparatus 20 has a first information transmission section that transmits an ID required for authentication by the server apparatus 20 to the server apparatus 20, a second information acquiring section that acquires a master key to be obtained as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090063854 - Method for revoking a digital signature: A method and apparatus for revoking a digital signature using a signature revocation list. In one embodiment, the method includes generating the signature revocation list to indicate revocation status of a signature. The signature is created from an encryption key and a document. The method also includes computing an identifier... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063855 - Reduced computation for generation of certificate revocation information: A method and apparatus for propagating certificate revocation information. A first query is received regarding a revocation status of a first digital certificate. One or more additional queries are received regarding revocation statuses of one or more additional digital certificates. A response to the first query and the one or... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063856 - System and method for identifying encrypted conference media traffic: A method for identifying conference media traffic includes receiving a plurality of dummy packets and matching a series of the plurality of dummy packets to a signature key. The method also includes extracting a first identification from one or more of the plurality of dummy packets in response to matching... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090063857 - 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: Ibm Corporation (jvm)

20090063859 - Content distribution server and content distribution system using the same: The present invention relates to a content distribution server or the like, capable of more surely preventing an unauthorized use of a content. Content distribution servers 2 and 3 are arranged to be connectable via a telecommunication circuit to a user terminal device, and include: a distribution-content storing section 14... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090063858 - Systems, methods, and media for retransmitting data using the secure real-time transport protocol: Systems, methods, and media for retransmitting data using the SRTP are provided. In some embodiments, methods for retransmitting data using the SRTP are provided. The methods include: receiving at least one data unit associated with a media session; determining the index of the at least one data unit; determining the... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20090063861 - Information security transmission system: An information security transmission system is disclosed. The system comprises a first information equipment and a second information equipment, wherein the first information equipment can obtain at least one certification data, connecting to the second information equipment through a network for processing an information transmission, accordingly, a key pair used... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090063862 - Mashup service support method and apparatus: A mashup service support method includes externally receiving a mashup service application, acquiring and managing an authentication key corresponding to the received mashup service application, and executing the received mashup service application using the acquired authentication key. A user can use a variety of web services by normally operating a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090063860 - Printer driver that encrypts print data: A system for transmitting encrypted print job data across a network. The printer driver on the client device encrypts the print job data using a random AES key and uses the printer's public key to encrypt the random AES key. The print job data remains encrypted during transmission from the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090063863 - Secure authenticated channel: A protocol (i.e. method) and corresponding apparatuses for calculating a session key. Two peers with knowledge of a common Diffie-Hellman permanent key, Kperm, and the identity and public key of the other peer. A first peer chooses a first ephemeral private key x and calculates the first corresponding ephemeral public... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090063864 - Cryptographic authentication with ephemeral modules: A method enabling a personal computer to be authenticated by a server is provided. The method comprises the step, which includes for the user in launching the execution of a log-on procedure software, introducing personal identifiers providing access to a signature private key for long-term use relative to the duration... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090063865 - Configurable signature for authenticating data or program code: System and method for authenticating data or program code via a configurable signature. Configuration information is retrieved from a protected first memory, e.g., an on-chip register, where the configuration information specifies a plurality of non-contiguous memory locations that store the signature, e.g., in an on-chip memory trailer. The signature is... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090063866 - User authentication via evoked potential in electroencephalographic signals: Techniques are disclosed for authentication and identification of a user by use of an electroencephalographic (EEG) signal. For example, a method for authenticating a user includes the following steps. At least one electroencephalographic response is obtained from a user in accordance with perceptory stimuli presented to the user. The user... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090063868 - Method, system and computer program product for preventing execution of pirated software: A method, system and computer program product for preventing execution of pirated software. A file is loaded on an end user's computer containing a binary image that is generated by removing one or more code bits from an executable code. A request is sent to a remote server to return... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090063867 - Method, system and computer program product for preventing execution of software without a dynamically generated key: A method, system and computer program product for partitioning the binary image of a software program, and partially removing code bits to create an encrypted software key, to increase software security. The software program's binary image is partitioned along a random segment length or a byte/nibble segment length, and the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090063870 - Method, apparatus, and product for prohibiting unauthorized access of data stored on storage drives: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for prohibiting unauthorized access of data that is stored on storage drives. Multiple logical partitions are generated. A different unique randomizer seed is associated with each one of the logical partitions. In response to one of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090063869 - Securing data in a networked environment: Apparatus for securing data, comprising: an isolated processing environment having a boundary across which data cannot cross and a channel for allowing data to cross the boundary. A filter restricts data passage across the channel. Protected data is initially located in a secure area and is only released to such... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20090063872 - Management method for archive system security: Creating a plaintext index from a text that is extracted from a file presents the risk of a leak of confidential information from the created index. To address this problem, provided is a computer system which has a computer, a storage subsystem coupled to the computer, and a network coupling... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090063871 - Method and device for managing proprietary data format content: The invention provides a method for generating a protected data object from an original content by means of digital rights management (DRM) protection techniques, wherein said original content has a proprietary data format. Further, a method for providing a proprietary data format content included in a protected data object having... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090063875 - Data processing device, power supply voltage generator and method of controlling power supply voltage thereof: A data processing device including a power supply terminal having a first power supply voltage applied thereto; a regulator that generates a second power supply voltage based on the first power supply voltage; an internal circuit having an operation clock, wherein the second power supply voltage is supplied to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063873 - Document viewing mode for battery powered computing devices: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to document viewing within a battery powered computing device and provide a method, system and computer program product for the power optimized use of a battery powered computing device for selective document viewing. In one embodiment, a battery... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090063876 - Information processing apparatus and semiconductor integrated circuit: The information processing apparatus equipped with a microprocessor is provided. The information processing apparatus equipped with a microprocessor includes: an operation clock signal generator that generates a frequency-variable operation clock signal supplied to the microprocessor; and a power supply voltage generator that determines a value of a power supply voltage... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090063874 - Power sharing between midspan and endspan for higher power poe: Methods and systems for higher power PoE are provided. Embodiments overcome system limitations to PSE power scaling by using an endspan-midspan configuration which allocates power to the PD from both an endspan PSE and a midspan PSE. Embodiments are particularly suitable for deployed PoE systems having limited power supplies and/or... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090063878 - Group power management of network devices: A method and apparatus for group power management of network devices. Some embodiments of an apparatus include a power management module, where the power management module is to transition the apparatus from a normal state to a low power state. The apparatus includes a wake module having a processor that... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063879 - Information transmission device, system, and method: A network includes nodes that transmit information to each other. Some nodes operate intermittently; other nodes operate continuously. Information is transmitted to an intermittently operating node by a handshaking protocol in which the intermittently operating node indicates that it is ready to receive. Information is transmitted to a continuously operating... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090063877 - Systems and methods for power management: Systems and methods for providing smart power management to one or more external interfaces of an information handling system that is capable of acting as a host for charging and/or otherwise powering one or more external devices via external interface/s that have both data exchange and power transfer capability, such... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20090063881 - Low-overhead/power-saving processor synchronization mechanism, and applications thereof: A low-overhead/power-saving processor synchronization mechanism, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a processor having a load-linked register. The processor implements instructions related to the load-linked register. A first instruction, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to load a first value specified by the first... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090063882 - Power saving apparatus and method for a portable appliance: A power saving apparatus and method for a portable appliance to automatically enter into power saving mode when the portable appliance is turned off. The invention provides a power saving apparatus and method for a portable appliance to prevent the dam age of electronic elements and damage to saved data... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20090063880 - System and method for providing a high-speed message passing interface for barrier operations in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture: A method, computer program product, and system are provided performing a Message Passing Interface (MPI) job. A first processor chip receives a set of arrival signals from a set of processor chips executing tasks of the MPI job in the data processing system. The arrival signals identify when a processor... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090063883 - Storage system and power consumption reduction method for the same: This invention achieves data capacity efficiency via data de-duplication and maximizes a power-saving effect by disk operation control. In a storage system, when data is received from a computer, a value representing the bit string for the data is calculated and whether or not a value identical to the calculated... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090063884 - Application of multiple voltage droop detection and instruction throttling instances with customized thresholds across a semiconductor chip: A method and system for applying multiple voltage droop detection and instruction throttling instances with customized thresholds across semiconductor chips. Environmental parameters are detected for various locations on a chip, and timing margins are determined for each location on the chip. An acceptable voltage droop for each location is determined... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090063885 - System and computer program product for modifying an operation of one or more processors executing message passing interface tasks: A system and computer program product for modifying an operation of one or more processors executing message passing interface (MPI) tasks are provided. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090063886 - System for providing a cluster-wide system clock in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture: A system for providing a cluster-wide system clock in a multi-tiered full graph (MTFG) interconnect architecture are provided. Heartbeat signals transmitted by each of the processor chips in the computing cluster are synchronized. Internal system clock signals are generated in each of the processor chips based on the synchronized heartbeat... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090063887 - Memory module with termination component: A memory component having a first and second interface. The first interface is provided to sample address information in response to a first clock signal. The first interface includes inputs to sample at least two bits of the address information in succession during a clock cycle of the first clock... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090063888 - Method and apparatus for clock cycle stealing: A method for producing a plurality of clock signals. The method includes generating a reference clock signal using a phase locked loop (PLL). The reference clock signal is then provided to each of a plurality of clock divider units which each divide the received reference clock signal to produce a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090063889 - Aligning data on parallel transmission lines: The lane skew alignment device of the present invention facilitates the use of the SFI-5 standard interface in an FPGA without the need to rely on feedback signals from a remote device. The delay between lanes is determined using a D-Flip Flop or other type of phase comparator. To minimize... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20090063890 - Memory controller with multiple delayed timing signals: A memory controller with multiple delayed timing signals. Control information is provided by a first output driver circuit to a first signal path. Write data, associated with the control information, is provided by a second output driver circuit to a second signal path. Timing information is provided by a third... Agent: Shemwell Gregory & Courtney LLP