Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions 05/09

20090138693 - Determining device-internal parameter addresses from fieldbus-specific parameter addresses of a field device: A field device of process automation technology containing a plurality of parameters, with which are associated device-internal parameter addresses. The field device is connectable to a fieldbus having a fieldbus-specific parameter addressing system. In such case, the device-internal parameter addresses of the plurality of parameters are determinable by application of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090138691 - Method, system and computer-readable medium for personalized computational device configuration: A system and method for providing information concerning software, products and services in a consumer's out-of-the-box experience with a newly purchased computational device are provided.... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20090138692 - Self describing line cards in network switch: A network switch device includes a switch chassis, a supervisor mounted in the switch chassis; and a line card mounted in the chassis. The line card has independently addressable line card hardware components, and a line card memory storing a software-readable description of the line card hardware components. The supervisor... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090138695 - Method and apparatus for restoring system using virtualization: A display device includes a display panel and a fixing member fixed to the panel, the fixing member being formed of a resin material and being disposed to cover at least a portion of each surface of the display panel and increases durability of the display panel against external impact... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090138694 - Spi auto-boot mode: Systems and methods of detecting an auto-boot mode and booting data from a serial peripheral interface to a processor without the need of a read instruction utilizing a serial peripheral interface having an auto-boot mode detector are provided. In one embodiment, a serial peripheral interface comprises a serial processing component... Agent: Thomas G. Eschweiler, Esq. Eschweiler & Associates, LLC

20090138696 - Systems and methods for reducing static and total power consumption: A method and system for reducing power consumption in a programmable logic device (PLD) is provided. The power consumption may be reduced by preferably continually considering power consumption as a factor in circuit design during the technology mapping, routing, and period following routing of the programmable logic device.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090138700 - Cryptographic management apparatus, decryption management apparatus and program: A cryptographic management apparatus includes a storage unit which stores cryptographic key information containing a cryptographic key and cryptographic process condition information containing the cryptographic key information, a cryptographic process information input unit which receives an input of the object information and cryptographic key search request information, a cryptographic key... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138701 - Method for recording and restoring a ciphered content by a processing unit: A method of operating by a second processing unit a content recorded by a first processing unit, said first and second processing units having a specific key being managed by a central server. The processing units have access to a removable storage memory intended to record a content ciphered by... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) Attn: Patent Group

20090138698 - Method of searching encrypted data using inner product operation and terminal and server therefor: The present invention relates to a method of searching data for a plurality of keywords when a user encrypts the data and stores the encrypted data in an unsecured server. The user transmits the inner product value of a search keyword set to a sever, and the server compares the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090138699 - Software module management device and program: A cryptographic client device acquires a cryptographic key from a storage device son the basis of the accepted demand information, acquires a cryptographic evaluation description file from the storage device, acquires a cryptographic module corresponding to this cryptographic evaluation description file, executes a cryptographic process on the subject data to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138697 - User agent providing secure voip communication and secure communication method using the same: Disclosed are a user agent providing secure VoIP communication and a secure communication method using the same. A user agent of the invention has an additional module for providing a secure function as well as a module for providing general communication, thereby supporting the secure communication. In addition, as a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090138702 - Method and apparatus for supporting cryptographic-related activities in a public key infrastructure: In a node (110) communicating with other nodes in a network (150), a system and method for performing cryptographic-related functions is provided. The node (110) receives and transmits inputs and outputs requiring cryptographic-related processing. When cryptographic processing is required, the node (110) transmits a predefined message to a cryptographic processing... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090138703 - Disabling remote logins without passwords: A method and apparatus for disabling password-less remote logins. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a remote login request at a first computing system from a user of a second computing system. Both of the first computing system and the second computing system mount home directories from a file... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090138704 - Cryptographic method with integrated encryption and revocation, system, device and programs for implementing this method: A first entity (1) includes a secret encryption key (g1, γ) of an encryption diagram which can accept a plurality of encryption keys. A plurality of decoders have respective encryption keys, each incorporating a respective key index. The method comprises an encryption operation, wherein a value is taken as a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090138705 - Method for user data transmission: A first communication device used for a coding enables a direct connection installation message and a coded message to be transmitted in the direction of a second communication device. The direct connection installation message is a first direct connection address identifying a coding device and a coding message is allocated... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090138706 - Techniques for searching encrypted files: Techniques for efficiently searching encrypted searchable spaces. For example, embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for searching a plurality of files that are stored in encrypted (or ciphertext) form. According to embodiments of the present invention, the search can usually be performed by decrypting only a portion of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090138708 - Cryptographic module distribution system, apparatus, and program: In a cryptographic module distribution system, a cryptographic management server apparatus encrypts a cryptographic module using a key shared by a cryptographic apparatus, and transmits the encrypted cryptographic module to a client apparatus. The client apparatus transmits the encrypted cryptographic module to a cryptographic apparatus. The cryptographic apparatus decrypts the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138707 - Method for fast pre-authentication by distance recognition: A method of pre-authentication of a first entity (10) by a second entity (1) communicating with each other via a wireless connection. The second entity (1) sends (23′) a challenge value (c). If the first entity (10) receives (23) a challenge value (c′), it applies to the received challenge value... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090138709 - Optical transceiver with vendor authentication: An optical receiver comprising at least one processor and a memory including at least one of an encryption key or a decryption key and at least one of encryption microcode or decryption microcode that includes processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the optical transceiver... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090138710 - Message authentication device, message authentication method, message authentication program and storage medium therefor: A message authentication device, a message authentication method, a message authentication program and a storage medium therefor are provided, so as to realize higher speed processing than an authentication mode of existing block cipher, in combination of block cipher and one of its parts, with theoretical security in accordance with... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090138711 - Sender email address verification using reachback: A Reachback email system includes methods and software products for intercepting a sent email message from an email client, algorithmically determining a first Reachback URL from an email address of the email client, adding the first Reachback URL to the sent email message to form a sent Reachback email message,... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090138712 - Simple authentication of messages: Methods and systems for using simple authenticated messages are disclosed for use with implementing (i) synchronization schemes, (ii) encoded control messaging schemes, and (iii) encrypted data communication schemes. Messages are authenticated by applying a secure hash function to one or more authentication tokens to produce hash results which are compared... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090138714 - Communication apparatus, key server, management server, communication server, content distribution system, communication method, and recording medium: A plurality of first encrypted pieces is generated by encrypting the pieces with a first encryption key. The second encrypted piece is generated by encrypting at least one of the pieces with a second encryption key. The first encryption key and the second encryption key for encrypting the same piece... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138716 - Method for transmitting and receiving data, in particular for secure exchanges between an aircraft and a ground base, related devices and aircraft equipped with such devices: A method for transmitting data, a receiving method, related devices, and an aircraft equipped with the devices. The method includes determining an authentication word of the data; processing the data to obtain processed data; and transmitting the processed data on a transmission channel.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138713 - Proxy use within a mesh network: A method and system facilitate communications between an unassociated device and a server via a mesh network and a wide area network. The method may include receiving transmissions from candidate proxy devices, wherein each candidate proxy device is associated with a mesh network. The method may include selecting a proxy... Agent: King And Spalding LLP (trilliant) Trilliant Customer Number

20090138715 - Wireless network security using randomness: The present invention provides systems and methods for securing communications in a wireless network by utilizing the inherent randomness of propagation errors to enable legitimate users to dynamically create a shared symmetric secret key. In one embodiment, the invention provides a system with two computers each having a wireless network... Agent: Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee, LLP

20090138717 - System and method for over the air communication authentication using a service token: A system and method are described for securing over the air communications between a service and a communication device. For example, one embodiment of a method for creating a security token on a communication device for communication between the communication device and a service includes combining a device identification of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090138720 - Method and apparatus for detecting movement of downloadable conditional access system host in dcas network: A method of operating a Secure Micro (SM) of a host in a Conditional Access (CA) system is provided. The method includes: receiving, by the SM, a SecurityAnnounce message including a certificate of an AP server connected with a host; determining, by the SM, whether a public key stored in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090138718 - Method of generating a signature with \"tight\" security proof, associated verification method and signature scheme based on the diffie-hellman model: The invention relates to a method of electronically signing a message m, characterized in that it uses: p a prime integer, q a prime integer divider of (p−1), g, an element of order q of the set Zp of integers modulo p, H and G, hash functions, x a private... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090138719 - Method, apparatus, computer program, data storage medium and computer program product for preventing reception of media data from a multicast service by an unauthorized apparatus: The method for the transmission of media data from a multicast service by a first apparatus to a plurality of second apparatuses is suitable for preventing reception of the media data by an unauthorized second apparatus using a security process. A first apparatus is provided which can be used to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090138721 - Small memory footprint fast elliptic encryption: A method of generating a digital signature includes generating a first random number from a finite field of numbers, and generating field elements defining a first point on an elliptic curve defined over the finite field of numbers by performing elliptic curve arithmetic on the first random number and an... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20090138722 - Secure authentication for authorization for transaction processing: A method and apparatus for authenticating and authorizing online transactions. An authentication cookie is transmitted to a client system. The authentication cookie includes a user encryption key and an encrypted buffer that contains user identification data and a profile code. Subsequent requests for the particular service use the authentication cookie... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090138723 - Method of providing completely automated public turing test to tell computer and human apart based on image: Disclosed is a method of providing a completely automated public turing test to tell a computer and a human apart (CAPTCHA) based on image. The method comprises the steps of: storing a plurality of randomly-selected images by session when a request for a web page is received from a user... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090138725 - Authentication system and method: An authentication system comprises a sensor for detecting a fingerprint and a doodle drawn by the user. The fingerprint, or other biometric information, is distorted in accordance with the doodle to provide distorted biometric information that is referred to as a doodleprint. The user can use different doodles on different... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090138724 - Biometric method and apparatus and biometric data encryption method thereof: A biometric method, a biometric apparatus, and a biometric data encryption method thereof are disclosed. In the biometric method and the biometric apparatus, a biometric data is quantified to obtain a quantified data. A one-way function is then performed to convert the quantified data into an encrypted data. In the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090138726 - Authentication-secured access to a data carrier comprising a mass storage device and chip: The invention provides a method for accessing the mass memory of a data carrier with a mass memory and a chip. The data carrier has been or is personalized by an individual date of a use device which is or has already been stored in(to) the chip to a use... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090138727 - Challenge and response access control providing data security in data storage devices: Techniques for securing data stored on a data storage device are provided. The data storage device encrypts the data using a bulk encryption key and stores the bulk encryption key in non-volatile memory in an encrypted format. The data storage device generates a challenge and response pair, wraps a secret... Agent: Steven J. Cahill/ Hitachi Gst

20090138729 - Information processing device, program verification method, and recording medium: A first storage unit stores a plurality of security functions each defining a first protection attribute requiring a storage of a value of an argument for input/output of data. A second storage unit stores a program list describing a second protection attribute of a variable indicating a storage area of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138730 - Methods and systems for providing a secure electronic mailbox: A secure electronic mailbox is provided to a customer having an electronic account. The electronic account links the secure electronic mailbox to a physical address of the customer. The customer can send and receive secure and non-secure messages via the secure electronic mailbox. The customer can also access electronic services... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090138728 - Program update method and server: A system including a secure LSI 1 establishes a communication path to/from a server 3 (UD1), and receives a common key-encrypted program generated by encryption with a common key and transmitted from the server 3 (UD6 and UD7). The received common key-encrypted program is decrypted to generate a raw program,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090138731 - tamper-resistant trusted java virtual machine and method of using the same: A trusted Java virtual machine provides a method for supporting tamper-resistant applications, ensuring the integrity of an application and its secrets such as keys. The trusted Java virtual machine verifies the integrity of the Java application, prevents debugging of the Java application, and allows the Java application to securely store... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090138732 - Network type power distribution device: A network type power distribution device includes a set of program memory, a set of data memory, a micro-controller, a data buffer zone, a control input or output module, an analog-digital converter, a transceiver and an Ethernet port. The network type power distribution device is a single layer structure, which... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090138733 - System and method for throttling memory power consumption: A power throttling method and system for a memory controller in a computer system comprising a power supply module including a plurality of bulk power supplies (“BPSs”) are described. In one embodiment, each of the at BPSs provides to a power output monitor a status signal indicative of a status... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090138734 - Power control system, power control apparatus, power control method and storage medium: A power control system for a network system in which a plurality of devices are connected over a network can adequately distribute limited power according to the operational state of each device while keeping a high reliability. A device operating in normal mode broadcasts a power accommodation request when the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090138735 - Electronic apparatus having signal processing circuit selectively entering power saving mode according to operation status of receiver logic and related method thereof: An electronic apparatus with power saving functionality is disclosed. The electronic apparatus has a first signal processing circuit and a second signal processing circuit. The first signal processing circuit includes a receiver logic for processing at least a satellite signal generated from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) to obtain... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090138736 - Power management method for handheld electronic device: A power management method for a handheld electronic device is provided. In the present method, a G-sensor is used for detecting a normal vector of a plane of the handheld electronic device. The normal vector is then determined whether being directed toward a downward direction. When the normal vector is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090138737 - Apparatus, method and program product for adaptive real-time power and perfomance optimization of multi-core processors: An apparatus, method and program product for optimizing core performance and power in of a multi-core processor. The apparatus includes a multi-core processor coupled to a clock source providing a clock frequency to one or more cores, an independent power supply coupled to each core for providing a supply voltage... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20090138738 - Method for automatically switching power states: A method for automatically switching power states is disclosed. According to the method, when an electronic apparatus is in a power-saving state and a waking up time is reached, the electronic apparatus is switched into a working state, and when an executing time is reached, the electronic apparatus automatically executes... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090138739 - Circuitry for optimization of power consumption in a system employling multiple electronic components, one of which is always powered on: Circuitry for conserving power in a system employing multiple electronic components of which a first electronic component operates at a first frequency and is continuously powered on by a power source. The system further includes a second electronic component operating at a second frequency different than that of the first... Agent: Cheryl F. Cohen, LLC

20090138741 - Information handling system that supplies power to a memory expansion board: An information handling system (“IHS”) including a processor, a memory controller coupled to the processor, and a memory device interface coupled to the memory controller is provided. The IHS also includes a voltage control circuit, coupled to the interface, for determining whether the interface is coupled to a memory expansion... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090138740 - Method and computer device capable of dealing with power fail: A method capable of dealing with a power fail is adapted for a control board with power thereof supplied from a power supply. The control board has a processor and a memory disposed thereon. The present method includes firstly determining whether or not an alternating current input to the power... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090138742 - Automatic clock and data alignment: A circuit is described for automatically adjusting a phase of an input register load clock to be synchronized with transitions of data bits forming an n-bit word. The circuit detects the first transition of a data bit in the n-bit word. The circuit then time-shifts the input clock, to generate... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20090138743 - Method and apparatus for secure communication between cryptographic systems using real time clock: Provided are a method and apparatus for secure communication between cryptographic systems using a Real Time Clock (RTC). The method and apparatus allow a transmitting cryptographic system to transfer partial RTC data and a receiving cryptographic system to restore entire RTC data, thereby minimizing data to be transferred between the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090138744 - Multiplier device with suppression of higher-order distortion: A multiplier device is configured to include first to nth multipliers M1 to Mn for multiplying a carrier modulated information signal with first to nth mutually phase shifted and identical, substantially square wave mixing signals MS1 to MSn with 50% duty cycle. In order to eliminate fifth or higher order... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090138745 - Electronic devices with radio-frequency collision resolution capabilities: Electronic devices such as portable electronic devices contain electronic components. The electronic components may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may be used for handling data communications and cellular telephone voice communications. One or more adjustable clock sources may be provided within the electronic device. The adjustable clock... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20090138746 - Method for efficient software generation of multiple pulse width modulated signals: Pulse width modulation signals are generated by identifying an event table having a plurality of events, each event including a time to next event parameter. Each desired pulse width modulation signal is characterized by a first event designating a transition from a first state to a second state and a... Agent: Autoliv Asp Inc

20090138748 - Apparatus and method for micro performance tuning of a clocked digital system: An apparatus and method for micro-tuning an effective clock frequency of a core in a microprocessor. The apparatus includes a microprocessor having at least one core with logic configured to transition between states, a clock signal coupled to the microprocessor, the clock signal having a predetermined clock frequency based on... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20090138749 - Hypertransport/spi-4 interface supporting configurable deskewing: A dual mode digital interface supports the HyperTransport Standard and at least one other interface standard. The dual mode digital interface includes a plurality of data line deskew/sampling blocks, a data group deskew module, and an enablement control module. The plurality of data line deskew/sampling blocks deskew and sample incoming... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090138747 - Phase adjustment apparatus and method for a memory device signaling system: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for adjusting phase of data signals to compensate for phase-offset variations between devices during normal operation. The phase of data signals are adjusted individually in each transmit data unit and receive data unit across multiple data slices with a common set of phase vector clock... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20090132798 - Electronic device and method for resuming from suspend-to-memory state thereof: An electronic device and a method for resuming from a suspend-to-memory (S3) state thereof are provided. The electronic device comprises a detecting circuit, a storage unit and a booting module. The detecting circuit outputs a state change value when detecting a state variation of any non-hot plug device. The storage... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090132797 - Methods, media and apparatus for booting diskless systems: The disclosure provides a system, method, and computer readable medium for booting a diskless client in an information handling system (IHS). Cached boot data is stored in a non-volatile memory of the diskless client. The diskless client sends a boot request with an identifier and receives a boot reply containing... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20090132801 - Configuration management for real-time server: A Realtime Event Server comprising a component to operate on data from data streams; and a configuration system adapted to supply configuration for the realtime event server, the configuration including dynamic configuration, the dynamic configuration being changeable without restarting the component.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090132800 - Method for adjusting setup default value of bios and main board thereof: A method for adjusting setup default value of a basic input output system (BIOS) and a main board are provided. The main board offers a BIOS memory which includes a boot block and a main block. The boot block includes an adjusting table, and the main block includes an original... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090132799 - Systems and methods for configuring out-of-band bios settings: A method may for updating system configuration data is provided. A configuration change request may be received from a remote user at a local baseboard management controller (BMC) via a network while a processor associated with the BMC is offline. The configuration change request may be stored in a request... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090132802 - Encryption data integrity check with dual parallel encryption engines: An encryption method encrypts a clear text twice using a first encryption engine to produce a first cipher text and a second encryption engine to produce a second cipher text. The method compares the first cipher text with the second cipher text, or compares a checksum of the first cipher... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090132803 - Secure delivery system: Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to storing and forwarding electronic files securely throughout the lifecycle of the file. One aspect of the invention relates to providing encrypted copies of electronic files that can only be unencrypted by the intended recipient.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090132804 - Secured live software migration: A novel approach is introduced for secured live migration of a software component currently running on one hosting device to another hosting device. One or more pages of the software component are encrypted before migration of the software component, and are later decrypted after the migration is complete. The software... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090132805 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090132806 - Method for agreeing between at least one first and one second communication subscriber to security key for securing communication link: The use of suitable measures in a method for agreeing on a security key between at least one first and one second communication station to secure a communication link is improved so that the security level for the communication is increased and the improved method can be combined with already... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090132807 - Renegotiating ssl/tls connections with client certificates on post requests: A method and apparatus for providing securing a connection with a (Secure Sockets Layer) SSL/TLS-enabled server. In one embodiment, a web client establishes a new connection by initiating a communication with the SSL/TLS-enabled server. The communication includes a non-POST request. After the client negotiates the secured connection with the server... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132808 - System and method of performing electronic transactions: A system and method of performing electronic transactions between a server computer and a client computer. The method implements a communication protocol with encrypted data transmission and mutual authentication between a server and a hardware device via a network, performs a decryption of encrypted server responses, forwards the decrypted server... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090132809 - Method and apparatus for the provision of unified systems and network management of aggregates of separate systems: A method and apparatus for the provision of unified systems and network management of aggregates of separate systems is described herein.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132811 - Access to authorized domains: In a domain comprising a plurality of devices, the devices in the domain sharing a common domain key, a method of enabling a entity that is not a member of the domain to create an object that can be authenticated and/or decrypted using the common domain key, the method comprising... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090132810 - Distributed digital certificate validation method and system: A distributed digital certificate validation method of a client connectable in communication with a host is provided. The method comprises making a first connection with the host to establish data communication with the host, sending to the host a request for a certificate validation result, importing from the host a... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090132812 - Method and apparatus for verifying revocation status of a digital certificate: Verifying revocation status of a digital certificate is provided in part by a receiver verifying a security certificate for a sender. In an embodiment, an approach comprises receiving a first security certificate associated with the sender and storing the security certificate in a location accessible to the receiver; updating the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090132813 - Apparatus and methods for providing scalable, dynamic, individualized credential services using mobile telephones: Apparatus and methods perform transactions in a secure environment between an individual and another party, such as a merchant, in various embodiments. The individual possesses a mobile electronic device, such as a smartphone, that can encrypt data according to a public key infrastructure. The individual authenticates the individual's identity to... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090132814 - Program, method and apparatus for managing electronic documents: An electronic document management program, an electronic document management method and an electronic document management apparatus acquire a plurality of pieces of part identification information respectively identifiably expressing a plurality of parts of document information and a digital signature corresponding to the document information, acquire the preparation type, the preparer's... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090132816 - Pc on usb drive or cell phone: Disclosed are virtual, personal computers implemented on USB drive, cell phone platforms, or other small portable computing platform. Exemplary personal computers include a nanokernel or minikernel configured to boot when connected to a host computer. A memory is provide for storing the nanokernel or minikernel, along with encrypted data, secure... Agent: Leland L. Chan Lockheed Martin Is&s

20090132815 - Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection: The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090132817 - Method, system and device for determining a mobile ip key, notifying a mobile ip type: The present invention relates to a wireless communication technology field. A method for determining a mobile IP key of a mobile terminal is provided, which includes: receiving a mobile IP registration request message of a mobile terminal, in which the mobile IP registration request message includes a key material field;... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090132820 - Content data management system and method: Embodiments of the present invention provide a simplified authentication transaction for reconnecting a storage device to a host apparatus that has completed authentication in the past. According to one embodiment, an authentication log is recorded in the host. Plural units of this log information are recorded in the storage device.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090132818 - Content server apparatus, on-vehicle player apparatus, system, method, and program: A content server apparatus (10) includes: a unique information holding unit (103) which holds unique information of an on-vehicle player apparatus (20), a content obtaining unit (101) which obtains a content from outside, an encrypting unit (104) which encrypts the obtained content, prior to a transmission request from the on-vehicle... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090132819 - System for self-service recharging and method for the same: The present invention discloses a method for self-service recharging and a system for the same, relating to the security communications of online banking. The system comprises a client and a server. The method mainly comprises the steps of: 1) establishing a data security channel between the client and the server;... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20090132821 - Information security device: The present invention provides an apparatus for securely acquire 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.

20090132822 - Method and device for securely distributing data in group communication: In a method for securely distributing data in group communication, the group has a plurality of members, and the method includes the following steps: (A) under a data recording mode, assigning one member of the group as a recording member; (B) enabling the recording member to generate and send a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090132823 - Multimedia data protection: The invention provides a method of transmitting a media work such as a movie to a client comprising the steps of (a) encrypting the work using a sequence of different keys corresponding to respective temporally spaced segments of the document, (b) transmitting software code containing an algorithm from a security... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090132824 - Original, data circulation method, system, apparatus, and computer readable medium: An original data circulation system for storing or circulating original data which is digital information is provided. The original data circulation system includes an issuer apparatus, a user apparatus and a collector apparatus. The issuer apparatus generates originality information including first information corresponding to the issuer apparatus and second information... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon

20090132825 - Apparatus and method for transmitting secure and/or copyrighted digital video broadcasting data over internet protocol network: A content distribution method for video copyright authentication and security comprising the steps of invisibly watermarking digital video data input from a video data source to create watermarked data; encrypting the watermarked digital video data using an encryption key to create encrypted video data; sending the encrypted watermarked digital data... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20090132826 - Hybrid encoding of data transmissions in a security system: A security system in which wireless transmitting security devices use a hybrid or dual encoding methodology, wherein a first part of a data message is encoded in a return-to-zero (RZ) format and a second part of the data message is encoded in a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) format, thereby increasing error detection... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090132827 - Debugging port security interface: The present invention provides a secure JTAG interface to an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). In the preferred embodiment the invention operates through the combined efforts of a Security Module (SM) comprising a state machine that controls the security modes for the ASIC, and a Test Control Module (TCM) which contains... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20090132828 - Cryptographic binding of authentication schemes: Methods and apparatus cryptographically bind authentication schemes to verify that a secure authentication sequence was executed for access to sensitive applications/resources. Users execute two login sequences with a strong authentication framework. Upon completion of the first, the framework generates an unencrypted token from underlying data, later hashed into an authentication... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20090132829 - Information processor, method for verifying authenticity of computer program, and computer program product: A disc stores therein a computer program and encrypted information. A BIOS is executed at the time of start-up and starts the computer program. A TPM is connected to the BIOS by a low-speed bus. The TPM includes a register for storing data. A blob stores therein true hash values... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090132831 - Circuit arrangement with non-volatile memory module and method for en-/decrypting data in the non-volatile memory module: An apparatus and method is provided for protecting data in a non-volatile memory by using an encryption and decryption that encrypts and decrypts the address and the data stored in the non-volatile memory using a code read only memory that stores encryption and decryption keys that are addressed by a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090132832 - Electronic musical apparatus for recording and reproducing music content: In an electronic musical apparatus, a media ID (MD1, MD2, MD3, MD4, MD5) is associated with each recording media of a memory card 8, hard disk device 10, flash memory ROM 11, CD-ROM 12 and internet 15. Each media ID is encrypted to be recorded on a different position in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090132830 - Secure processing device, secure processing method, encrypted confidential information embedding method, program, storage medium, and integrated circuit: When performing secure processing using confidential information that needs to be confidential, the secure processing device according to the present invention prevents the confidential information from being exposed by an unauthorized analysis such as a memory dump. A signature generation device 100 that provides a message M with a signature... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090132833 - Storage device, terminal device using the storage device, and method thereof: A method of using a storage device in a terminal device connected to the storage device includes reading an identification key stored in the storage device, if the storage device is connected, recovering, based on the identification key, one or more characteristic parameters regarding at least one of the storage... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090132834 - Distributing integrated circuit net power accurately in power and thermal analysis: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for distributing net power accurately. A workload is simulated operating on an integrated circuit. Net switching activity is determined for a set of nets and a set of subnets in the integrated circuit. Net switching data is generated based on the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090132835 - Method and system for power-state transition controllers: Power-state transitioning arrangements are implemented using a variety of methods. Using one such method, a power-state transitioning circuit arrangement is implemented having a processing circuit that does not include an arithmetic logic unit. A power-state transition script including instructions from an instruction set is stored in a memory circuit. The... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090132836 - Power-saving control apparatus and method: A power-saving control apparatus includes a memory storing first to Nth different authentication codes, determines, every time a signal including an authentication code is received, whether the authentication code in the received signal is a valid code which matches one of the authentication codes in the memory, outputs an operation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090132840 - Cross-layer power management in a multi-layer system: A method for cross-layer power management in a multi-layer system includes determining whether there is a service level violation for an application running on a hardware platform. Power consumption of the hardware platform is controlled in response to the service level violation.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090132839 - Method and device to handle denial of service attacks on wake events: A method and device may selectively resume a computing device from a low power state according to a security policy. The security policy may be embedded in the hardware of the computing device and may be enforced even when the device is in a low power state. Such a policy... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090132841 - Processor accessing a scratch pad on-demand to reduce power consumption: The present invention provides processing systems, apparatuses, and methods that access a scratch pad on-demand to reduce power consumption. In an embodiment, an instruction fetch unit initiates an instruction fetch. When a scratch pad is enabled, an instruction is retrieved from the scratch pad in parallel with a translation of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090132837 - System and method for dynamically selecting clock frequency: A system and method for dynamically changing the clock frequency of a system clock is disclosed. The invention includes selecting a peripheral interface clock signal from a plurality of currently active peripheral interface clock signals, each operating at a particular frequency. The selected peripheral interface clock signal operates at the... Agent: The Tpl Group

20090132838 - System and method for power management of a storage enclosure: A system and method for power management of storage enclosures are disclosed. A system may include a storage enclosure and a host communicatively coupled to the storage enclosure. The storage enclosure may include at least one storage resource and a management module. The host may be configured to: (a) communicate... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090132842 - Managing computer power consumption in a computer equipment rack: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for managing power consumption of computing devices in a computer equipment rack. Embodiments include monitoring aggregate power consumption of a plurality of computing devices in the computer equipment rack; determining whether the aggregate power consumption exceeds a predetermined maximum threshold; if the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090132843 - Current mode bus interface system, method of performing a mode transition and mode control signal generator for the same: A current mode bus interface system includes a host interface device configured to transmit a reference current and a clock current, and to transmit a data current during a first transfer mode, and to receive a reverse direction data current and compare the reverse direction data current with the reference... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090132844 - Method, apparatus, and system for optimizing frequency and performance in a multi-die microprocessor: With the progress toward multi-core processors, each core is can not readily ascertain the status of the other dies with respect to an idle or active status. A proposal for utilizing an interface to transmit core status among multiple cores in a multi-die microprocessor is discussed. Consequently, this facilitates thermal... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132845 - Power supply monitoring system and power supply apparatus through using software instruction: A power supply monitoring system with power supply apparatus is operated by a software instruction. The power supply monitoring system includes a computer motherboard, a power supply, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor built in the power supply and coupled to an electro-thermal adjusting unit of the power supply; a transmission... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090132846 - Virtual machine monitor, virtual machine system and clock distribution method thereof: A virtual machine monitor, a virtual machine system and a clock distribution method thereof. The clock distribution method includes: distributing real clock resource to a Guest Operation System (GOS), and saving correspondence between said GOS and said real clock resource; intercepting an access operation of said GOS to a virtual... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090132847 - Information processing apparatus having memory clock setting function and memory clock setting method: A memory clock setting function acquires the band of a memory bus, and acquires the total band of a CPU bus and the I/O buses. When the band of the memory bus is greater than the total band of the CPU bus and I/O buses, the clock rate less than... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090125708 - Internet appliance: A system, method and apparatus dedicated to accessing certain aspects of the Internet. The system includes a hardware device having a display and firmware associated with the display. The firmware includes a web browser and an operating system, configured to automatically connect to a datacenter server using the web browser,... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20090125710 - Method and apparatus for booting host: Provided are a method and a device for booting a host embodying a downloadable conditional access system (DCAS), wherein one of a plurality of pre-determined booting modes is decided as a booting mode of the host based on first information indicating whether a host can communicate with a broadcasting service... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090125709 - System and method for a remote information handling system boot: In an information handling system (IHS), providing an IHS boot includes forcing the IHS to power on or reboot, retrieving a virtual serial peripheral interface (SPI) boot image using a virtual SPI bus, booting the IHS to the virtual SPI boot image, turning off the virtual SPI boot image, and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090125711 - Securing unprivileged sessions on posix systems: A method and apparatus for providing security to Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) system. In one embodiment, a file system with noexec/nodev options is mounted on the POSIX system. The root directory of the mounted file system is changed with a chroot operation to generate a secured system directory structure.... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090125712 - Network communications security agent: One embodiment of an inventive networking environment includes clients called sending clients because they send network content through a network, and clients called receiving clients because they receive the network content from the sending clients through the network. Both sending clients and receiving clients are “clients” in that they rely... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090125713 - Wireless mesh network with secure automatic key loads to wireless devices: A wireless mesh network provides secure communication by encrypting data using one or more encryption keys. A configuration device in communication with a security manager of the network provides a temporary secure communication path between the security manager and a new field device to be added to the mesh network.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090125714 - Offline analysis of packets: A network interface and storage medium that, in an embodiment, filter packets received from a network based on rules. The filtering discards a subset of the packets based on the rules and keeps a remaining subset of the packets. The remaining subset is copied to a destination. The rules are... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090125715 - Method and apparatus for remotely authenticating a command: A system that remotely authenticates a command is presented. During operation, an authentication system receives the command from an intermediary system, wherein the command is to be executed on a target system. Next, the authentication system authenticates the intermediary system. If the intermediary system is successfully authenticated, the authentication system... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090125716 - Computer initialization for secure kernel: Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM) mechanisms can be initiated, not by CPU-manufacturer-specific instructions, but by the execution of code in System Management Mode (SMM) that can modify the values stored in specific Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs) of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The SMM code can be verified... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090125717 - Methods and apparatus for secure data processing and transmission: Methods and apparatus provide for placing an apparatus into at least one of a plurality of operational modes, wherein: the apparatus includes a local memory, a bus operable to carry information to and from the local memory, one or more arithmetic processing units operable to process data and operatively coupled... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090125718 - Domain upgrade method in digital rights management: Disclosed is domain upgrade method in Digital Rights Management (DRM) capable of reducing network resources by simplifying signal procedures at the time of transferring changed domain keys. A device joining after domain upgrade is provided with only a domain key of a domain generation after the domain upgrade, but is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090125719 - Methods of ensuring legitimate pay-per-click advertising: A method for transferring state information between a client device and a server, the client device being configured to select content, and the server having a memory module and being configured to store referenced content and to transmit referenced content to at least one client device. The method includes receiving... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090125720 - System having secure access between ic entities: A system is provided having first and second integrated circuits. The first integrated circuit implements a first entity which stores an encryption or decryption function, one or more secret keys for use with the function, and an identity of each of the secret keys which are each indicative of an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090125721 - Data communication method, computer and information storing medium: A computer including at least two processors is used to preferably perform a secure data communication. Data containing a processor ID identifying one of the at least two processors provided for a first computer (computer 31) is transmitted from the first computer to a second computer (a node at the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090125723 - Authentication of an object: A method of authenticating an object is disclosed. Coded data portions are provided on a surface of the object. Each coded data portion encodes a position of coded data portion on the surface, an identity associated with the object and a signature fragment. The signature fragment is a fragment of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090125722 - Cross-platform digital rights management providing multi-level security information flow tracking: A method and system for generating and controlling access to copy-protected digital media files. Digital media content is obtained and encoded in electronic file using a media codec. The encoded media content is encrypted in the electronic file and a multi-format renderer configured to render the encoded, encrypted electronic file... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090125724 - Object authentication: An apparatus for authenticating an object is disclosed. The apparatus receives from a sensing device indicating data. The indicating data is formed by the sensing device in response to sensing a plurality of coded data portions on a surface of the object. Each coded data portion encodes a position of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090125725 - External memory access device and method of accessing external memory: An external memory access device and a method of accessing an external memory are provided. The external memory access device includes an internal memory unit for storing authentication information of at least one external memory and a control unit for extracting the authentication information from the internal memory unit, transmitting... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090125726 - Method and apparatus of providing the security and error correction capability for memory storage devices: A method and apparatus of configuring the byte structure of a memory storage device, including a flash memory device, to enhance the security and error correction capability is described. In one embodiment, the method includes increasing the security of data stored in the storage device by encrypting data with a... Agent: The Tpl Group

20090125727 - Method for cryptographic processing of a message: m

20090125728 - Security method of system by encoding instructions: The provided is a method for securing a system by encoding instructions. The method includes encoding instructions composed by a system developer and storing the encoded instructions through an encoding module during a compiling procedure, and decoding the encoded instructions and executing the decoded instructions through a decoding module. In... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090125729 - Original data circulation method, system, apparatus, and computer readable medium: An original data circulation system for storing or circulating original data which is digital information is provided. The original data circulation system includes an issuer apparatus, a user apparatus and a collector apparatus. The issuer apparatus generates originality information including first information corresponding to the issuer apparatus and second information... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon

20090125731 - Core voltage controlling apparatus: A core voltage controlling apparatus suitable for a center processing unit (CPU) is provided. The apparatus includes a level shifting unit, a time-delay unit and a logic unit. An input terminal of the level shifting unit receives and shifts a first voltage signal, and an output terminal generates a second... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090125730 - Managing power consumption in a computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclose for managing power consumption in a computer, the computer including random access memory (‘RAM’) implemented in two or more memory modules, the computer having installed upon it an operating system, the operating system including a power management module, that includes: freeing, by the operating... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090125732 - Network-connectable device and method for managing power thereof: A network-connectable device is configured to communicate with one or more computer-related devices via a network. The network-connectable device includes: a mode selector configured to select a power mode between a first power mode and a second power mode; a power state switching unit operable on the first power mode... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090125735 - Active idle communication system: To reduce power consumption and heat generation, an active idle system is proposed that monitors for an idle period and then, after a predetermined time, initiates a silent period. During the silent period data and idle frames are not transmitted. During the silent period, one or more transceiver components may... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20090125733 - Method for remote power control and the circuit thereof: The present invention provides a remote control system for a power supply, comprising a display data channel (DDC); a first control circuit electrically connected to said DDC, coding and sending a control signal through said DDC to control said power supply; a second control circuit electrically connected to said DDC,... Agent: John Chen

20090125734 - Power supply controlling system: A power supply controlling system includes a receiving device, a power supply device, and a transmitting device connected to an information processing apparatus. The receiving device includes a transmitting portion that transmits a switch signal of a power supply switch used for on/off of the power supply device to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090125736 - Home appliance and controlling method of the same: The present invention is related to a home appliance such as a dish washer, a laundry machine, a refrigerator, etc. One embodiment of a home appliance according to the present invention comprises a control panel and a controller. The controller panel may include a power switch which allows a user... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090125739 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing information: A receiving unit receives data from an external network device through a network. A determining unit determines whether a data processing is needed for the data received by the receiving unit. When the determining unit determines that the data processing is needed for the data, a data processing unit performs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090125738 - Data processing apparatus: An access stop control apparatus is provided in a resource control apparatus so that reception of access from a master apparatus is temporarily stopped during changing of a clock frequency and the clock frequency is changed at safe timing. Thereby, the operation of the master apparatus does not need to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090125737 - Power management of an electronic system: A variable group power limit is enforced to limit the net power consumption of a group of devices in a computer system, and a variable device power limit enforced on each device is independently adjustable to satisfy the current group power limit. The device power limits are dynamically selected according... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090125742 - Arrangement and method for controlling power modes of hardware resources: A circuit arrangement and method of executing program code which utilize power control instructions capable of dynamically controlling power dissipation of multiple hardware resources during execution of a program by a processor. The processor configured to process such power control instructions and to maintain the power modes of the multiple... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090125741 - Autonomous thermal management: The present invention provides both a peripheral device that regulates its own temperature by adjusting its power consumption, and a method to accomplish the same. The method generally includes monitoring the temperature of the mass storage device and reducing power consumption when the temperature exceeds a certain threshold.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20090125740 - Dual programmable energy saving timer system: A dual control programmable energy savings timer is described that provides primary control to a utility provider or other supplier of electrical power but a second level of programmable control to an end user that enables additional power savings to end users of electrical energy.... Agent: Michael A. Ervin [m. A. Ervin & Associates]

20090125743 - Socket assembly with data traffic sensing: A power distribution apparatus for use with a suite of master and peripheral devices, comprising a master electrical outlet and at least one slave electrical outlet, both connectable to a common electrical power supply. The apparatus further comprising a monitoring means for monitoring data traffic, e.g. USB bus signals, associated... Agent: Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20090125744 - Structure for a system and method of predicting power events in an intermittent power environment and dispatching computational operations of an integrated circuit accordingly: A design structure for a system and method of predicting power events in intermittent power environments and dispatching computational operations of an integrated circuit accordingly. A power management prediction system includes a controller executing a prediction algorithm, an arrangement of computation circuitry, a non-volatile storage device containing a power requirements... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20090125745 - Automatic reduced audio low battery warning: A method and apparatus for a low battery life warning that includes detecting when a battery life of a battery in a device has fallen below a certain level, and generating a warning of a low battery life by decreasing an audio level output by the device to a percentage... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20090125747 - Asymmetrical io method and system: An asymmetrical IO method and system are described. In one embodiment, a host device includes shared resources for data synchronization of the host device and a client device. The shared resources include a shared phase interpolator. In an embodiment, data lines between the host and client are also used to... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090125746 - Integrated circuit with intra-chip clock interface and methods for use therewith: An integrated circuit includes a substrate. A first integrated circuit die includes a first circuit and a first intra-chip clock interface that transmits a first clock signal via the substrate. A second integrated circuit die includes a second circuit that operates based on the first clock signal and a second... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090125748 - Methods for the support of jtag for source synchronous interfaces: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention comprise a method for the support of a JTAG interface for the testing of connectivity between integrated circuits. The method comprises delivering output from a JTAG register to a primary register, delivering a JTAG control signal to the primary register and a clock signal... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20090125749 - Method and device for controlling a computer system: A method and a device for controlling a computer system having at least two execution units, in particular for controlling a multiprocessor system having a switchover means via which a switchover is possible between at least two different operating modes of the computer system, a switchover of the clock frequency... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090125750 - Using memories to change data phase or frequency: A data processing apparatus includes a first memory which comprises a first input/output port and a second input/output port; a second memory which is connected to the first memory and comprises a third input/output port; and a controller for controlling the first and second memories to perform operations of: (a)... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090119496 - Method and apparatus to support booting despite deficient resources: A method and related apparatuses support booting despite deficient system resources. In one embodiment, a processing system includes two or more devices in a peripheral connect interface (PCI) subsystem, as well as instructions encoded in a machine accessible medium. The instructions, when executed during a process of booting the processing... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090119498 - Hot-plugging a memory device: An extensible firmware interface (EFI) framework is to enable hot-plugging and hot-removal of memory devices. The security phase of the EFI may enable a cache to operate as RAM (CAR mode) to support execution of pre-EFI (PEI) tasks. In one embodiment, the PEI phase may move the memory reference code... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119499 - Method and micro-system for updating configurations of target system in computer: A technique for updating configurations of a target system in a computer. The method comprises booting, based on Preboot Execution Environment technology, a micro-system for updating configurations of a target system before booting the target system, the micro-system performing the steps of: (a) acquiring target configuration packages via a network... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20090119497 - System and method for managing booting of an information handling system: Systems and methods for managing booting of an information handling system are disclosed. A method for managing the booting of an information handling system may include receiving user input for booting an information handling system to a first partition or a second partition. The user input may be used to... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090119500 - Managing software configuration using mapping and repeatable processes: The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system of injecting automated repeatable processes, or workflows, into software configuration management sequences. The benefits of such a system include the ability to delegate configurability change abilities to an IT administrator while still maintaining efficiency and management control over such... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090119501 - Method, computer system and computer program product: A method for maintaining a computer system on the basis of an access profile and a change profile is disclosed. The computer system includes at least one workstation computer and a maintenance computer. The invention further relates to a method for providing an access profile and a method for assessing... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090119502 - Apparatus and method for securing data on a portable storage device: A portable storage device including a microprocessor and a secure user data area, the microprocessor operable to perform on-the-fly encryption/decryption of secure data stored on the storage device under a user password, the microprocessor also operable to exclude access to the secure user data area unless the user password is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20090119504 - Intercepting and split-terminating authenticated communication connections: Systems and methods are provided for enabling optimization of communications within a networked computing environment requiring secure, authenticated client-server communication connections. Optimization is performed by a pair of intermediary network devices installed in a path of communications between the client and the server. A secure, authenticated communication connection between the... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090119503 - Secure programmable hardware component: A cryptographic device may include a programmable hardware component, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array for example, and a processor. The programmable hardware component may encrypt and decrypt data. The programmable hardware component may be securely configured via cryptographically signed and encrypted configuration package. The configuration package may contain... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090119506 - Method and apparatus for secure assertion of resource identifier aliases: A method and apparatus for secure assertion of a user identifier alias. The method comprises receiving at an application server from a first device a first user identifier, a first device identifier and a first authentication key associated with the first device; receiving at the application server from the first... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./dlg Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090119505 - Transaction method and verification method: In a method for performing an electronic transaction a first transaction part generates a digital signature and an encrypted digital signature. The second transaction party receives both signatures. The second party is enabled to verify the digital signature, but cannot verify or (re)generate the encrypted digital signature. A trusted third... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090119507 - Reference monitor for enforcing information flow policies: A reference monitor that authorizes information flows between elements of a data processing system is provided. The elements of the data processing system are associated with security data structures in a reference monitor. An information flow request is received from a first element to authorize an information flow from the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090119508 - Disabling on/off capacity on demand: Apparatus and article of manufacture for disabling on-demand access to computerized resources on a computerized apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a disablement code; validating the disablement code; and disabling an on-demand resource if the validating is successful, thereby rendering the disabled on-demand resource unavailable for use by users... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090119511 - Automated key management system and method: A system and method for automatic key and certificate management is disclosed. In particular, a key store in a base computer contains both new and previously viewed cryptographic keys. In one embodiment, for each new key, if a corresponding certificate matches an existing certificate, the new certificate may be automatically... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090119510 - End-to-end network security with traffic visibility: End-to-end security between clients and a server, and traffic visibility to intermediate network devices, achieved through combined mode, single pass encryption and authentication using two keys is disclosed. In various embodiments, a combined encryption-authentication unit includes a cipher unit and an authentication unit coupled in parallel to the cipher unit,... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090119509 - Method for negotiating security-related functions of subscriber station in wireless portable internet system: The present invention relates to a subscriber station security-related parameter negotiation method in a wireless portable Internet system. The subscriber station security-related parameter negotiation method includes security-related parameters in transmitting/receiving basic capability negotiation request messages and basic capability negotiation response messages such that the subscriber station and the base station... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090119512 - System and method for providing secured electronic transactions: Methods and systems are provided for a secured electronic communication in a network that includes a verification station, a registration station, and a authentication station. At the registration station, a request for a digital certificate is received from a user. The registration station instructs the verification station to forward to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090119513 - Method and system for remotely debugging a failed computer machine: A method for conducting a remote debugging session comprises setting a secure connection link with a failed client machine, receiving status information from the client machine through the connection link in response to a debug instruction sent to the client machine, displaying the status information in a readable form, requesting... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090119514 - Content data structure and memory card: Content data of the present invention is used by a playback apparatus having a display. The content data has a data structure in which a plurality of pieces of audio data to be played back are associated with pieces of encrypted code information which are created by encrypting with a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090119515 - Obfuscation evaluation method and obfuscation method: An obfuscation evaluation method which sufficiently evaluates an obfuscation performed on a program. The obfuscation evaluation method includes: a step (S424) of executing an obfuscated code module (204) produced by obfuscating an original code module (200) of a program, and generating a trace output file (218) by logging a result... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090119516 - Secure device and reader-writer: A secure device according the invention has an application storage section 202 for storing a client application of an application for performing data processing; an address calculation section 205 for determining whether or not the application storage section 202 has a server application for transferring data to and from the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090119517 - Apparatus and method for securing data on a portable storage device: A portable storage device including a microprocessor and a secure user data area, the microprocessor operable to perform on-the-fly encryption/decryption of secure data stored on the storage device under a user password, the microprocessor also operable to exclude access to the secure user data area unless the user password is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20090119518 - Server-implemented system and method for providing private inference control: A server system maintains records and their associated attributes in a secure database. A plurality of queries generated by encrypting indices identifying a records and their associated attributes, by homomorphic encryption is received from a client system. A secret key is generated at a certain query count and is divided... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090119520 - Information processing apparatus: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a connection port to which an external device is connected; a charge portion that performs a charge operation to the external device connected to the connection port in a first mode or in a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119519 - System and method for dynamic loop compensation for voltage mode control: A voltage regulator provides power to an information handling system component under management by a controller, such as a Buck circuit managed by a PID controller according to PID coefficient settings. An update module interfaced with the voltage regulator monitors operating conditions of the voltage regulator to update the coefficients... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090119521 - method and system for deterministic throttling for thermal management: A scheme to facilitate deterministic thermal management by having either device connected via a link to generate a thermal management request based on one device's thermal capability and the present conditions. The request is transmitted over the link to the other device with a specific sleep period. Consequently, the receiving... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119522 - Information-processing apparatus, packet processing method, and computer program product: A processor includes a communication control unit for communicating with an external network device via a connecting unit. A power control unit switches a power mode between a normal power mode and a power saving mode. A packet processing unit includes a first determining unit that determines whether a packet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090119524 - Energy efficient ethernet using active/idle toggling: Generally, this disclosure describes an energy-efficient Ethernet communications approach. In at least one embodiment described herein, an Ethernet controller may be configured to operate in an active power state to transmit or receive data packets at a maximum available link speed. The maximum available link speed may be determined by... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090119523 - Managing power consumption based on historical average: In one embodiment, an upper power limit and an average power limit are specified for each server of a computer system. Power to each server is controlled so that the instantaneous power consumption does not exceed the upper power limit and the average power consumption does not exceed the average... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090119526 - Electronic system and power control method thereof: Electronic systems capable of entering a power saving mode even if a processing unit therein crashes are provided, in which a system core block comprises a processing unit. A power control block, operating in a different power domain than the system core block comprises a power control logic circuit, which... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090119528 - Main computer for vehicle and power management method thereof: A main computer for vehicle includes a central processing unit and a programmable logic device. The central processing unit is configured for controlling operations of the main computer. The programmable logic device is coupled to the central processing unit and includes a built-in power state machine for managing power statuses... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090119527 - Portable computer and method of controlling power saving mode of portable computer: A portable computer and a method of controlling a power saving mode of the portable computer, in which an embedded controller directly turns off system power without system wake up operation in a process of turning off the system power or switching a power saving mode when battery power is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090119525 - Power supply device and communication system: The invention relates to a power supply device and a communication system. The power supply device supplies power to a main device. The communication system is provided with the main device mounting the power supply device therein and an external device connected to the main device. A feature of the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090119529 - Configuration optimization method for a storage system: This invention provides, when optimizing a configuration of a storage system using a pool, an optimal configuration while ensuring a policy set by an administrator, the policy concerning a power saving performance, a response performance, or the like. The management computer sets, according to the set policy, priorities to volumes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090119530 - Lower power disk array as a replacement for robotic tape storage: The present invention provides methods and systems for storage of data. In one aspect, the invention provides a data storage system that includes a plurality of storage devices, such as, disks, for storing data, and a controller that implements a policy for managing distribution of power to the storage devices,... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090119531 - Digital phase relationship lock loop: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first clocked storage device operable in a first clock domain corresponding to a first clock signal. The first clocked storage device has an input coupled to receive one or more bits transmitted on the input from a second clock domain corresponding to a... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090119533 - Digital delay locked loop circuit using mode register set: A semiconductor memory device includes a mode register set for establishing information on a delay time, a delay time calculator for calculating an I/O path delay time of a data clock on a basis of a unit period of a system clock, and a delay locked clock generator for reflecting... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119532 - Method and system for a free running strobe tolerant interface: A method of receiving data. A plurality of data signals and clocking signals are received over a source synchronous communication channel. The plurality of data signals is strobed with the clocking signal at a plurality of coarse time offset delays (e.g., time offset delays spanning over a data bit period).... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20090119534 - System and method for employing a controlled modification current time value: A method for employing a controlled-modification current time value is presented. In the method, the current time value is maintained. Also, requests for modification of the current time value are received. The requests are processed so that the requested modification associated with one of the requests is immediately incorporated into... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090119535 - Method and apparatus for managing network synchronization information among multiple line cards: A method and apparatus for handling, maintaining, and controlling network synchronization information emanating from a plurality of line card circuits is described. The technique described may be applied to a redundant pair of line card circuits, where one line card circuit is active, while the other is inactive. Line card... Agent: Ross D. Snyder & Associates, Inc.