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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support July category listing 07/11

20110185161 - Electronic device and method for detecting operative states of components in the electronic device: An electronic device and method for detecting operative states of components in the electronic device includes determining a selected component of the electronic device, and setting a threshold time of the selected component. In response to the electronic device detecting a first interrupt instruction from the selected component, a timer... Agent: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.

20110185164 - Information processing apparatus and boot completion notification program: In an information processing apparatus, a stopwatch unit detects boot-up of an information processing apparatus, and measures as a boot time a time elapsed from the detection of the boot-up. A determination unit determines whether the boot time has reached notification timing. An output unit outputs a boot completion notification... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110185165 - Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, and integrated circuit: It is possible to update and re-seal sealed data having a usability condition of matching with predetermined terminal environment information during a secure boot without rebooting a terminal when a program using the sealed data is updated. An information processing terminal (10) has first sealed data (310, 320, 330) respectively... Agent:

20110185162 - Method and system to transmit code to a system on a chip (soc): A method and system to transmit code to a System on Chip (SOC) from a host processor using a host-side driver is provided herein. The SOC and host processor are coupled by a bus. The host driver receives an overlay from an application layer and stores the overlay. The host... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110185163 - Multi-root pci express switch, boot method thereof, and multi-root pci manager program: Provided is an MRA (multi-root aware) PCI express switch accommodating a plurality of root complexes. The MRA PCI express switch includes: a setting register storing necessary information to set a PCI tree based on a switch connection topology and a physical connection state; and a virtual switch bridge controller storing... Agent:

20110185167 - Change impact research support device and change impact research support method: There is provided a change impact research support device. Whenever CI included in configuration management information is modified, CIs modified along with a combination of CIs modified in the present configuration management change are extracted. Then, the more the number of modifications performed along with the combination of the CIs... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110185166 - Slider control for security grouping and enforcement: A group of security functions may be configured and managed by organizing the security functions and their features into a ranked list and made available through an administrative console. The ranked list may represent various levels of security from which a user may select. Once selected, the security functions may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110185168 - Method and apparatus for file sharing between a group of user devices with separately sent crucial portions and non-crucial portions: A communication system and method for operating the same includes a group of user devices and a content delivery network in communication with the group of user devices. The content delivery network selects a plurality user devices from the group of user devices, divides the content into a crucial portion... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc.

20110185169 - Agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability.: A plurality of computer nodes communicate using seemingly random Internet Protocol source and destination addresses. Data packets matching criteria defined by a moving window of valid addresses are accepted for further processing, while those that do not meet the criteria are quickly rejected. Improvements to the basic design include (1)... Agent:

20110185170 - Communication with non-repudiation and blind signatures: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive, at a trusted third party (TTP), a signed disguised message as a disguised receiver signature from a receiver that has signed a disguised message using a blind signature process to transform the disguised message into the signed disguised message. Additional activities may... Agent:

20110185171 - Certificate authenticating method, certificate issuing device, and authentication device: A terminal device 4 transmits a certificate issue request including a communication ID thereof and a sub ID to a certificate issuing device 7 via a NW1. The certificate issuing device 7 inquires of a communication ID checking device 5 whether or not the communication ID included in the certificate... Agent: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corp.

20110185172 - Generating pki email accounts on a web-based email system: The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing an Email User to create a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Email Account and thereafter to digitally sign, send, verify and receive PKI encrypted emails over a computer network, such as the Internet. The systems and methods preferably include a Web-based Email... Agent: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20110185175 - Authentication method and system for online gaming: Embodiments of an authentication technique for online gaming are provided. In one aspect, an authentication method for online gaming includes storing a user identity of a user in a portable data storage device; providing access to the user identity for an authentication server to authenticate the user such that the... Agent: Gsimedia Corporation

20110185176 - Biometric authentication method and system: At an authentication time, a feature data array for authentication is generated from biometric information acquired by the client, and converted feature data for position correction obtained by converting the feature data array for authentication is transmitted to the server. The server detects a position correction amount of the feature... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110185173 - Method for implementing encryption and device thereof: The present invention provides an encryption method in which the encryption device stores data to be encrypted received via the input/output interface in its own memory, converts the data to be encrypted in the memory into a format required by the output device and transmits the converted data to the... Agent:

20110185174 - System and method for providing a one-time key for identification: A server includes a key generator and an authenticator. The key generator is configured to receive a request for a first key from a worker device, to create the first key that is associated with a worker, and to transmit the first key to the worker device. The authenticator is... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110185177 - Method for generating an asymmetric cryptographic key pair and its application: The invention pertains to a method, computer readable medium, and data processing system for generation of an asymmetric cryptographic key pair including reception of an arbitrarily selectable login name, calculation of a first data object key, whereby a random value and the login name are included in the calculation, and... Agent: Compugroup Holding Ag

20110185178 - Communication method of an electronic health insurance card with a reading device: The invention relates to a communication method of an electronic health insurance card (122) with a reading device. A communication link is established between the electronic health insurance card (122) and the reading device (110), said communication link being a near-field link.... Agent: Compugroup Holding Ag

20110185180 - Method and device for creating digital signature: A method is disclosed for creating a digital signature associated with a user having a code-generating device including a data interface, a display device, a user input device and processing circuitry, the digital signature being indicative of at least one signature object including a signature element having been pre-selected for... Agent:

20110185181 - Network authentication method and device for implementing the same: A network authentication method is to be implemented using a network authentication device and a user end for authenticating the user end. The network authentication method includes the steps of: configuring the network authentication device to store hardware information associated with unique identification codes of hardware components of the user... Agent: Keypasco Ab

20110185179 - System and method for digital rights management with a lightweight digital watermarking component: Various embodiments of a system and method for digital rights management with a lightweight digital watermarking component are described. Embodiments may include methods as well as elements for performing such methods. Such a method may include receiving content onto a computer system; the computer system may include a runtime component... Agent:

20110185182 - Improvements related to the authentication of messages: A method of authenticating a message from a sending party to a receiving party. The sending party generates a digest of the message using a key, and sends the digest to the receiving party. The receiving party also generating the digest of the message using the key, and compares the... Agent:

20110185184 - Method and device for electronically capturing a handwritten signature and safeguarding biometric data: A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer is transmitted to the signature capture apparatus. The... Agent: Stepover Gmbh

20110185183 - Peripheral device, network system, communication processing method: A peripheral device includes an interface for connection to a wired or wireless LAN, a local interface for wireless connection, and a control unit configured to check a legitimacy of a user based on a user-specific certificate stored in a communication-function-equipped device upon being accessed through the local interface by... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20110185185 - Method and apparatus for parental control of wireless broadcast content: A method comprises detecting zapping to or from one or more services; determining whether the zapping includes termination of a password-protected service; and sending a trigger message (248, 256, 262) only if the zapping includes termination of a password-protected service (X, Y, Z). In one embodiment, the trigger message is... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110185188 - Computer implemented method for analyzing data of a user with the data being stored pseudonymously in a database: m

20110185187 - Electronic device and method: According to one aspect of embodiments of the present invention there is provided apparatus comprising a main assembly having a processing element configured to: obtain a first and second sub-assembly identifier stored on a second-assembly in communication with the main assembly; and enable operation of the main assembly and second... Agent:

20110185189 - Sdk use-restriction imposing device, use-restriction-imposed sdk developing system, and sdk use-restriction imposing method: An SDK use-restriction imposing device includes a user interface unit, a source file of a use-restriction plug-in, a use-restriction plug-in edit unit, a build unit, and a use-restriction plug-in generation unit. The use-restriction plug-in edit unit sets use restrictions to the source file on the basis of use-restriction information received... Agent: Kyocera Mita Corporation

20110185190 - System and method for protecting content on a storage device: A system apparatus and method for protecting information on a storage device. Embodiments of the invention may create a virtual volume on a storage device. Embodiments of the invention may further transfer information to the virtual volume, remove information stored outside the virtual volume and extend the size of the... Agent:

20110185186 - System and method for protecting data on a mobile device: Methods and systems are disclosed for protecting data on a mobile device. A data protection module on the mobile device receives a transmission including a secret key. The secret key is used in encrypting data on the device and is then deleted. Subsequent to an event detectable to the mobile... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110185192 - Storage system, control method therefor, and program: It is made possible to correctly decrypt data in a storage area in a computer system (storage system) having various encryption execution sections (such as a storage device or encryption appliance having an encryption function). In the case where storage areas may be encrypted by the various encryption execution sections,... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110185191 - Electronic book electronic links: The invention, an electronic book selection and delivery system, is a new way to distribute books and other textual information to bookstores, libraries and consumers. The primary components of the system are a subsystem for placing text in a video signal format and a subsystem for receiving and selecting text... Agent: Adrea LLC

20110185193 - De-sequencing encoded data slices: A method begins by a processing module obtaining at least an ordering threshold number of encoded data slices to produce obtained encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module ordering the obtained encoded data slices based on a pseudo-random de-sequencing order to produce a plurality of sets of... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20110185198 - Electronic appliance, power management apparatus, and method of identifying appliance: There is provided an electronic appliance including a plurality of electrical parts having electrical characteristics that are different thereamong and for each electronic appliance, a characteristics measuring unit that measures the characteristics of at least one electrical part, a switch that switches between the electrical parts whose characteristics are to... Agent:

20110185195 - Energy efficient management of datalinks: A system including a first physical network interface card (NIC) include a number of rings, where at least one of the rings is an active ring. The system further includes a host, operatively connected to the first NIC, and including Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer is configured... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110185197 - Outlet expansion apparatus, and delegate authentication method: There is provided an outlet expansion apparatus including a first connection outlet to which an electronic appliance is to be connected, a second connection outlet that is for connecting to a power supply outlet that is to be a supply source of power, and a delegate authentication unit that carries... Agent:

20110185196 - Power management apparatus, electronic appliance, and method of managing power: There is provided a power management apparatus including: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, a control unit controlling operation of the managed appliance and... Agent:

20110185194 - Standby power control device: This invention relates to a standby power control device, which is able to apply in controlling the ON/OFF state of the power of a computer and a plurality of peripheral devices, which comprises: a power input unit, a power transformation unit, a switching unit, a start control unit, a power... Agent: J.r.j. Electronic Co., Ltd.

20110185199 - Embedded system and power saving method thereof: An embedded system comprises a main chip generating a sleep signal, a network interface controller (MC) generating a wake-up signal, a microprogrammed control unit (MCU), a switch, and a power source. The MCU sends a closing signal upon receiving the wake-up signal and an opening signal upon receiving the sleep... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110185200 - Method and apparatus for waking device from power save mode: A method for waking a device from a power save mode to an active mode includes: transmitting, by a first device, a magic packet through a predetermined channel to a second device, which operates in the power save mode by repeating a doze state and an awake state according to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110185204 - Control of accessory components by portable computing device: A portable computing device (PCD) can control the operating state of a component within an accessory. For example, an accessory can have some components (e.g., a video processor) that are used for some operations but not for others. A PCD can determine whether a particular component will be used and... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110185203 - Method and apparatus for power control: Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power. Example embodiments may stall the issue or execution... Agent: Cavium Networks, Inc.

20110185202 - Mobile computing device and method for maintaining application continuity: A method of maintaining application continuity (900) and mobile computing device (200) are described. The method involves a mobile device running an application in synchronous communication with an application server. The application has a threshold communication null period for maintaining application continuity. The method (900) can include the steps of:... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20110185206 - Multiple voltage generator and voltage regulation methodology for power dense integrated power systems: An integrated power system suitable for simultaneously powering marine propulsion and service loads. The system includes: (a) at least one generator configured with at least first and second armature windings configured to output respective first and second alternating current power signals of different voltages, the at least two armature windings... Agent: Drs Power & Control Technologies, Inc.

20110185205 - Power-saving display information converting system and method: Display information to be displayed by a display device having a power consumption model is converted according to a power-saving conversion model and the power consumption model, such that the power consumption of the display device for displaying the converted display information is lower than that for displaying the original... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110185201 - Storage system and its power control method: In the process of controlling a plurality of storage devices 190 in any one of a normal mode and a plurality of power-saving modes (such as standby and LRPM), a controller 110 selects the storage devices whose mode should be shifted from the normal mode to any of the power-saving... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110185209 - Computer that reduces power consumption while maintaining a specific function: A laptop PC is enabled to operate with small power consumption while maintaining a specific function. A laptop PC is provided with a HDD and can operate in a normal mode and a doze mode as a new operating mode. In the doze mode, the computer can operate with power... Agent: Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

20110185208 - Memory power reduction in a sleep state: A data processing system that uses memory power reduction in a sleep state. The system can include a volatile memory and at least one data input peripheral and a logic circuit that is configured to manage power consumption of the data processing system for a sleep of the system. The... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110185207 - Pcmcia memory card with ethernet/wireless connectivity and battery backup for avionics applications: A method to facilitate data transfer to a line replaceable unit that lacks a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) interface is provided. The method comprises interfacing a memory-processing card to the line replaceable unit. The memory-processing card includes a memory, a central processing unit module, an interface to the line... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110185210 - Method and arrangement for saving energy in microprocessors: The invention relates to a method for operating an electronic system, wherein the energy consumption of at least parts of the system is regulated such that on the basis of at least a time-related curve of the current (IFE1, . . . , IFEn) detected within the system, a gradient... Agent: Siemens Enterprise Communications Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110185212 - Data processing system having brown-out detection circuit: A brown-out detection circuit comprises a first resistive element, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a comparator. The first resistive element has a first terminal coupled to a first power supply voltage terminal, and a second terminal. The first transistor is of a first conductivity type and has a... Agent:

20110185213 - Storage management apparatus, storage system, and storage management method: A storage management apparatus includes a memory for storing logical volume information for indicating logical volumes and priority information for determining an order of the logical volumes to be activated, a first interface for connecting storages to the storage management apparatus, at least one of the storages corresponding to one... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110185211 - Systems and methods for determining the state of health of a capacitor module: Systems and methods for determining the state of health for a capacitor module are provided. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring the health of a capacitor module comprising an array of capacitors is provided. The method may include steps for disabling a charger coupled to an array of capacitors... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110185214 - Time format conversion method, device and system: A method and device for converting between different time domains at a local unit utilizing an processor is disclosed. Time counters to count time in at least two different formats are located locally at each unit. Once a time conversion is initiated, a time stamp is received by the processor... Agent: Ruggedcom Inc.

20110185215 - Single-wire serial interface: A circuit comprising a single-wire serial interface (SWSI), a delay module coupled to the SWSI and operable to introduce a delay during a data transmission, the delay being dependent on a local clock (LC) associated with the circuit, wherein the delay enables the circuit to synchronize the data transmission with... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110185216 - Time synchronization method and system for multicore system: A time synchronization method and system for a multi-core system are provided. The time synchronization method comprises: establishing at least one clock synchronization domain, and respectively allocating each core to each clock synchronization domain; selecting a core with a lowest load in each clock synchronization domain as a master clock... Agent:

20110185217 - Method and apparatus for the realization of a failsafe time function: A method for enabling an oscillating crystal available in a system to be used to generate a software-realized time function, and an apparatus for implementing the method, without requiring additional hardware components, wherein a periodic interrupt signal is generated by the system-internal real-time clock, a table entry with a reference... Agent: Siemens Ag

20110185218 - Adjustment of write timing based on a training signal: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for adjusting write timing in a memory device based on a training signal. For instance, the method can include configuring the memory device in a training mode of operation. The method can also include determining a write timing window between a... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

20110185219 - Memory devices implementing clock mirroring scheme and related memory systems and clock mirroring methods: A memory device is configured to operate in first and second data input/output modes. The memory device includes a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad, a clock signal line, a first switching unit, and a second switching unit. The clock signal line is configured to transmit a clock to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110179262 - Apparatus and method for booting in computer device with built-in communication module: An apparatus and method control booting in a mobile device with a built-in communication module to prevent a service user from using the mobile device for other purposes and to prevent the service user from subscribing to another service provider. A method includes determining, during a booting operation, whether the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110179264 - Clearing secure system resources in a computing device: Systems and methods of clearing system resources are disclosed. One example method includes the step of detecting a failure to clear a secure portion of a system resource in a device. The method also includes the step of powering off the system resource for a period of power-off time that... Agent:

20110179261 - Method for controlling network controller, non-transitory computer readable recording medium, and information processing apparatus: A method for controlling a network controller, including: preferentially booting a network controller assignment controlling driver before at least one of a network controller controlling driver for EFI and a network controller controlling driver for legacy BIOS initializes the network controller, the network controller assignment controlling driver deciding whether to... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110179260 - Method for integrating operating system into bios chip and method for booting operating system from server: A method for integrating an operating system (OS) into a basic input output system (BIOS) chip and to boot a computer system using an image file stored in a server. A bootable image file of the OS is integrated with a virtual disk program and other BIOS instructions and stored... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110179259 - Method for integrating operating system into bios chip and method for booting operating system integrated into bios chip: A method for integrating an operating system (OS) into a basic input output system (BIOS) chip and to boot a computer using programs stored in the BIOS. A bootable image file of the OS is integrated with a virtual disk program and other BIOS instructions and stored into the BIOS... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110179263 - Storage system for a storage pool and virtual volumes: This invention provides a storage system to store data used by computers. A storage system coupled to a computer and a management apparatus, includes storage devices accessed by the computer and a control unit that controls the storage devices, in which the control unit performs the following operations: setting, in... Agent:

20110179265 - Data processing device: It is assumed that the image data inputted are subjected to run-length compression and compressed encoding based on Huffman encoding. The first step configuration configured on a reconfigurable circuit includes run-length compression circuits 102a and 102b of two ways for parallel processing and FIFOs 108a and 108b which hold the... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20110179266 - Method for secure transmission using a fax server, system and computer program for implementing this method: The present invention relates to a method for secure transmission using a fax server, comprising the following steps: a step of transmitting the document to be faxed, by the sender to a server, in the form of a digital file in a non-fax format, as well as information relative to... Agent: Popfax

20110179267 - Method, system and server for implementing security access control: A method for implementing network security access control is provided, including: receiving and decrypting terminal identity information that is encrypted in a bi-directional encryption mode and forwarded by a switch, and authenticating the decrypted terminal identity information; returning an authentication result to the switch so that the switch controls access... Agent: Chengdu Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110179268 - Protecting applications with key and usage policy: One or more files of an application are obtained and configured as a virtual storage volume. An application package is generated by encrypting, using a key, the one or more files configured as a virtual storage volume. A license generation module generates a license including both a usage policy for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110179269 - Signature systems: A signature system includes a public key certificate obtainment device 100, a public key certificate issuance device 200, and a signature device 300. The public key certificate obtainment device 100 inputs item data and an infrastructure public key that includes an item key that is an element corresponding to each... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110179270 - Data retrieval system: A method is disclosed for retrieving data from a wireless device over a wireless network for submission to an application provided on a user terminal. The method includes the steps of detecting for a wireless device having a data file stored thereon when the application is running on the user... Agent: The Provost, Fellows And Scholars Of The College Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity Of Queen Elizab

20110179271 - Secure data parser method and system: The present invention provides a method and system for securing sensitive data from unauthorized access or use. The method and system of the present invention is useful in a wide variety of settings, including commercial settings generally available to the public which may be extremely large or small with respect... Agent: Security First Corporation

20110179273 - Application server, control method thereof, program, and computer-readable storage medium: An application server (100) includes: receiving means (101) for receiving a request for a media object from a user equipment; verification means (102) for verifying the authenticity of the received request; first generation means (103) for generating a session key that is associated with an existing session if the authenticity... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110179272 - Method for forming an electronic group: Method for managing an electronic group comprising two or more group members (2), all members, using, at least for setting up such a new group, mobile terminals (1) which are capable to mutually exchange, via a short-range communication link (3), relevant terminal, user and/or group codes. During a group constituting... Agent: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurweten Schappelijk Onderzoek Tno

20110179274 - Shared secret verification method and system: Method for shared secret verification e.g. to be applied in secure data exchange, in which at least two parties, hereinafter indicated as Alice and Bob, each have a secret while their challenge is to find out whether they share the same secret or not, however, without disclosing the secret itself... Agent: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurweten Onderzoek Tno

20110179275 - Tools for generating pki email accounts: The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing an Email User to create a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Email Account and thereafter to digitally sign, send, verify and receive PKI encrypted emails over a computer network, such as the Internet. The systems and methods preferably include a Web-based Email... Agent: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20110179276 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus performs data communication with a communication device, and includes an authentication processing portion configured to perform authentication processing, including a round trip time (RTT) test on authentication requests received from one or more unauthenticated communication devices and a data communication portion configured to perform data communications with... Agent:

20110179277 - Key distribution to a set of routers: Before actually communicating information/data between two endpoints (C, S) connected to a network a secure and confidential distribution of a special key (K h) is performed to nodes (R j) along a path in the network. This is allowed by performing a path handshaking procedure in which first a hint... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110179278 - Apparatus and method of a portable terminal authenticating another portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method of a portable terminal authenticating another portable terminal. The portable terminal may receive a seed generated by the other portable terminal, issue an authentication certificate generated using the seed to the other portable terminal, authenticate the other portable terminal based on the authentication certificate,... Agent:

20110179279 - Device and method for a backup of rights objects: A common backup format of a backup rights object according to embodiments of the present invention has the following features: License information that is not critical for cryptographic security of the rights object is kept in “plain text” with a well defined syntax in a first data container, license information... Agent: Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

20110179280 - Software development and distribution workflow employing meta-object time stamping: A method and system facilitating the development and distribution of software is provided. The system includes a database provided on a computing device, the computing device configured to enable users to provide an update to an element of the database, wherein the element is associated with an object. The system... Agent:

20110179281 - Hash function using a quasi-group operation: In the computer data security field, a cryptographic hash function process is embodied in a computer system or computer software or logic circuitry and is keyless, but highly secure. The process is based on (mathematical) quasi-group operations such as in the known “EDON-R” hash function. But here one or more... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110179282 - Integrity protected smart card transaction: Systems, methods, and technologies for configuring a conventional smart card and a client machine, and for performing a smart card authorization using the configured smart card and client. Further, the combination of methods provides for mutual authentication—authentication of the client to the user, and authentication of the user to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110179283 - Integrity protected smart card transaction: Systems, methods, and technologies for configuring a conventional smart card and a client machine, and for performing a smart card authorization using the configured smart card and client. Further, the combination of methods provides for mutual authentication—authentication of the client to the user, and authentication of the user to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110179284 - Information processing apparatus and information managing method: An information processing apparatus includes a chip implemented therein to independently perform a predetermined process. The chip includes a storage unit that stores user unique information in which biometric information of a user and unique information for use when a unique process corresponding to the user is performed are associated... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110179286 - Computer implemented method for performing cloud computing on data being stored pseudonymously in a database: The invention relates to a computer implemented method for performing cloud computing on data of a first user employing cloud components, the cloud components comprising a first database and a data processing component, wherein an asymmetric cryptographic key pair is associated with the first user, said asymmetric cryptographic key pair... Agent: Compugroup Medical Ag

20110179285 - Computer system, client device and method: A computer system includes a network. The system includes a first client device in communication with the network having a transaction description for a transaction t. The first client device sends the transaction description to a second client device. The second client device receives the transaction description from the first... Agent: New York University

20110179289 - Method and device for electronically capturing a handwritten signature using embedding technique: A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer is transmitted to the signature capture apparatus. The... Agent: Stepover Gmbh

20110179287 - Secure data parser method and system: The present invention provides a method and system for securing sensitive data from unauthorized access or use. The method and system of the present invention is useful in a wide variety of settings, including commercial settings generally available to the public which may be extremely large or small with respect... Agent: Security First Corporation

20110179288 - Technique for content management using group rights: A technique for content management using group rights is described. The technique facilitates a flexible management for a group of content files mainly by effecting a change of group memberships for subsets of the group and a partial update of the content files. As one aspect, a content file manager... Agent:

20110179290 - Authenticating a chip card interface device: A system is configured for authenticating a chip card interface device (CCID) during a transaction with the CCID. The system has a communication device configured for communicating with the CCID over a network and a processing device coupled with the communication device. The processing device is configured for receiving a... Agent: Bank Of America Corporation

20110179291 - Power adaptor detection system: A power adaptor detection system includes a power adaptor device configured to receive electrical power at a first voltage and to convert the electrical power to a second voltage. The second voltage has a lower value than the first voltage. An identification generating circuit is coupled to the power adaptor... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110179292 - Soft start with active reset: A power supply input circuit includes an input node configured to removeably couple to an electrical source. A solid state switch is coupled between the input node and a capacitive load. An RC soft start circuit is coupled to the input node and the switch. The soft start circuit has... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110179293 - Apparatus and method for system reset using ethernet frame in wireless communication system: A Base Station (BS) includes an apparatus capable of performing a system reset using an Ethernet frame. The BS includes an Ethernet switch, a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), and a power unit. The Ethernet switch sorts an Ethernet frame capable of including a power reset command. The PLD attempts to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110179295 - Method, apparatus and system to dynamically choose an optimum power state: Some embodiments of the invention include an apparatus and method for dynamically choosing an optimum power state. In some embodiments, the optimum power state may be determined from historical information about the various power states that any of the embodiments of the apparatus or a system equipped with embodiments of... Agent: Intel Corporation

20110179294 - Multifunctional device and control method: In a multifunctional device, a packet analysis unit determines whether a received packet contributes to inhibition of a power saving mode, stores the time at which a packet is received and information indicating whether a packet is received during the power saving mode as information about the packet determined as... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110179296 - Systems, methods and devices for limiting current consumption upon power-up: Embodiments are described including those for controlling peak current consumption of a multi-chip memory package during power-up. In one embodiment, each memory device of the multi-chip package includes a power level detector used to compare an internal voltage signal to a threshold. A current limiter controls the ramping rate of... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20110179300 - Electronic device that is able to be connected to an external device and optical disk reproducing apparatus: An electronic device (e.g. an optical disk reproducing apparatus) can be connected to an external apparatus (e.g. a display apparatus) and has a standby state as a power state. The electronic device includes a movable member (e.g. a disk tray) which is provided to be ejectable from and retractable into... Agent:

20110179297 - External device power control during low power sleep mode without central processing unit intervention: An integrated circuit device controls power up of an external device used for sensing a process variable independently of whether the integrated circuit device is in a low power sleep mode. Once the external device becomes operational the integrated device, even when still in the low power sleep mode, samples... Agent: Microchip Technology Incorporated

20110179298 - Method for controlling voltages supplied to a processor: A power supply unit for supplying power to a processor is disclosed. The power supply unit includes a smoothing capacitor, a controller, and an arithmetic circuit. The controller controls an output voltage according to each power state of a processor operating in a transition state where a power state of... Agent: Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

20110179299 - Power management in a system having a processor and a voltage converter that provide a power voltage to the processor: A system has a processor and a voltage converter to provide a power voltage to the processor. The processor is able to transition among different power modes, Wherein the voltage converter receives indications to specify different voltage levels of the power voltage for at least two of the power modes.... Agent:

20110179301 - Automatic discovery of server to power-circuit connections: In a data center which includes a plurality of servers, a discovery computer, a power measurement system (PMS), and a plurality of power-circuits which supply power to the servers, the discovery computer performs the following actions for each server. It transmits a first command to the server causing the server... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110179302 - Methods and apparatus providing advanced classification for power over ethernet: A system conducts a plurality of cycles on the powered device. Each cycle has a detection phase and a classification phase. A classification voltage is applied to the conductors during each cycle. The system measures a current in the conductors while the classification voltage is applied. The system determines a... Agent:

20110173425 - Computer and method for managing computer: A computer includes a control module and a basic input and output system (BIOS) storage module. The BIOS storage module stores BIOS programs. The BIOS storage module includes a detection sub-module and a switch sub-module. The detection sub-module is capable of detecting a network connection state. The switch sub-module is... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110173424 - Integrated circuit device configuration: Various embodiments include an integrated circuit (IC) device having a conductive contact, and a circuit to determine a resistance value of a circuit path between the conductive contact and a circuit node during an initialization mode of the device. The IC device includes a controller to select at least one... Agent: Atmel Rousset

20110173428 - Computer system, method for booting a computer system, and method for replacing a component: The invention relates to a computer system (1) including a system component (2) having at least one processor (5) and also at least one non-volatile memory chip (9) for storing at least one installed firmware component of the computer system (1). The computer system includes a system monitoring chip (17),... Agent: Fujitsu Services Limited

20110173430 - It automation appliance imaging system and method: A system, method, and computer program product for harvesting an image from a local disk of a managed endpoint to an image library is provided. In an embodiment of the method for harvesting an image, a managed endpoint is provided with a boot image that causes the endpoint to instantiate... Agent:

20110173429 - Method and apparatus to minimize computer apparatus initial program load and exit/shut down processing: A method to reduce and thereby improve the initial program load time of a computing apparatus operating system and thus provides for near instantaneous user interaction. When practicing the instant invention, a computing apparatus operating system or application processing component is loaded neither sequentially nor completely, but rather on an... Agent:

20110173426 - Method and system for providing information to a subsequent operating system: A method for transferring execution to a subsequent operating system. The method includes rebooting a computer system. Rebooting the computer system includes initializing an in-kernel boot loader. The in-kernel boot loader executes in a kernel of an initial operating system. Rebooting the computer system further includes populating, by the in-kernel... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110173427 - System and method for personalizing devices: A system and method for personalizing a device is disclosed herein. A user configures a plurality of settings associated with a device. Each setting is identified as a user setting or a platform setting. The user settings are stored in a personalization virtual object with the user. Platform settings are... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110173431 - Hardware support for software controlled fast reconfiguration of performance counters: Hardware support for software controlled reconfiguration of performance counters may include a plurality of performance counters collecting one or more counts of one or more selected activities. A storage element stores data value representing a time interval, and a timer element reads the data value and detects expiration of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173433 - Method and apparatus for tuning a processor to improve its performance: A data processing apparatus comprising a processor for executing a data processing process and a processor for executing a tuning process is disclosed. The data processing apparatus is arranged such that the tuning process which is a different process to the data processing process can access the parameters of speculative... Agent:

20110173432 - Reliability and performance of a system-on-a-chip by predictive wear-out based activation of functional components: A processor-implemented method for determining aging of a processing unit in a processor the method comprising: calculating an effective aging profile for the processing unit wherein the effective aging profile quantifies the effects of aging on the processing unit; combining the effective aging profile with process variation data, actual workload... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173437 - Interface for pda and computing device: A method of reviewing an email attachment receives at an email server an email message including at least one attachment. A preview portion of the email message is transmitted to a mobile communication device. The preview portion does not include the at least one attachment, and the preview portion is... Agent:

20110173436 - Method and apparatus for providing secure streaming data transmission facilities using unreliable protocols: The invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting data securely using an unreliable communication protocol, such as User Datagram Protocol. In one variation, the invention retains compatibility with conventional Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and SOCKS protocols, such that secure UDP datagrams can be transmitted between a proxy server and... Agent:

20110173438 - Method and system for secure use of services by untrusted storage providers: A method for encrypting data. The method comprises receiving, from a user, via a client terminal, digital content including at least one textual string for filling in at least one field in a document managed by a network node via a computer network, encrypting the at least one textual string,... Agent: Vaultive Ltd.

20110173435 - Secure node admission in a communication network: A system and method for node admission in a communication network having a NC and a plurality of associated network nodes. According to various embodiments of the disclosed method and apparatus, key determination in a communication network includes an NN sending to the NC a request for a SALT; the... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20110173434 - System and method for reducing message signaling: A system for communicating a message using a second signaling protocol is disclosed. The second signaling protocol provides a session control channel between a user agent (UA) and a network node and may include, for example the I1 protocol. The system identifies a first string to be transmitted within a... Agent:

20110173439 - Stateless cryptographic protocol-based hardware acceleration: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises an operation of commencing a first phrase and passing control of an authentication handshaking protocol. The first phase is commenced for establishing a secure communication path by a data path processor within a first network device. The first phrase comprises... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110173440 - Conditionally releasing a communiqué determined to be affiliated with a particular source entity in response to detecting occurrence of one or more environmental aspects: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: intercepting a communiqué that is determined to be affiliated with a source entity and that is addressed to an end user to prevent, at least temporarily, the communiqué from being received by a communication device associated with the end user;... Agent: Searete LLC, A Limited Liability Corporation Of The State Of Delaware

20110173441 - Highly scalable architecture for application network appliances: A highly scalable application network appliance is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a switch fabric, a first service module coupled to the switch fabric, and a second service module coupled to the first service module over the switch fabric. In response to packets of a... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110173442 - Packet-based and pseudo-packet based cryptographic communications systems and methods: The disclosed technology provides a system and method of securely communicating data. An encryptor located at a transmitter can provide encrypted data to the transmitter. The transmitter can maintain a packet number indicating a particular packet for carrying the encrypted data and a sub-packet number indicating a position within the... Agent: Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp.

20110173444 - Image forming apparatus, image formation processing method, and computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon computer programs for the image formation processing method: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: an interface configured to communicate with an external storage device; a file acquiring unit configured to acquire a processing target file to be subjected to image formation processing from the external storage device via the interface; a user-information acquiring unit configured... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

20110173443 - Secure extranet server: A Secure Extranet Server (SES) provides for secure and traceable communication and document exchange between a trusted network and an untrusted network by authenticated users. The SES includes a first partition in communication with the untrusted network and a second partition in communication with the trusted network. The second partition... Agent: Phion Ag

20110173445 - System and method for content based application of security levels to electronic documents: 2). Electronic documents are received and keyword data is extracted to generate an index file associated with each electronic document. The index file is then stored in association with its respective electronic document in an associated data storage. Upon receipt of an electronic document for processing, keyword data is extracted... Agent:

20110173446 - System and method for securing wireless transmissions: A system and method for securing wireless transmissions is provided. A method for transmitting secure messages includes selecting a bin of codewords from a plurality of bins. The bin of codewords containing a plurality of sub-bins of codewords, and the selecting is based on a first message. The method also... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20110173447 - Master unit and slave unit: Provided is a communication device which securely registers a slave unit. A secret address generation and setup section generates a secret address generator, and a secret address of the slave unit used temporarily instead of a unique address of the slave unit based on the secret address generator and identification... Agent:

20110173448 - Authorization of server operations: An authorization device for authorizing operations of a remote server requested from user computers via a data communications network includes a computer interface configured to connect to a local user computer for facilitating communication with the remote server via a data communications network, a user interface configured to present information... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173449 - Broadcast area authentication: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for authenticating local and remote devices associated with a broadcast area. For example, in one embodiment, a broadcast station can broadcast a first over-the-air broadcast that includes a token. A local device can scan for and identify the token in the... Agent: Syncbak, Inc.

20110173450 - Secure coupling of hardware components: A method and a system for securing communication between at least a first and a second hardware components of a mobile device is described. The method includes establishing a first shared secret between the first and the second hardware components during an initialization of the mobile device and, following the... Agent: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

20110173451 - Method and system to provide fine granular integrity to digital data: A method and system to generate fine granular integrity to huge volumes of data in real time at a very low computational cost. The invention proposes a scalable system that can receive different digital data from multiple sources and generates integrity streams associated to the original data. This invention provides... Agent: Kinamik Data Integrity, S.l.

20110173452 - Method of generating compound type combined public key: The present invention constructs a compound type combined public key system on the basis of a combined public key CPK system. The combined key is combined by an identity key and a randomly defined key. The randomly defined key can be defined by a center, called a system key; and... Agent:

20110173453 - Capability and behavior signatures: Techniques for capability and behavior signatures are described. In one or more embodiments, various data describing the capabilities and behaviors of a client is collected. The collected data is analyzed to generate a signature that is indicative of whether the client is operated by a human or a non-human. Selective... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110173454 - Associating policy with unencrypted digital content: A content license associated with unencrypted digital content is generated, the content license including both an identifier of the unencrypted digital content and a content policy. At a user device, a determination is made as to whether the content license corresponds to particular unencrypted digital content. Use of the particular... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110173455 - Database system, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for decrypting a data record: A database system comprising: a memory containing multiple data records, wherein each of the data records has a data record asymmetric key pair for cryptographic encryption and decryption, wherein each data record asymmetric key pair comprises a data record public key and a data record private key, wherein the data... Agent: Compugroup Medical Ag

20110173456 - Efficient storage of cryptographic parameters: Cryptographic products for mass applications, such as RFIDs or special ICs for the protection from plagiarism, always require that the price per unit costs are reduced as low as possible. This is achieved, for example, in that in such methods the required storage space is further reduced for system parameters... Agent:

20110173457 - Enhanced security for over the air (ota) firmware changes: A system and method for providing enhanced security for Over The Air (OTA) firmware changes defers decryption of a firmware image until it is transferred into a protected internal memory of a wireless device. An updated firmware image is encrypted at a source and transmitted to a wireless device having... Agent:

20110173459 - Bios lock encode/decode driver: Systems and methods for preventing the unauthorized access to data stored on removable media, such as software, include storing a predetermined signature in the area of non-volatile memory in a computer system. Upon initialization of the computer system, a check is made to verify the signature. Only if the signature... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20110173460 - Information processing device, method, program, and integrated circuit: The aim is to provide high-speed data synchronization. To achieve the aim, in data synchronization using a plurality of key databases with respect to same data pieces, a key for one key database, which has been determined in advance, is used for updating the data piece managed under the other... Agent:

20110173458 - Secure portable data storage device: A portable memory device for use with a host device includes an array of non-volatile memory and a memory controller for performing memory access operations. A processor issues an authorization challenge to a host device prior to enabling external access to the memory. Upon receipt of a valid authorization from... Agent:

20110173462 - Controlling and staggering operations to limit current spikes: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing the peak power consumption of a system, such as a non-volatile memory system (e.g., flash memory system). The system can include multiple subsystems and a controller for controlling the subsystems. Each subsystem may have a current profile that is peaky. Thus, the controller... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110173461 - Customized power rating for computer equipment: A mechanism is provided for customized power rating for computer equipment. A power monitor determines actual power consumption by computer equipment in a facility. After equipment has been stressed, an operator sends the actual power consumption information to the manufacturer. The manufacturer receives the actual power consumption information and issues... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173463 - System and method of tuning a dynamic clock and voltage switching algorithm based on workload requests: A method of tuning a dynamic clock and voltage switching algorithm is disclosed and may include setting a default responsivity, determining whether a workload is registering after the workload is added, assigning a unique identifier to the workload if the workload is registering, and receiving a required responsivity from the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110173465 - Data center power adjustment: A power cap agent establishes a power cap. The power cap agent throttles a first power priority virtual machine. The power cap agent determines that the first power priority virtual machine and the additional power priority virtual machine contribute to power consumption above the power cap among the plurality of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173466 - Electronic device: The electronic device according to the present invention comprises a power supply; a processing section which has a nonvolatile register and performs predetermined processing by inputting and outputting data to and from the nonvolatile register on the basis of power fed from the power supply; an external signal inputting section... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd.

20110173464 - Method and apparatus for processing monitor state by an access network in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing of Monitor state by an access network is provided, comprising determining whether a FTCMAC.UATIReceived indication is received, determining whether there is a queued OpenConnection command, transitioning to a BindUATI State on receiving the FTCMAC.UATIReceived indication and transitioning to a sleep state, if there is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110173469 - Control apparatus and control method for vehicle: A vehicle equipped with a power source system including a master power source and a slave power source connected in parallel to a motor for running is provided. In a case where distribution of discharge power of the master power source and discharge power of the slave power source cannot... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110173468 - Oversubscribing branch circuits while lowering power distribution costs: A mechanism is provided for oversubscribing branch circuits. An active energy management mechanism determines a cumulative wattage rating using power consumption information for a powered element, the power consumption information is for a primary and a redundant portion of the powered element. The active energy management mechanism determines a power... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110173467 - System and method for controlling energy usage in a server: A system for controlling energy usage in a server having a processor, where the system includes a memory for storing energy cost information, and a controller for determining a transaction rate for the processor. The controller is also for determining a cumulative of energy expended by the server based on... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20110173475 - Domain specific language, compiler and jit for dynamic power management: The aspects enable a computing device or microprocessor to determine a low-power mode that maximizes system power savings by placing selected resources in a low power mode while continuing to function reliably, depending upon the resources not in use, acceptable system latencies, dynamic operating conditions (e.g., temperature), expected idle time,... Agent:

20110173474 - Dynamic low power mode implementation for computing devices: The aspects enable a computing device or microprocessor to determine a low power mode that provides the most system power savings by placing selected resources in a low power mode while continuing to function reliably, depending upon the resources not in use, acceptable system latencies, dynamic operating conditions (e.g., temperature),... Agent:

20110173472 - Graphic controller, information processing apparatus, and power saving method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a graphic controller to be employed in an information processing apparatus that is operable in a system state of either a normal mode or a power saving mode, the graphic controller including: an image processing section provided within a first power domain and... Agent:

20110173473 - Image forming apparatus and power management method thereof: A power management method of an image forming apparatus which communicates with at least one terminal device supporting a universal plug and play (UPnP) protocol, including: setting power save mode information which includes a plurality of levels corresponding to the UPnP protocol to the image forming apparatus; storing the set... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110173470 - Minimizing power consumption in computers: A computer is disclosed with an operating system including a kernel and a task scheduler to schedule execution of one or more processes on the computer; a power estimator coupled to the task scheduler to determine a required system power based on number or type of processes scheduled for execution;... Agent:

20110173477 - Power consumption control method in multicore cpu: A power consumption control method for a multicore CPU containing a plurality of cores each occupying a memory with partial array self refresh mode. The method includes making, when a core in the multicore CPU enters a power save mode, another core in the multicore CPU compress data in the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110173471 - System and method of sampling data within a central processing unit: A method of sampling data within a central processing unit (CPU) is disclosed. The method may include monitoring CPU activity, determining whether the CPU enters idle, and executing a dynamic clock and voltage switching (DCVS) algorithm if the CPU enters idle.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110173476 - Using non-lossless compression to save power: Circuits, methods, and systems that reduce or eliminate the number of data transfers between a system memory and a graphics processor under certain conditions. After inactivity by a user of an electronic device is detected, the color fidelity of pixels being displayed is reduced. Color fidelity can be reduced by... Agent: Nvidia Corporation

20110173479 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus according to the present invention is capable of writing video and/or audio data to a storage medium. The data processing apparatus includes: a power controller for controlling powering on or off; a signal processing circuit for generating data; and a drive section for writing the generated... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110173478 - Scheduler with voltage management: There is provided a method of scheduler assisted power management for semiconductor devices. By accessing and analyzing workload data for tasks to be completed, a scheduler may provide finer grained control for determining and implementing an efficient power management policy. In this manner, tasks with completion deadlines can be allocated... Agent: Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

20110173480 - Systems, methods, software, and components using tamper-proof real-time clock: The write-access control line for an RTC is combined with a clear line for an RTC signature register, so that changes to the RTC will cause subsequent reads to return an invalidity flag.... Agent: 3dlabs Inc. Ltd.

20110173481 - Frequency adapter utilized in high-speed internal buses: A frequency adapter for synchronizing data transfers between a low-frequency module and a high-frequency module connected to an internal bus. The frequency adapter includes a low-to-high synchronization unit for synchronizing data transfers from the low frequency module to the high-frequency module, wherein the low-to-high synchronization unit is clocked by a... Agent: Broadlight, Ltd.

20110167249 - Computer system and method capable of remotely restoring operating system: A computer system and a method for remotely restoring, upgrading, or booting an operating system (O.S). A communication unit communicates with an external device in which a restoring image of the operating system is stored. A user's input request for initialization, causes a controller to perform an initialization according to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110167251 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: An information processing apparatus including an apparatus body and a system control apparatus. The apparatus body includes a first processing unit that executes an arithmetic operation; a first storage unit that stores configuration information of the first processing unit; and a first control unit that controls a readout of the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110167250 - Methods for remote provisioning of eletronic devices: There is provided a method and system to automatically provide software and/or firmware updates to the electronic devices, particularly mobile devices used by consumers such as portable health-care data interchange devices. There is also provided a method and system of updating software in electronic devices without requiring a wired data... Agent:

20110167253 - Multi-processor systems and methods thereof: Multi-processor systems and methods thereof are provided. In an example, the multi-processor system may include a boot memory including a plurality of boot codes, each of the plurality of boot codes configured to facilitate an initialization process at one of a plurality of intellectual property (IP) blocks, each of the... Agent:

20110167252 - Separate power island for high performance processor that reboots to second boot sector: Separate power island for high performance processor. A multi-processor design is presented in which each of the processors is implemented in separately powered portions of a circuitry (e.g., an integrated circuit). One of the processors can be a main application processor, and another of the processors can be a baseband... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110167254 - System and method for ensuring conformance of online media distribution to copyright rules: A system and a method are described for presenting media content for users to view over the internet. Rights pertaining to said media to be viewed are uploaded to servers by users holding such rights to rent or resell such media content. Servers restrict the viewing of the content in... Agent:

20110167255 - System, apparatus and method for encryption and decryption of data transmitted over a network: A method and system for securing data transmitted between a client device and a server by obtaining input text at an intermediate module, processing the input text to obtain processed text, and transmitting the processed text to the server. Embodiments of the invention include securing data between a client device... Agent:

20110167258 - Efficient secure cloud-based processing of certificate status information: A cloud-based system having a secure database of certificate information and associated methods are provided. The system and methods may be used to supplement or replace traditional OCSP processing systems. Responses to OCSP requests are digitally signed and cached in a cloud database server remote from the requester. Other servers... Agent: Suridx, Inc.

20110167257 - Method for issuing, verifying, and distributing certificates for use in public key infrastructure: The invention relates to a method for issuing, verifying, and distributing digital certificates for use in Public Key Infrastructure, in which a requester 3, 5 requests a digital certificate at a digital certificate authority 11, wherein at least one set of third-party information 21 on the certificate holder 3 is... Agent:

20110167256 - Role-based access control utilizing token profiles: A method and system for managing role-based access control of token data using token profiles is described.... Agent:

20110167259 - Software license enforcement: Systems and methods for performing software license enforcement are provided. According to one embodiment, file or operating system activity relating to a code module are intercepted by a kernel mode driver of a computer system. The kernel mode driver causes a cryptographic hash value of the code module to be... Agent: Fortinet, Inc.

20110167260 - Computer system lock-down: Systems and methods for allowing authorized code to execute on a computer system are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for locking down a computer system. A customized, local whitelist database is stored with a memory of the computer system. The whitelist database forms a part of... Agent: Fortinet, Inc.

20110167261 - Selective authorization of the loading of dependent code modules by running processes: Systems and methods for selective authorization of dependent code modules are provided. According to one embodiment, file system or operating system activity relating to a first code module is initiated by a running process associated with a second code module. The file system or operating system activity is intercepted by... Agent: Fortinet, Inc.

20110167265 - Cryptographic policy enforcement: Objects can be extracted from data flows captured by a capture device. In one embodiment, the invention includes assigning to each captured object a cryptographic status based on whether the captured object is encrypted. In one embodiment, the invention further includes determining whether the object violated a cryptographic policy using... Agent: Mcafee, Inc., A Delaware Corporation

20110167264 - Decryption-key distribution method and authentication apparatus: A decryption key for decrypting data from an access node is distributed to an access terminal intending to receive the data. An authentication unit receives a message for terminal authentication including a terminal identifier from the terminal and authenticates the terminal. The authentication unit refers to a content registration table... Agent:

20110167262 - Identification and authorization of communication devices: A method implemented by a wearable wireless communication device (“WWCD”) includes detecting a connection between the WWCD and an accessory device. The WWCD accesses a memory location in the accessory device, the memory location being designated for storing brand data indicating a brand identity associated with the accessory device. The... Agent: Pillar Ventures, LLC

20110167267 - System and method for toy adoption and marketing: Provided are a method and computer system for providing a virtual world. The computer system includes a virtual product interface system, which includes a server system with an encrypted part, a non-encrypted part, and a computer-readable memory for storing an encryption key. The server system includes a network connection and... Agent: Ganz

20110167266 - Systems and methods for document control using public key encryption: Systems and methods for document control using public key encryption are provided. An interface program serves as a software interface between user applications used to create and access documents and a data storage system that stores the documents in an encrypted form. When a document is saved for the first... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110167263 - Wireless connections to a wireless access point: A method and apparatus for establishing a wireless connection. A digital certificate having a second name is obtained by a processor unit in response to receiving a selection of a network using a first name broadcast by a wireless access point. A determination is made by the processor unit as... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110167268 - Network device authentication: In general, this disclosure relates to maintaining security between an optical network terminal (ONT) and an optical network aggregation device in an Active Ethernet network. An optical network aggregation device includes one or more optical Ethernet switches that can be adaptively configured to support authentication of one or more ONTs.... Agent: Calix Networks, Inc.

20110167269 - Network device authentication: In general, this disclosure relates to maintaining security between an optical network terminal (ONT) and an optical network aggregation device in an Active Ethernet network. An optical network aggregation device includes one or more optical Ethernet switches that can be adaptively configured to support authentication of one or more ONTs.... Agent: Calix Networks, Inc.

20110167270 - Secure key authentication method for communication network: A key authentication method between a user equipment (UE) and a serving network (SN) for binary CDMA network and a key re-authentication method during which the UE performs a handover within the same SN in binary CDMA network are provided. The key authentication method for the user equipment includes receiving... Agent:

20110167271 - Secure message and file delivery: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for accessing secure and certified electronic messages using a combination of biometric security, a separate and secure network and email infrastructure, email management processes, and the addition of text, audio and visual format options to sending emails messages. In an exemplary embodiment, a... Agent: Privacydatasystems, LLC

20110167273 - Method for secure communication in a network, a communication device, a network and a computer program therefor: The present invention relates to a method for secure communications and communication networks having communication devices, using secure means like encryption system for securing communications. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for secure communications from a first node (N1) to a second node (N2) in a network,... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20110167272 - Secure multi-uim aka key exchange: An apparatus in one example, where the apparatus comprises a communication device component that performs an authentication key agreement protocol by receiving a first random nonce (RAND) and an authentication token, wherein the communication device component is configured with a shared secret key. The communication device component generates a derivation... Agent:

20110167274 - Providing services to devices using a zigbee network: A network device may receive two different sets of authentication information from a user device over a ZigBee network. The network device may authenticate the user device based on the received two different sets of authentication information and permit, in response to authenticating the user device, the user device to... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110167275 - Malware detection method and apparatus: According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a malware detection method implemented within a computer. The method includes, for a given electronic file, determining if the file is associated with a valid digital signature. If the file is associated with a valid digital signature, then... Agent:

20110167276 - Method and device for detecting if a computer file has been copied and method and device for enabling such detection: A method of detecting whether a computer file has been copied, the computer file comprising a software program and having an inode number. The inode number of the computer file is retrieved by the software program. From the computer file, a stored inode number is read, the stored inode number... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20110167277 - Processing device, processing system and control method for processing device: A processing device is provided. A first storage unit stores a correspondence table which is indicative of a correspondence relationship between attributes of data and encryption levels for encrypting data. An obtaining unit obtains data. A first determination unit determines an encryption level according to an attribute of the data... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20110167279 - Method for protecting a programmable cryptography circuit, and circuit protected by said method: A programmable cryptography circuit includes memory-based cells defining the logic function of each cell, integrating a differential network capable of carrying out calculations on pairs of binary variables, including a first network of cells implementing logic functions on the first component of the pairs and a second network of dual... Agent: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

20110167278 - Secure processor and a program for a secure processor: The instruction code including an instruction code stored in the area where the encrypted instruction code is stored in a non-rewritable format is authenticated using a specific key which is specific to the core where the instruction code is executed or an authenticated key by a specific key to perform... Agent: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

20110167280 - Network power management system: A vertical-mount network remote power management outlet strip embodiment of the present invention comprises a long, thin outlet strip body with several independently controllable power outlet sockets distributed along its length. A power input cord is provided at one end, and this supplies AC-operating power to relays associated with each... Agent:

20110167281 - Accessory power management: Methods, apparatus, and circuits for managing power among portable computing devices and one or more accessories. One example provides commands to improve power management between a portable computing device and one or more accessories. Other examples provide commands that may allow a portable computing device to charge at a maximum... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110167283 - Cpu status controlled uninterruptible power supply: Systems, apparatus and methods for controlling the flow of power are provided. A current source (110) can be coupled to an uninterruptible power supply (120) to provide an uninterruptible current. A first service connection (190) can be coupled to the uninterruptible current using one or more conductors. A monitor (150),... Agent:

20110167282 - Power distribution unit monitoring network and components: A system to monitor power loading in a plurality of power distribution units. The system includes a power monitoring gateway with a port configured to communicate with an internet protocol network using an internet protocol address. The power monitoring gateway is also configured to communicate with the plurality of power... Agent: Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.

20110167284 - Charge suspend feature for a mobile device: An electronic device is described comprising connecting means configured to establish a connection to another device, and configured to receive electrical power from the connection and configured to receive information from the other device via the connection and comprising determining means configured to determine a set of limitations, wherein for... Agent: St-ericcson Sa

20110167285 - Information handling system including wireless scanning feature: An information handling system (IHS) is provided which includes a system processor and a wireless section coupled to the system processor. While the system processor remains in a reduced power state, the wireless section is operable to be powered up to detect the presence of a wireless network external to... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20110167286 - Fine grain non-intrusive distributed information technology infrastructure power management system: A power management system includes a power management agent and a computing device comprising a CPU, memory, persistent storage, operating system, and communication mechanism. A power management server communicates with the communication mechanism using a secure communication protocol, communicates with the power management agent when the agent is in the... Agent: Vigyanlabs Innovations Private Limited

20110167287 - Providing power to an accessory during portable computing device hibernation: A portable computing device (PCD) can selectively supply power to an accessory during PCD hibernation. In some embodiments, the PCD's default behavior is to disable accessory power output during hibernation, and this default behavior can be overridden in response to a request from a connected accessory. The accessory can use... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110167288 - Information processing apparatus and controlling method thereof: An information obtaining unit provided inside a system controller obtains operation states of processing units and processing units respectively of cabinets, calculates an average utilization of CPUs of the processing units, and determines whether or not any processing unit can be disconnected. When a hardware resource can be disconnected as... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110167289 - Battery disconnection for secure assembly of computer systems: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that configures a battery for a computer system. During operation, the system disconnects the battery by simulating a fault condition using a safety circuit of the battery. The fault condition may be simulated to facilitate safe assembly of a computer system containing the battery.... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110167290 - Controlling power received through multiple bus interfaces in a portable computing device: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that enables a portable computing device to receive power through multiple bus interfaces at the same time. When the system senses that a first power source is plugged into a first bus interface in the portable computing device, the system determines whether the first... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110167291 - Method and apparatus for transmit power control in wireless networks: A method and apparatus are described including receiving, by a transmitter, a report from an associated client, setting and using a downlink transmit power level responsive to the report for data transmissions to the associated client, determining a downlink data loss rate and adjusting the downlink transmit power level responsive... Agent:

20110167292 - Computer system with synchronization/desynchronization controller: A computer system includes a processor, a submodule connected to the processor, an external access monitor configured to monitor a data transfer between the processor and the submodule, and a synchronization/desynchronization controller configured to synchronize or desynchronize the clock of the processor with respect to the clock of the submodule,... Agent: Panasonic Corporation