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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support April category listing, related patent applications 04/12

20120102304 - Behavior-based data configuration system and method: A system and method are provided for configuring data elements in a computer application such as menu items, links to purchase products, options, links to information, and user commands based on the behavior of users in the application. Information associated with the behavior of multiple users and information associated with... Agent: Baynote, Inc.

20120102308 - Bootstrap system for dual central processing units: A bootstrap system for dual central processing units includes a south bridge, a first central processing unit, a second central processing unit and a switch control module. The south bridge provides enable signals and reset signals, the first central processing unit provides an identification signal and an operation signal. The... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20120102312 - Decoupled hardware configuration manager: The present disclosure relates to a technique or device to allow hardware related drivers to present a centralized configuration program and, more particularly, to a technique or device to allow hardware related drivers to present configuration information to a centralized user interface manager.... Agent:

20120102310 - Memory system and reset method thereof: Provided is a memory system that includes at least one nonvolatile memory device, a plurality of power lines and a plurality of power domains. The power lines receive a power source voltage. The power domains are respectively connected to the power lines. A reset signal is generated by using voltages... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120102307 - Method and apparatus including architecture for protecting sensitive code and data: A secure execution environment for execution of sensitive code and data including a secure asset management unit (SAMU) is described. The SAMU provides a secure execution environment to run sensitive code, for example, code associated with copy protection schemes established for content consumption. The SAMU architecture allows for hardware-based secure... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

20120102305 - Methods and apparatus for building system images and split booting: An example of a method for facilitating split booting includes executing a base system image file of a system, initializing components of the first computing device, loading the extended system image file, and executing the extended system image file from the first computing device without booting the first computing device.... Agent: Wyse Technology Inc.

20120102309 - Preboot execution environment test device and method: A preboot execution environment (PXE) test device includes a microprocessor, one or more indicators, a network interface, a power connector, and a storage device. The network interface connects the PXE test device with a computer. The power connector connects an external power source to supply a voltage to the PXE... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd

20120102313 - Secure boot method and secure boot apparatus: A method to allow a device to boot in a secure fashion, even though some of the components within the secure device's firmware may be not present, not authorised, or not correctly operating.... Agent:

20120102314 - Smart phone system and booting method thereof: The present invention provides a smart phone system, which includes a memory for storing operating systems. The memory includes: a boot zone for storing a boot load program for initialization and loading a selected bootloader into a RAM when a system hardware is powered up; bootloader zones of at least... Agent: Huizhou Tcl Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.

20120102311 - System and method for configuring option rom: An information handling system includes a processor, a first memory, a device, and a management controller that includes a second memory. The management controller obtains configuration data for the device and stores the configuration data in the first memory while the processor is powered off, and configures the device based... Agent: Dell Products, Lp

20120102306 - System for initiating execution of bios: A computer device comprising a display member coupled to a base member to enable variable positioning of the display member relative to the base member, and an initiating system to automatically initiate execution of a basic input output system (BIOS) based on a position of the display member relative to... Agent:

20120102316 - Storing encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network: A method begins by a dispersed storage network (DSN) access module encoding a data segment to produce slices and sending temporary write requests to DSN storage modules, wherein the temporary write requests includes slices. In response to one of the temporary write requests, the method continues with a DSN storage... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20120102315 - Verification of peer-to-peer multimedia content: A method including receiving, at a first entity, from a second entity, the content and an identification of the second entity, over a peer-to-peer communication link. The received content is rendered and verification information containing the identification of the second entity and an identification of the received content is generated.... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120102318 - Method for the application of implicit signature schemes: A method of certifying a correspondent in data communication system by a certifying authority. The certifying authority includes a cryptographic unit. The method includes generating a random number and implicit certificate components based on the random number using the cryptographic unit. The implicit certificate components have a first component and... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20120102317 - Secure content distribution: In an example, a method of securing content is described. The method may include instantiating a content server on a client device. The method may also include operating the content server to retrieve content identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). The method may also include serving the content from... Agent: Rimage Corporation

20120102319 - System and method for reliably authenticating an appliance: A system and an apparatus (41) for reliably authenticating an appliance (42) involves a challenge message (C) being linked to the examination apparatus (40) by an examiner context information item (K). It is therefore more difficult for an attacker to feign an identity of an appliance. The application can be... Agent:

20120102320 - Deployable secure communication system: A secure Voice-Over-IP (VOIP), video and data network functionality in a single, small size deployable case, for a remote user. While capable of secure communications, the disclosed system also provides communication capability (VOIP, video and/or data) in a non-secure manner if desired. Most importantly, bulk encrypted (i.e., secure) data may... Agent:

20120102321 - Secret information distribution system, secret information distribution method and program: Secret information is encoded/distributed into distributed information according to access structure, a random number sequence corresponding to number of pieces into which the secret information is distributed is generated by randomly selecting polynomial coefficients, the coefficients are encoded/distributed into random number information according to access structure, a hash function whose... Agent:

20120102323 - Data security protection method: A data security protection method generates dynamic encryption keys and dynamic decryption keys for a host and a client during data transmission between the host and the client. The host stores a host initial key K0, and determines a host key Kn using a one-way hash function based on the... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20120102326 - Facilitating secure communications: The claimed subject matter provides systems and methods for facilitating secure communications. The disclosed systems and methods can include components for receiving and processing user authentication information from users or other systems to selectively provide access to stored information. The stored information may be displayed on or accessed via interfaces... Agent:

20120102327 - Method and device for authenticating components within an automatic teller machine: The invention relates to a device and a method for authenticating components of an self-service automatic teller machine, wherein the components comprise unambiguous identification information that can be exchanged among the components, wherein an authentication of the components and/or the information exchanged between the components is carried out by the... Agent: Wincor Nixdorf International Gmbh

20120102325 - Methods and apparatus for protecting digital content: A processing system to serve as a source device for protected digital content comprises a processor and control logic. When used by the processor, the control logic causes the processing system to receive a digital certificate from a presentation device. The processing system then uses public key infrastructure (PKI) to... Agent:

20120102322 - Processing of communication device signatures for use in securing nomadic electronic transactions: A method for execution in a communication device, which comprises receiving a first data set and a second data set over a first communication path; receiving a series of requests over local communication path different from the first communication path; responding to a first one of the requests by releasing... Agent:

20120102324 - Remote verification of user presence and identity: A system for verifying presence and identity of a user on a remote computer comprises a server connected to a networked communication system; a remote computer including an interface for a digital key, wherein the remote computer is connected to the networked communication system; a digital key that connects to... Agent:

20120102328 - Method for implementing the real time data service and real time data service system: The present invention discloses a method for implement real time data service and a real time data service system. After starting to forward data messages to an accessed user terminal, an access point (AP) of the real time data service system verifies the user terminal, and continues forwarding the data... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120102329 - Content distribution and aggregation: In an example, a method for secure publication of content is described. The method may include encrypting content with a media key. The method may also include providing the encrypted content to a client device associated with a private key and a public key. The private key may be stored... Agent: Rimage Corporation

20120102330 - Method for protecting a telecommunication network and secure router implementing such a method: The step of comparing the receiving fingerprint (hash(LSA1), hash(LSA2), . . . hash(LSAn)) to the sending fingerprint (hash(LSA′1), hash(LSA′2), . . . hash(LSA′n) such that the sending of a list of links (LSA1, LSA2, LSAn) is inhibited if the receiving fingerprint is different from the sending fingerprint.... Agent:

20120102331 - Method, system and device for securing a digital storage device: Method of securing a digital storage device, wherein a host is connected to the storage device, the host digitally locks the storage device so that unauthorized data access to the storage device is denied, the host sets the encryption conditions of the storage device in one of a condition wherein... Agent:

20120102332 - Mobile, wireless hand-held biometric capture, processing and communication system and method for biometric identification: A mobile, wireless biometric identification system includes a biometric capture device, associated software and processes which enable a commercially available wireless communication device, such as a smartphone, using a commercially established wireless communication networks, to capture a digital image of a human biometric (iris, fingerprint, etc.) for transmission via a... Agent: Bi2 Technologies, LLC

20120102333 - Method and apparatus for including architecture for protecting multi-user sensitive code and data: A secure execution environment for execution of sensitive code and data including a secure asset management unit (SAMU) is described. The SAMU provides a secure execution environment to run multiple instances of separate program code or data code associated with copy protection schemes established for content consumption. The SAMU architecture... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

20120102335 - Rekeying encryption keys for removable storage media: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for rekeying encryption keys for removable storage media. A rekey request is received for a coupled removable storage media, wherein encryption on the coupled removable storage media uses a first key and wherein the rekey request indicates a second key. The... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120102334 - System and method for hardware based security: An asset management system is provided, which includes a hardware module operating as an asset control core. The asset control core generally includes a small hardware core embedded in a target system on chip that establishes a hardware-based point of trust on the silicon die. The asset control core can... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20120102336 - Security of program executables and microprocessors based on compiler-architecture interaction: A method, for use in a processor context, wherein instructions in a program executable are encoded with plural instruction set encodings. A method wherein a control instruction encoded with an instruction set encoding contains information about decoding of an instruction that is encoded with another instruction set encoding scheme. A... Agent: Bluerisc Inc., A Delaware Corporation

20120102337 - Storage medium having an encrypting device: A storage medium having an encrypting device, including an electronic memory area, a read-in device, a read-out device, a key memory, in which a secret key is or can be stored, an encrypting device, and a decrypting device. The read-in device is designed to encrypt any data input at the... Agent:

20120102339 - Interface device for communication between a medical device and a computer: The present invention relates to an interface device and a method for communication between a medical device and a computer system. In some embodiments, the interface device comprises a conversion device and/or a processor-transceiver and a memory in electrical communication with the conversion device, wherein the memory contains data to... Agent:

20120102340 - Power management for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith: A communication device includes a memory module that stores a plurality of applications corresponding to a plurality of uses of the communication device. A processing module executes a selected one of the plurality of applications and selects one of a plurality of power modes based on a current one of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120102341 - Powered device analysis and power control in a power-over-ethernet system: A system and method of analyzing a powered device (PD) in a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) system are presented. The system includes an Ethernet interface having a physical layer (PRY) chip capable of providing a signal pulse in addition to physical layer 1 functions. The system further includes a pulse transformer, coupled... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120102338 - System for combined input output module and zero power optical disk drive with advanced integration and power: An information handling system includes a module bay, a voltage control switch, and a controller. The module bay configured to receive a module, and to connect the module to the information handling system. The voltage control switch is in communication with the module bay, and is configured to provide power... Agent: Dell Products, Lp

20120102342 - Active display processor sleep state: Power consumption and dissipation is reduced during active display of content from an internal display buffer using a power supply topology that powers a display subsystem separately from the other components of a CPU. The power supply topology enables a processor to enter a sleep state without disabling the active... Agent:

20120102343 - Mounting-line power control device and mounting-line power control method: A mounting-line power control device (100) includes: a target value obtaining unit (110) which obtains, for each mounting line, a target value for demand power for a first period; a priority obtaining unit (120) which obtains a first priority level of each mounting line; a target value changing unit (130)... Agent:

20120102345 - Apparatus and method for adaptive frequency scaling in digital system: An apparatus and method for adaptively changing clock frequencies of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a bus in a digital system are provided. The system includes an Adaptive Frequency Scaling (AFS) controller and a clock controller. The AFS controller determines whether to change a clock frequency of the CPU... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120102346 - Connected standby sleep state: Power consumption and dissipation during sleep states of processors is reduced using a novel connected standby sleep state. In the connected standby sleep state a dedicated power plane is used to maintain processor context. To conserve power, unnecessary components on the processor are powered down, including all of the clock... Agent:

20120102344 - Function based dynamic power control: A system and method for dynamic function based power control is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a bridge unit having a memory controller and a communication hub coupled to the memory controller. The system further includes a power management unit, wherein the power management unit is configured to... Agent:

20120102348 - Fine grained power management in virtualized mobile platforms: A system and method of managing power may include determining a power state based on a first power management request from a first operating system executing on a mobile platform and a second power management request from a second operating system executing on the mobile platform. The first operating system... Agent:

20120102347 - Process state of a computing machine: A computing machine to power a memory to retain a process state of the computing machine if the computing machine is in a sleep state and transfer the process state from the memory to a non-volatile storage device, where the computing machine remains in the sleep state as the process... Agent:

20120102349 - System and method for controlling processor low power states: A next idle state for a processor in a system may be determined based on a previous idle period and a previous idle state. The next idle state for the processor may also be determined based on times when interrupts are generated by devices in the system.... Agent:

20120102350 - Reducing energy consumption and optimizing workload and performance in multi-tier storage systems using extent-level dynamic tiering: Embodiments of the invention relate to reducing energy consumption and optimizing workload and performance in multi-tier storage systems using extent-level dynamic tiering. An aspect of the invention includes a receiving data access information of a storage extent stored in a storage system and utilization information of storage devices in the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120102351 - Data processing apparatus and power consumption amount management method: A data processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a job to be executed by the data processing apparatus, a processing unit configured to process the job input by the input unit, a power measurement unit configured to make power measurement of the data processing apparatus, and a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120102352 - Power sharing between portable computer system and peripheral devices: A peripheral device and a method for operating a peripheral device is disclosed. The peripheral device includes one or more connection mechanisms for coupling to a computing device, a power supply, and a controller. The controller is configured to enable the peripheral device to communicate with the computing device. When... Agent:

20120102353 - Data processing apparatus, data processing system, measurement system, data processing method, measurement method, electronic device and recording medium: Provided is a data processing system that processes input data, comprising a data generating apparatus that generates the input data and a data processing apparatus that processes the input data generated by the data generating apparatus. The data processing apparatus includes a time interpolation section that generates time interpolated data,... Agent: Advantest Corporation

20120102354 - Timer unit circuit having plurality of output modes and method of using the same: A timer unit includes a first selector that receives a fixed value and a first enable signal, a second selector that receives the fixed value and a count cycle signal, a third selector that receives an output of the second selector, the count cycle signal, and a second enable signal,... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120096249 - Activating applications based on accelerometer data: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device... Agent: Google Inc.

20120096248 - Power-cap settings: When the maximum power consumption of a computer exceeds a currently selected power-consumption cap, a cap setting corresponding to the currently selected power-consumption cap is reduced in addition, power-cap settings corresponding to power-consumption caps between said currently selected power-consumption cap and said maximum power consumption are reduced.... Agent:

20120096251 - Memory tagging and preservation during a hot upgrade: A method includes tagging, by a processor executing a first operating system kernel, a region of a volatile memory coupled to the processor, and initiating a boot of a second operating system kernel while preserving in the volatile memory contents stored therein. Following the boot of the second operating system... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096253 - Method for automatically setting up system: A method for automatically optimizing a configuration of a BIOS is suitable for configurating a computer system. During a BIOS power-on self test, a running operating system predetermined index is obtained from a memory. An optimal system setting parameter corresponding to the running operating system predetermined index is obtained. The... Agent: Inventec Corporation

20120096256 - Mobile device and method for supporting hibernation function: A method and apparatus for supporting a hibernation function in a mobile device are provided. In the method, the mobile device detects a wakeup event in a hibernation mode and, in response to the wakeup event, loads a snapshot image into a volatile memory from a snapshot image region of... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120096250 - Port throttling across an operating system restart during a hot upgrade: A method includes tagging, by a processor executing a first operating system kernel, a region of a volatile memory used by a first storage area network (SAN) adapter driver coupled to a SAN adapter, and decoupling the first SAN adapter driver from the SAN adapter. A boot of a second... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096252 - Preparing and preserving a system configuration during a hot upgrade: A method includes storing, to a volatile memory coupled to a processor executing a first operating system kernel, a planned system configuration, and tagging the planned system configuration. A boot of a second operating system kernel is initiated while preserving in the volatile memory contents stored therein, and following the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096255 - Server and method for managing i2c bus of the server: In a method for managing an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus of a server, a bus flag is set for the I2C bus using a BMC. When the BMC requires to detect a temperature of a memory of the server, the temperature is detected by accessing a SPD chip of the... Agent: Hong Hu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd

20120096254 - System, method and computer program product for retrieving data at boot time: The invention provides a system for retrieving at boot time user data stored on a computer. The computer comprises a processor coupled through a system bus to I/O devices and to a system memory, the computer further having a basic input output system (BIOS) unit operatively coupled to the system... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096257 - Apparatus and method for protecting storage data of a computing apparatus in an enterprise network system: The present invention relates to data security, in particular relates to data protection for storage data, and more particularly relates to encrypting and decrypting process to data on a removable non-volatile storage in an enterprise network. There is provided an apparatus and a method for protecting storage data of a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096258 - Service system: A service server can: associate identification tags which identify users, with other-user identification tags, and store said identification tags; and associate the identification tags with identification data uniquely identifying users in service servers, and an encryption key for identification data and store said identification tags. A control server device stores... Agent: Ripplex Inc.

20120096259 - System and method for performing mutual authentication: A system and method for performing mutual authentication verifies a username and a password of a handheld device by a server, and verifies an identity of the server by the handheld device if the handheld device passes the username and password verification. The system and method further verifies an identity... Agent: Gds Software (shenzhen) Co.,ltd

20120096260 - Content transmission device, content transmission method, and computer program used therewith: A content transmission device for transmitting content, whose copying is controlled, includes an authentication section for performing an authentication procedure between the content transmission device and a content receiving device, a first copy-control-information processing section for processing first copy control information describing copy control information concerning the content, a second... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120096266 - Authentication system: The authentication system includes a user node, a plurality of service nodes, an authentication database storage unit, an authentication unit, a user info nation database storage unit, and a key distribution unit. Each service node is configured to provide a service corresponding to its domain. The authentication database storage unit... Agent:

20120096264 - Java store television: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including computer readable code that, when executed by a processor, is configured to receive, from a user network device, a first request to execute an application on the user network device. The first request includes a user identification, routing information, and requested application information,... Agent: Oracle America, Inc.

20120096265 - Method and apparatus for communicating information between a security panel and a security server: A security panel includes a processor, memory, and a network interface having a unique MAC address, and is configured to communicate over a network with a server. A method for registering the security panel with the server includes contacting the server utilizing a network address stored in the memory. A... Agent: Utc Fire & Security Corporation

20120096261 - Method and apparatus for controlling access to encrypted network communication channels: An apparatus and method are described for performing content filtering of encrypted network transactions. For example, in one embodiment, for an encrypted Internet transaction (such as an HTTPS transaction), a local cache lookup is performed using the network address of the requested Internet transaction to determine if name resolution data... Agent:

20120096263 - Security service control method and wireless local area network terminal: A security service control method and a WLAN terminal are provided, and the method includes: stopping a WPI service between a WLAN terminal and an AP when the WLAN terminal creates a security service of an IP layer and/or a layer above the IP layer, wherein the WPI service comprises:... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120096262 - System and method of generating encryption/decryption keys and encrypting/decrypting a derivative work: A derivative work is encrypted using master keys generated from source data extracted from digital sources used to create the derivative work. A software application permits a mix artist to encrypt and stream a derivative work to a worldwide web server, where it is made available to consumers. A software... Agent: Legitmix, Inc.

20120096267 - Credential generation system and method for communications devices and device management servers: Systems and methods are described for establishing credentials at a device and at a device management server for the purpose of exchanging secure credentials in order to mutually authenticate the device and the server. A credential generation algorithm is described which uses a plurality of seeds, including the hardware identity... Agent: Mformation Technologies, Inc.

20120096268 - Electronic file sending method: An electronic file sending method is provided to securely and easily send en electronic file to a receiver. A receiving apparatus receives from a sending apparatus an electronic mail including an encrypted electronic file. The sending apparatus uses a public key of a management server to encrypt a decryption password... Agent: Digital Arts Inc.

20120096269 - Dynamically scalable virtual gateway appliance: A Virtual Elastic Gateway Appliance (VEGA) that implements all the capability of a security gateway in a set of virtual appliances for operation in a virtualized, cloud environment is provided. The virtual appliances are divided into various components to provide key exchange and data protection in separate virtual appliances allowing... Agent: Certes Networks, Inc.

20120096270 - 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:

20120096271 - Remote access to hosted virtual machines by enterprise users: An end user of an enterprise is enabled to receive secure remote presentation access to the assigned virtual machines in a hosted public cloud through the cloud provider's virtualization hosts and remote presentation gateway. Thus an enterprise administrator may purchase computing capacity from the cloud provider and further sub-divide the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120096273 - Authenticated encryption for digital signatures with message recovery: A framework is proposed for authenticated encryption for digital signatures with message recovery whereby authentication is achieved without a redundancy requirement. The Elliptic Curve Pintsov-Vanstone Signature scheme is modified through the use of authenticated encryption, thereby enabling authentication using a message authentication code. The authenticated encryption may be performed within... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20120096274 - Authenticated encryption for digital signatures with message recovery: A framework is proposed for authenticated encryption for digital signatures with message recovery whereby authentication is achieved without a redundancy requirement. The Elliptic Curve Pintsov-Vanstone Signature scheme is modified through the use of authenticated encryption, thereby enabling authentication using a message authentication code. The authenticated encryption may be performed within... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20120096272 - Security model for industrial devices: Systems and/or methods are described relating to a security model that provides interoperability with foreign security domains while remaining scalable to small embedded devices. A security token service is provided, which is configured to issue, renew, and/or validate security tokens in response to a token request. A communication protocol, corresponding... Agent: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

20120096276 - System and method for authenticating documents: A data processing system for distributing and authenticating documents from a plurality of parties to a recipient data processing apparatus is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of document distribution devices each configured to generate an original hash value from the content of a file containing a document to be... Agent:

20120096275 - Systems and methods for authenticating an electronic message: Systems and methods are disclosed for authenticating electronic messages. A data structure is generated by a computer server which allows for the authentication of the contents and computer server identity of a received electronic message and provides a trusted stamp to authenticate when the message was sent. Data which can... Agent: United States Postal Service

20120096277 - System and method for personal authentication using a mobile device: A system and method is for personal authentication with respect to a service provider using a mobile device. The method includes providing the user of the mobile device (2) with a two-dimensional code (1), the information contained in a two-dimensional code (1) including encrypted original data which includes an encrypted... Agent: Alter Core, S.l.

20120096278 - Authenticating messages using cryptographic algorithm constants supplied to a storage-constrained target: The present invention provides for authenticating a message. A security function is performed upon the message. The message is sent to a target. The output of the security function is sent to the target. At least one publicly known constant is sent to the target. The received message is authenticated... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096279 - Problem-based account generation: A method to provide problem-based access to a computing device is disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the invention, such a method includes detecting a problem on a computing device. The method automatically generates a user account on the computing device in response to detecting the problem. The problem is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096280 - Secured storage device with two-stage symmetric-key algorithm: A secured storage device uses a user key set by user to encrypt a primary key that is for encryption or decryption of user data, to produce a first encrypted data. In the secured storage device, neither the primary key nor the user key is stored, but the first encrypted... Agent: Skymedi Corporation

20120096281 - Selective storage encryption: A storage device includes encryption policies that may be applied to data stored thereon. Different encryption policies may be applied to different data on the storage device. Input/output (I/O) requests may identify the appropriate encryption policy to be applied using a data tag of the I/O request. The data tag... Agent:

20120096282 - Microprocessor that fetches and decrypts encrypted instructions in same time as plain text instructions: A fetch unit (a) fetches a block of instruction data from an instruction cache of the microprocessor; (b) performs an XOR on the block with a data entity to generate plain text instruction data; and (c) provides the plain text instruction data to an instruction decode unit. In a first... Agent: Via Technologies, Inc.

20120096283 - Optional function multi-function instruction in an emulated computing environment: A method, system and program product for executing a multi-function instruction in an emulated computer system by specifying, via the multi-function instruction, either a capability query or execution of a selected function of one or more optional functions, wherein the selected function is an installed optional function, wherein the capability... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096284 - Content data reproduction system and recording device: To exclude any unauthorized device from a system and thereby prevent illegal use of content data, a memory card 10 stores a service key Ksrv for encrypting content key data Kc in a hidden area 14. The memory card 10 stores answer data AC to be obtained when question data... Agent:

20120096286 - Charging management method, charging control circuit and the host apparatus having the same: A control circuit of universal serial bus (USB) port includes a charge control unit providing a first operating voltage and a second operating voltage to a first operating voltage end and a second operating voltage end of the USB port, and a first circuit unit coupled to the charge control... Agent: Asustek Computer Inc.

20120096287 - Coordinated approach between middleware application and sub-systems: A method of managing power in a computing system is provided. The method comprises: assessing incoming work; assessing service level agreements related to the incoming work; and coordinating with an operating system layer to control hardware of the computing system based on the service level agreements and a power consumption... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096285 - Power management method and portable electronic device using the same: A power management method for a portable electronic device having a battery providing operating power includes receiving a command utilized for indicating the portable electronic device to execute a function, determining electricity required by executing the function and electricity stored in the battery, comparing the electricity required by executing the... Agent:

20120096288 - Controlling operation of temperature sensors: Techniques are disclosed relating to controlling power consumption of temperature sensors in integrated circuits. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a temperature sensor that is configured to determine a temperature of the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit also includes a sensor controller that is configured to... Agent:

20120096290 - Distributed architecture for situation aware sensory application: Embodiments of the invention relate to a distributed signal processing system and a method for processing a sensor signal for a mobile device. Raw signal data is received and pre-processed by a processor to filter and split the data signal into multiple data outputs. The split signal data represent both... Agent: Keynetik, Inc.

20120096289 - Storage apparatus and power control method: The storage apparatus manages attributes of the RAID groups, which form a pool area, and attributes of the respective storage areas, based on an access log for each of the storage areas allocated to virtual volumes. The apparatus enables a power saving operation for each RAID group by putting the... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120096291 - Energy-saving control apparatus, power connecting device and switching device having said apparatus: An energy-saving control apparatus comprises a power input interface, a power output interface, a controlling unit, a sampling unit, a central processing unit and a data storage unit. The power input interface is used for connecting to an external power source. The power output interface is used for connecting to... Agent:

20120096292 - Method, system and apparatus for multi-level processing: A Multi-Level Processor 200 for reducing the cost of synchronization overhead including an upper level processor 201 for taking control and issuing the right to use shared data and to enter critical sections directly to each of a plurality of lower level processors 202, 203 . . . 20n at... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20120096293 - Directed resource folding for power management: A mechanism is provided for directed resource folding for power management. The mechanism receives a set of static platform characteristics and a set of dynamic platform characteristics for a set of resources associated with the data processing system thereby forming characteristic information. The mechanism determines whether one or more conditions... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096294 - Electronic apparatus, electronic apparatus power control, electronic apparatus power control program, and storage medium storing power control program: An electronic apparatus includes a first power source to generate power from external power; a photovoltaic power generation device to generate power from received light as cell-generated power; a power storage device to store cell-generated power; a second power source to generate power from cell-generated power; a mode switching unit... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20120096295 - Method and apparatus for dynamic power control of cache memory: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dynamic power control of a cache memory. One embodiment of the method includes disabling a subset of lines in the cache memory to reduce power consumption during operation of the cache memory.... Agent:

20120096296 - System for reducing power consumption in an electronic chip: A system for reducing power consumption in an electronic device comprising at least one electronic chip comprises a plurality of local access network (LAN) ports, a transceiver coupled between the LAN ports and the electronic chip, a PLA device, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to... Agent:

20120096298 - Battery pack: A tool battery pack can include a current detection element for detecting a discharge current or a charge current, a monitoring section for inputting a current signal of the discharge current or the charge current through the current detection element and for inputting voltage signals of each cell battery, and... Agent: Makita Corporation

20120096297 - Determining redundancy of power feeds connecting a server to a power supply: Methods, system, and computer program products are provided for determining redundancy of power feeds connecting a server to a power supply. Embodiments include receiving, by a redundancy monitoring manager, from each of a plurality of redundancy monitoring interposers, connection information, wherein each redundancy monitoring interposer comprises a device that provides... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120096299 - Universal serial bus dongle and method of controlling power thereof: An apparatus and method of controlling power of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongle are provided. The method includes detecting power consumption of the USB dongle when the USB dongle is connected with an apparatus to perform a communication function, determining whether the detected power consumption is equal to or... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120096300 - Communication circuit and communication method: Provided is a communication circuit (10) connected with a plurality of function blocks (A, B) that perform processing based on a first clock signal, and mediates communication between the function blocks (A, B). The communication circuit (10) includes N number of communication means, where N is a positive integer, having... Agent:

20120096301 - Memory interface configurable for asynchronous and synchronous operation and for accessing storage from any clock: An improved memory interface circuit is provided for accessing a storage array in one of two available modes, including a synchronous mode and an asynchronous mode. The improved memory interface circuit also includes logic, which enables the storage array to reside within substantially any clock domain.... Agent: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

20120096302 - Field device having a real time clock: A field device includes a real time clock, and at least one communication interface for at least unidirectionally, receiving and transmitting data. The real time clock is detachably connected to the at least one receiving communication interface of the field device, and includes a power supply.... Agent: Abb Technology Ag

20120089825 - Apparatus and method for generating a boot image that is adjustable in size: A technique for reducing a size of a snapshot boot image by adjusting a structure of the snapshot boot image based on an analysis of a computing system. In addition, according to the technique, the overriding portions of a snapshot based boot image may be loaded first in consideration of... Agent:

20120089827 - Computing device and method to reduce the time needed for the device to start: One example of the invention operates during the device shut-down procedure, to generate a merged command list containing the components from the various individual static command lists. The generated merged command list is then stored in non-volatile memory, and subsequently accessed on the next device start-up to control the launching... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120089826 - Methods of operating memory devices and electronic systems having memory devices: Methods of operating memory devices and electronic systems having memory devices include initiating a boot mode of operation of the memory device in response to receiving a first command, wherein the first command comprises a pattern of two or more command signals, and terminating the boot mode of operation in... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20120089828 - Secure tunnel over https connection: Many secure tunnels require protocols that require special handling, authorization or security certificates, such as L2TP and PPTP. This often eliminates them for use between a corporate or agency network and outside, public networks. A secure socket tunnel protocol (SSTP) adds drivers in both the kernel and user mode to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120089829 - Accelerating stream cipher operations using single and grid systems: Systems and methods for accelerating stream cipher encryption operations are described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method receives data. The method separates the data into multiple file chunks for compression. A respective compression-encryption instructions header is provided for each compressed file chunk. Each compressed file chunk then is encrypted according... Agent: King Saud University

20120089831 - Associating a multi-context trusted platform module with distributed platforms: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for creating an instance of a virtual trusted platform module (TPM) in a central platform and associating the instance with a managed platform coupled to the central platform. Multiple such vTPM's may be instantiated, each associated with a different managed platform... Agent:

20120089830 - Method and device for digitally attesting the authenticity of binding interactions: Method for digitally attesting the authenticity of an interaction, comprising the steps of establishing a secure digital communication channel between a Universal Signature Assistant and a remote Attestation Appliance, sending an interaction request to a remote site, digitally receiving from the remote Attestation Appliance on the Universal Signature Assistant an... Agent:

20120089832 - Methods of issuing a credit for a certificate for a domain name: The invention provides methods for efficiently registering a domain name and issuing a certificate without a Subscriber submitting a separate request for the certificate. A notice may be provided to the Subscriber after requesting to register the domain name that a credit for a certificate may be issued for the... Agent: Go Daddy Holding Company, LLC

20120089834 - Establishment method and device for link between access point and repeater in wireless distribution system: The present invention provides an establishment method and device for a link between an access point and a repeater in a wireless distribution system. The method comprises: starting the access point and the repeater in the wireless distribution system; the access point and the repeater transmitting an interactive message to... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120089836 - Object delivery authentication: A method and system for authenticating delivery including the steps of receiving by a receiver a delivery information package from a deliverer over a network during a communication between the receiver and the deliverer, wherein the delivery package includes deliverer identity information, sending an authentication request of the received delivery... Agent: Tp Lab Inc.

20120089833 - Secure deployment of provable identity for dynamic application environments: An invention is described for securely deploying a provable identity for virtual machines (VMs) in a dynamic environment. In an embodiment, a fabric controller instructs a VM host to create a VM and sends that VM a secret. The fabric controller sends that same secret (or a second secret, such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120089835 - System and method for automatic authentication of an item: A system, apparatus and method automatically authenticating an item. The media device includes a housing, a processor disposed within the housing, the item disposed within or attached to the housing, and a memory disposed within the housing. The memory stores computer readable instructions that when executed by the processor causes... Agent: Dt Labs, LLC

20120089837 - Keyless challenge and response system: A confidential information exchange between a sender and a receiver may be conducted without the use of encryption keys. The information is coded with a Challenge-Response Table that is shared between the sender and the receiver. Rather than sending a challenge and then waiting for a response, the challenge and... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120089838 - Method and device for securely configuring a terminal: A method of configuring a terminal including initializing the terminal, and which automatically triggers at least: detecting presence of a memory by a basic input/ouput system of the terminal, accessing the memory by the basic input/ouput system, starting up an operating system stored in the memory, and starting up a... Agent: France Telecom

20120089839 - Online secure device provisioning with online device binding using whitelists: One or more servers are provided including a session manager, authentication module, authorization module, encryption module, database, and protocol handler. The session manager is configured to receive requests for new identity data from network-enabled devices. Each request is authenticated first by the update server via its authentication module by validating... Agent: General Instrument Corporation

20120089840 - System and method for controlling data communications between a server and a client device: A system and method for controlling data communications between a server and a client device, such as a mobile device. Embodiments relate generally to a technique where stop data is provided to the client device. This stop data can be transmitted (e.g. by the client device) to the server. When... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120089842 - Communication system for authenticating messages with uniquely specified genuine information: In a sensor network system, a transmitter device uses a message authentication key generated by a message generator to transmit a message with authenticator to plural receiver devices, which in reply produce a certification by a certification generator from a message with authenticator held by a message holder to transmit... Agent: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

20120089841 - Digital signatures of composite resource documents: An embodiment of the disclosure can receive a composite resource document containing at least one resource. An updated manifest resource can be obtained. The updated manifest resource can list all resources in the composite resource document. A set of zero or more (0 . . . N) resources can be... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120089843 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: a data processor which creates content to be distributed to a client, wherein the data processor executes processing of creating content provided to a client by selecting data in units of segments, which are division data of content, from a plurality of additional information recorded... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120089844 - One way authentication: A cryptosystem prevents replay attacks within existing authentication protocols, susceptible to such attacks but containing a random component, without requiring modification to said protocols. The entity charged with authentication maintains a list of previously used bit patterns, extracted from a portion of the authentication message connected to the random component.... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20120089845 - Verifiable device assisted service usage billing with integrated accounting, mediation accounting, and multi-account: Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a communications device implements a service policy for assisting billing for the communications device use of a service on a network; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy, in which a... Agent:

20120089846 - Method and arrangement for sending and receiving confidential electronic messages in a legally binding manner: In a method and arrangement for the secure transmission of at least one electronic message from a first terminal of a first user to at least one second terminal of a second user, the electronic message is generated by the first terminal. The electronic message is received by the second... Agent:

20120089847 - Method of obtaining authorization for accessing a service: Methods and devices for obtaining authorization for a requestor to access a service are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving a requestor request for access to a service; sending an authorization request to one or more mobile devices associated with one or more... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120089848 - 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:

20120089849 - Cookie management system and method: A system for managing cookies in a client device on a network includes a communication module, a cookie parser, an encryption module, and a storing module. The communication module sends an HTTP request to a web server on the network, and the cookie parser extracts any cookie data from the... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20120089850 - Optimizing power usage by factoring processor architectural events to pmu: A method and apparatus to monitor architecture events is disclosed. The architecture events are linked together via a push bus mechanism with each architectural event having a designated time slot. There is at least one branch of the push bus in each core. Each branch of the push bus may... Agent:

20120089851 - Power management method for controlling communication interface to enter/leave power-saving mode and related device thereof: One power management method of a communication interface includes: when receiving a command transmitted via the communication interface, checking if a predetermined criterion is met; and when the predetermined criterion is met, controlling the communication interface to enter a power-saving mode before an end of the received command. Another power... Agent:

20120089852 - Energy optimization techniques in a computing system: A computing platform may include components to determine performance loss values and energy savings values for each of the plurality of regions and/or the memory boundedness value of each of a plurality of regions within an application. The computing platform may provide a user interface for a user to provide... Agent:

20120089853 - High speed network interface with automatic power management with auto-negotiation: A power management circuit for managing power of a network interface is provided. The network interface includes a medium interface unit coupled to a network media supporting at least a high speed protocol and a lower speed protocol. The power management logic includes logic to determine that an event signalling... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

20120089854 - Systems and methods for optimizing data storage among a plurality of solid state memory subsystems: A solid state storage device includes an interface system configured to communicate with an external host system over an aggregated multi-channel interface to receive data for storage by the solid state storage device. The solid state storage device also includes a storage processing system configured to communicate with the interface... Agent: Puresilicon Inc.

20120089855 - Circuit and method for an uninterruptible power supply of electronic modules: A circuit for uninterruptible power supply, wherein the circuit can be connected to an energy supply and a load and includes a capacitive energy store, a changeover switch, a charging device, a charging control device, a voltage monitoring device, and a discharge device.... Agent:

20120089856 - Method and apparatus for on-demand power management: A power management apparatus and method are described. The method including monitoring, using a controller, a system bus for a processing demand in a processing system, the processing system comprising the system bus and a system processor, wherein the processing system operates at a first one or more voltages and... Agent:

20120089857 - Method for compensating for variations in data timing: A method for compensating for variations in timing of data sent to a processor on data bit lines relative to a strobe clock sent to the processor on a strobe clock line that can be used in a dual data rate (DDR) memory identifies discrete minimum and maximum time offset... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20120089858 - Content processing apparatus: A content processing apparatus includes a plurality of takers. Each of a plurality of takers runs with reference to any one of N (N: an integer of two or more) of clocks, and the plurality of takers respectively take a plurality of contents. A mixer mixes the plurality of contents... Agent: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

20120084543 - Hardware accelerator module and method for setting up same: A hardware accelerator module is driven by a system processor via a system bus to sequentially process data blocks of a data stream as a function of a parameter set defined by the processor. The module includes a register block adapted to receive parameter sets from the system processor, an... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20120084542 - Multi-operating system: A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The desktop operating system provides a full desktop user... Agent: Imerj LLC

20120084541 - Optimization of processor characteristics and large scale system optimization through domain decomposition: Systems and methods for optimizing processor requirements for a complex hardware system are disclosed. A set of complex hardware system configuration constraints are formulated as an objective function and a set of linear inequalities, and a convex polytope is formed from the set of linear inequalities. The objective function is... Agent:

20120084549 - Attesting a component of a system during a boot process: A method, apparatus and program product for attesting a component of a system during a boot process. The method comprises the steps of: verifying that the system is in a trusted state; in response to verifying that the system is in a trusted state, requesting an enrollment of the system... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084551 - Fan control method and apparatus for device area in information handling system: A fan control method for an information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes a device area and a fan for providing air flow to the device area. A plurality of devices is installed on the device area. The method includes the steps of: collecting thermal data of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084550 - Information processing system and startup control method: An information processing system including a control apparatus and a housing includes a device that operates under control of the control apparatus, the control apparatus includes a memory that stores operability information including plural pieces of the operability information each indicate whether an device is operable under the control of... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120084548 - Method and module for simulating keyboard: This disclosure provides a method and a module for simulating a keyboard used in an electronic device having a hot key. The method for simulating a keyboard at least includes the following steps. First, whether the hot key is pressed is checked. If the hot key is pressed, a pressing... Agent: Pegatron Corporation

20120084547 - Method and terminal of booting a computing system: Provided is a method of booting a computing system which performs boot image transmission and device initialization in parallel. For example, using an Internal RAM and direct memory access (DMA), hardware initialization and loading of boot image from a main storage medium to a main memory are performed in parallel,... Agent:

20120084545 - Methods and systems for implementing a secure boot device using cryptographically secure communications across unsecured networks: A secure boot device, method, and system for securely connecting a client computer having a secure boot device to a remote server over a communications network are disclosed. The secure boot device includes a housing having an integrated communication interface, a controller located within the housing and operatively connected to... Agent:

20120084544 - Methods and systems for providing and controlling cryptographically secure communications across unsecured networks between a secure virtual terminal and a remote system: Methods and systems for securely connecting a client computer having a secure boot device to a remote server over a communications network are disclosed. One method includes booting a client computer from a trusted set of processing modules stored in the secure boot device, verifying the contents of the trusted... Agent:

20120084546 - Termination-log acquiring program, termination-log acquiring device, and termination-log acquiring method: A client terminal receives, in response to a boot command issued by a user to boot the client terminal, a first start command to start monitoring. The client terminal acquires first time information, repeatedly at certain time intervals from a basic software, and stores the first time information in a... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120084552 - Demand based usb proxy for data stores in service processor complex: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for secure server system management. A payload containing system software and/or firmware updates is distributed in an on-demand, secure I/O operation. The I/O operation is performed via a secured communication channel inaccessible by the server operating system to an emulated USB drive.... Agent:

20120084553 - Transferable device with alterable usage functionality: A method and device for providing a transferable device with alterable usage functionality includes but is not limited to a method including receiving a request from a user to alter one or more functions of the mobile device, responding to the request from the user by activating a first mode,... Agent: Searete LLC, A Limited Liability Corporation Of The State Of Delaware

20120084555 - Enforcing use of chipset key management services for encrypted storage devices: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for controlling access to data stored on a plurality of storage devices associated with a first platform. The method includes authenticating a user to access the first platform, wherein the first platform includes first and second storage devices, chipset encryption hardware,... Agent:

20120084554 - System and method for hosting encrypted monitoring data: A monitoring system includes at least one monitoring devices coupled to the electrical power distribution system at selected locations for collecting data related to the operation of the monitored system. The monitoring device(s) includes a communication port and processors programmed to segment the collected data into blocks optimized for user... Agent: Schneider Electric Usa, Inc.

20120084556 - System and method for retrieving related certificates: A system and method for searching and retrieving certificates, which may be used in the processing of encoded messages. In one embodiment, all certificates related to an identified certificate are retrieved from the certificate servers automatically by the certificate synchronization application, where the related certificates comprise at least one of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120084557 - Tampering monitoring system, control device, and tampering control method: Provided is a tampering monitoring system that can identify a monitoring module that has been tampered with among a plurality of monitoring modules. A management apparatus is provided with an acquisition unit that acquires a new monitoring module that has not been tampered with, a generation unit that generates a... Agent:

20120084558 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus has an authentication and key exchange processing unit, a packet selector, a content key generator, a content decryption unit to decrypt, based on the content key, the encrypted content which is included in the content packet and received following the CCI packet, a CCI set identifier... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120084559 - Communications source authentication: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for authenticating a communications source. In one aspect, a method includes decrypting a symbol that was received over a particular communications channel. The symbol is decrypted using a decryption key that is assigned to a particular endpoint... Agent: Hunt Technologies, LLC

20120084560 - Reboot controller to prevent unauthorized reboot: A method, computer program product and system of preventing the unauthorized rebooting of a server having a change record, reboot password and valid reboot key. The method includes authenticating that rebooting is authorized by the change record; responsive to entering a reboot password, authenticating that a valid reboot password has... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084562 - Methods and systems for updating a secure boot device using cryptographically secured communications across unsecured networks: Methods and systems for updating a virtual terminal associated with a secure network are disclosed. One method includes validating at a service enclave an identity of a user of a virtual terminal. The service enclave includes an authorization server, and the virtual terminal is generated from a trusted set of... Agent:

20120084564 - Security operation method and system for access point: A system and a method of operating a security for an Access Point (AP) are provided. The method includes sending, by a mobile terminal, a key code conversion request message to the AP, generating, by the AP, a conversion key code in response to the key code conversion request message,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120084563 - Systems and methods for multi-factor remote user authentication: What is disclosed is a handheld multi-factor remote user authentication card device in the form factor of a prior art one factor of “what you have” security card. The handheld multifactor card-device has innovative features that enable this single card device itself to function and accomplish a multifactor remote user... Agent:

20120084561 - Token-based authentication using middle tier: An intermediary system that facilitates a connection request from a client to a server. The intermediary system may participate in either or both of a token creation phase and a server connection phase. If participating in the token creation phase, the intermediary system generates a token that may later be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084565 - Cryptographic device that binds an additional authentication factor to multiple identities: Binding a security artifact to a service provider. A method includes generating a pseudonym for a security artifact. The pseudonym is an identifier of the security artifact to the service provider that is unique to the service provider in that the pseudonym is not used to identify the security artifact... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084566 - Methods and systems for providing and controlling cryptographic secure communications across unsecured networks: Methods and systems for providing secure access to network resources are disclosed. A method includes defining in a provisioning utility one or more communities of interest, each community of interest including one or more users and associated with a key. The method includes providing a service key to a client... Agent:

20120084567 - Group signature system and method providing controllable linkability: A group signature system includes: a key issuer server for generating a first parameter of a group public key, generating a corresponding master issuing key, and issuing a signature key to a user when a user device joins; an opener server for generating a second parameter of the group public... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120084568 - Lightweight secure neighbor discovery protocol for low-power and lossy networks: An apparatus comprising a network node configured to support a lightweight secure neighbor discovery (LSEND) protocol for securing neighbor discovery protocols (NDP) for energy-aware devices, wherein the network node is configured to wirelessly communicate with a host node, wherein the network node is configured to exchange LSEND protocol messages with... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20120084569 - Method for creating a secure dataset and method for evaluating the same: A method is provided for creating a secure dataset using a software application running on a data processing system, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving digital image data (1) that represents one or more images, receiving at least one item of additional information (2) relating to the image... Agent: Cp.media Ag

20120084570 - Remote resources single sign on: Exemplary techniques for enabling single sign-on to an operating system configured to conduct a remote presentation session are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a user credential can be encrypted using an encryption key generated by a remote presentation session server and sent to a client. The client can send the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084571 - Image-based key exchange: This disclosure is directed for improved techniques for configuring a device to generate a secondary password based at least in part on a secure authentication key. The techniques of this disclosure may, in some examples, provide for capturing, by a computing device, an image of a display of another computing... Agent: Google Inc.

20120084572 - Secure device sharing: A device and method for placing the device in a locked state having an associated set of permitted tasks so as to permit the device owner to share the device with others but maintain security over aspects of the device. A task change request is evaluated to determine whether the... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120084574 - Information storage apparatus, information storage method, and electronic device: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information storage apparatus, including: a plurality of nonvolatile memories configured to store encryption information so that the stored encryption information are read out therefrom; a plurality of encryption processing modules provided correspondingly with the respective memories, and configured to encrypt the information... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120084573 - Security protection for memory content of processor main memory: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to memory devices and security of same.... Agent: Numonyx B.v.

20120084577 - Charge pump apparatus, a memory integrated circuit and methods of power supply: A power supply, and a method of controlling the power supply, in which more or less power capacity of the power supply is activated depending on the state of a digital data signal on a data bus. The power supply has a control circuit which detects the number of “zero”... Agent:

20120084576 - Information processing apparatus and power supply control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: an optical disk apparatus; a receiver which receives a command indicating that a tray provided in the optical disc apparatus is ejected; a power supply module which supplies electric-power to each of modules of the information processing apparatus; and a power... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120084579 - Power distribution to computer system: Power distribution to computer systems. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems including a power supply configured to convert an alternating current (AC) power signal to a direct current (DC) power signal (and the power supply comprising a first power port and a second power port, the second... Agent:

20120084575 - Synchronized voltage scaling and device calibration: A method is provided for scaling voltage in an integrated circuit. A calibration operation is performed on a functional module on the integrated circuit periodically at a rate T1. At least one parameter on the integrated circuit in monitored to determine when a performance threshold is reached. A change is... Agent:

20120084578 - Using a single terminal for a power enable output signal and detecting an over-current condition: A power controller for a peripheral bus interface. A peripheral bus power controller includes a first terminal, a second terminal coupled to receive an power enable input signal from a host controller, and a third terminal coupled to provide an over-current output signal indicative of an over-current condition to the... Agent:

20120084580 - Power budget allocation in multi-processor systems: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and software that implement power budget allocation optimization algorithms in multi-processor systems, such as server farms. The algorithms are derived from a queuing theoretic model that minimizes the mean response time of the system to the jobs in the workload while accounting for a variety of factors.... Agent: Carnegie Mellon University

20120084581 - Power supply control apparatus, electric device, power supply control system, and power supply control method and program: A power supply control apparatus includes an opening/closing unit that is used for starting or stopping power supply to an electric device, a reception unit configured to receive power-supply-control information that is transmitted from the electric device, and a control unit configured to control the opening/closing unit based on the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120084587 - Automated power management of a peripheral device: Based on bounds of a period of reduced operation for a base device, a base device generates a power management message for transmission to a peripheral device. In the power management message, the base device inserts bounds of a period of reduced operation for the peripheral device. As a result,... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120084583 - Data transform method and data transformer: A data transform method and a data transformer. The method includes: importing a data transform rule; acquiring from the data transform rule a source data definition, a destination data definition and a data transform rule definition; predicting resource energy consumption parameters of a data transform node server according to the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084585 - Information processing apparatus capable of remote power control, power control method therefor, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus that has a plurality of functional units and is capable of communicating with a power monitoring apparatus and supplying power to an appropriate functional unit according to whether a main power switch is operated by an operator or a power-on instruction is received from the power... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120084586 - Method, device, and system for guaranteed minimum processor power state dwell time: A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes causing a processor to enter into a first power state. Then an interrupt is received that signals the processor to leave the first power state. The method continues by causing the processor to remain in the first... Agent:

20120084584 - Power management method and apparatus: A power management method in a user terminal receives a power from a power supply unit to charge a system voltage, compares the system voltage with a preset voltage, and controls a power input from the power supply unit according to the comparison result.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120084582 - Storage drive management: With embodiments of the invention, a more robust solution is provided using a storage driver that may already be used for the platforms operating system. This is efficient because the storage driver typically already monitors storage drive access requests, and thus knows when traffic is outstanding (performance may be critical)... Agent:

20120084588 - Voltage regulator with drive override: Techniques to enable voltage regulators to adjust for coming load changes are presented herein. In some embodiments, a functional block such as a microprocessor core having an associated clock signal is powered by at least one switching-type voltage regulator. When the functional block is about to require an increased level... Agent:

20120084589 - Hardware dynamic cache power management: In an embodiment, a control circuit is configured to transmit operations to a circuit block that is being powered up after being powered down, to reinitialize the circuit block for operation. The operations may be stored in a memory (e.g. a set of registers) to which the control circuit is... Agent:

20120084590 - Implementing sleep lines in commodity ethernet hardware: A first Network Interface Controller operates in a low power mode. The first Network Interface Controller transitions from low power mode to a power-up sequence if a sleep packet in not received from a second Network Interface Controller at the first Network Interface Controller within a predetermined time threshold.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120084591 - Power management systems and methods: Systems and methods for efficiently managing power consumption in portable electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, power management circuitry may operate the device in a low power mode (e.g., a HIBERNATION mode), but enables the device to quickly become fully operational in response to a power-ON event, despite having... Agent:

20120084592 - Power management system, method thereof and storage medium: A power management method for a host computer, which is coupled to a USB hub, is provided. It prevents the USB hub from entering into a suspend mode while the host computer stays in a host active state. The method includes the following steps: a filter driver is loaded. When... Agent: Via Technologies, Inc.

20120084593 - Method and system for providing a current time value: A method for providing applications with a current time value includes receiving a trap for an application to access a time memory page, creating, in a memory map corresponding to the application, a mapping between an address space of the application and the time memory page in response to the... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20120084594 - Usb device with a clock calibration function and method for calibrating reference clocks of a usb device thereof: A USB device with a clock calibration function and a method for calibrating reference clocks of a USB device are provided. A USB 2.0 initial calibration is performed on the USB device in order to control an embedded oscillator (EMOSC) of the USB device to output a first reference clock... Agent: