Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions

20090276612 - Implementation of sparing policies for servers: A method for implementing a sparing policy for a server by a management module in communication with the server and a plurality of additional servers is provided. The server is designated as a spare server. The spare server is maintained in a powered-off, standby state. A need for the spare... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276617 - Computer system comprising a secure boot mechanism on the basis of symmetric key encryption: A CPU, a computer system and a secure boot mechanism are provided in which a symmetric encryption key may be incorporated into a non-volatile memory area of the CPU core, thereby substantially avoiding any tampering of the encryption key by external sources. Moreover, pre-boot information may be internally stored in... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090276613 - Method of sharing basic input output system, and blade server and computer using the same: A blade server is provided. The blade server includes at least one motherboard, and a backplane. The backplane is coupled to the at least one motherboard, and includes a memory unit and a switch unit. The memory unit is adapted for storing a BIOS. The switch unit is coupled between... Agent: J C Patents

20090276618 - Portable device and method for externally generalized starting up of a computer system: An improved portable device for start-up of a computer system is disclosed. This portable device for externally starting up a computer system comprises a connection interface to the computer system and a data medium comprising data and executable codes of a host operating system that can be activated by a... Agent: Bull Hn Information Systems Inc. Attn: Russell W. Guenthner

20090276616 - Servo device and method of shared basic input/output system: A servo device and method of a shared basic input/output system (BIOS) include a plurality of mainboards, a circuit board, and a switching control unit. When a disk boot failure event of the mainboard occurs, a transmission path is conducted between the mainboard where the disk boot failure event occurs... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090276614 - Servo device and method of sharing basic input/output system: A servo device and a method of sharing a basic input/output system (BIOS) include a plurality of mainboards, a circuit board, and a memory unit, and a switching unit disposed on the circuit board. A single memory unit stores a plurality of BIOS entity program segments respectively corresponding to a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090276615 - Servo device auto-booted upon power supply recovery and method thereof: A servo device auto-booted upon power supply recovery and a method thereof include a plurality of mainboards, a circuit board, a power supply, a memory unit, an auto-booting unit, and a switching unit. The switching unit and the memory unit storing a basic input/output system (BIOS) are disposed on the... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090276619 - Parallel distribution and fingerprinting of digital content: Distributing information, including the steps of watermarking the digital content, distributing the digital content using a multi-source system, and partially fingerprinting digital content at each stage of moving information from a point of origin to the viewer. “Adaptation” of the digital content to the recipient includes maintaining the digital content... Agent: Kaleidescape, Inc.

20090276620 - Client authentication during network boot: A secure mechanism for performing a network boot sequence and provisioning a remote device may use a private key of a public key/private key encryption mechanism to generate a command by a server and have the command executed by the device. The command may be used to verify the authenticity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276623 - Enterprise device recovery: An administrator of an enterprise can recover a user secure storage device in conjunction with a third-party service without the administrator knowing a user secure storage device password. The administrator secure storage device is communicatively coupled with a host computer. A user secure storage device is communicatively coupled with a... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090276621 - Secret authentication system: An authenticated apparatus generates scrambled data from key data and authentication data, such that another key data, which configures the product data, or authentication data is obtained through back-calculation of the product data by using the authentication data or key data, the scrambled data including the product data and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090276622 - Secret authentication system: Authentication data is distributedly defined by a plurality of distributed data, including function data specifying a function. A portion of the distributed data is shared between an authenticated apparatus and an authenticating apparatus. The authenticated apparatus obtains verification data from the distributed data unshared with the authenticated apparatus, and transmits... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090276624 - Method and apparatus for facilitating business processes: A method and apparatus for facilitating a business process communication and managing business processes. First business process data is obtained from at least one first trading participant and processed at a process management platform configured to automatically determine second trading participants to satisfy the first business process data. A second... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090276627 - Digital content decrypting apparatus and operating method thereof: A device and method for decrypting digital contents are discussed. According to an embodiment, a method for decrypting digital content at a target device, includes receiving the digital content without a source encryption key from a source device connected to the target device, the digital content having been encrypted with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090276628 - Digital content decrypting apparatus and operating method thereof: A device and method for decrypting digital contents are discussed. According to an embodiment, a method for decrypting digital content at a target device, includes receiving the digital content without a source encryption key from a source device connected to the target device, the digital content having been encrypted with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090276625 - Hierarchical browsing management method and system for digital content: A hierarchical browsing management method and system for a digital content are described, in which a client decrypts a part of an encrypted content corresponding to an user permission of the client according to a different decryption key. The hierarchical browsing management method includes the following steps. A document fetching... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090276626 - Portable smart card reader having secure wireless communications capability: A reader device includes a housing for receiving a smart card, a processor in electronic communication with an integrated circuit chip of the smart card when the smart card is received in the housing, a wireless communications device in electronic communication with the processor for enabling the reader device to... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20090276629 - Method for deriving traffic encryption key: A mobile station is provided. The mobile station includes one or more radio transceiver module and a processor. The processor generates an Authorization Key (AK) context including at least one secret key shared with a base station, transmits at least one association negotiation message via the radio transceiver module to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090276631 - Certificate revocation system: A method of managing certificates in a communication system having a certifying authority and a directory. Preferably, the method begins by having the certifying authority generate certificates by digitally signing a given piece of data. At a later point time, the certifying authority may produce a string that proves whether... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090276634 - Content distribution system, content distribution method, and client terminal: The user of any one portable terminal sends a content information request including a user ID to a distribution server. In response, the distribution server distributes a stream data of content that can be used on the user's terminal. If the user of a first portable terminal intends to let... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090276630 - Group signature system and information processing method: In a group signature system of the present invention, user device 400 registered in the group, when receiving an issuing device public key of a set that includes order N of a cyclic group and its elements a—0, a—1 and a—2, determines such primes e and e′ that e′ is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090276633 - Retrieving content via a coded surface: A method of retrieving a content using a print medium is disclosed. The method starts by determining a print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. The print media identifier is linked to the content. The method then retrieves, using the mobile... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090276632 - Systems, methods, and media for providing secure content information: Systems, methods, and media for providing secure content information are provided. In some embodiments, systems for providing secure content information are provided, the systems comprising: a processor that creates a payload, creates a validation value, securely stores the validation value in association with a content distribution, and stores the payload... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20090276635 - Controlling distribution and use of digital works: In order to efficiently prevent the save-and-restore attack on usage rights associated with digital work, these usage rights are protected by a hidden channel. In order to make it a difficult or expensive to manipulate the hidden channel, a device is proposed comprising: writing means (34) for writing on a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090276636 - Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems: Federated systems for issuing playback certifications granting access to technically protected content are described. One embodiment of the system includes a registration server connected to a network, a content server connected to the network and to a trusted system, a first device including a non-volatile memory that is connected to... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090276639 - Dynamic frequency scaling of a switched mode power supply: System(s) and method(s) are provided for dynamically scaling switching frequencies and clock sources of switched mode power supplies (SMPSs) in a mobile station. Switching frequency is scaled to an optimal value in response to at least one of (i) a change in mode of operation for wireless communication employed by... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090276641 - Multi-phase voltage regulator on motherboard: A multi-phase voltage regulator includes a pulse width modulation control unit, a pulse signal extension circuit, M counts of current providing paths, and a feedback signal switching circuit. The pulse width modulation control unit generates N counts of pulse signals in a first cycle period. The pulse signal extension circuit... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090276638 - Power control device and power control method applied to computer system: The present invention provides a power control device and a power control method applied to a computer system. The power control device includes a data processing unit, a throughput determining module, and a clock control unit. The data processing unit is utilized for processing and outputting data according to an... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090276637 - Power control system for mobile workstation and method: A method of controlling a power system includes receiving a signal indicative of user interaction with a handle of a removable battery, and switching a power interface of the power system from a first power sourcing mode receiving power from the removable battery to a second power sourcing mode receiving... Agent: Michael B. Mcneil Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20090276640 - Power management apparatus and system using the same: A power management apparatus and a system using the same, which are suitable for managing power supplies for peripheral devices connected to a host system, are provided. The power management apparatus includes power supply switches, a control circuit and a power supply unit. The power supply switches are respectively coupled... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090276643 - Storage power supply system, storage device, and control thereof: The present invention discloses a storage power supply system includes a first storage device coupled with a network, a second storage device coupled with the network and an uninterrupted power supply. The uninterrupted power supply comprises a backup circuit that supplies backup power when commercial power supply is interrupted. The... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20090276642 - Voltage regulator with suspend mode: A system is disclosed. The system includes a central processing unit (CPU) to operate in one or more low power sleep states, and a power converter. The power converter includes phase inductors; and one or more power switches to drive the phase inductors. The one or more power switches are... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090276646 - Method and apparatus for data transmission in wireless local access network and system therefor: An Apparatus, method, and system for transmitting data in a Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN) in a power management state are provided. The method includes registering a standby state entrance to an Access Point (AP), switching to an active state at a period, determining whether transmission standby data exists in... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090276645 - Relay device: A relay device which includes: a signal relay section that relays a signal communicated between a computer and at least one device that communicates with the computer and operates in accordance with an instruction from the computer; a power source section that supplies electric power to the at least one... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276644 - Structure for semiconductor power distribution and control: A design structure for dynamic integrated circuit power distribution and control is disclosed. The design structure includes an external power consumption target generator configured to generate a power dissipation target for one or more integrated circuits. The design structure also includes a first integrated circuit that includes an IC power... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090276650 - Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store data, a supply unit configured to supply electric power to the storage unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether to cause the information processing apparatus to operate in a power saving mode, a measuring unit configured to measure... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090276649 - Method, system, and product for computational device power-savings: A user may invoke energy savings in the operation of a computational device performing a processing task. The device performs the processing task in the invoked energy savings mode and determines an energy amount expended by the device in performing the processing task in the energy savings mode, creating a... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090276648 - Quad-state power-saving virtual storage controller: A method, system and computer program product for reducing the collective power consumption of a plurality of storage devices including a plurality of associated storage volumes is provided. The storage volumes are grouped by a last access time according to a plurality of ranks. The plurality of ranks corresponds to... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276647 - Storage device power consumption state: In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes circuitry to determine, at least in part, whether respective idle conditions have been satisfied for respective storage devices. If the circuitry determines, at least in part, that at least one respective storage device comprised in the respective storage devices satisfies at... Agent: The Law Offices Of Christopher K. Gagne C/o Cpa Global

20090276651 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamic power control: Methods and apparatuses for dynamically budgeting power usage in a data processing system. In one aspect, a data processing system, includes: one or more first components capable of being dynamically throttled to a plurality of different performance level settings; one or more second components; and one or more power usage... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090276652 - Method of link word synchronization: A method for word synchronization can be applied to asynchronous devices including SERDES devices connected across serial lines. A state transition methodology characterizes the state of the device based on control characters received consistently across the serial lines and channels the system to a state of word synchronization. Loss of... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090276653 - Presence server for discrete time updates: A presence server of an apparatus in one example is configured to receive at least one event message from a network entity in continuous time. The presence server is configured to determine at discrete time intervals if an update message should be sent for the network entity. The discrete time... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20090271598 - Apparatus, system, and method for adapter code image update: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for updating a code image for a communication adapter. The apparatus includes a save module, an update module, and a restore module. The save module saves configuration data associated with a connection at a communication adapter. The update module updates a code image... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090271599 - Method for setting to enable or disable software function: A method for setting to enable or disable a software function is provided. The method is suitable for setting each hardware relevant software function in a system to either “enable” or “disable.” First, a customized database, which includes a specification required data of the hardware to decide to enable or... Agent: J C Patents

20090271604 - Apparatus and method to drive devices: A device driving apparatus includes a storage unit to store a plurality of device driving programs, a plurality of devices to receive the plurality of device driving programs, and a switching unit to transfer the plurality of device driving programs.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090271603 - Embedded system and startup method thereof: An embedded system includes a controller and a memory. The memory includes a primary firmware module, a backup firmware module, and a boot loader module. The primary firmware module has a primary firmware id_address. The backup firmware module has a backup firmware id_address. The boot loader module has a boot... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090271606 - Information processing device and information processing system: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes an acquisition module configured to get information for executing an authentication process and information on power-on security policy, from a server connected to a network during power-on, a storage module configured to store the information on power-on security policy in a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090271605 - Method and apparatus for restoring system using virtualization: A method and apparatus to restore a system using virtualization, the method including: if a system restoration at a target restoration time point from among at least one restoration time points is requested, generating a virtualization layer; if a use of a system is requested by an application layer, accessing... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090271602 - Method for recovering data processing system failures: A method for recovering from software and/or hardware failures occurred in a data processing system is disclosed. A current version of boot code and an updated version of boot code are stored in a first memory region and a second memory region, respectively, of a non-volatile memory of the data... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090271600 - Method of using an information handling system having a boot file, and an information handling system and machine-executable code for carrying out the method: An information handling system and a method of using it can allow the information handling system to be started or restarted and have an operating system loaded, even if a boot variable within a persistent memory is currently invalid. The method can detect and determine a hardware path name to... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090271601 - Method, device, and system for pre-memory symmetric multiprocessing flow: A cache-as-RAM (CAR) system of a multi-processor system that includes a plurality of processors may be initialized. The CAR system may assign a physical data address range for each of the plurality of processors such that the physical data address ranges allocated to all of the plurality of processors overlap... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090271607 - Method and apparatus for dynamic provisioning in data processing environment: Techniques are disclosed for the dynamic introduction of new components to be used during provisioning of solutions in data processing system environments such as service delivery environments. For example, in a provisioning system that manages provisioning of components in a data processing system, an automated method of dynamically provisioning one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271610 - Multi-function apparatus and method of restricting use of multi-function apparatus: A multi-function apparatus which has plural functions includes: an authentication information acquiring unit which acquires authentication information on a user desiring to use the functions by use of an authentication information inputting unit; a use restriction unit which determines whether the user desiring to use the functions has use authority... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090271609 - System and method for transferring user preferences: A system and method for customizing a device includes identifying a user of a device and determining a profile for the user of the device from a network. The profile includes a record of at least one user preference for a type of the device. The profile is translated to... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090271608 - Temperature threshold application signal trigger for real-time relocation of process: A method of managing a process relocation operation in a computing system is provided and includes determining respective operating temperatures of first, second and additional nodes of the system, where the first node has an elevated operating temperature and the second node has a normal operating temperature, notifying first and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090271611 - System and method of managed content distribution: A system and method of managing content distribution is disclosed. The system and method comprise at least one first user interface for publishing content to one or more web servers, at least one application server for generating a set of instructions describing one or more parameters for downloading said content,... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090271613 - Method and system for providing non-proxy tls/ssl support in a content-based load balancer: Methods and systems for providing non-proxy Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) support in a content-based load balancer are described. A Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is accepted from a client, and an SSL/TLS connection is established with the client such that random data used in key generation... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090271612 - Method, system and device for realizing multi-party communication security: A method for realizing multi-party communication security includes: performing identification authentication and negotiating to create an initiation session through running the transport layer security protocol or datagram transport layer security protocol by a Group Control and Keying Server and a group member device; distributing a group session and a rekeying... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090271614 - Mobility architecture using pre-authentication, pre-configuration and/or virtual soft-handoff: In some illustrative embodiments, a novel system and method is provided that can, for example, extend concepts of pre-authentication (such as, e.g., IEEE 802.11i pre-authentication) so as to operate across networks or subnetworks (such as, e.g., IP subnets). In preferred embodiments, a novel architecture includes one or both of two... Agent: Wp&d Affiliate Of Westerman Hattori Daniels Adrian LLP

20090271615 - Bridging system, bridge, and bridging method: Bridges 30, 40 are interposed between a server 10 or a client 20 having two channels 2ch, one of the two channels making a LAN connection to either the server or the client and the other channel making the LAN connection to the internet. Each of bridges 30, 40 performs... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090271616 - Method for transferring encoded messages: Disclosed is a method for transferring encoded messages between at least two users, particularly cryptographic protocol, the message transaction taking place by inserting an authentication device which decodes the messages received from the users and sends especially encoded messages to the users. Said method comprises the following steps: a1) the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090271618 - Attestation of computing platforms: A method and apparatus for attesting the configuration of a computing platform to a verifier. A signature key (SK) is bound to the platform and bound to a defined configuration of the platform. A credential (C(SK), CDAA(SK)) for the signature key (SK) is obtained from an evaluator. This credential (C(SK),... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090271617 - Privacy protected cooperation network: A computerized method and apparatus are established to identify a subject of common interest among multiple parties without releasing the true identity of any subject. Furthermore, a computerized network provides different parties at different locations with a mechanism to conduct cooperative activities concerning such a subject of common interest without... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20090271619 - External storage apparatus and method of preventing information leakage: Proposed is an apparatus and method of preventing the leakage of information from an external storage apparatus even when such external storage apparatus is stolen or accessed from an unauthorized host computer. This external storage apparatus accessible from a host computer or another external storage apparatus via a network encrypts... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090271620 - Techniques for secure data management in a distributed environment: Techniques for secure data management in a distributed environment are provided. A secure server includes a modified operating system that just allows a kernel application to access a secure hard drive of the secure server. The hard drive comes prepackaged with a service public and private key pair for encryption... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090271623 - Intersystem mobility security context handling between different radio access networks: A method and apparatus for intersystem mobility security context handling between different radio access networks which can include a receiver configured to receive a tracking area update message from a user terminal. The message can include a first key identifier configured to identify a mapped security context and a second... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090271622 - Securing wireless body sensor networks using physiological values for nonces: A key establishment protocol for securing wireless body sensor networks using environmental data for nonce values. To establish a secure communication between sensors in a sensor network using environmental data, the protocol measures a first environmental value at a first sensor and a trusted third party. A second environmental value... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090271621 - Simplified login for mobile devices: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a simplified login for mobile devices. In aspects, on a first logon, a mobile device asks a user to enter credentials and a PIN. The credentials and PIN are sent to a server which validates user credentials. If the user credentials... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271624 - Authentication method, system, server, and user node: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an authentication method, a system, a server, and a user node are disclosed herein. The method includes: generating, by a server, a server session key according to the identity information, at least one login information parameter, and the validity period included in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090271626 - Methods and devices for establishing security associations in communications systems: A method of providing secure communications between a base station, a relay station, and a mobile station in a communication network includes authenticating the mobile station over the communication network; generating, by the base station, security material, wherein the security material comprises at least one of a traffic encryption key... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090271625 - System and method for pool-based identity generation and use for service access: A computer-implemented system and method for pool-based identity generation and use for service access is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes seeding an identity generator with a private key; retrieving independently verifiable data corresponding to a service consumer; using the independently verifiable data to create signed assertions corresponding... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090271628 - Method and system for key exchange and method and apparatus for reducing parameter transmission bandwidth: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for reducing the parameter transmission bandwidth. The parameter sender reduces the values of the parameters before sending the parameters to the parameter receiver. This scheme reduces the bandwidth consumed during parameter transmission, thus makes the transmission more efficient. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090271627 - Secure data transmission: A method of facilitating secure sending of a message from a sender to a recipient over a network, comprising establishing communication between a sender side and a recipient trusted server having knowledge of an encryption key of recipient; obtaining a messaging key comprising a messaging encryption key and a messaging... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090271629 - Wireless pairing ceremony: A security token is coupled to a computer and is available for use by both local and remote processes for on-demand response to a challenge. To minimize the security risk of an unattended session, the challenge may be issued to verify the presence of the token. When the token has... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271630 - Authentication system, authentication method and terminal device: Provided are an authentication method, authentication system and a terminal device in which the authentication of a non-participating third node is can be simplified and can be executed in the case of multicast by using an authentication ticket in a distributed processing network system, the non-participating third node being intended... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090271631 - Electronic signature system and electronic signature verifying method: A key creating device creates a first public key and a first secret key of the electronic signature method satisfying the noncounterfeitability and a second public key and the first secret key of the chameleon commitment method. The signature device generates a commitment, a first random number according to the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090271632 - Secret authentication system: Authentication data indicating authenticity of a client is distributed into a plurality of function data as distributed data, the plurality of function data including function data specifying a function and rule data specifying the authentication data from the function. The client and a server shares a portion of the plurality... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090271633 - Data access and identity verification: A user access interface for a processor device comprises a control program adapted to receive a first access data indicative of a first access key, so that upon receiving the first access data the control program causes the database to be interrogated, thereby obtaining a first verification data that is... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20090271634 - Bio-cryptograhpy : secure cryptographic protocols with bipartite biotokens: Techniques, systems and methods are described relating to combining biometric and cryptographic techniques to support securely embedding data within a token and subsequent biometrically-enabled recovery of said data. Various transformation approaches are described that provide a secure means for transforming a stored or live, secure biometric-based identity token, embedding data... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling

20090271635 - Methods and systems for authentication: The present invention discloses a method and system for authentication. The method for authentication includes: acquiring the privilege security level corresponding to a client-end; inquiring the identity security level corresponding to the privilege security level according to an established relation of association between privilege security level and identity security level;... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090271636 - Computer enabled secure status return: Computer related method and apparatus to transmit a logical value (e.g., 1 or 0) between two entities, such as an operating system and application program, in a secure way in an insecure environment. The logical status is sent by in effect encrypting it using two random numbers, one from each... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090271637 - Information processing terminal and status notification method: The present invention aims at providing an information processing terminal, a status notification system, and a status notification method that can protect both privacy and security when a status of the information processing terminal is notified to a server. An information processing terminal 10 has a disclosure/nondisclosure determination section 1001... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090271638 - Storage system with an encryption function: To reduce the performance degradation of storage system, this invention provides a storage system comprising a disk drive and a disk controller. The disk controller provides a storage area of the disk drive to a host computer; executes a processing of switching an encryption key that is used to encrypt... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090271641 - Method and apparatus for quick resumption: When transitioning from sleep mode to active mode, a processing system loads first stage resume content and second stage resume content into a volatile memory of the processing system. The first stage resume content may contain contextual data for a first program that was in use before the processing system... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090271639 - Personal wireless network power-based task distribution: Apparatus and method for dynamically reassigning between a plurality of personal portable devices in a wireless network one or more task portions of a task that have been distributed among the personal portable devices in response to at least one of the personal portable devices having diminishing access to electric... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090271642 - Power management system capable of saving power and optimizing operating efficiency of power supplies for providing power with back-up or redundancy to plural loads: The present invention relates to a power management system comprising at least one power management subsystem. Each power management subsystem comprises a first power module coupled to a first load and comprising at least one first power supply for supplying power to the first load; a second power module coupled... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090271640 - Storage device and method of starting the same: An OOB sequence monitoring unit detects that an OOB sequence carried out between a base device as a superior device and a connection I/F which operates even if an extension device is in a standby state has proceeded to a given stage. Based on the detection by the OOB sequence... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090271644 - Energy efficient method to wake host system for charging battery powered portable devices via bus powered external i/o ports: Optimized bus powered peripheral battery charging includes a circuit to initiate a change in an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) state in a controller allowing charging of a peripheral device battery, the circuit including a signal converter coupled between an input port and the controller to sense when a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090271645 - Management apparatus, storage apparatus and information processing system: Proposed are a management apparatus, a storage apparatus, and an information processing system capable of improving the storage apparatus performance and power saving efficiency. This management apparatus connected to a storage apparatus arranged in a power supply range set with a threshold value of power supplied externally includes a control... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090271643 - Real-time inference of power efficiency metrics for a computer system: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that measures a power efficiency of a computer system. During operation, the system collects telemetry data from a set of sensors within the computer system. Next, the system determines a power consumption of the computer system from the telemetry data and... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090271646 - Power management using clustering in a multicore system: A multi-core system including cores and voltage sources supplying power to the cores. The cores are divided into clusters based on the particular voltage source supplying power to each core. Power management is performed in the multi-core system based on one or more of core utilization and a management policy.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090271647 - Power supply control method and curcuit in communication equipment: A circuit includes: an input buffer for storing input data; a plurality of processing sections connected in series including a head processing section and a tail-end processing section to sequentially process the input data; and a power supply controller for controlling power supply to each of the plurality of processing... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090271648 - Information processing device, data writing method, and program for the same: An information processing apparatus comprises: a creation unit creating a preset number of pieces of second data by duplicating first data, and holding the second data in a predetermined area or sending the second data to another information processing apparatus; a first writing unit for writing the first data in... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090271650 - Computer system and control method thereof: A computer system includes multiple ports to which at least one external device is connected and which are connectable to multiple power supplying lines branched from a power supplying line for supplying electric power to the at least one external device; a switching unit which controls connections between the power... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090271649 - Voltage regulator phase shedding: A voltage regulator phase shedding system includes one or more subsystems to inventory memory power requirements of an IHS component, calculate a calculated memory power consumption, compare the calculated memory power consumption to a predetermined table of values to determine which phases of the voltage regulator to turn on, apply... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090271651 - Method and system for reducing latency in data transfer between asynchronous clock domains: A method and an interfacing circuit are disclosed for transmitting data between a first clock domain operating at a first clock frequency C1 and a second clock domain operating at a second clock frequency C2. In accordance with this invention, data are transmitted from the first domain, through the interfacing... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090271652 - Methods and computer program products for determining simultaneous switching induced data output timing skew: A method of determining timing skew between data outputs of a memory device can include writing a predetermined data pattern to a memory device at a first operational frequency that is less than a normal operational frequency used to write non-predetermined data to the memory device. The memory device is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090271653 - Method and system for data synchronization: A data synchronization system and method. The method includes that when a change happens in a source application, data is collected from a source application based on a target application subscribing the source application and collection data is transmitted to the target application or is directly inserted to target database.... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090265536 - Device, systems, and method for security starting up a computer installation: A device for the secured start-up of a computer installation comprising a first connection interface to the computer installation and a second connection interface to an external data medium unit separate from the computer installation and which contains data and executable codes for a start-up program of the computer installation.... Agent: Bull Hn Information Systems Inc. Attn: Russell W. Guenthner

20090265535 - Method and apparatus for setting computer-working-hours-based shutdown options: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for setting computer-working-hours-based shutdown options. A method for setting computer-working-hours-based shutdown options in accordance with an embodiment includes: when receiving a shutdown command from a user, determining, based on a setting of computer working hours by the user, whether a current time... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090265537 - Computer system, bios structure and boot method thereof: A BIOS structure is adapted for a computer system. The BIOS structure provided by the present invention has a boot block. In addition, the boot block is divided into a stationary data sector and an updatable data sector. When the BIOS needs to be updated, program codes of the BIOS... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265538 - Method and related control interface for switching an operating state in a portable electronic device: A method for switching an operating state in a portable electronic device includes sending a switching signal when a plurality of specific pads of the portable electronic device are triggered simultaneously, and switching the operating state of the portable electronic device according to the switching signal.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090265539 - Content distribution system, terminal, and server: A terminal writes first encrypted data in which a communication key and an owner ID are encrypted by using a public key into a second recording medium, and this medium is mounted to a communication apparatus so that the first encrypted data are transmitted to a server. The server sends... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090265540 - Home network controlling apparatus and method to obtain encrypted control information: A network control apparatus and method is provided. The method includes operations of informing a server of capability information including an encryption/decryption method, wherein the server provides the network control apparatus with control information used to control a network device using a general-purpose control web application, transmitting to the server... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265541 - Addressing and routing mechanism for web server clusters: A method of establishing a Host Identity Protocol session between first and second Host Identity Protocol enabled hosts, where at least said second host is located behind a reverse-proxy. The method comprises providing the reverse-proxy with Diffie-Hellman public keying material of the second host, sending said Diffie-Hellman public keying material... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090265542 - Home node b system architecture: Some embodiments provide methods and systems for integrating a first communication system with a core network of a second communication system that has a licensed wireless radio access network. The first communication system includes one or more user hosted access points that operate using short range licensed wireless frequencies in... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090265543 - Home node b system architecture with support for ranap user adaptation protocol: Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first communication system comprised of a licensed wireless radio access network and a core network, and a second communication system comprising a plurality of user hosted access points and a network controller. In some embodiments, each access point operates... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090265545 - Electronic certificate issue system and method: A registration part receives a product key of a program for performing a communication using a private key and a public key, and discrimination information of a computer using the program. The registration part registers in a management part, when an authentication of a license corresponding to the product key... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090265546 - Information processing device, electronic certificate issuing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An information processing device acquires first identification information of a computer to which the device is coupled, and records correspondence information indicating a correspondence between a product key of a predetermined program and the first identification information, and second identification information with respect to the correspondence information, in the device,... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090265544 - Method and system for using personal devices for authentication and service access at service outlets: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an interaction system. A first set of information related to a user is received from a personal communication device with or without an embedded secure element, or from an independent secure element at a service outlet. The personal communication device... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20090265547 - Revocation of cryptographic digital certificates: Different targets (c0, N1) of a digital certificate are mapped into a “super-target” using methods allowing a certificate validity verifier (110) to compute the super-target. The certificate includes the super-target instead of the targets. Also, a certificate with multiple targets can be signed with a redactable signature by the certification... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090265548 - Revocation of cryptographic digital certificates: Different targets (c0, N1) of a digital certificate are mapped into a “super-target” using methods allowing a certificate validity verifier (110) to compute the super-target. The certificate includes the super-target instead of the targets. Also, a certificate with multiple targets can be signed with a redactable signature by the certification... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090265549 - Preventing unauthorized distribution of media content within a global network: One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing media content while preventing its unauthorized distribution. The method includes transmitting from a client to an administrative node a request for delivery of an instance of media content (IMC); determining which content source (CS) of a plurality of CSs to... Agent: Media Rights Technologies C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20090265554 - Means and method for single sign-on access to a service network through an access network: The present invention provides means and method for Single Sign-On authentication of a user accessing a service network through an access network when the user has been already authenticated by a core network where the user holds a subscription. Therefore, a number of means are provided in different entities distributed... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090265550 - Method and arrangement for transmitting data in a communication system that employs a multi-hop method: In a multi-hop network, packets are classified into header and user data for coded distribution. The header information, especially the multi-hop information, is separated in a coded manner from the user data, such that each network node need only decode the header in order to forward the packet. The header... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090265555 - Methods and apparatus for credential validation: A secure credential validation compares stored and received modified credentials, e.g., biometric credentials, such that the validating system does not have access to the unmodified credentials. A capture system and a credential validation system are operatively coupled to a network (e.g., the Internet). The credential validation system is configured to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090265553 - Multipoint server for providing secure, scaleable connections between a plurality of network devices: A method and system for implementing secure communications between a plurality of devices are provided. The method and system generally include the provision of at least one common encryption parameter to each of the plurality of devices, as well as an identification of the plurality of devices to one another.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Haynes Attn: Patent Docketing

20090265551 - System and methods for access control based on a user identity: System and methods for access control in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network are based on a user identity. A control point has an identity assertion capability for identifying a user. The control point is configured to declare a value of an attribute associated with the identity assertion capability.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090265552 - Systems and methods for secure short messaging service and multimedia messaging service: Systems and methods for managing (for example, creating, transmitting, delivering, encrypting, storing, and the like) secure SMS (short message service) and secure MMS (multimedia messaging service) communications are disclosed.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090265556 - Method and terminal for authenticating between drm agents for moving ro: A digital Rights Management (DRM), and particularly an apparatus and method of authentication between DRM agents for moving Rights Object (RO) is provided, whereby RO and contents can be moved between DRM agents after a simple authentication therebetween using specific authentication information received from a Rights Issuer (RI), in case... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090265558 - Document verifying apparatus, document verifying method, and computer product: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a document verifying program. The document verifying program causes a computer to execute receiving input of an electronic document; dividing the electronic document received into arbitrary components; calculating a hash value for each of the components; correlating, for each component, the hash value calculated... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265557 - Preventing unauthorized distribution of media content within a global network: One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing media content while preventing its unauthorized distribution. The method includes transmitting from a client to an administrative node a request for delivery of an instance of media content (IMC); determining which content source (CS) of a plurality of CSs to... Agent: Media Rights Technologies C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20090265559 - User authentication by linking randomly-generated authentication secret with personalized secret: This patent application discloses techniques, devices and systems for user authentication based on linking between a randomly generated authentication secret and a personalized secret.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090265560 - Numbering method, numbering device, and laser direct drawing apparatus: An object is to give an identification number which is hard to guess from the previous and next identification numbers without overlap, to give an identification number by using a simple program, or to generate rapidly an identification number without using a memory medium having large capacitance. An integer obtained... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd.

20090265561 - Separating keys and policy for consuming content: In accordance with one or more aspects of the separating keys and policy for consuming content, content has a corresponding leaf license, and the leaf license has one or more associated root policy addenda. Each root policy addenda includes policy identifying when it is permissible to decrypt and consume the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265562 - Data conversion method on storage medium, apparatus and program: In a data conversion auxiliary module which is at a higher level than a file system in a disk management hierarchy, data stored in a storage medium, which becomes an object, is successively accessed. Then, a data conversion module captures a sector-unit access request to a device driver from the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090265565 - Method and apparatus for managing power in computer systems: The invention is directed towards minimizing power consumption in computer systems. One embodiment of the invention is a power management system that is used for a computer system that has at least one device and one power domain. This embodiment uses two different power managers to manage the power consumption... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090265564 - System power capping using information received from the installed power supply: A computer system comprising a motherboard and a power supply having an associated power management bus controller with memory storing the power capacity of the associated power supply. A power circuit provides power from the power supply to the motherboard, wherein the motherboard has a processor and a baseboard management... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090265563 - Systems and methods operable to allow loop powering of networked devices: Embodiments of the present invention provide a network device operable to receive a network signal that may include both power and data from a coupled network. This network device includes a network connector and an integrated circuit. The network connector physically couples the network device to the network. An optional... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20090265566 - On-machine power supply with integral coupling features: A power supply for providing power to devices in a network is described as incorporating an integral coupling feature that terminates the provision of power from an upstream power supply while maintaining connectivity of communications signals and ground from an upstream portion to a downstream portion of the network relative... Agent: Fletcher Yoder Law (for Rockwell Automation)

20090265567 - Method, apparatus and system for reducing power consumption involving data storage devices: The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for reducing power consumption involving data storage devices. One embodiment involves a process for storing data in a first memory, and in response to the first memory exceeding a first threshold, migrating the data from the first memory to a second memory.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090265568 - System and method for managing energy consumption in a compute environment: A system, method and computer readable medium are disclosed for reducing power consumption in clusters, grids, on-demand centers, and so forth. The principles disclosed herein can reduce both direct and indirect power consumption while maintaining either full cluster performance or adequate SLA based cluster performance. The method includes receiving at... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090265569 - Power control method for computer system: Provided is a computer system comprising: an input/output switch coupled to a plurality of input/output devices; a server which is coupled to the input/output switch and, which uses the plurality of input/output devices; and a management computer coupled to the input/output switch and the plurality of input/output devices. The management... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090265570 - Battery structure of portable electronic device: A battery structure of portable electronic device comprises an electronic device body, a power supply input module, an internal battery, an external battery module, and a power supply control module. The invention enables the following process priorities that the power supply control module automatically switches the power charging between the... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090265571 - System and method for employing an on-machine power supply with monitoring and control capability: A method for providing power to devices in a network and coordinating actions of multiple power supplies on the network is described. The method may include maintaining connectivity of communication signals and ground between upstream and downstream portions of the network relative to a power supply, while terminating power from... Agent: Fletcher Yoder Law (for Rockwell Automation)

20090265572 - Fast adaptive voltage scaling: A method, digital circuit, and computer program product control a supply voltage of a processing circuit based on a processing clock of the processing circuit. A first clock frequency and at least one second clock frequency are generated, wherein the first clock frequency is used as the processing clock and... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090265573 - Data transmission/reception circuit: The present invention provides a data transmission/reception circuit which stops the operation of a packet transmission/reception circuit during a data transfer-free time thereby to realize power savings. The data transmission/reception circuit includes a packet transmission/reception circuit for performing transmission/reception of data to and from an external USB host via a... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090265574 - Systemic frequency adjusting method for storage device: A method of adjusting systemic frequency in a storage device, wherein a command is provided by a computer system to count the number of the clock pulses in a set time period of the computer system and the storage device; the value of correction of the systemic frequency of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090265575 - Overclocking module, a computer system and a method for overclocking: An overclocking module, a computer system and a method for overclocking are provided. The method is used to overclock the computer system. The overclocking module of the invention includes a timer, a monitoring unit and a control unit. The timer starts to count when the computer system is booted. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office