Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support inventions

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

20090259834 - Manufacturing information handling systems: Manufacturing a virtual information handling system (IHS) includes creating a virtual IHS including a component identifier. A boot process is then begun for the virtual IHS. A manufacturing operating system is then retrieved for the virtual IHS using the component identifier. The manufacturing operating system is then installed on the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090259835 - System and method for tracking and recording system configurations of electronic devices: A system for tracking and recording system configurations of an electronic device includes: a storage device; and a microprocessor, for checking whether a current system configuration of the electronic device is different from a first reference configuration of the electronic device, and storing the current system configuration into the storage... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090259833 - System and method of enabling a function within a module configured to be used within an information handling system: A system and method of enabling a function within a module configured to be used with an information handling system is disclosed. In one form, the method of enabling functions includes detecting whether to install a custom install routine within a module configured to enable access to a hash function,... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090259837 - Computer system: A computer system including a first memory unit, a second memory unit and a switch unit is provided. The first memory unit stores a first BIOS. The second memory unit stores a second BIOS. The switch unit has a first configuration and a second configuration. Upon the computer system being... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090259836 - Running operating system on dynamic virtual memory: A method making possible booting up and running a system image of an operating system together with diskspace or drivespace, either free or stored with data or application files, for use on the type of storage medium, such as but not limited to internal physical memory or internal RAM, that... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090259838 - Hardware-bonded credential manager method and system: An internet data exchange authentication method that can provide much of the user authentication assurance and capability of dedicated computer security cryptographic hardware, without requiring that the user actually have such hardware. This method allows users with computerized devices to communicate securely with secure servers by creating customized challenge-response authentication... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090259839 - Security authentication system and method: Authentication system and method are provided. The authentication system includes: a server configured to provide at least two security levels and configured to transmit one of at least two security modules corresponding to the security level of a user terminal, via communications network, to the user terminal based, at least... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090259840 - 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: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090259841 - Method for allocating multiple authentication certificates to vehicles in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication network: In a vehicle-to-vehicle communication network utilizing PKI security methods to protect communications and in which the PKI encryption utilizes a Certificate Authority having both a private key and a publicly distributed key, a method for allocating multiple certificates for each vehicle which are assigned to each vehicle in the communication... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20090259842 - Method, product and apparatus for accelerating public-key certificate validation: A validation authority for certificates searches for and verifies paths and certificate revocation lists periodically, and classifies the paths into valid paths and invalid paths in accordance with the results of the validations, so as to register the paths in databases beforehand. Besides, in a case where a request for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090259843 - 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

20090259844 - Content providing system, user system, tracing system, apparatus, method, and program: With each embodiment of the present invention, a content providing system comprises a content encrypting section which encrypts content by use of a session key and a header generating section which encrypts the session key by use of an encryption key in such a manner that the session key can... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259845 - System and method for execution of a secured environment initialization instruction: A method and apparatus for initiating secure operations in a microprocessor system is described. In one embodiment, one initiating logical processor initiates the process by halting the execution of the other logical processors, and then loading initialization and secure virtual machine monitor software into memory. The initiating processor then loads... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090259846 - Exception types within a secure processing system: An apparatus for processing data includes a processor operable in a plurality modes including at least one secure mode being a mode in a secure domain and at least one non-secure mode being a mode in a non-secure domain. When the processor is executing a program in a secure mode... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090259848 - Out of band system and method for authentication: A method and system for out of band authentication for ensuring a user is in possession of a device.... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20090259847 - Security protocols for hybrid peer-to-peer file sharing networks: In a hybrid peer-to-peer file sharing network including a receiver peer and a provider peer, the receiver sends the provider a ticket [710] obtained from a server authorizing the receiver to obtain a data object O. The receiver obtains a root value of a hash tree for the object, verifies... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090259850 - Information processing device and method, recording medium, program and information processing system: An information processing device regarding which access to data held by the information processing device itself, in multiple regions, is requested from another information processing device, includes: an authenticating unit to perform authenticating processing of the other information processing device; a receiving unit to receive an access license ticket including... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090259849 - Methods and apparatus for authenticated user-access to kerberos-enabled applications based on an authentication and key agreement (aka) mechanism: Methods and apparatus are provided for authenticated user-access to Kerberos-enabled applications based on an Authentication and Key Agreement mechanism. A user is first authenticated using an Authentication and Key Agreement mechanism based on a bootstrapping protocol that mutually authenticates the user and one or more servers; and, once the user... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090259851 - Methods and apparatus for authentication and identity management using a public key infrastructure (pki) in an ip-based telephony environment: Methods and apparatus arc provided for user authentication using a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in an IP-based telephony environment, such as an IMS network. A user of a user device attempting to access an IP-based telephony network can be authenticated by obtaining one or more private keys of the user... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090259853 - Dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system: A dynamic multimedia fingerprinting system is provided. A user requests multimedia content from a Web cache server that verifies that the user is authorized to download the content. A custom fingerprint specific to the user is generated and dynamically inserted into the content as the content is delivered to the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090259852 - Reliable storage medium access control method and device: A method of and device for granting access to content on a storage medium, including obtaining cryptographic data from a property, such as a wobble, of the storage medium, reading helper data from the storage medium, and granting the access based on an application of a delta-contracting function to the... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20090259855 - Code image personalization for a computing device: A method and apparatus for personalizing a software component to be executed in particular environment are described herein. According to an aspect of the invention, in response to an executable code image representing a software component to be installed in an electronic device, the executable code image is encrypted using... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090259856 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus is provided, which detects falsification of software to data and rewriting of the data. The data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a security unit which has an encryption circuit for decrypting an encrypted signal including secrecy data. The security unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090259854 - Method and system for implementing a secure chain of trust: A method, an integrated circuit and a system for implementing a secure chain of trust is disclosed. While executing secure boot code in a secure boot mode, less-secure boot code may be authenticated using a secret key. A secure key may also be calculated or generated during the secure boot... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090259857 - System and method for efficient security domain translation and data transfer: A mobile UE includes a CPU, a secure DMA module, a secure cryptographic module, secure memory, and non-secure memory. The secure cryptographic module and secure memory allow access only by secure processes, including the secure DMA module. The CPU manages cryptographic keys and initializes DMA transfers in secure mode. The... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090259858 - Method and apparatus for the secure storage of audio signals: In one embodiment, a method, system and apparatus for recording audio is provided so that the recording can be authenticated. The system may be implemented as a central server that is accessed via one or more lines for audio communication, or as a stand-alone unit. The system operates by encrypting... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20090259860 - Power supply circuit for motherboard: A power supply circuit for a motherboard includes an input/output (I/O) controller, a power circuit providing a working voltage for the I/O controller, and a first resistor. The I/O controller includes an I/O controller voltage pin and an I/O controller case open detection (COPEN) pin. The power circuit includes an... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090259859 - Power supply system for motherboard: An exemplary power supply system and method for a motherboard includes a power circuit providing power for a south bridge, and a controller having first and second transistors. An input terminal of the power circuit is connected to a power supply. An output terminal of the power circuit is connected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090259861 - Power management in a data processing device having masters and slaves: A device (2), such as an integrated circuit is described including master units (8, 10) and slave units (6, 18, 20) connected by an interconnect (14). In addition to the normal data signals (22) and address signals (24) passed with a transaction, there are also passed usage signals (26) which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090259862 - Clock-gated series-coupled data processing modules: A clock module is coupled in parallel to a number of data processing modules that are coupled in series. The data processing modules can be individually clock-gated. Each of the data processing modules can determine whether or not it can be placed into an idle state. To reduce power consumption,... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090259866 - Electronic device and power supply unit: An electronic device has: an operation unit; a power supply unit; an input changeover switch; and a controller. The power supply unit is supplied commercial power and supplies the operating power to the operation unit. The input changeover switch switches between supplying or not supplying the commercial power to the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090259865 - Power management using at least one of a special purpose processor and motion sensing: A power management device useable in a mobile station includes a main processor configured to execute applications including signal processing applications and further configured to enter a sleep mode in response to predetermined criteria. The device further includes a circuit configured to operate when the main processor is in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090259867 - Power supply capable of receiving digital communications from electronic devices: A power supply capable of receiving digital communications from an electrical device is described. The power supply includes a microprocessor and instructions, configured for execution by the microprocessor, to receive a digital communication from a device to be powered by the power supply. A method of supplying power is also... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090259863 - Responding to interrupts while in a reduced power state: To reduce power consumption, a processor can be placed into a reduced power state. Before doing so, interrupt events can be designated as wakeup events. While the processor is in the reduced power state, if an event designated as a wakeup event occurs, then a signal is directed to a... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090259864 - System and method for input/output control during power down mode: A system and method for maintaining values on output pads of an integrated circuit during entry, exit, and while a portion of the integrated circuit is in a power conservation or deep power down mode. The method for entering a power conservation mode includes determining a power conservation mode value... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090259868 - Information processing apparatus, power mode control method, and power mode control program product: An information processing apparatus switches from a regular power mode to a power saving mode in the event that a first control unit does not process packets for a certain period of time. The information processing apparatus includes a packet table in which packets to be processed by the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259869 - Sampling chip activity for real time power estimation: A system and method for real-time power estimation. A core may be divided into units. Each unit is simulated to achieve a real power consumption characterization. The power consumption is sampled. Statistical analysis is performed that assumes the core has node capacitance switching behavior that is approximated by a stationary... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20090259870 - Managing timers in a multiprocessor environment: Timers are managed in a multiprocessing environment. Some timers are local to a given logical processor; such a local timer is inserted on and will be canceled only from that logical processor. Other timers are global to a logical processor. A global timer which was inserted on a given logical... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259871 - Synchronizing signals related to the operation of a computer system: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that synchronizes signals related to the operation of a computer system. During operation, a set of correlation coefficients between a first signal and a second signal is generated, wherein each correlation coefficient is associated with a different phase shift between the... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090259873 - Non-volatile semiconductor memory device with power saving feature: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device, comprising: an interface for receiving commands issued by a controller, the commands including an erase command; a functional entity with circuit components and having a terminal; a node; switchable circuitry capable of controllably switching between a first operational state in which the terminal is electrically... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090259872 - Programmable data sampling receiver for digital data signals: Receiver architectures and related bias circuits for a data processor are provided. One embodiment of a receiver architecture includes a linear receiver portion having a first input node for a data (DQ) signal, a second input node for a reference voltage, and output nodes for a differential output signal. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (amd)

20090259874 - Data transfer device and method thereof: A data transfer device transfers data between two clock domains of a data processing device when the data processing device is in a test mode. The data transfer device receives clock signals associated with each clock domain. To transfer data from a first clock domain to a second clock domain... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090259875 - Store clock and store clock fast instruction execution: Two forms of TOD Clock instructions are provided, Store Clock and Store Clock Fast. Execution of the Store Clock Fast instruction may produce a time of day (TOD) result that is exactly the same as a previous TOD result, however execution of Store Clock Fast instructions while the clock is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090259876 - Computer system and method for automatically overclocking: A computer system for automatically overclocking includes an overclocking element, a detecting circuit and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The overclocking element has a signal standard. The detecting circuit is used for acquiring an I/O signal of the overclocking element. The BIOS is used for comparing the signal standard with... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090259877 - Method to implement a monotonic counter with reduced flash part wear: A method of using a counter stored in flash memory includes providing a base value field, a selector field, and a plurality of increment fields. The base value field represents a base value for the counter, and the selector field indicating a first increment field of the plurality of increment... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090259878 - Multirate transmission system and method for parallel input data: A multirate transmission system for transmitting parallel input data from a first location to a second location includes a transmitter portion and a receiver portion. The transmitter portion receives the parallel data, including the information related to a parallel data clock and stores the data in a buffer where it... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090254741 - Host peripheral system and method for loading an external program code to a host for setting up a transmission mechanism when booting: When booting a host, a host peripheral system sends a boot code to the host for controlling the booting operation of the host via a serial transmission line, and loads an external program code into the host. After setting up a transmission mechanism through executing the external program code, the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090254742 - Navigation system and method with switchable multi-language interfaces: A navigation system and method that allows switching between multi-language operating interfaces. It provides multi-language operating interfaces in the storage unit of the navigation system. During the navigation system operation, the user is prompted by Basic Input Output System (BIOS) to select a language of operating interface to display. The... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090254743 - Flexable audio data transmission method for transmitting encrypted audio data, audio processing system and computer system thereof: The present invention provides an audio data transmission method for transmitting encrypted audio data, an audio processing system and computer system thereof. The audio data transmission method includes providing an audio data, performing an encryption process upon the audio data according to an encryption standard and a format of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090254744 - System and method for the concealment of device input parameters: A system and method for concealing input parameters that are being loaded into a device. In one embodiment, the system provides a transformed interface, in which a device into which the parameters are loaded contains a series of inverse transformation keys. The parameters to be concealed are transformed using a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090254745 - Efficient security for mashups: The present invention provides a method that facilitates secure cross domain mashups in an efficient fashion. The invention allows a first entity, the Masher, to establish at a second entity, the User, a secure mashup by obtaining information from, or taking actions at, a third entity, the Mashee, by using... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090254746 - Communication relay device, information processing system, control method and program: A relay adapter, a method for processing communication data through use of a relay adapter, and a process for leasing the relay adapter to a user by a service provider. The relay adapter includes: an authentication information storage section that stores authentication information of the relay adapter; a power plug;... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090254748 - Electronic mail gateway apparatus: An e-mail gateway apparatus is configured to delete unnecessary e-mails that are on an e-mail server apparatus. When the S/MIME gateway apparatus fails to receive an e-mail from the e-mail server apparatus, a main control unit of the S/MIME gateway apparatus distributes to a client PC an error notification mail... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090254747 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing e-token based access control for virtual world spaces: A method for providing e-token based access control to virtual world (VW) spaces includes intercepting a request from a first VW member to invite a second VW member to a VW space within a VW network, the request intercepted outside of the VW network. The access controls also include using... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090254749 - Cooperation method and system of hardware secure units, and application device: The present invention provides a cooperation method of a mobile hardware secure unit and a fixed hardware secure unit, comprising: providing user's identification information of a mobile hardware secure unit; providing platform's identification information of a computer-based or other-device-based fixed hardware secure unit; establishing a bidirectional communication pipe between the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090254750 - Systems and methods for secure workgroup management and communication: A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser may split or share a data set into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090254751 - Data transmission apparatus, data reception apparatus, and data transfer system: Provided is a data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transfer system which can prevent a case where the same usable data is present in plural apparatuses at the same time and can certainly the move data, in MOVE processing of the data between the data transmission... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090254754 - Lightweight geographic trajectory authentication via one-time signatures: A system and method for a vehicle-to-vehicle communications system that provide active safety applications employing lightweight geographic authentication using one-time signatures. The system and method require each vehicle to construct a discretized representation of its trajectory, which captures its kinematical history to a tunable degree of accuracy and to a... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC General Motors Corporation

20090254755 - Object authentication from a signature part: A method of authenticating an object in which a computer system receives indicating data from a sensing device. The indicating data is generated in response to sensing of coded data provided on or in a surface associated with the object and is indicative of an identity of the object and... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090254753 - System and method of authorizing execution of software code based on accessible entitlements: Embodiments include systems and methods for authorizing software code to be executed or access capabilities in secure operating environments. Profiles may be issued by trusted entities to extend trust to other entities to allow those other entities to provide or control execution of applications in a secure operating environment such... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090254752 - Watermarking computer program code: A method of embedding information in a computer program code, including a plurality of program statements. The method comprises: inserting a conditional program statement in the computer program code, the conditional program statement including a condition and a plurality of alternative program statements, the conditional program statement being adapted to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090254756 - Data communication method: A data communication method capable of performing a synchronization processing at two or more computer terminals while ensuring security. A server certificate and a public key are transmitted through a host-side terminal to a guest-side terminal, whereby the guest-side terminal authenticates the server, and a guest-side hash key used in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090254757 - Operator recognition device, operator recognition method and operator recognition program: An operator recognition device is provided that eliminates the registration of data such as HMM data having a characteristic amount for which error in recognition occurs easily when recognizing an operator, and thus reduces the possibility of errors in recognition, and has stable recognition performance. When registering HMM data that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090254760 - Data security: In one embodiment, a method is provided that may include encrypting, based least in part upon at least one key, one or more respective portions of input data to generate one or more respective portions of output data to be stored in one or more locations in storage. The method... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090254758 - Method and apparatus for the secure processing of sensitive information: The subject matter of the invention relates to a system (1) and to a method for securely processing information, particularly sensitive information by means of a signature and/or encryption principle, comprising at least the following: a mobile passive first storage unit (1) for retrievably storing first information, a processing device... Agent: Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

20090254759 - Tamper resistance of a digital data processing unit: A system for increasing a tamper resistance of a digital data processing unit, comprises a first unit (901) comprising processing means (906) for processing the received digital data in dependence on values looked up in at least one look-up table (916) based on values in the received digital data. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090254762 - Access control for a memory device: Access control for a memory device is provided. In one embodiment, a portable memory device is provided comprising a storage medium comprising a private area and circuitry operative to (a) receive, from a host device, a password to unlock the host device, (b) compare the password with a password stored... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20090254761 - Secure data processing method and associated device: A secure data processing method includes the following steps: padding (E206) a memory area (MAC′) with a pad value (A); writing (E208) a first datum in the memory area (MAC′); in the area, reading (E210) a second datum with at least one part of the first datum as it was... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090254763 - Management of power-efficient data center: An illustrative power-efficient data center is described for operating in an uncontrolled environment in one scenario. The data center includes an air moving system that applies unconditioned air to resource items. The resource items are stripped down to provide a substantially minimum set of components for performing the data center'core... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254765 - Method for power management for computer system: The invention provides a method for power management for a computer system. In one embodiment, the computer system comprises a system controller, a chipset, and a battery coupled to the chipset via a system management bus. First, a timer of the chipset is used to calculate an accumulated time value.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090254764 - Optimizing preemptible read-copy update for low-power usage by avoiding unnecessary wakeups: A technique for low-power detection of a grace period for deferring the destruction of a shared data element until pre-existing references to the data element have been removed. A grace period processing action is implemented that requires a response from a processor that may be running a preemptible reader of... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20090254766 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and program: A wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a user terminal information acquiring unit that acquires user terminal information related to user terminals, which are connected through a wireless communication network to enable communication, from the user terminals; a wireless power transmitting circuit that wirelessly supplies power to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090254767 - Energy management: A data processing apparatus and methods are disclosed. The data processing apparatus comprises: data processing elements operable to process data; an energy management unit operable to generate energy management information indicative of an energy state of at least one of the data processing elements when processing said data; and logic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090254768 - Non-identical power supply units for higher efficiency in redundant mode: A power supply system for a server includes a first power supply, a second power supply, a first variable slope circuit, and a second variable slope circuit. The first power supply unit is adapted to activate if a load is below a predetermined level, and adapted to deactivate if the... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090254769 - Power profiling application for managing power allocation in an information handling system: A method, system, and software instructions for allocating power in a information handling system are operable to respond to a power profiling request by transitioning a processing resource to a first power consumption state and obtaining and storing a first power consumption value. The first power consumption value is then... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090254770 - Low voltage reset determination and operational flow modification for microprocessor-controlled devices: A method of identifying a reset condition includes the steps of determining if a stored value is equal to a specified value, executing a first mode if the stored value is not equal to the specified value, and executing a second mode if the stored value is equal to the... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20090254771 - Usb power conservation method and apparatus: Embodiments of a method and system for conserving power used in a central processing unit (CPU) are described. An embodiment uses direct memory access (DMA) fetch suspend logic to allow the CPU to stay in a sleep state indefinitely until a break event occurs. Embodiments include power management monitoring and... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090254772 - Extending and scavenging super-capacitor capacity: A memory system has mechanisms for scavenging capacity of a super capacitor by removing, or reducing, system load from the super capacitor when the super capacitor voltage decays below a low threshold. The mechanisms then restore the system load to the super capacitor when the super capacitor voltage ramps back... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.