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20130117550 - Accessing secure volumes: A system and method for reading data from or writing data to a secure volume of a secure peripheral device. The secure peripheral device is communicatively coupled with a first host computer. The secure peripheral device includes an unsecure first volume, a secure second volume, and a secure third volume.... Agent: Imation Corp.

20130117549 - Method for executing multiple operating systems and electronic apparatus: A method for executing multiple operating systems (OSs) and an electronic apparatus are provided. Current hardware resources of the electronic apparatus are obtained after executing a boot process. The hardware resources are allocated to each of the OSs according to a resource allocation ratio, so as to load each of... Agent: Inventec Corporation

20130117551 - Security method: A security method for verifying a client device comprising: loading and executing a boot loader at the client device which establishes a connection to a boot compliance server; sending a first cryptographic element from the boot compliance server to the client device; generating a first cryptographic response with the first... Agent: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

20130117552 - Method for changing receiving mode in mobile terminal and mobile terminal thereof: Disclosed herein are a method of changing a receiving mode in a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal thereof. The method includes entering a charging ready mode when the mobile terminal is positioned adjacent to an external wireless power transmitting module; determining whether the receiving mode of the mobile terminal... Agent: Hanrim Postech Co., Ltd.

20130117553 - Method and apparatus for increasing the output of a cryptographic system: The rate at which packets are provided to a cryptographic engine of a cryptographic system is adjusted using a feedback mechanism to increase the output of the cryptographic system. Data is classified and queued on a per class/flow basis and stored in input queues prior to being processed. A class... Agent: Rockstar Consortium US Lp

20130117555 - Method and system for data encryption and decryption in data transmission through the web: This invention provides a method and system for data encryption and decryption in data transmission through the web. The method includes: a browser sends a cryptographic information acquisition request to a cryptographic information providing equipment; the cryptographic information providing equipment sends cryptographic information back to the browser via an HTTPS... Agent:

20130117554 - User key management for the secure shell (ssh): Management of user keys for public key authentication using the SSH in large SSH deployments is automated by deploying a management system in the environment, discovering SSH identity keys and authorized keys, analyzing authorized connections between user accounts, and automatically managing the authorized connections and the key pairs used for... Agent: Ssh Communications Security Corp

20130117556 - Authenticated sensor interface device: A system and method for the secure storage and transmission of data is provided. A data aggregate device can be configured to receive secure data from a data source, such as a sensor, and encrypt the secure data using a suitable encryption technique, such as a shared private key technique,... Agent: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC

20130117557 - Cloud computing system and cloud server managing method thereof: s

20130117558 - Method and apparatus for authenticating a digital certificate status and authorization credentials: A relying party obtains a certificate of a certificate subject and acquires a status information object for the certificate. The relying party validates the certificate using information in the status information object and compares authorization attributes present in the status information object with policy attributes associated with the requested service.... Agent: Motorola Solutions, Inc.

20130117559 - System and method for multi-certificate and certificate authority strategy: Operations or functions on a device may require an operational certificate to ensure that the user of the device or the device itself is permitted to carry out the operations or functions. A system and a method are provided for providing an operational certificate to a device, whereby the operational... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117560 - Processing a dispersed storage network access request utilizing certificate chain validation information: A method begins by a processing module receiving a dispersed storage network (DSN) access request that includes a requester identifier (ID), wherein the requester ID is associated with a certificate chain. When the certificate chain is valid, the method continues with the processing module accessing registry information for the DSN.... Agent: Cleversafe, Inc.

20130117561 - Secure desktop applications for an open computing platform: Example secure desktop applications for an open computing platform are disclosed. An example secure desktop method for a computing platform disclosed herein comprises establishing a secure communication connection between a secure desktop provided by the computing platform and a trusted entity, the secure communication connection being accessible to a trusted... Agent:

20130117562 - Security method, associated chip card, module and terminal: A security method in a terminal comprising a chip card offering secure functions, a user interface, a module for interfacing with the chip card and suitable for shutting down or introducing the electrical supply to the chip card. After shutdown of the chip card with the terming being kept on,... Agent: Ercom

20130117563 - Securing information in a cloud computing system: The method and system for secure data (information) inside a cloud computing system, allow data to be encrypted everywhere in the cloud on storage devices and in communication lines so that only the information owner has the encryption key and may decrypt the data. The main idea is using software... Agent: Safer Point Ltd

20130117564 - Managing security for computer services: A system or computer usable program product for providing security for a business application including receiving a request from a server including a server public key and a security token, deploying a virtual node implementing the business application in response to the request, using the security token in a bootstrap... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117566 - Memory system: A memory system comprises: a memory device including an authentication data area storing authentication unit information and a verification value, and a contents data area storing contents; and a host device configured to receive the authentication unit information and the verification value from the memory device, and perform secure authentication... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117565 - Peer-to-peer device management, monitor and control: The present invention provides a method, system and program product for peer-to-peer device management, monitor and control. Communication devices connected by communication networks can manage, monitor and control each other; they can be in both managing and managed roles. In one aspect, communication devices can send request messages comprising management,... Agent:

20130117567 - Managing security for computer services: A method for providing security for a business application including receiving a request from a server including a server public key and a security token, deploying a virtual node implementing the business application in response to the request, using the security token in a bootstrap process by the virtual node... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117568 - Cryptographic techniques for a communications network: Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home environment of a station. The techniques described also feature a key usage indicator, such... Agent: Verizon Laboratories Inc.

20130117571 - Extraction of embedded watermarks from a host content based on extrapolation techniques: Methods, devices and computer program products facilitate the extraction of embedded watermarks in the presence of content distortions. Subsequent to the detection of a tentative watermark, particular sections of the content are examined to form one or more extrapolated watermarks or watermark segments. Weights are assigned to the extrapolated watermarks... Agent: Verance Corporation

20130117569 - Method and apparatus for improving digital signatures: Systems and methods are provided for enchancing pseudo random number generation to thwart various security attacks to a system that relies on digital signature security measures. For example, a random number may be bound to a message that is to be signed using a digital signature. Alternatively, a random number... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130117570 - Watermark extraction based on tentative watermarks: Methods, devices and computer program products facilitate the extraction of embedded watermarks in the presence of content distortions. Pre-distorted synchronization templates are used to detect synchronization portions of embedded watermark frames. A pre-distorted synchronization template that best matches the synchronization portion of the embedded watermark frame produces an estimation of... Agent: Verance Corporation

20130117572 - Portable electronic device, system and method for authenticating a document associated with a geographical location: In a portable electronic device, a method of authenticating a document associated with a geographical location is disclosed. A document is provided in the form of digital data, and a hash value is generated from the digital data of said document. Raw GPS data are received from at least one... Agent: Debreceni Egyetem

20130117573 - Method for verifying a password: A method for verifying a password in a computing device, wherein the computing device comprises: a user input interface; a trusted hardware module having a trusted application stored therein, the trusted hardware module arranged to provide the trusted application with access to at least said user input interface; and a... Agent: Proxama Limited

20130117576 - Converting apparatus, converting method, and recording medium of converting program: A converting method includes storing correspondence of each of first-type coded information, included in a first-type coded information group, and one of second-type coded information, included in a second-type coded information group, based on input information, by a processor, and converting, when input data includes the first-type coded information, first-type... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117575 - Encryption apparatus, encryption method, decryption apparatus, decryption method and system: An encryption method includes encrypting a first portion and second portion each of which is included in data to be encrypted, encrypting first information used for decryption of the first data portion, and associating second information used for decryption of the second portion with a predetermined part of the first... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117574 - Memory device and system with secure key memory and access logic: A memory device includes a first memory area that stores a secure key, a second memory area that stores content data, memory secure logic configured to exclusively access the secure key in the first memory area, and a memory controller, physically separate from the memory secure logic, that accesses the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117577 - Secure memory transaction unit: A method for providing security for plaintext data being transferred between units in a computer system includes steps of dividing a memory into a series of addressable locations, each of the addressable locations having an address at which can be stored version information, a data authentication tag, and ciphertext corresponding... Agent: Cpu Technology, Inc. (77615)

20130117579 - Apparatus and method of portable terminal for application data protection: A method of operating a portable terminal for encrypting application data is provided. The method includes receiving data input to an application, encrypting the received data by using at least one of an application unique key and a combination of a device unique key of the portable terminal and an... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130117578 - Method for verifying a memory block of a nonvolatile memory: In a method for verifying a memory block of a nonvolatile memory, at a first point in time, a first authentication code for the memory block is determined while using a secret keyword and is stored in an authentication code memory table, and at a second point in time, for... Agent:

20130117580 - Compact universal wireless adapter: A universal wireless adapter, which includes a power source, a power management element, a main processing unit, at least two serial connections, a wireless transceiver coupled to one of the at least two serial connections, wherein the transceiver is operable according to IEEE Standards 802.11b/g/n, and is capable of operating... Agent:

20130117584 - Method and system for isolating local area networks over a co-axial wiring for energy management: An energy management system. The system includes a coax controller apparatus comprising an exterior housing and plurality of coax modules numbered from 2 through N, where N is an integer greater than 3. In a specific embodiment, each of the coax modules comprises a powerline chip (PLC) module coupled to... Agent: Jetlun Corporation

20130117583 - Method for managing the supply voltage of a microcontroller for an electronic computer of a motor vehicle:

20130117582 - Offline communication in a voltage scaling system: The subject matter of this application is embodied in an apparatus that includes a data processor, and a hardware monitor. The hardware monitor can be configured to emulate a critical path of the data processor, measure a parameter associated with the emulated critical path, process the measurement value, and generate... Agent:

20130117581 - Power negotiation protocol: In one embodiment, a method includes a first device providing a first power to a second device using a first set of conductors out of a plurality of conductors. The method includes the first device providing, in response to receiving a notification, a second power to the second device using... Agent:

20130117586 - Network access device with flexible precise low-power remote wake-up mechanism applicable in various application layer handshake protocols: A network access device is disclosed, having a transceiving circuit, a demodulation circuit, and a control circuit. The transceiving circuit is used to receive network signals. The demodulation circuit is coupled with the transceiving circuit and used to generate data frames according to the network signals. The control circuit is... Agent: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

20130117585 - Power supply device for supplying power via internet network: A power supply device for supplying power via internet network comprises a power supply unit and a power consumption unit. The power supply unit comprises a power source unit and a first processing unit. The power source unit provides a first voltage with a first power and a second voltage... Agent: Inventec Corporation

20130117587 - Service processing method and server: The present invention provides a service processing method and a server, which belong to the field of mobile terminals. The method includes: installing, on a server, a service application same as that of a mobile terminal; running the service application on the server, and executing, in place of the mobile... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20130117591 - Electronic device: Manipulation receiving unit receives an operation input by a user manipulation. In case the manipulation receiving unit does not receive an input operation for a predetermined time period, a state control unit sets an operation state to a power saving state. However, if the voice receiving unit receives voice input... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20130117590 - Minimizing aggregate cooling and leakage power with fast convergence: A mechanism is provided for minimizing system power in the data processing system with fast convergence. A current aggregate system power value is determined using a current thermal threshold value. For each potential thermal threshold value in a set of potential thermal threshold values, a determination is made as to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117592 - Power capping system: A method for power capping is disclosed. The power supplied to a load from a power supply is compared to a power capping limit 302. When the power drawn by the load exceeds the power capping limit, power to the load is supplied by both the power supply and an... Agent:

20130117588 - Run-time task-level dynamic energy management: A mechanism is provided for run-time task-level dynamic energy management. An instruction address for a first instruction of the application is mapped to a portion of application code in the application in response to an application being marked for energy management. A monitoring of the hardware resource activities is done... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117589 - Stability control in a voltage scaling system: The subject matter of this application is embodied in an apparatus that includes a data processor, and a hardware monitor to emulate a critical path of the data processor and measure a parameter associated with the emulated critical path, process the measurement value, and generate an interrupt signal if the... Agent:

20130117594 - Configurable thermal and power management for portable computers: Improved approaches to providing thermal and power management for a computing device are disclosed. These approaches facilitate intelligent control of a processor's clock frequency and/or a fan's speed so as to provide thermal and/or power management for the computing device.... Agent:

20130117593 - Low latency clock gating scheme for power reduction in bus interconnects: A System-on-a-Chip (SoC) comprising a controller, an activity counter, a reference pattern detection logic, a master pattern detection logic, an arbiter, a comparator, a tracker circuit, a delay cell circuit, and a request mask circuit coupled to a bus. The bus is configured to support master control. The controller is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130117596 - Method of analyzing a usage amount of information processing device, information processing system and computer readable recording medium: The processing unit calculates usage amount of a program from a used amount of the processing unit and a power amount of the processing unit. The processing unit initializes a performance counter at a start of a execution of the program, calculates power amount of the program from the measured... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117595 - System and method for power management of mobile devices: A method and system of managing power usage of devices including selectively executing a program application on a plurality of battery powered devices. Battery usage data is generated for a battery in one or more of the devices during execution of the work application. The battery usage data includes the... Agent: Vocollect, Inc.

20130117597 - Time synchronization of multiple time-based data streams with independent clocks: Techniques are described for synchronizing multiple time-based data streams with independent clocks wherein relationships between clock rates of timing devices associated with the time-based data streams are determined, and based on these relationships, times in at least one of the time-based data streams may be translated to times in any... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130117598 - Glitchless programmable clock shaper: In one embodiment, a microprocessor includes one or more processing cores. At least one processing core includes a clock shaping circuit that is configured to receive a clock input signal. The clock shaping circuit includes rising edge skew logic that is configured to selectively delay a rising edge of the... Agent: Nvidia Corporation

20130117599 - Semiconductor device operating according to latency value: Disclosed herein is a device that includes a first register temporarily storing first information indicative of a reference latency, a second register temporarily storing second information indicative of an offset latency, a third register temporarily storing third information indicative of one of first and second operation modes, and a logic... Agent: Elpida Memory, Inc.

20130111196 - Booting from an encrypted iso image: A device is provided in a data center that is connected to a cloud computing environment. The device receives unencrypted information, and divides the unencrypted information into multiple data chunks. The device also derives an encryption key for each data chunk, of the multiple data chunks, based on a master... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130111198 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a power management controller configured to perform power management of the apparatus, a power supply circuit configured to supply an operational power to components of the apparatus using power supplied from a rechargeable battery, and a power supply controller configured to... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130111199 - Information processing apparatus, method of switching between startup modes of information processing apparatus, and recording medium: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determination unit for determining whether a state of the information processing apparatus satisfies a predetermined condition, the state of the information processing apparatus including a normal startup mode and a fast startup mode which is used for starting up faster than... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130111197 - System and method for implementing a customized configuration of information handling systems: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure a method of configuring an information handling system comprises configuring a base platform of an information handling system. The method further comprises installing a personality module on the base platform. The personality module is configured to store personality information associated with an... Agent: Dell Products L.p.

20130111201 - Electronic device having an alterable configuration and methods of manufacturing and configuring the same: An electronic device having an alterable configuration includes a non-volatile memory configurable to include at least a first partition and a second partition, the non-volatile memory storing a boot ROM. The boot ROM is operable when executed by a processor of said electronic device to, in the event that a... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130111202 - Method and device for cold starting android mobile terminal: A method and a device for cold starting an Android mobile terminal are disclosed. The method includes: the mobile terminal in standby state backs up data needing to be saved to a non-volatile storage device and then is powered off after a power supply of the mobile terminal is turned... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130111200 - Reset and reboot circuit: A reset and reboot circuit applied in an X86 electronic portable device is provided. The reset and reboot circuit includes: a first level controller; a first switch, turned on in response to a reset/reboot event to enable a control signal; a second level controller, enabling an output signal in response... Agent: Quanta Computer Inc.

20130111203 - Method to replace bootloader public key: A system and method for writing a new or replacement public key to a bootloader stored in a memory segment in the memory of a vehicle ECU without having to rewrite the entire bootloader. The method includes defining a key table in the bootloader memory segment includes a number of... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations LLC

20130111204 - Hardware countermeasure against cryptographic attack: A hardware countermeasure for a cryptographic hardware module of a computing device is provided. The hardware countermeasure may include a noise-sample generator and a distributed buffer network co-located with the cryptographic module. The noise-sample generator may take as input data samples to be processed by the cryptographic hardware module and... Agent: Certicom (u.s.) Limited

20130111205 - Methods and apparatus for sharing real-time user context information: Improved systems and techniques for secure delivery of data. One or more data providers deliver encrypted data to a storage entity. For each of one or more authorized recipients of data delivered by a data provider, the data provider generates a re-encryption key and delivers it to the storage entity.... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111206 - Extended data signing: Various embodiments enable so-called extended data to be added to a signed digital certificate without having a private key of a Certification Authority available. In at least some embodiments, a request to add extended data to a digital certificate generated by a certificate authority is received from a client device.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130111207 - Writing application data to a secure element: Systems, methods, computer programs, and devices are disclosed herein for partitioning the namespace of a secure element in contactless smart card devices and for writing application data in the secure element using requests from a software application outside the secure element. The secure element is a component of a contactless... Agent:

20130111209 - Authenticating an ephemeral diffie-hellman using a trusted third party: Authentication of parties through a trusted intermediary is described. The standard Ottway-Rees authentication protocol is modified to provide authentication between A and B using intermediary T such that T serves only as an authenticator, and does not participate in the generation of the key shared between A and B.... Agent:

20130111211 - External reference monitor: Methods and systems for increasing the security or trust associated with an untrusted device are provided. For example, a trusted hardware component may send a request to the untrusted device. The request may indicate one or more challenges to be performed by a secure application executing on the untrusted device.... Agent: L-3 Communications Corporation

20130111210 - Methods and systems for enabling, tracking, and correlating anonymous user activity: Methods are disclosed for identity key management in networked application execution. In one embodiment, an identifier request is transmitted from a client system to a server system, in which an identity key value in the identifier request is blank. Upon detecting the blank identity key value at the server system,... Agent:

20130111208 - Techniques for authentication via a mobile device: Techniques for authentication via a mobile device are provided. A mobile device is pre-registered for website authentication services. A user encounters a website displaying an embedded code as an image alongside a normal login process for that website. The image is identified by the mobile device, encrypted and signed by... Agent:

20130111213 - Method and system for video transmission and processing with customized watermarking delivery: Methods and systems for video transmission and processing with customized watermarking delivery are disclosed and may include watermarking data at a communication device utilizing received global positioning (GPS) data and communicating the watermarked video data to a receiving communication device. The receiving communication device may verify the watermarked data, and... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130111212 - Methods to provide digital signature to secure flash programming function: A method for providing digital signatures for authenticating the source and content of binary files which are flash programmed into automotive embedded controllers. A piece of electronic content is digitally signed on a signing server by creating a hash value and encrypting it using the signer's private key. The content... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations LLC

20130111214 - Biometric authentication method and computer system: A biometric authentication method for a computer system, the computer system comprising: a computer; and an authentication server, the biometric authentication method including steps of: extracting a first feature from the captured biometric information; generating a template polynomial for enrollment; extracting a second feature from the captured biometric information; generating... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130111216 - Method and apparatus for incremental code signing: The present invention discloses a method for quickly and easily authenticating large computer program. The system operates by first sealing the computer program with digital signature in an incremental manner. Specifically, the computer program is divided into a set of pages and a hash value is calculated for each page.... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130111215 - Software self-checking systems and methods: Software self-checking mechanisms are described for improving software tamper resistance and/or reliability. Redundant tests are performed to detect modifications to a program while it is running. Modifications are recorded or reported. Embodiments of the software self-checking mechanisms can be implemented such that they are relatively stealthy and robust, and so... Agent: Intertrust Technologies Corporation

20130111219 - Delivering data from a secure execution environment to a display controller: Methods and systems may include a computing system having a display, a display controller with a decryption module, and a security element with security logic. The security logic can be configured to establish a secure path between the secure element and the display in response to a secure output mode... Agent:

20130111218 - Encryption redundancy in a storage element array: An apparatus and associated method for writing encryption data to memory in a plurality of partially overlapping data segments and subsequently retrieving the encryption data by combining a selected one of either a first set of the overlapping data segments that define the encrypted data or a different second set... Agent: Spectra Logic Corporation

20130111217 - Storing user data in a service provider cloud without exposing user-specific secrets to the service provider: Subscriber (user) data is encrypted and stored in a service provider cloud in a manner such that the service provider is unable to decrypt and, as a consequence, to view, access or copy the data. Only the user knows a user-specific secret (e.g., a password) that is the basis of... Agent: Logmein, Inc.

20130111220 - Protecting sensitive data in a transmission: A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product protects sensitive data in a received transmission. A network interface receives a data transmission, which includes multiple units of data. Any sensitive data in the received data transmission is identified by the recipient according to a pre-determined rule. Identified sensitive data from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111221 - Storage system and its management method: A controller: divides a plurality of storage devices into a first storage device(s) which has an encryption function and a second storage device(s) which does not have the encryption function; manages each storage device by associating it with encryption function information indicating whether the encryption function exists or not; manages... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130111222 - Verification of authenticity and responsiveness of biometric evidence and/or other evidence: Authenticity and responsiveness of evidence (e.g., biometric evidence) may be validated without regard for whether there is direct control over a sensor that acquired the evidence. In some implementations, only a data block containing evidence that is (1) appended with a server-generated challenge (e.g., a nonce) and (2) signed by... Agent: Advanced Biometric Controls, LLC

20130111231 - Control circuit for power supply of memory: A control circuit for a power supply of a memory includes a power controller, a keyboard, and a processing circuit. The power controller is connected to the power supply. The keyboard sets working mode of the power supply and a voltage output from the power supply. The processing circuit is... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd .

20130111226 - Controlling a turbo mode frequency of a processor: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multicore processor with a power controller to control a frequency at which the processor operates. More specifically, the power controller can limit a maximum operating frequency of the processor to less than a configured maximum operating frequency to enable a reduction in... Agent:

20130111223 - Electronic device and method for driving an internal function block of a processor of the electronic device to operate in a linear region: An electronic device and a method for driving an internal function block of a processor of the electric device to operate in a linear region. The electronic device comprises a processor having two multiple purpose pins (MPP1 and MPP2), an external device connection port, and two_resistance elements. The external device... Agent: Htc Corporation

20130111228 - Information processing apparatus, method, and system, and computer readable medium: An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A first reception unit receives information concerning power consumption of a target device and time information. A second reception unit receives information concerning an operation state of the target device and time information. A calculator calculates a value of power consumption of... Agent: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

20130111224 - Integrated circuit with logic circuitry and multiple concealing circuits: An integrated circuit comprises logic circuitry, organized in a multi-level hierarchy of modules. The integrated circuit comprises multiple sensing circuits. In operation, each sensing circuit senses an instantaneous current consumption IC of a respective one of the modules that draws current entirely through that sensing circuit. The integrated circuit comprises... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20130111232 - Methods and systems for power supply management: System and methods for controlling power delivery to system components are disclosed. A controller is communicatively coupled to a point-of-load converter through a first communication path and a shared memory is communicatively coupled to the point-of-load converter through a second communication path. A third communication path communicatively couples the controller... Agent:

20130111227 - Mobile device with tamper detection: Systems and methods for operating mobile devices having one or more environmental sensing systems for disrupting battery power.... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20130111229 - Node cards for a system and method for modular compute provisioning in large scalable processor installations: A system and method for provisioning of modular compute resources within a system design are provided. In one embodiment, a node card or a system board may be used.... Agent: Calxeda, Inc.

20130111233 - Optical disk drive and computer: The present invention provides an optical disc drive and computer. The optical disc drive comprises: a tray for laying a disc therein; a drive means connected to the tray; and a control circuit for connecting the drive means and a power supply of a computer connected to the optical disc... Agent: Lenovo (beijing) Limited

20130111234 - Power and data hub: The power and data hub is a fan-less modular electronic system having a main housing member that forms a heat sink, which houses an electronic switch fabric backbone. The electronic switch fabric backbone connects multiple modular slots using a connection fabric backplane, which provides low voltage power input and command... Agent:

20130111225 - Power supplies with lagging power-factor: Apparatus related to power factor are provided. A power supply provides regulated power to a load or loads. The power supply is coupled to a source of alternating-current (AC) voltage. A controller monitors the AC input voltage and a current loading of the power supply. The controller determines an activation... Agent:

20130111230 - System board for system and method for modular compute provisioning in large scalable processor installations: A system for a system and method for provisioning of modular compute resources within a system design are provided.... Agent: Calxeda, Inc.

20130111235 - Power control method, apparatus and system: The present invention discloses a power control method, apparatus, and system. The power control method of the present invention includes: when a service runs in a first-standard communication system, determining a transmit power P1 of the first-standard communication system; determining that the transmit power P1 is higher than or equal... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130111236 - Controlling operating frequency of a core domain via a non-core domain of a multi-domain processor: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining that a non-core domain of a multi-domain processor is not operating at a frequency requested by the non-core domain, sending a request from the non-core domain to a power controller to reduce a frequency of a core domain of... Agent:

20130111238 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, portable information apparatus, image processing apparatus coordination method, portable information apparatus coordination method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with image p: In an image processing system that allows mutual remote operation with a client remotely operating one of an image processing apparatus and a portable information apparatus and with a server being remotely operated by the other, each of the image processing apparatus and the portable information apparatus includes a display... Agent: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

20130111239 - Memory refresh rate throttling for saving idle power: A computer system maintains a threshold value, wherein the threshold value indicates a period of time. The computer system determines that a processor is in any one of a plurality of low power consumption states. Responsive to a determination that the processor is in any one of the plurality of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111240 - Method and system for energy efficient communication among one or more interfaces in a communication path: Network devices coupled via serial and/or parallel interfaces may determine a power level mode of operation according to an energy efficient network communication control policy and may configure one or more of the interfaces for the lower power mode. The network devices may comprise a PHY, a MAC and/or higher... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130111237 - Power supply system, image forming apparatus having the same, and low-capacity power supply circuit: A power supply system comprises: a switching power supply for generating a DC voltage by rectifying and smoothing an AC voltage of an AC power supply; a control device switching the switching power supply between the normal mode and a power saving mode; and a low-capacity power supply circuit supplying... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20130111241 - Power saving apparatus and method for mobile terminal: A power saving apparatus and a method for a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes measuring a system load for a preset time during an application execution in a power saving mode, setting, when the measured system load exceeds a reference load level, a limit clock frequency as a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20130111244 - Electric apparatus and electric power supply control method of the same: When restarting is instructed, the power control state of an electric apparatus is stored in a non-volatile manner before starting shutdown processing, and the stored power control state is read after the restarting is initiated after the completion of the shutdown processing. When the read power control state is a... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130111246 - Electric device: An electric device is capable of operating in a normal operation mode and a power save operation mode. The electric device includes a first processor for processing information input externally in the normal operation mode, and a second processor for processing an internal operation of the electric device in the... Agent: Oki Data Corporation

20130111243 - Managing power modes of a computing system: Managing power modes of a computing system that includes a power supply and computing components, the power supply configured to supply power, through power supply channels, to the computing components, wherein power modes are managed by: operating the computing system in a performance power mode, including allowing each power channel... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130111247 - Method for operating a processor in a real-time environment: A method operates a processor in a real-time environment where the processor is switched from an operating state to a resting state after handling a real-time event. An auxiliary signal is generated during a near imminent occurrence of a subsequent real-time event. The processor is switched to the operating state... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130111245 - Power sourcing equipment for power over ethernet with low energy standby mode: A power sourcing equipment (PSE) exhibiting a low power sleep mode, the PSE constituted of: a sleep control circuitry comprising a first timer; an effective resistance threshold detector responsive to the sleep control circuitry and arranged to detect whether the effective resistance across the output port of the PSE is... Agent: Microsemi Corp. - Analog Mixed Signal Group, Ltd.

20130111242 - System and method for managing clock speed based on task urgency: A system and method are described for utilizing task urgency information when making power management decisions. For example, one embodiment of a method for managing power states of a processor comprises: executing a first power management state machine based on a first urgency level associated with a first task; detecting... Agent:

20130111249 - Accessing a local storage device using an auxiliary processor: The present disclosure includes accessing a local storage device using an auxiliary processor An example computing device (100, 202, 303) includes a local storage device (110, 210, 310), a first processor (112, 212, 312) able to access the local storage device (110, 210, 310), an auxiliary processor (114, 220, 360)... Agent:

20130111248 - Electronic devices having integrated reset systems and methods thereof: Methods and devices for power cycling an electronic device are provided. Also provided are systems and kits.... Agent: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.

20130111252 - Information processing system, uninterruptible power system, and method for controlling allocation of processing: An information processing system includes: a plurality of information processing devices; a plurality of power storage devices configured to supply DC power to any of the plurality of information processing devices; a plurality power source devices configured to supply DC power to the plurality of power storage devices; and an... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130111251 - Method for battery removal detection: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product embodiments are disclosed for detection of the availability of a battery (160) by a host terminal (100) during a data exchange session with the battery (160). In accordance with the embodiments of the invention, sampling, data communication with the battery pack... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130111250 - Systems and methods for power measurement in a data processing system: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. As an example, a data processing circuit is disclosed that includes: a data detector circuit, a data decoder circuit, and a power usage control circuit. The data detector circuit is operable to apply a data detection algorithm... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20130111253 - Time division multiplexed multiport memory: Integrated circuits having single-port memory elements may be provided. The single-port memory elements may be controlled using a control circuit to emulate multiport functionality. In one suitable embodiment, the control circuit may be an arbitration circuit configured to execute a memory request as soon as it is received by the... Agent:

20130111254 - Multi-path power switch scheme for functional block wakeup: A multi-path power switch scheme for functional block wakeup is disclosed. The scheme may be applied to functional blocks of an integrated circuit. When a power on procedure is initiated within a given functional block, a first group of power switches in a functional block may be powered on, while... Agent:

20130111255 - Clock transfer circuit and semiconductor device including the same: A clock transfer circuit includes a clock transfer unit configured to receive an external clock and transfer the received external clock as one or more internal clocks and a clock control unit configured to control the clock transfer unit to transfer the external clock as a column clock among the... Agent:

20130111256 - Drift detection in timing signal forwarded from memory controller to memory device: A memory system in which a timing drift that would occur in distribution of a first timing signal for data transport in a memory device is determined by measuring the actual phase delays occurring in a second timing signal that has a frequency lower than that of the first timing... Agent: Rambus Inc.

20130103934 - Computer system and method for taking over module therein: In a computer system comprising an active computer and a standby computer, when an active computer stopped due to occurrence of a failure is switched over to a standby computer, the standby computer cannot access to a TPM in the stopped active computer if the TPM is mounted therein, and... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130103933 - Method of sharing firmware setting value: A method of sharing a firmware setting value suitable for an electronic apparatus is provided. The method is executed by an electronic apparatus and includes following steps: logging in to a sharing platform, wherein multiple firmware profiles are stored in the sharing platform and the firmware profiles respectively includes a... Agent: Asustek Computer Inc.

20130103937 - Information device, storage medium and initial state restoration method: An information device has a storage medium storing information items which includes a first program provided on a first partition, a second program and data provided on a second partition to restore the first program on the first partition to a predetermined state, a boot block which causes system activation... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130103935 - Method and system for programmable power state change in a system-on-a-chip device: A method and system are set forth for enabling software control of a power management unit (PMU) in a System-On-a-Chip (SoC) device to effect changes in power state without having to adjust external board level states. In one embodiment, once the SoC system controller has been booted, it communicates with... Agent: Psion Inc.

20130103936 - System and method for providing a parameter for an application operating on an electronic device: A system and method of activating a set up application operating on an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: upon activation of the electronic device, determining a state of initial configuration for the electronic device from configuration data stored in the electronic device; when the state of initial configuration... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130103938 - Reconfiguring a secure system: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for reconfiguring a secure system are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a configuration storage location, a lock, and lock override logic. The configuration storage location is to store information to configure the apparatus. The lock is to prevent writes to the configuration storage location.... Agent:

20130103939 - Securing communications of a wireless access point and a mobile device: In one or more embodiments, a network provider can receive a request to access a public network via a wireless network implemented via one or more wireless access points. The network provider can receive, via an unsecured wireless communication from a mobile device utilizing the wireless network and via a... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I

20130103940 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing encapsulating security payload (esp) rehashing: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for accelerating stateless IPsec traffic generation by performing ESP rehashing of ESP packets are disclosed. A first ESP packet is generated by encrypting a portion of the packet and adding ESP headers and trailers to the encrypted portion, hashing the encrypted portion and the... Agent:

20130103941 - Method for updating data in a security module: A method for updating operating data in a security module associated to a user unit for processing digital data broadcast in a transport stream, said unit being connected to a conditional access system transmitting, in said transport stream, to the security module a first stream comprising management messages includes: broadcasting... Agent:

20130103943 - Displaying private information using alternate frame sequencing: Private information can be displayed using alternate frame sequencing to prevent unauthorized viewing. The private information can be ascertained by an authorized user using an active shutter viewing device synchronized to the alternate frame sequencing display. Private information can be displayed on a portion of the display, while public information,... Agent:

20130103945 - Encrypting data objects to back-up: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for encrypting data objects to back-up to a server. A client private key is intended to be maintained only by the client. A data object of chunks to store at the server is generated. A first portion of the chunks in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103944 - Hypertext link verification in encrypted e-mail for mobile devices: A method, device and computer readable memory are provided for verifying hypertext links in an encrypted e-mail message to be sent to a mobile device to remove links that may contain malicious programs, link to a phishing website, or potentially comprise security of the mobile device or expose the user... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130103946 - Location-aware mobile connectivity and information exchange system: A computer platform and method for managing secure data transactions between user accounts on a server, based on the respective locations of mobile user devices related to the user accounts, where the user devices create a secured mobile communication cloud between themselves to ensure secure data communications.... Agent:

20130103942 - System and method for pseudo-random polymorphic tree construction: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for obfuscating data via a pseudo-random polymorphic tree. A server, using a seed value shared with a client device, generates a tag stream according to a byte-string algorithm. The server passes the tag stream and the data to be transmitted... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130103947 - Temporal proximity to verify physical proximity: A security system assesses the response time to requests for information to determine whether the responding system is in physical proximity to the requesting system. Generally, physical proximity corresponds to temporal proximity. If the response time indicates a substantial or abnormal lag between request and response, the system assumes that... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20130103948 - Point of sale (pos) personal identification number (pin) security: A key is securely injected into a POS PIN pad processor in its usual operating environment. In response to entry of a personal identification number (PIN) into a PIN pad, the processor puts the PIN into a PIN block; puts additional random data into the PIN block; and encrypts the... Agent:

20130103949 - Secure password generation: A secure password generation method and system is provided. The method includes enabling by a processor of a computing system, password translation software. The computer processor generates and stores the random translation key. A first password is received and a second associated password is generated. The computer processor associates the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103950 - System and method for securely creating mobile device application workgroups: Presented are systems and methods for providing moderator control in a heterogeneous conference including activating a secure workgroup sharing system between an organizing mobile device and one or more invitee mobile devices, such that activating the secure workgroup sharing system generates a secure workgroup invitation. The secure workgroup sharing system... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130103951 - Systems and methods for identifying an individual: The present application relates to systems and methods using biometric data of an individual for identifying the individual and/or verifying the identity of an individual. These systems and methods are useful for, amongst many applications, more secure identification of high-risk individuals attempting to gain access to an entity, transport, information,... Agent: Life Technologies Corporation

20130103952 - User authentication system and method for encryption and decryption: A system configured to authenticate a user for encryption or decryption includes a user authentication apparatus, a computer-readable medium operable to communicate with the user authentication apparatus, and an encryption and decryption computer communicating with the user authentication apparatus. The computer-readable medium may store user identifying information and encryption and... Agent: EmpireIPLLC

20130103953 - Apparatus and method for encrypting hard disk: An apparatus and method for encrypting a hard disk are provided. The apparatus includes a program management unit, an Internet Protocol (IP) management unit, and an encryption processing unit. The program management unit causes an allowed program or process to be executed based on a result of determination as to... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130103954 - Key usage policies for cryptographic keys: A computer program product for secure key management is provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes creating a token and populating the token with key material,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103955 - Controlling transmission of unauthorized unobservable content in email using policy: A system, method, and apparatus is disclosed to control mail server in handling encrypted messages according to a policy.... Agent: Barracuda Networks, Inc.

20130103957 - Method and device for activation of components: A method and electronic device for activating components based on predicted device activity. The method and device include maintaining a set of device activity information storing data collected from components in the device. The device activity information may be maintained over a predetermined time period and may include times associated... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130103956 - Method for controlling mobile terminal device, medium for storing control program, and mobile terminal device: A method for controlling a mobile terminal device that includes a multi-core CPU and a display that displays an execution result of an application program executed by the multi-core CPU includes detecting an application program of which an execution result is displayed, calculating a CPU load per thread in the... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130103958 - Method and apparatus of power over ethernet: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus of power over Ethernet, and belongs to the field of communications. An Ethernet power sourcing equipment sets a power supply port to a sleep state, and sets a timer for the power supply port; enables the power supply port when the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130103959 - Processing system, processing device and power supply control method: A microcomputer of an ECU which is a master determines whether to turn on or off the power supply of a slave ECU, and outputs a power supply control signal indicating power-on/off via serial communication on the basis of the result of determination. A signal superposition circuit accepts the output... Agent: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

20130103960 - Method and device with intelligent power management: A wireless communication device (200) and method (300) for improving a browsing experience. The method (300) can include: determining (310) an expected time to a next charge; providing (320) a program that correlates typical user usage and determined time to the next charge, to calculate if an energy storage device... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130103961 - Providing wakeup logic to awaken an electronic device from a lower power mode: An electronic device (100) includes a network interface controller (102) and an input/output controller (110, 202) having a link layer. A portion of the input/output controller is configured to be powered off during a lower power mode of the electronic device, where the first portion contains the link layer. Wakeup... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

20130103964 - Device and method for the reliable detection of wakeup events in the shutdown phase of a control unit: A wakeup logic element for providing reliable detection of wakeup events in the shutdown phase of a control unit for a vehicle, having a wakeup source input, the wakeup source input being implemented as a flank-sensitive wakeup input, and an on/off state of a vehicle control unit being controllable by... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20130103963 - Power supply circuit employed in computer for performing different standby modes: A power supply circuit includes a basic input output system (BIOS), a super input output (SIO), a bivibrator, a logical selector, and a voltage converter. The basic input output system (BIOS) is configured for storing different operation modes of a computer. The super input output (SIO) is configured for generating... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen)co., Ltd.

20130103962 - Sleep state synchronization method between docked terminals and docking system using the same: A sleep state synchronization method between docked terminals and docking system using the same is disclosed. The state synchronization method between docked terminals includes determining whether or not a first terminal is docked on a second terminal, turning off signal transmitted to a TMDS data line when it is determined... Agent: Handong Lnc Co., Ltd.

20130103965 - Accessory and host battery synchronization: A portable electronic device that can receive power from an internal power source (such as a battery) and/or a second portable electronic device is described. In order to coordinate the power availability in these portable electronic devices, a power-management mechanism in the portable electronic device (which may be implemented in... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130103966 - Method and terminal for selecting internal circuit according to usb interface status: A method for selecting an internal circuit according to a USB interface status includes: connecting a first pin of a USB interface of a terminal to a power supply through a pull-up resistor, where the first pin is a D− or D+ pin; when detecting that an external USB device... Agent: Huawei Device Co.,ltd.

20130103967 - 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.

20130103968 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamic power control: Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to manage a power of a system that leverage intermediate power margins are described. One or more subsystems of the system are operated at one or more performance points. A power consumed by the one or more subsystems at each of the one or... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130103969 - Clock generation device for usb device: A clock generation device comprises a clock generation unit, a counter, a common factor calculation element, a first frequency divider, a phase-locked loop (PLL) and a second frequency divider. The counter receives a clock signal from the clock generation unit and a periodic signal from a USB host, and outputs... Agent:

20130103970 - Network device, network notifying device applied to network device and associated network notifying method: A network notifying device applied to a first network device is provided, where the first network device is coupled to a second network device, and the network notifying device includes an interface control circuit, a clock generator and a counter. The interface control circuit is coupled to the second network... Agent:

20130103971 - Computer system and method of configuring clock thereof: The present invention relates to a computer system and a clock configuring method. The computer system comprises at least two nodes, wherein each of the at least two nodes includes a selecting module and a CPU, inputs to the selecting module of any node comprise a clock of the node... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130097413 - Computing device and method for controlling a startup current of a storage system: A method for controlling a startup current of a storage system using a computing device, the computing device detects a current of each storage device of the storage system when the storage system is turned on, and calculates the power drawn by each storage device according to the current of... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20130097412 - Performing a boot sequence in a multi-processor system: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for performing a boot sequence in a multi-processor system are provided. Embodiments include: in response to detecting initiation of a boot sequence of the multi-processor system, initializing, by a bootstrap processor (BSP), BSP memory associated with the BSP and initializing, by an application processor,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130097415 - Central processing unit monitoring and management based on a busy-idle histogram: The aspects enable a computing device or microprocessor to adjust the operations of a processor in view of a current processor workload based on a histogram-like data structure. A histogram-like data structure characterizing one of processor busy and/or idle durations or busy/idle ratios is generated at runtime and used to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130097416 - Dynamic profile switching: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for dynamic switching of user profiles on computing devices. In one method, the computing device identifies a first user profile under which the computing device is operating. The first user profile is associated with a first user value indicative of a first user. The computing... Agent: Google Inc.

20130097414 - Methods and reconfigurable systems to incorporate customized executable code within a condition based health maintenance system without recompiling base code: A system for reconfiguring a node of a complex system health monitoring system without recompiling and relinking executable code is provided. The system includes a software module containing previously compiled instructions to perform one of a plurality of different standardized functions and a computing node comprising a processor and plurality... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20130097417 - Secure private computation services: An encryption scheme allows meaningful, efficient computation of encrypted data in various application domains, including without limitation patient health care, financial analysis, market research, and targeted advertising. Data providers, computational services, and results consumers work in concert using a somewhat homomorphic encryption scheme to preserve the secrecy while providing practical... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130097418 - Methods and apparatuses to provide secure communication between an untrusted wireless access network and a trusted controlled network: A secure communication channel between an access point (AP) device associated with a wireless network and a mobile gateway (GW) device of a packet core network is established. Data is exchanged between the wireless network and the packet core network through the secure channel. A client device (UE) is authenticated... Agent:

20130097419 - Method and system for accessing e-book data: Provided is a method for accessing e-book data, including: step A: e-book hardware establishes a connection with an electronic device and negotiates a reading key; step B: the electronic device downloads e-book data via a client, specifically is: firstly, the electric device establishes a connection with the client; the client... Agent: Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130097420 - Verifying implicit certificates and digital signatures: Methods, systems, and computer programs for verifying a digital signature are disclosed. The verifier accesses an implicit certificate and a digital signature provided by the signer. The implicit certificate includes a first elliptic curve point representing a public key reconstruction value of the signer. The verifier accesses a second elliptic... Agent: Certicom Corp.

20130097421 - Protecting information using policies and encryption: A technique and system protects documents at rest and in motion using declarative policies and encryption. Encryption in the system is provided transparently and can work in conjunction with policy enforcers installed at a system. A system can protect information or documents from: (i) insider theft; (ii) ensure confidentiality; and... Agent: Nextlabs, Inc.

20130097422 - Method and system for authenticating peer devices using eap: A system and method for authenticating a peer device onto a network using Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). The key lifetime associated with the keying material generated in the peer device and the authentication server is communicated from the authenticator to the peer device within the EAP Success message. The peer... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130097424 - Discovery of secure network enclaves: A hierarchical key generation and distribution mechanism for a computer system in which devices are organized into secure enclaves. The mechanism enables network access to be tailored to approximate minimum needed privileges for each device. At the lowest level of the hierarchy, keys are used to form security associations between... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130097423 - Processing device and computer-readable recording medium having stored therein processing program: A processing device for executing predetermined process associated with information to be processed at preset key time, the processing device includes a processor, wherein the processor determines whether or not key time is included in a check period which is between key time at which previous process was performed and... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130097425 - Providing consistent cryptographic operations across several applications: Providing consistent cryptographic operations across several applications using secure structured data objects includes a security middleware component, using an application programming interface, receiving a data input from an originating application operating in application space. Both the application and the middleware component execute in the data processing system. A security schema... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130097426 - Watermarking and scalability techniques for a virtual desktop planning tool: A method for measuring performance of virtual desktop services offered by a server including a processor is described. A first encoded watermark is embedded into user interface display generated by a virtual desktop when initiating an operation. The first encoded watermark includes pixels identifying the operation and indicating its initiation.... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130097427 - Soft-token authentication system: A system for authenticating a user and his local device to a secured remote service with symmetrical keys, which utilizes a PIN from the user and a unique random value from the local device in such a way that prevents the remote service from ever learning the user's PIN, or... Agent: Goldkey Security Corporation

20130097428 - Electronic apparatus and encryption method thereof: An electronic apparatus includes a secure unit to store public key information, an input unit to receive user authentication information and a data searching word, a user authenticating unit to perform user authentication with the inputted user authentication information, an encryption generating unit to generate a searching word encryption to... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130097429 - Method and system for secure authentication of a user by a host system: A method and system for securely logging onto a banking system authentication server so that a user credential never appears in the clear during interaction with the system in which a user's credential is DES encrypted, and the DES key is PKI encrypted with the public key of an application... Agent: Citibank Development Center, Inc.

20130097430 - Encrypting data and characterization data that describes valid contents of a column: A method, computer-readable storage medium, and computer system are provided. In an embodiment, in response to receiving a first command that specifies first data, a first cryptographic key, and a column identifier that identifies a column of rows in a database, the first data is encrypted into encrypted data using... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130097431 - Systems and methods of source software code modification: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a method for modifying computer-executable instructions. In various embodiments, the method includes applying, with a processor, a data transformation to one or more value representations in the computer-executable instructions to create one or more transformed code segments; dividing the one or more transformed... Agent:

20130097432 - Providing consistent cryptographic operations: A method, system, and computer usable program product for providing consistent cryptographic operations in a data processing environment using protected structured data objects are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A data input is received from an originating application by a security plug-in, both the application and the security plug-in executing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130097434 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit to form an image, a user switch unit to output a user operation signal to switch between a power-on state and a power-off state of the image forming apparatus, a main controller to control the image forming unit and to output... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130097433 - Systems and methods for dynamic resource management in solid state drive system: The disclosed subject matter relates to methods and systems for dynamically controlling the power consumed by solid state drive. One embodiment includes a method that measures the power consumed by the solid state drive system and configures a programmable resource manager to grant the usage/activation of flash memory devices, thereby... Agent: Stec, Inc.

20130097435 - Method and system for supporting wake-on-lan in a virtualized environment: A method and system for supporting Wake-on-LAN technology in a virtualized environment is described. An improved virtual switch comprises a listener, which receives a power-on message on behalf of virtual machines, extracts addresses of the virtual machines to be powered on, which are embedded in the power-on message, compares the... Agent: Embotics Corporation

20130097439 - Electronic apparatus that controls switching to energy-saving mode: Provided is an electronic apparatus including: a network interface configured to receive data via a network; a communication processing unit configured to notify of a network communication type and a network communication amount of the received data; and an operation mode control unit configured to switch an operation mode from... Agent:

20130097440 - Event service for local client applications through local server: In server/client architectures, the server application and client applications are often developed in different languages and execute in different environments specialized for the different contexts of each application (e.g., low-level, performant, platform-specialized, and stateless instructions on the server, and high-level, flexible, platform-agnostic, and stateful languages on the client) and are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130097438 - Information processing device and management method of power saving mode: In an information processing device, when shifting to a power saving mode, a volatile storage unit is controlled to continuously hold a program loaded to the volatile storage unit even in the power saving mode, and a logical value indicating the power saving mode is set to an input/output port... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd.

20130097437 - Method, apparatus, and system for energy efficiency and energy conservation including optimizing c-state selection under variable wakeup rates: A processor may include power management techniques to, dynamically, chose an optimal C-state for the processing core. The measurement of real workloads on the OSes exhibit two important observations (1) the bursts of high interrupt rate are interspersed between the low interrupt rate periods and long periods of high activity... Agent:

20130097441 - Multi-core processor system, power control method, and computer product: A multi-core processor system includes a core configured to detect among multiple cores, a state of migration of first software from a first core to the core whose specific processing capacity value is lower than that of the first core; and set the processing capacity value of the first core... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130097436 - Systems and methods to filter data packets: A mobile communication device includes a receiver system configured to receive unicast data packets and non-unicast data packets. The receiver system may include a hardware packet filter. The mobile communication device further includes a processor coupled to the receiver system. The processor may be configured to detect a power state... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130097443 - Dynamic voltage and clock scaling control based on running average, variant and trend: The aspects enable a computing device or microprocessor to scale the frequency and/or voltage of a processor to an optimal value balancing performance and power savings in view of a current processor workload. Busy and/or idle duration statistics are calculated from the processor during execution. The statistics may include a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130097442 - Mobile device chip and mobile device controlling method therefor: A mobile device chip is provided. The mobile device chip includes a main processor, a multimedia processor, and a direct memory access (DMA) circuit. The multimedia processor is electrically coupled to the main processor. The DMA circuit accesses storage, and the DMA circuit is electrically coupled to the multimedia processor.... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20130097447 - Method and apparatus for controlling sleep mode in a portable terminal: A method of controlling a sleep mode of a portable terminal is provided. The method includes setting a sleep mode timer according to a default setting; displaying, upon reaching a predetermined time point before expiration of the sleep mode timer, a notice screen including the sleep mode timer and a... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130097445 - Method and apparatus for power management control of an embedded memory having sleep and shutdown features: A power management controller controls a power mode associated with a memory device and includes a logic element operative to provide a power mode control signal. The logic element is responsive to first and second control signals, the second control signal being a delayed version of the first control signal.... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20130097446 - Method of control of an access point of a home gateway of a home network: A method of controlling a domestic gateway, intended to connect at least one domestic terminal of a domestic computer network to a telecommunication network. The domestic gateway includes an access point configured so as to establish a connection between the domestic terminal and the domestic gateway. Method includes: a step... Agent: France Telecom

20130097448 - System and method for high-performance, low-power data center interconnect fabric: A system and method are provided that support a routing using a tree-like or graph topology that supports multiple links per node, where each link is designated as an Up, Down, or Lateral link, or both, within the topology. The system may use a segmented MAC architecture which may have... Agent: Calxeda, Inc.

20130097444 - Using latched events to manage sleep/wake sequences on computer systems: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs power management on a computer system. The system includes an embedded controller and an operating system. During the execution of a sleep sequence by the operating system, the embedded controller latches events associated with use of the computer system. After the sleep... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130097449 - Memory unit, information processing device, and method: A memory unit comprises at least two volatile memory elements, analyzing circuitry and power gate. The memory elements may for example be latches, flip-flops, or registers. Each of the memory elements has at least two different states including a predefined reset state. The analyzing circuitry generates a power-down enable signal... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20130097451 - Computer and data saving method: It is provided a computer comprising a nonvolatile memory for storing data, a control processor for controlling the saving of data into the nonvolatile memory, and a battery for supplying power to the computer in case of a failure of an external power supply, wherein the control processor checks a... Agent:

20130097450 - Power supply gating arrangement for processing cores: A power gate is coupled to a power supply circuit to selectively provide power to a processing core. A switch has a local state and a remote state to alternately route (i) a local sense point on a supply side of the power gate and (ii) and a remote sense... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130097452 - Computer apparatus and resetting method for real time clock thereof: A computer apparatus and a resetting method for a real time clock (RTC) of the computer apparatus are provided. The resetting method for the RTC includes: generating a judging result by determining whether the computer apparatus is in an S5 state and determining whether a plurality of pre-determined keys are... Agent: Wistron Corporation

20130097453 - Apparatus and method for controlling cpu in portable terminal: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling a central processing unit in a portable terminal The method includes: operating a first core among multiple cores included in the central processing unit within a range of pre-designated limited clock frequencies; identifying the number of work queues... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.