http://www.freshpatents.com/Electrical-computers-and-digital-processing-systems--support-dtnewntc713.php USPTO Class 713 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124844.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for dynamic boot image streaming. In some aspects a memory controller that is streaming multiple boot images from a first memory to a second memory is stalled, a descriptor for streaming one of the multiple boot images from the first memory to a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124845.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An embedded device including a random access memory (RAM) and a processor is provided. The processor includes a processor core and an authentication module. The RAM stores data-to-be-authenticated. The data includes a program code to be executed by the processor core. The authentication module periodically accesses and authenticates the data-to-be-authenticated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124846.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A USB memory (2) includes an MBR memory (261), and a distribution processing processor (221). The MBR memory (261) stores an MBR. The MBR is set to start up with higher priority by BIOS of an information processing apparatus and reads a loader to map the loader to a startup... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124842.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method of booting an image forming apparatus having a hibernation function. In the method, when booting of the image forming apparatus starts, whether a storage device has a defect is checked based on a flag indicating whether the hibernation function is activated, and a system of the image forming... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124841.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An operating system (OS) processing method for a host computer includes the following steps: when the host computer is booting, a boot loader is read from a boot reading device according to a boot priority order of the host computer. A signature detecting program included in the boot loader is... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124843.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Firmware in a UEFI-compliant computing device is used to administer and alter a Secure Boot process for the computing device while continuing to provide protection from unauthorized third-party code.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124840.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method includes performing a boot up of a computer having a system on-chip having multiple processors and a nonvolatile read-only machine-readable medium. The boot up includes enabling a first processor of the multiple processors, while maintaining others of the multiple processors in a disabled state. The boot up includes... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124847.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An input tracker learns relationships between end user inputs made at a computer and external environment conditions sensed at the computer by external environment sensors integrated in the computer, such as a camera, microphone, hard disk drive motion detector, display ambient light sensor and display orientation accelerometer. An input predictor... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124848.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An input tracker learns relationships between end user inputs made at a computer and external environment conditions sensed at the computer by external environment sensors integrated in the computer, such as a camera, microphone, hard disk drive motion detector, display ambient light sensor and display orientation accelerometer. An input predictor... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124850.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 the central entity aggregates all received encrypted measured values and decrypts the aggregation by employing the aggregated key. the key aggregator computes the aggregation of all received keys and sends the aggregated key to the central entity,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124849.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Protected content that has been encrypted according to an encryption algorithm is individualized for a consumer according to pseudorandomly-generated individualization data values and individualization indexes. When different instances of individualized protected content are generated from the same protected content for different consumers, the different instances differ in content. To generate... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124851.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A data communication security system is disclosed that includes a network interface including a first security module implementing a first security architecture, and a second security module implementing a second security architecture different from the first security architecture. The network interface further includes a file-based application programming interface defining a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124852.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A data communication security system is disclosed that includes a network interface configured for transport layer protocol communications at a communication port. The network interface includes a security module configured to provide secure shell (SSH) data security on a transport layer data path, and which is communicatively connected to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124853.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 In an example embodiment, a digital content distributor may transmit an unsigned license associated with a protected digital object to a digital rights management provider. The digital rights management provider may digitally sign the license and may transmit the signed license to the digital content distributor.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124854.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 According to one embodiment, a method for authenticating a device, wherein the device holds secret identification information, encrypted secret identification information, and key management information, and an authenticator holds an identification key, the method includes reading, by the authenticator, the encrypted secret identification information and the key management information from... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124855.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products for using quick response (QR) codes for authenticating users to ATMs and other secure machines for cardless transactions are disclosed. Embodiments of the present disclosure read an image displayed on a display of an external device using a mobile device associated with a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124857.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 It is determined whether a user who has logged in in communication using a selfsigned certificate stored by default is an administrator or a general user. If it is determined that the user is an administrator, an install page for a CA-signed certificate which is more reliable than the selfsigned... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124856.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Various embodiments of a system and method for a single request and single response authentication protocol are described. A client may send to an authentication server a request to authenticate the identity of a user attempting to access an electronic document protected by a rights management policy. The single request... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124858.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method, a host apparatus, and a machine-readable storage medium are provided for authenticating a storage apparatus. The method includes acquiring an identification of the storage apparatus based on a request for using content stored in the storage apparatus; determining whether authentication of the identification of the storage apparatus is... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124859.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Various embodiments of a system and method of digital rights management with authorized device groups are described. Various embodiments may include a system including a digital rights management (DRM) component configured to receive a private key of an authorized device group. In various embodiments, the receipt of the private key... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124860.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method is provided for cryptographic protection of an application associated with an application owner and executed in an external data processing center having a security module that stores private cryptographic material of the application owner. A first secure channel between the security module and application owner and a second... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124861.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An apparatus for shielding a sensitive file includes a client computer having various units. An encryption-decryption unit performs a cryptographic operation on the sensitive file with a cryptographic key, which corresponds to the encryption key ID. An encryption key ID is associated with the sensitive file. A key storing unit... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124864.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method for importing or moving a rights object (RO) is provided, a rights issuer (RI) receives a request message of importing or moving an RO to a target device, the request message including key information encapsulated by a public key of the target device; the RI generates the RO... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124862.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Various embodiments of a system and method for digital rights management with secure application-content binding are described. Various embodiments may include a system configured to decrypt an encrypted application key with a private key. The system may also be configured to decrypt an encrypted application including a binding key with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124863.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An apparatus and methods of securely communicating a message between a first device and a second device using a message specific identifier is disclosed. The method begins by assembling the message specific identifier from one or more attributes associated with the message and the first device. An encryption key request... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124865.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A content using apparatus periodically transmits an exchange key and the corresponding key ID using a command. Only while receiving the key ID at predetermined reception cycles, a content providing apparatus maintains the corresponding exchange key. When not periodically receiving the key ID, the content providing apparatus destroys the corresponding... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124866.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 In the context of a computer client-server architecture, typically used in the Internet for communicating between a server and applications running on user computers (clients), a method is provided for enhancing security in the context of digital rights management (DRM) where the server is an untrusted server that may not... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124867.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to remove one or more limitations imposed on a full-featured base application executing on a client computer. The method further includes creating a license package. The license package includes a first layer and a second layer separately encrypted therein. The second... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124870.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Data received over a network is processed by a server. The processing includes determining identity information corresponding to an identity associated with a document represented by document data received over an input port of the server from a sender. At the server, a private key is computed based on: a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124868.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Various embodiments of a system and method for parts-based digital rights management are described. Various embodiments may include a digital rights management component configured to receive content comprising a plurality of portions of content. The digital rights management component may also receive a license for the encrypted content; the license... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124869.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses digital certificates to facilitate enforcing licensing terms for applications that manipulate documents. During operation, the system obtains a credential, wherein the credential includes a private key and a digital certificate containing a corresponding public key. This digital certificate also... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124871.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An application execution system and a method for executing applications, at a terminal, with security check on the application package are provided. The system includes an application creator including an enabler, for creating an application package including a plurality of binary codes and content files, and for adding a checksum... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124875.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A DS processing unit includes a grid module and a DSN interface. The grid module is operable to encrypt a data segment and to decrypt an encrypted data segment. To encrypt the data segment, the grid module partitions the data segment into portions and encrypts the portions using encryption keys... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124872.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method of accessing a hardware device in a computer includes executing a Metro user interface mode application in an operating system and executing a Desktop mode application in the operating system, the Desktop mode application corresponding to the Metro user interface mode application, and the Desktop mode application having... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124874.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A secure system-on-chip for processing data, the system-on-chip comprising at least a central processing unit (CPU), an input and an output channel, an encryption/decryption engine and a memory, wherein, said input channel comprises an input encryption module to encrypt all incoming data, said output channel comprising an output decryption module... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124873.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A storage device partitions data from a host into multiple partitioned data and distributes, encrypts and stores them together with a parity in multiple memory mediums. This storage device executes processing of restoring the partitioned data or the parity stored in a memory medium subjectable to encryption re-key based on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124877.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A communication equipment, method and storage device cooperate to assist in connecting a storage device between different devices. The equipment includes an interface configured to be electrically connected to information terminal equipment. It also includes a communication mechanism that performs communication with storage equipment that has a region assigned to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124876.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that may include an integrated circuit to be removably communicatively coupled to at least one storage device. The integrated circuit of this embodiment may be capable of encrypting and/or and decrypting, based at least in part upon a first key, data to be,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124879.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An embodiment of the invention includes a device for controlling data reading mode of a hard disk host apparatus. The device comprises a power converter circuit, a power supply toggle-switching circuit, a hard disk access port selection module, a hard disk host converter module, and a power control module. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124878.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A host device of dual power supply includes a chassis, a motherboard disposed in the chassis, at least one storage unit electrically coupled to the motherboard, two power supplies electrically coupled to the motherboard and the storage unit for supplying power to the motherboard and the storage unit, and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124881.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An analysis system according to the present invention has a configuration for obtaining power consumption of an image forming apparatus in which a power log has been collected, and controlling a display of the power consumption. In a case where if the image forming apparatus is in a predetermined state,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124880.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A power supply device is configured for supplying electrical power to a central processing unit (CPU) of an electronic device. The CPU operates in a number of working modes. The power supply device includes a power supply module operating in a number of power supply modules corresponding to the working... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124882.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An approach is provided where a smart socket receives a request over a power line and generates a request based on the received request. The second request is transmitted over a power cord connecting the smart power socket to a device. A response is received from the device and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124883.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 In one embodiment, a communication device of a communication network determines its available power level, and also estimates a power requirement to receive an expected transmission from a transmitter of the communication network. By determining whether the available power level is sufficient for the estimated power requirement, the device may... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124884.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124887.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A computer system includes memory units; a power supply to supply power to the memory units; and a controller to control the supply of power to the plurality of memory units so as to intercept power supplied from the power supply to at least one of the memory units, among... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124885.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Power consumption of computing devices are monitored with performance counters and used to generate a power model for each computing device. The power models are used to estimate the power consumption of each computing device based on the performance counters. Each computing device is assigned a power cap, and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124889.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Controlling power consumption of aggregated I/O ports. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods that include: aggregating a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports; and controlling power consumption in the computer system. Controlling the power consumption includes: sending a command from a power policy management program to an aggregation... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124890.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A multi-core processor includes a plurality of power gating elements for controlling power applied to each core. Each power gating element is coupled to a respective power gating controllers for controlling the respective power gating element to selectively provide full power to the respective core only during an active period... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124888.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Disclosed is a nonvolatile storage system including: a memory block having a plurality of flash memories; a flash memory power supply circuit outside of the memory block; and a flash memory controller. The flash memory power supply circuit has a plurality of types of power supply circuits for process execution,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124886.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 The invention discloses a power control device for an electronic device, comprising a power supply unit and a control circuit. The power supply unit outputs a power to an embedded controller of the electronic device according to a power control signal. The control circuit is coupled to the embedded controller,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124891.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 The various embodiments of the invention relate generally to portable devices and systems, including wearable devices, that include sensors that are used for sensing the physiological, emotional and/or environmental condition of a person carrying, wearing or otherwise using the device or system and more specifically, to an architecture and method... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124892.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A power management method is suitable for an electronic device including a controller, a processor and a battery, and includes following steps. A first power is provided to the electronic device by a power adapter, and a maximum value of the first power is smaller than a maximum value of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124894.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A portable terminal for providing a Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) function is provided. An apparatus and a method of a portable terminal for enhancing a data transmission performance by adjusting a Notice of Absence (NoA) duration in a NoA-based power saving mode are provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124893.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An image processing apparatus includes a network control unit, a main control unit, a clock circuit unit, a sub control unit, and a power mode switching unit. The main control unit transmits transition information to the sub control unit during a transition to a first power saving mode when power... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124896.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A system-on-chip comprises a power-off domain block; and a power-on domain block that analyzes externally transferred data during a power-down state of the power-off domain block, wherein the power-on domain block executes an operation of the power-off domain block or a wake-up operation, based on an analyzed result of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124895.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An electronic system is disposed on a single integrated circuit including a plurality of power domains and a power control manager. Each power domain may be independently powered. The power control manager includes a set of control registers storing individual control bits, a power switch for each power domain and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124897.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An apparatus to control power of an electronic device includes a local area network (LAN) controller to control network communication of the electronic device, a communication interface connected to an external dongle to perform the network communication, a connection detector to detect whether a first signal for connection with the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124899.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method, apparatus and system for managing a device are provided by the present invention, which relate to the field of communication. The method includes: according to a preset power management rule, determining a power supply policy of each single board in the current device (302); and according to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124898.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A method and system for saving and/or retrieving context information of a processor core for a power state transition. The processor core resides in a complex power domain variously transitioning between a plurality of power states. The processor core includes a local context storage area for storage and retrieval of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124903.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Apparatus and methods are provided for use with computers. A power supply includes metering to determine the instantaneous and cumulative energy consumption of the power supply and a computer coupled thereto. Communications enable the power supply to communicate corresponding power data to the computer. A user of the computer can... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124901.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention relates to a power and trace profiling system. The system includes a microcontroller based device having a voltage regulator. Additionally, the microcontroller based device is configured to receive a supply power. A system analyzer is configured to receive power profiles from the power profiler... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124902.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 In various embodiments, a circuit and method for monitoring graphics processing unit (GPU) socket degradation is provided. One embodiment comprises: monitoring a voltage delta between a NVVDD voltage conduction point and a NVVDD voltage direct-detection point in a GPU socket; and determining whether the voltage delta is more than a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124900.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 Methods and apparatuses are provided for power control in a processor. The apparatus comprises a plurality of operational units arranged as a group of operational units. A power consumption monitor determines when cumulative power consumption of the group of operational units exceeds a threshold (e.g., either or both of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124904.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 One embodiment of the present invention sets forth an interface circuit configured to combine time staggered data bursts returned by multiple memory devices into a larger contiguous data burst. As a result, an accurate timing reference for data transmission that retains the use of data (DQ) and data strobe (DQS)... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124907.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 The present technology provides an excellent advantageous effect in terms of reducing power consumption of a bus system adapted to treat a transaction as a unit. Disclosed herein is a clock gating circuit including: a clock enable signal generation portion adapted to count the number of outstanding transactions in each... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124905.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 A sense amplifier and a method for determining the values of the voltages on a bit-line pair are provided. The sense amplifier comprises a first delay chain and a second delay chain. The first delay chain is electrically connected to a bit line and configured for receiving a clock signal... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130516ptan20130124906.php Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:03 -0700 An exemplary signal collection system includes a signal transmitting module and a computer. The signal transmitting module outputs a high-speed signal with a high frequency. The signal collection system further includes a data collection module interconnecting the signal transmitting module and the computer. The data collection module includes a frequency...