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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060075204 | Method and system for managing memory The present invention relates to methods for managing memory. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to methods for managing memory across a plurality of partitions. A first method is disclosed which allocates memory across a plurality of ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075205 | Creating annotations of transient computer objects A method, system and program product for annotating a transient state of a computer displayed application enables annotation of transient applications particularly web based applications. A transient application address (or key) and state information related to an appli... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075206 | Deterministic finite automata (DFA) instruction A computer-readable instruction is described for traversing deterministic finite automata (DFA) graphs to perform a pattern search in the in-coming packet data in real-time. The instruction includes one or more pre-defined fields. One of the fields includes a DFA graph ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075207 | Information processing apparatus, process control method, and computer program An information processing apparatus includes a control operating system executing a process for allocating a plurality of logical processors to a physical processor in a time division manner, and a guest operating system for which a logical partition as an application e... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075208 | Microprocessor instruction using address index values to enable access of a virtual buffer in circular fashion A modular subtraction instruction for execution on a microprocessor having at least one register. The instruction includes opcode bits for designating the instruction and operand bits for designating at least one register storing an offset index, a decrement value, and ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075210 | Sensor-network processors using event-driven architecture Event-driven processor architectures are particularly suited for use in multiple sensor node networks and simulators of such networks. A first variation of the processor is particularly suited for use in a sensor node in a wireless sensor network. Through use of the eve... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075211 | Method and device for data processing Designing a coupling of a traditional processor, in particular a sequential processor, and a reconfigurable field of data processing units, in particular a runtime-reconfigurable field of data processing units is described. ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075212 | Programmable logic analyzer data analyzing method A programmable logic analyzer data analyzing method includes the step of controlling a control circuit to fetch waveform data from the test sample and to store fetched waveform data in a memory, the step of controlling the control circuit to transmit the waveform data f... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075213 | Modular integration of an array processor within a system on chip A systolic array processor is integrated within a system on chip (SoC) in a format that is compatible with existing and emerging SoC technologies. The systolic array processor may be implemented as a co-processor to a general-purpose digital signal processor or as a fun... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075214 | Method and system for generating user-interface output sequences A system and/or method that generates user interface output sequences controlled by a user interface output system. The user interface output system can provide event definitions to an application program that specify high-level actions to be performed by the sequence a... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075215 | Configurable BIOS strings A system and method for deploying various versions of a BIOS system having configurable text strings. When a text string is required, the BIOS or configuration tool may retrieve a text string from the text string location. The executable BIOS and configuration tool may ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075216 | System and method for safe booting electronic devices An improved system and method for safe booting an electronic device. In situations such as where a virus is infecting various devices within a network, the present invention provides an authentication centre with the ability to instruct a device on the network to safe b... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075217 | Method of booting an operating system For use in a system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device, a method is provided for a server to boot an operating system from the external disk device. The method includes the steps of searching for the port of a network switch to which t... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075218 | Overriding processor configuration settings In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for setting an entry in an override register corresponding to a processor feature to override a processor configuration setting for the processor feature and overriding the processor configuration setting for th... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075219 | Computer system and program to update SSL certificates System and computer program product for updating an SSL certificate for a server. First program instructions detect when a change has been made to a name, domain or IP address of the server and detect that the server is using an SSL certificate based on a name, domain o... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075220 | System and method to authorize a device to receive a content work based on device capabilities and content-work permissions Access to content works, or other information, may be granted based upon device capabilities. A content approving network device, or other device, may make a comparison of a device's components with permissions and then determine if access to a content work is allowed b... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075221 | Communications methods and appliances Communications methods and appliances are described. According to one embodiment, a communications method includes prior to deployment of an appliance, establishing a trusted association between the appliance and a certificate authority, during deployment of the applian... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075222 | System for personal group management based on subscriber certificates A method and corresponding equipment, for enabling a subscriber device (14) to engage a service provided by a server (12) to give a friend device (15) access to the service, including a step (21) in which the subscriber device (14) eng... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075223 | Scalable paging of platform configuration registers A method, computer program, and system for paging platform configuration registers in and out of a trusted platform module. In a trusted computing platform, an unlimited number of platform configuration registers can be obtained through paging. The trust platform module... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075224 | System for activating multiple applications for concurrent operation A single sign-on system enables a user to access multiple, disparate executable applications for concurrent operation in the system. The system includes a data source, an interface processor, and an authentication processor. The data source provides configuration data f... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075225 | Digital content protection for peer to peer networks Method and system of the present invention provide for distribution of content (e.g. videos, games, music, etc.) via peer-to-peer (P2P) network, while ensuring that the content is not usable until it is purchased or rented. Methods and systems of the present invention d... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075226 | Data file including encrypted content A method for assembling a data file 10, 20 including encrypted content and a rights object 18, 26 enabling at least one electronic device 35 to decrypt the encrypted content. In order to enable a fast access to the rights object, the method comprise... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075227 | Portable information management device A personal information management (PIM) device receives personal information such as user IDs, passwords, bank account information, credit card information, uniform resource locators (URLs) and the like, from a data input device and stores the information in the memory ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075228 | Method and apparatus for recognition and real time protection from view of sensitive terms in documents A process for automatically selecting sensitive information in any form of document being displayed and/or generated on a computer to select sensitive information for protection by encryption, redaction or removal of only the sensitive text. Selection is done by using p... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075229 | Method and apparatus for maintaining a communications connection while guarding against bandwidth consuming attacks A method and apparatus for maintaining a communications connection with data packet authentication wherein a data packet is received. For each received data packet, a determination is made as to which communications connection the received data packet is associated with... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075230 | Apparatus and method for authenticating access to a network resource using multiple shared devices Means that allow multiple users to be authorized to authenticate through a single given mobile device are described. These means apply as well for the case that the number of users is so large the device does not store all of their authentication information in memory s... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075231 | Terminal for exchanging electronic business cards A terminal and a method for exchanging electronic business cards that can guarantee privacy and guarantee complete and consistent communications to the user are provided. The terminal for exchanging electronic business cards with a device connected via a communications ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075232 | Method and apparatus for secure access to dedicated network resources An approach for providing secure access to inroutes or return channels in a radio communication system including a hub communicating with terminals is disclosed. A quality of service level (QoS) corresponding to one of the terminals is determined. An identifier is assig... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075233 | Electronic identification system and method with source authenticity An RF electronic identification system (10) is disclosed and claimed. The system includes at least one transponder encoder (14.1) for writing data into a memory arrangement (52) of a selected transponder (1.1) of a plurality of transponders (... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075234 | Method of authenticating device using broadcast cryptography A method of authenticating a device having its own device key allocated by an authentication server according to broadcast cryptography is disclosed. The method includes receiving a device identifier of the device and an encrypted device identifier generated by encrypti... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075235 | Wireless video surveillance system and method with security key A surveillance system and method having at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, and a security key for ensuring or denying access, including the steps of providing base system; at least one u... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075236 | Method and apparatus for high assurance processing A method and apparatus for providing high assurance processing are herein disclosed. According to this example method, high assurance processing is provided by selecting a first active partition. A processor access cycle is received from a processor. Data is retrieved f... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075237 | Fingerprinting multimedia contents Disclosed is a method and arrangement for extracting a fingerprint from a multimedia signal, particularly an audio signal, which is invariant to speed changes of the audio signal. To this end, the method comprises extracting (12,13) a set of robust perceptual fea... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075238 | Method for processing an analog signal The present invention relates to a method for processing an analog signal. The method involves hiding a digital watermark signal in the analog signal by combining the watermark signal with the analog signal (103). The watermark signal may be detected and extracte... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075239 | Embedding multiple watermarks In order to enable a data signal, such as an audio or video signal, to be marked with multiple watermarks a set of different codes or keys is used within a given application field. The set of codes/keys is known to a watermark embedder (20) and a watermark detect... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075240 | Lossless data embedding Many methods for reversible watermarking (embedding schemes that allow perfect reconstruction of the original host signal) are highly fragile in the sense that the slightest modification of watermarked content prohibits the recovery of both the original signal as well a... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075241 | Character and vector graphics watermark for structured electronic documents security The present invention is a method and apparatus for watermarking text or vector graphics documents. It is based on character-wise or vector graphics element-wise grayscale or color modulation. At high resolution, halftone or dither modulation can also be used in additio... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075242 | System and method for user certificate initiation, distribution, and provisioning in converged WLAN-WWAN interworking networks A system and method for user certificate initiation, distribution, and provisioning in converged WLAN-WWAN interworking networks. A computing device operable in a wireless local area network sends a public key to a mobile device operable in a wireless cellular wide area... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075243 | Systems and methods of providing content protection for digital video products A digital watermark is affixed to an existing image file prior to being copied onto a destination media. In one embodiment, the image file is encrypted using content scrambling system (CSS) encryption. In another embodiment, the image file is also compressed prior to be... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060075244 | Tracing content usage Disclosed is a system configured to process content to enable tracing of at least one of a multitude of subsequent uses of content by at least one user. The system provides for: making markable content from content, iteratively marking the markable content with informat... | 04/06/2006 |