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US-6,993,690 Memory unit having memory status indicator
A processing unit 12 that is provided in a memory unit 10 can transfer information that is stored in a corresponding address to a spare memory area and prohibit...
US-6,993,689 Data transmission apparatus and method
A data transmission apparatus comprises an estimation device to estimate a transmission condition of the transmission channel in the transmitter based on at...
US-6,993,688 Data sector error tracking and correction mechanism
A method is provided for reducing growth errors in disc drive. First, a number of sectors to be read is determined. Data is then read from all sectors of the...
US-6,993,687 Information processing device and information processing method, maintenance information management system and...
According to the present invention, maintenance data about a plurality of distribution terminal devices which are different from each other in frequency with...
US-6,993,686 System health monitoring and recovery
A network device. The network device includes a least one communication port that allows communication with at least one other network device and storage to...
US-6,993,685 Technique for testing processor interrupt logic
In a technique for testing processor interrupt logic, interrupts are sent to a microprocessor under test in a random order to test the processor interrupt logic...
US-6,993,684 Ring control node
The present invention relates to a ring system, in particular to a ring control node which increases the upper limit of the number of nodes that can be arranged...
US-6,993,683 Analysis of pipelined networks
This invention relates to a diagnostic tool for networks that process messages in stages such as pipelined networks. In a pipelined network comprising tiers of...
US-6,993,682 Automated test generation
A system and method for automated FVT test generation by distributed processing among a master (100) and one or more slave (200) JVMs which communicate via RMI....
US-6,993,681 Remote administration in a distributed system
A method and system for remote administration of clients performing critical processes are disclosed herein. A client management module is used to monitor a...
US-6,993,680 Backup power supply device for a storage device
An object of the invention is to make it possible to secure data retained by a cache memory with high reliability without increasing the size or cost of a...
US-6,993,679 System and method for inhibiting reads to non-guaranteed data in remapped portions of a storage medium
Various embodiments of a method and system for inhibiting reads to non-guaranteed data in remapped portions of a storage medium are disclosed. In one embodiment,...
US-6,993,678 Logical zone table generation process and apparatus
A disc-drive system and method for generating logical zones that each have an approximate number of spare sectors, and that are used to translate logical block...
US-6,993,677 System and method for data verification in a RAID system
The present invention is directed to a system and method for data verification in a RAID system. A method of verifying data in a RAID system may include reading...
US-6,993,676 Method and apparatus for fast initialization of redundant arrays of storage devices
A method and apparatus for fast initialization of storage devices. An apparatus is described including a redundant array of storage devices that comprises a...
US-6,993,675 Method and system for monitoring problem resolution of a machine
A method and apparatus for determining when to close a problem case associated with a machine that includes identifying at least one failure condition associated...
US-6,993,674 System LSI architecture and method for controlling the clock of a data processing system through the use of...
A data processing system includes a general-purpose data processing unit (PU) including an instruction issuing unit that fetches and decodes an instruction in a...
US-6,993,673 Apparatus for frequency and timing recovery in a communication device
Apparatus for recovering timing of data input to a receiver, the apparatus consisting of an interpolator which receives the input data and generates ...
US-6,993,672 Timing adjustment of clock signals in a digital circuit
A digital system that performs a specified function by performing digital processing according to one or more clock signals is provided with a plurality of delay...
US-6,993,671 High speed clock divider with synchronous phase start-up over physically distributed space
A system and method that controls the start time of different clocks in different clock domains, each of which is controlling an I/O, provides that the first...
US-6,993,670 Method of configuring a computer system capable of being woken up on LAN
A method of configuring a computer system capable of being woken up on a LAN A core power is actuated for an interval by performing a Pre-Advanced Configuration...
US-6,993,669 Low power clocking systems and methods
A low power a reconfigurable processor core includes one or more processing units, each unit having a clock input that controls the performance of the unit; and...
US-6,993,668 Method and system for reducing power consumption in a computing device when the computing device executes...
A system and methods for reducing power consumption in a computing device during the execution of a tight loop. When a tight loop is detected, the data cache and...
US-6,993,667 Apparatus for automatic energy savings mode for ethernet transceivers and method thereof
An energy saving circuit is connected to a receiver of a first physical layer of a first network device. The energy saving device has first and second energy...
US-6,993,666 Method and apparatus for remotely accessing a password-protected service in a data communication system
A procedure and a data communication system in which a service provider provides to a remote user of a service a set of expendable passwords for use by the user...
US-6,993,665 Applet permissions manager
Disclosed are novel methods and apparatus for providing a permissions manager capable of assisting an applet, for example, in determination and/or grant of the...
US-6,993,664 Method and system for licensing a software product
A method and system for activating and obtaining a license for a software product is disclosed. A local license is obtained from a storage medium of the software...
US-6,993,663 Input buffer overrun checking and prevention
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for detecting and preventing input data buffer overrun storing a security token containing a randomly generated...
US-6,993,662 Method and system for copy protection of displayed data content
A method for altering text displayed in a formatted page, including locating a buffer of memory locations containing contents of a formatted page, locating a...
US-6,993,661 System and method that provides for the efficient and effective sanitizing of disk storage units and the like
An arrangement sanitizes a digital data storage unit, such as a disk data storage unit, by encrypting the information that is stored thereon. When the...
US-6,993,660 System and method for performing efficient computer virus scanning of transient messages using checksums in a...
A system and method for performing efficient computer virus scanning of transient messages using checksums in a distributed computing environment is described....
US-6,993,659 Independent biometric identification system
An independent biometric identification system has an independent biometric identification server, a biometric administrator agent application, a biometric...
US-6,993,658 Use of personal communication devices for user authentication
A password setting system for a secure system includes a user token server and a communication module. The user token server generates a random token in response...
US-6,993,657 Techniques for managing database systems with a community server
Techniques for managing databases include registering multiple databases at a community server. Each database is controlled by a different party. The community...
US-6,993,656 Time stamping method using aged time stamp receipts
A method for time stamping a digital document is disclosed. The document originator creates a time stamp receipt by combining the document or other identifying...
US-6,993,655 Record and related method for storing encoded information using overt code characteristics to identify covert...
A record and related method is provided for storing encoded information comprising a storage media, first marks on the storage media having a covert code...
US-6,993,654 Secure encryption processor with tamper protection
An encryption processor for encrypting and decrypting data that ensures data security by preventing illegal deciphering or leakage of the data. The encryption...
US-6,993,653 Identity vectoring via chained mapping records
An identity vectoring method is accomplished by matching a distinguished name or partial distinguished name from a digital certificate with a distinguished name...
US-6,993,652 Method and system for providing client privacy when requesting content from a public server
Method and system for providing client privacy on the Internet when the client requests content from a public application server. The method is well-suited to...
US-6,993,651 Security protocol
A system has a local client application (10) and a communications stack (20, 14) by which the local application can communicate with remote peer applications on...
US-6,993,650 Authentications integrated into a boot code image
A method, computer program product and system for storing or updating authentications, e.g., passwords, in a boot code image, i.e., binary executable boot code,...
US-6,993,649 Method of altering a computer operating system to boot and run from protected media
A modern computer operating system is altered to boot and run from a protected medium such as a CD-ROM. Files and configuration information are copied from a...
US-6,993,648 Proving BIOS trust in a TCPA compliant system
When a flash unlock routine unlocks the flash memory to permit updating of a BIOS image, a message is left in secure non-volatile memory, such as a EEPROM. Upon...
US-6,993,647 Method and apparatus for booting an electronic device using a plurality of agent records and agent codes
A method for executing an agent code, wherein the agent code is saved in a read only memory, wherein an agent record containing data is saved in an erasable and...
US-6,993,646 Automatically configuring storage array including plurality of media storage devices for storing and providing...
An automatically configuring storage array includes media storage devices coupled together within a network. Preferably, the network is an IEEE 1394-1995 serial...
US-6,993,645 System and method for the delivery, retrieval and display of content prior to operating system loading
A system and method for the delivery, retrieval and display of content to a user during the initial boot sequence of a computer or electronic device and/or after...
US-6,993,644 Method and computer product for offloading processing tasks from software to hardware
Offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer system's processor and memory, to a peripheral device. The computing task is...
US-6,993,643 Method and system of dynamic video driver selection on a bootable CD via symbolic links
A method, system, and program product for enabling selection of appropriate, available resources for a hardware component of a data processing system during...
US-6,993,642 Method and system for creating and employing an operating system having selected functionality
A system and method of creating and employing an operating system (OS) image having selected functionality. A user, such as an original equipment manufacturer...
US-6,993,641 Stall control
Processors comprising a plurality of pipelines are disclosed, each pipeline having a plurality of pipeline stages (142, 146) for executing an instruction on...
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