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US-7,472,277 User controlled anonymity when evaluating into a role
A method, system, and program for user controlled anonymity when evaluating into a role are provided. An anonymous authentication controller enables a user to...
US-7,472,276 Data card verification system
A method of verifying a pair of correspondents in electronic transaction, the correspondents each including first and second signature schemes and wherein the...
US-7,472,275 System and method of electronic signature verification
A universal lightweight, easily carried memory identification card records information and controls access to this information. The memory card includes a file...
US-7,472,274 Authentication of an electronic tag
A method and a system for authenticating an electronic tag by a host communicating with this tag via a reader, including: calculating, on the tag side, a first...
US-7,472,273 Authentication in data communication
Method of authenticating a client comprising the steps of sending a subscriber identity to an authentication server; obtaining at least one challenge and at...
US-7,472,272 Digital asset usage accountability via event journaling
A technique for establishing a perimeter of accountability for usage of digital assets such as data files. The accountability model not only tracks authorized...
US-7,472,271 Methods and devices relating to distributed computing environments
The suitability of a service provider for performing a task having a sensitivity level is gauged by using a trust level associated with the provider, in...
US-7,472,270 Secure transmission of digital content between a host and a peripheral by way of a digital rights management...
A host securely transmits content to a peripheral thereof. The peripheral has a symmetric key (PK) and a copy of (PK) encrypted according to a public key (PU) of...
US-7,472,269 System and method for strong authentication achieved in a single round trip
A system and method for strong authentication achieved in a single round trip is disclosed, which reduces the amount of time needed for a mobile node to be...
US-7,472,268 Privacy and security mechanism for presence systems with tuple spaces
A system is provided for cycling encryption keys to prevent the guessing of encrypted presence information in a shared information space. The system of the...
US-7,472,267 Convertible computer with selective activation of input devices based on a tablet or notebook mode
A convertible computer is equipped with a notebook computer function and a tablet computer function. When a system power supply is turned on, a functionality or...
US-7,472,266 Fault resilient boot in multi-processor systems
In some embodiments a boot progress of a System Boot Strap Processor in a multi-processor system is monitored and a boot processor failure is detected using an...
US-7,472,265 Information input system, control method thereof, and storage medium
This invention has as its object to provide an information input system which can flexibly select the storage location of information input from an input...
US-7,472,264 Predicting a jump target based on a program counter and state information for a process
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that predicts a jump target for a jump instruction. During operation, the system starts fetching the...
US-7,472,263 Method and apparatus for prediction handling multiple branches simultaneously
A branch prediction apparatus includes a branch information receiving unit that receives simultaneously, branch information for each of a plurality of branch...
US-7,472,262 Methods and apparatus to prefetch memory objects by predicting program states based on entropy values
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to prefetch memory objects. An example method includes identifying program states associated with an executing program;...
US-7,472,261 Method for performing externally assisted calls in a heterogeneous processing complex
A method is provided for accessing, by an application running on a first processor, operating system services from an operating system running on a second...
US-7,472,260 Early retirement of store operation past exception reporting pipeline stage in strongly ordered processor with...
In one embodiment, a processor comprises a retire unit and a load/store unit coupled thereto. The retire unit is configured to retire a first store memory...
US-7,472,259 Multi-cycle instructions
In one embodiment, a pipelined processor is described that includes an execution pipeline having a plurality of stages and a multi-cycle instruction (MCI)...
US-7,472,258 Dynamically shared group completion table between multiple threads
An SMT system has a dynamically shared GCT. Performance for the SMT is improved by configuring the GCT to allow an instruction group from each thread to complete...
US-7,472,257 Rerouting VLIW instructions to accommodate execution units deactivated upon detection by dispatch units of...
Processor (100) has a plurality of registers (120) for storing instructions for execution by the plurality of execution units (160). The plurality of registers...
US-7,472,256 Software value prediction using pendency records of predicted prefetch values
Profile information can be used to target read operations that cause a substantial portion of misses in a program. A software value prediction technique that...
US-7,472,255 Method for addressing a symbol in a memory and device for processing symbols
A bitwise addressing mode includes including the shaping of symbols of variable length during an operation for reading or writing a symbol in a bank of memories....
US-7,472,254 Systems and methods for modifying a set of data objects
A system and method for generating and updating a file system on a client computer. An original file system may be compared to an updated file system and the...
US-7,472,253 System and method for managing table lookaside buffer performance
A computer system comprising a main memory and a processor die coupled to the main memory by a first bus. The processor die includes a processor core coupled to...
US-7,472,252 Merging identical memory pages
Multiple virtual addresses map to the same physical location in memory if it has been determined that they are all intended to access the same data. In one...
US-7,472,251 Data storage apparatus detachably mounted to a host apparatus
A data storage device including a non-volatile semiconductor memory and an attribute information storage unit. In an attribute information storage unit of the...
US-7,472,250 Storage control device, and control method for storage control device
The storage control device of the present invention is able to perform input and output of data between blocks whose size is different with good efficiency. The...
US-7,472,249 Kernel memory free algorithm
An approach for freeing memory based upon its relocatable or non-relocatable property is provided. In one embodiment, drivers and other processes that do not...
US-7,472,248 Techniques for generating serial presence detect contents
Techniques are presented for automatically generating Serial Presence Detect (SPD) contents. Standards for specific values associated with SPD contents are...
US-7,472,247 Method and system for centralized memory management in wireless terminal devices
Methods and systems for controlling centralized memory management in wireless terminal devices. Memory management scripts associated with a wireless application...
US-7,472,246 Method and system for automated memory reallocating and optimization between logical partitions
A method and system for reallocating memory in a logically partitioned environment. The invention comprises a Performance Enhancement Program (PEP) and a...
US-7,472,245 System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers
A method for securing access to a data medium comprises listing at least one unique identifier of media that a data transfer element is allowed to access in...
US-7,472,244 Scheme for securing a memory subsystem or stack
A scheme for securing a memory subsystem or stack is disclosed. A first memory device performs an authentication on a received operation. If the authentication...
US-7,472,243 Storage system and control method thereof
Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control...
US-7,472,242 Eliminating duplicate blocks during backup writes
Embodiments of the present invention include creating a subsequent backup copy of a data set by storing a full backup copy of the data set to reflect a state of...
US-7,472,241 Storage system and backup method
A storage system and a backup method achieving enhanced reliability without degradation in the performance of the entire system. A first storage apparatus stores...
US-7,472,240 Storage system with plural control device affiliations
The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes and a control device coupling unit. Each of the storage nodes includes at least one storage device...
US-7,472,239 Storage system and data management method
Provided are a storage system and data management method capable of improving the usage efficiency of a storage extent. With this storage system, a first storage...
US-7,472,238 Systems and methods for recovering electronic information from a storage medium
In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for retrieving certain electronic information previously stored on certain storage media after a...
US-7,472,237 Apparatus to offload and accelerate pico code processing running in a storage processor
Apparatus and method offloads processing from a networking processor operating in a storage environment. Three main functions are offloaded: semaphore...
US-7,472,236 Managing mirrored memory transactions and error recovery
In a data processing system having a memory control device including at least two mirrored memory ports, a method and computer-readable medium for processing...
US-7,472,235 Multi-interfaced memory
A multi-interfaced memory device includes an array of memory cells having a first interface and a second interface. The first interface and the second interface...
US-7,472,234 Method and system for reducing latency
Embodiments generally relate to a method of reducing latency and cost. A device access request is received in a memory of non-local node over a NUMA interconnect...
US-7,472,233 Memory allocator for a multiprocessor computer system
Methods for dynamically allocating memory in a multiprocessor computer system such as a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) machine having distributed shared...
US-7,472,232 Method and related apparatus for internal data accessing of computer system
Method and related apparatus for internal data accessing of a computer system. In a computer system, a peripheral can issue accessing requests for system memory...
US-7,472,231 Storage area network data cache
A cache connected to the virtualization engine in the center of a storage area network. The invention caches data in a virtual cache, without requiring...
US-7,472,230 Preemptive write back controller
A preemptive write back controller is described. The present invention is well suited for a cache, main memory, or other temporarily private data storage that...
US-7,472,229 Bus controller initiated write-through mechanism
A write-through cache scheme is created. A store data command is sent to a cache line of a cache array from a processing unit. It is then determined whether the...
US-7,472,228 Read-copy update method
A method for managing requests for deferred updates to shared data elements while minimizing grace period detection overhead associated with determining whether...
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