| 44th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights (10-29-09/10-29-09_61) part 61 |
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| 20090271826 | Method of recommending broadcasting contents and recommending apparatus therefor - A method for recommending broadcasting contents, is performed by a multimedia contents reproducing device of a first user. The method includes the operations of logging a broadcasting contents viewing behaviour pattern of the first user and generating a first user profile; transmitting the generated first user profile to an external server by using a network; receiving a recommendation result about one or more recommended broadcasting contents from the server, wherein a preference degree correlation between the first user profile and a second user profile of at least a second user registered in an account of the first user is reflected in the recommendation result; classifying the one or more recommended broadcasting contents in the received recommendation result into broadcasting timetable categories; and displaying on a screen a recommendation result about the classified one or more recommended broadcasting contents. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271827 | TV ON/OFF TIMER FEATURE FOR DISPLAYING USER-SELECTED NON-TV TUNER CONTENT - A TV viewer may select a wake-up or “on” time at which a TV is automatically energized. The viewer may also select a content source such as a music player, a disk player, a game console, and the like from which content is automatically presented on the TV at the “on” time. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SINGLE CHIP SATELLITE SET-TOP BOX SYSTEM - A system for processing signals is disclosed and may include a single integrated circuit chip. The single integrated circuit chip (SICC) may include one or more processors coupled to a first satellite receiver demodulator and a second satellite receiver demodulator. The SICC may also include one or more video decoders coupled to the one or more processors, and one or more video and graphics display engines coupled to the one or more video decoders. The SICC may further include one or more video encoders coupled to the one or more video and graphics display engines. One or more video digital-to-analog converters and one or more RF modulators may be integrated within the SICC, and the one or more video digital-to-analog converters and the one or more RF modulators may be coupled to the one or more video encoders. The video decoder may include a standard definition MPEG-2 video decoder. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271829 | TERMINALS, SERVERS, AND METHODS THAT FIND A MEDIA SERVER TO REPLACE A SENSED BROADCAST PROGRAM/MOVIE - A wireless mobile terminal works with an identification server to automatically identify a broadcast program/movie and then identify and connect to a networked media server to receive the identified program/movie therefrom. The terminal generates data that characterizes content of a broadcast program/movie that is send by the terminal and is playing external thereto. The terminal transmits a message that includes the characterization data and a request for identification of a media server from which the broadcast program/movie can be received. The identification server identifies the broadcast program/movie, and identifies a user viewed location within the identified program/movie that corresponds to what was sensed by the terminal. The identification server identifies an Internet address of a media server from which the terminal can receive transmission of the identified program/movie. The identification server transmits a message to the terminal that identifies the identified program/movie, the user viewed location therein, and the Internet address of the media server. The terminal responds to the message by establishing a communication connection to the identified media server and requesting transmission therefrom of the identified program/movie starting from a location corresponding to the user viewed location. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271830 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CONFIGURE BROADBAND-ENABLED ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus to configure broadband-enabled entertainment systems are disclosed. An example method comprises presenting a first user interface to enable a user to configure a communication service between a residential gateway and a service provider, detecting a set-top box communicatively coupled to the residential gateway, directing the set-top box to present a second user interface, the second user interface to accept a security key to enable communication between the residential gateway and the set-top box, and presenting a third user interface to provide the security key to the user and to instruct the user to utilize the second user interface to provide the security key to the set-top box. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271831 | Mobile Instructional Videos - The personal mobile trainer of the present invention provides a system and method for delivering a training video to an electronic device, including a cellular phone, personal digital assistant, micro PC, laptop computer, or desktop computer. The system and method facilitates convenient access to a broad range of training videos covering a multitude of applications and technologies. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271832 | Video On Demand Transmission/Reception Method and System Using Divided Transport System - Provided are a video on demand (VOD) transmission/reception method and system using a divided transport stream (TS). The VOD transmission method includes setting a division coefficient for dividing a TS; dividing the TS into a unicast segment and multicast segments according to the division coefficient; and transmitting the unicast segment by using a unicast method and transmitting the multicast segments by using a multicast method. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271833 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH SUBSCRIPTION QUALITY OF SERVICE IN A VIDEO SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling access to a video system based on bandwidth consumption include processing that begins as the server monitors bandwidth utilization of connections within the video system. The processing continues when the server receives a request to access a video program via the connection from a client device of the video system. The processing then continues as the server determines whether determine whether the client device has subscribed to receive the video program at the first quality level. When the client device has not subscribed to receive the video program at the first quality level, the video quality of the video program is converted from the first quality level to a video quality subscribed to by the client device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271834 | Advanced Set Top Terminal Having a Video Call Feature - A set top terminal equipped with a camera and microphone includes the capability to send and receive video calls through a cable television delivery system or other communications networks. In response to detection of the occurrence of a video call event or triggering event, a video program is automatically paused. In response to an incoming video phone call, message, web page, or other video communications information, the system pauses the video program and displays an indication of the occurrence of the communications event. The system also buffers the video program while paused, permitting a user to replay missed portions of it. Alternatively, the system waits for a triggering event, which includes the user's access to the communications event, in order to pause the video program. The set top terminal also includes features for caller identification of video calls and dual display of video programs and video calls, such as picture in picture. A hardware upgrade for adding video call functionality to a set top terminal is also disclosed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271835 | Set top box system parameter retrieval - A method, system and computer readable medium box is disclosed for determining a networked device connection status of an IP set top. A signal strength parameter request is generated associated with the networked device's operation. This request is transmitted to a specific point in a network system where it is received at specific hardware and/or software point. Then a reply or signal strength parameter is generated in response to the signal strength parameter request. This reply or signal strength parameter is transmitted across the network system from the specific hardware and/or software point back to the networked device. There it is loaded into a signal strength parameter variable and displayed to the user. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271836 | TESTING CATV NETWORKS WITH DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNALS - Use of direct sequence spread spectrum test signals injected at the same time and frequency of active network services to perform non-interfering measurements in the forward and reverse path of a CATV plant. Ideally, a plurality of transmitters, each transmitting a test signal with a unique spreading code, whereby multiple overlapping test signals are received simultaneously at the receiver (CDMA). | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271837 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST CONTENTS IN INTERNET BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing content in a broadcast system is provided. Upon receipt of a request for synchronization from a mobile terminal, a set-top box creates a recommended content list based on user information received from the mobile terminal and delivers the recommended content list to the mobile terminal. The set-top box receives from the mobile terminal a content list, selected from the recommended content list and included in a Personal Information Management System (PIMS) updated using the recommended content list. The set-top box determines whether a user of the mobile terminal intends to view content from the received content list at a start time of the content. Upon receipt of view acceptance information from the mobile terminal, the set-top box sends a request for the content to a service provider at the start time, receives the requested content from the service provider, and provides the received content to the mobile terminal. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271838 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SCENE DATA IN A UNIDIRECTIONAL DATA BROADCAST SYSTEM - A plurality of scene data describing at least one scene are transmitted by a data carousel from a transmitter to at least one receiver of a unidirectional broadcast system. The data carousel is used to transmit an index file to the receiver, a temporal arrangement of the scene data file being encoded in terms of data systems in the index file, to graphically represent and/or decode the scene. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271839 | Document Security System - A document security system is disclosed. In the document security system, when a user is permitted to use a device and to use a document, a process for the document requested by a user is executed by the device. Further, after executing the process, a follow-up obligation is executed corresponding to the type of the document obtained from image data of the document. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271840 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING INTER-ZONE COMMUNICATION - A method for executing a target program that includes opening, in response to a request, a door between the source container and the global container, where the source container is controlled by the global container and the request specifies a target program. The method further includes sending the request to an access module located in the global container using the door, verifying that the request can be executed in a target container using a policy definition, where the target program is in the target container and the target container is controlled by the global container, logging in to the target container after the request has been verified, initiating a gateway within the target container in response to the login, setting an execution context of the gateway based on the policy definition, and executing the target program by the gateway, using the execution context, to generate a response to the request. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271841 | METHODS, HARDWARE PRODUCTS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING ZERO-TRUST POLICY IN STORAGE REPORTS - A zero-trust policy is implemented in storage reports to provide a preventative measure against potential attack vectors. Introspection of a guest memory having a guest memory layout is performed. An operating system (OS) memory map is accepted. The guest memory layout is compared with the OS memory map. When the guest memory layout matches the OS memory map, the OS memory map is used to obtain one or more interested memory segments, and data processing is performed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271842 | COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY SYSTEM - A method of establishing secure communications between a first computer, eg a client computer ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271843 | INFORMATION FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM - In an information control flow system, when a process reads a file with a second attribute after being through for reading of a file with a first attribute, when the second attribute is higher in level than the first attribute, a user is allowed to select first control with which the file with the second attribute is not made open, second control with which the file with the second attribute is made open after the file with the first attribute is closed, or third control with which the file with the second attribute is made open after the file with the first attribute is opened again for read-only purpose. When the user selects the first control, the first attribute is provided to a file to be written, and when the user selects the second or third control, the second attribute is provided to a file to be written. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271844 | SAFE AND EFFICIENT ACCESS CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Improved techniques for controlling access to accessible components of computing environments are disclosed. The techniques, among other things, can be used to provide Mandatory Access Control (MAC) mechanisms for mobile and embedded systems. One or more accessible components (e.g., accessible resources) which a component may attempt to access are determined so that one or more access permissions can be stored in a manner that they can be obtained if the component attempts to access the one or more accessible components, thereby allowing access to the one or more accessible components to be determined based on access permissions that are readily available. Generally, access permissions can be identified and stored in anticipation of need. Access permissions can be identified, for example, based on the likelihood of use, or all possible access permissions can be determined and stored. A safe (e.g., a trusted) access controlling (or monitoring) system (or component) can control access to resources of a computing environment. For example, a trusted access monitoring system can be provided in a secure and trusted operating environment utilizing Mandatory Access Control (MAC) capabilities of a secure operating system (e.g., SELinux Operating System). | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271845 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INITIATING SESSION - A method and device for initiating a session are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a session triggering message from a Data Synchronization or Device Management (DS/DM) server, where the message carries indication information indicating whether to report at least one of security authentication information and device information; and if the at least one of the security authentication information and the device information needs to be reported, sending a session initiation message carrying the required information to the DS/DM server. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271846 | Method and Device to Suspend the Access to a Service - The present invention concerns a device and method for suspending and renewing the authorization to a wireless station to use a service on the device. The device comprises wireless communication means, a memory and at least one service for access by at least one station also comprising wireless communication means, means for authenticating the wireless station, means for authorizing the authenticated station to access one of the at least one service. The device comprises means for suspending the authorized station to access the service; and in response to a user request on the device, renewing the access authorization to the service by the suspended station, without requiring any user interaction on the station. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271847 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer Program Products for Providing a Single Service Sign-On - An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive a request for an access token from a remote entity, wherein the request includes an indication of a requested service. The processor may be further configured to determine a request type, wherein the request type may be a user identification and password combination, a request token exchange, or an access token exchange. The processor may be additionally configured to extract one or more parameters included in the request based upon the determined request type and to perform one or more security checks based at least in part upon the one or more extracted parameters. The processor may be further configured to create an access token based at least in part upon the results of the one or more security checks and to provide the access token to the remote entity. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING DATA SHARING IN A NETWORK WITH AT LEAST ONE PHYSICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An apparatus for coordinating data sharing in a computer network with at least one physical display device is provided. The apparatus includes a code generator generating at least one unique temporary session connection code (SCC), and a storage device storing associations between each of the at least one SCC and one or more of the at least one physical display device. An interface receives requests from one or more source computers to establish communications sessions for sharing data, and a processor in response to a request establishes a communications session between the requesting source computer and at least one physical display device only in the event that at least one condition is met. The at least one condition includes that a valid SCC is received with the request. The establishing is based on the received SCC. Related methods and computer programs are disclosed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271849 | CONTENT TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND HOME SERVER - When an authentication request is made, processing for the authentication request is executed based on information about a first device even if account information set for a first storage system does not exist. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271850 | System and Method for installing Authentication Credentials On a Network Device - A method for installing authentication credentials on a network device. An intermediary computing device (e.g., client computer) downloads an application for installing the authentication credentials from a secure website. The application on the intermediary computing device requests authentication credentials from a Network Access Control (NAC) credential service. The application passes the authentication credentials received from the NAC credential service through the intermediary computing device to an endpoint (e.g., video conferencing device). The application installs the authentication credentials on the endpoint. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271851 | System and Method for Installing Authentication Credentials on a Remote Network Device - A method for installing authentication credentials on a remote network device. A remote network device without valid authentication credentials may be connected to a port of an authenticating network switch, and the authentication protocols of the port may be enabled. A Network Access Control (NAC) credential service validates the remote network device comparing a received remote device identifier against a previously stored remote device identifier. The received remote device identifier may be received from the remote network device using a network when the remote network device attempts to access a private network. The NAC credential service disables the authentication protocols of the port in response to validating the received remote device identifier. The NAC credential service installs authentication credentials on the remote network device using encrypted data, so an untrusted entity cannot view the authentication credentials. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271852 | System and Method for Distributing Enduring Credentials in an Untrusted Network Environment - A system and method for distributing enduring credentials for a secure network in an untrusted network environment is disclosed. The method includes providing temporary credentials to an untrusted user. The temporary credentials can be communicated to a computing device connected to a network switch. The network switch can relay the temporary credentials to an authentication server within the secure network. The computing device can be authenticated to verify it is authorized to be connected to the secure network. Enduring credentials can be transmitted from the secure network to the computing device in an encrypted format to enable the computing device to communicate within the secure network through the network switch without providing access to the enduring credentials to the untrusted user. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271853 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME VARIABLE FINANCIAL AUTHENTICATION - The systems and methods of the invention provide a technique for authenticating a finance related transaction. The method may include providing a token which contains a token counter, the token counter periodically advancing to generate a changing token value, the token counter being synchronized to a base counter that generates an authenticating value; transforming the token value into a token output sequence using logic; and outputting at least part of the token output sequence to an authenticating authority, the authenticating authority having access to the authenticating value. Further, the method includes the authenticating authority verifying the validity of the transaction based on the token output sequence and the authenticating value, from which the authenticating authority obtains a verification sequence using the logic, the verifying the validity including the authenticating authority comparing the token output sequence to the verification sequence to determine if there is a match between the token output sequence and the verification sequence. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271854 | System for Performing Web Authentication of a User by Proxy - A data gathering system is guided by an Internet-capable appliance associated with a user, which has a Pin Vault software instance executing from a digital memory media coupled to the appliance and a Pin Vault file stored in a data repository coupled to the appliance. The Pin Vault file comprises data for authenticating the user to one or more web sites storing information of interest to the user, and the Pin Vault software cooperates with an Internet service to provide, from the Pin Vault, data as needed by the Internet service to log onto and authenticate as the user at the one or more web sites storing information of interest to the user, to gather information on behalf of the user. The data for authentication is never kept at the Internet service. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271855 | COMPUTER BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING A USER AT A SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEM - The invention provides a method for registering a user at a server computer system. A first interface is transmitted from the server computer system to a user computer system, the first interface having a field for entering a mobile telephone number. A mobile phone number entered into the field for the mobile phone number is received from the user computer system at the server computer system. A password is generated and transmitting from the server computer system to a mobile device having a mobile phone number corresponding to the mobile phone number received from the user computer system and a second interface is transmitted from the server computer system to the user computer system, the second interface including a field for entering the password. A follow-up message is transmitted from the server computer system to the mobile device if the password is not received from the user computer system at the server computer system within a predetermined period of time. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271856 | RESTRICTED USE INFORMATION CARDS - A system and method for utilizing restricted user information cards is provided. An identity provider issues a restricted use information card responsive to a relying party's restricted use policy. The identity provider can issue security tokens associated with the restricted use information card that include a unique-id claim. A broker can act as an intermediary between a user and the relying party to protect the user's personal information but still uniquely identity the user to the relying party. The relying party, the identity provider, or the broker can be responsible for enforcing the restricted use policy. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271857 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING PACKETS USING AN APPROXIMATE PACKET CLASSIFICATION - A method and apparatus that enables approximate packet classification by using both an exact packet classification method and an inexact packet classification method are disclosed. For example, the method filters a plurality of packets using an exact packet classification method when a processing load is below or equal to a threshold, and filters the plurality of packets by dynamically switching between the exact packet classification method and an inexact packet classification method when the processing load is above the threshold. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271858 | Method For Connecting Unclassified And Classified Information Systems - A method and system that enables the connection of an unclassified information system to a classified information system while meeting all government requirements. The system utilizes a combination of COTS technologies (e.g., a Trusted Gateway System, type-2 encryption software, etc.), local administrative policies, and scriptable software applications. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271859 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESTRICTING EVENT SUBSCRIPTIONS THROUGH PROXY-BASED FILTERING - A system, method and filter are provided for restricting event subscriptions. The system includes an event server, such as a session initiation protocol (SIP) event server, capable of maintaining at least one event. Also, the system includes a network entity, such as a requester, capable of sending a subscription message, such as a SIP SUBSCRIBE message, subscribing to the event. Further, the system includes a proxy, such as an SIP proxy, associated with the event server, and in coupled between the event server and the network entity. In this regard, the proxy is capable of receiving the subscription message. The system also includes a filter capable of receiving the subscription message from the proxy. Thereafter, the filter can determine whether the network entity is an authorized subscriber. Then, if the network entity is an authorized subscriber, the proxy can forward the subscription message to the event server. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271860 | AUTHENTICATOR APPARATUS - An authenticator apparatus which makes it difficult for an unauthorized user to masquerade and enhances safety includes an authenticating information holding unit ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271861 | Data processing apparatus and access control method therefor - A data processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: peripheral devices each including a plurality of registers each storing a preset value or data; a processing unit to output access authority information indicative of a first access authority level or a second access authority level, which is an access authority level lower than the first access authority level, according to a program to be executed, and to output an access address to specify a specific register; and a peripheral device protection circuit connected to the processing unit and receiving the access authority information and the access address so as to control access of the processing unit to the peripheral devices. The peripheral device protection circuit controls whether to permit the access to the specific register specified by the access address, based on the access authority level indicated by the access authority information. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271862 | DETERMINING THE DEGREE OF RELEVANCE OF DUPLICATE ALERTS IN AN ENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM - An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution rules. Further, the entity resolution system may include an alert analysis system configured to allow analysts to review and analyze alerts, entities, and identities, as well as provide comments or assign a disposition to alerts generated by the entity resolution system. Furthermore, the entity resolution system may be configured to handle duplicate alerts, i.e., one or more identical or near-identical alerts generated using the same entities and/or identities as well as assign a relevance score to the particular entities and identities included in the alert. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271863 | Identifying unauthorized privilege escalations - Disclosed herein is a method and system of determining and/or managing potential privilege escalation attacks in a system or network comprising one or more potentially heterogeneous hosts. The step of configuration scanning optionally includes making a list of operating system specific protection mechanism on each host. Vulnerability scanning optionally includes the step of identifying the vulnerability position of each identified program. Transitive closure of all security attacks on the network and potential privilege escalations can be determined. A user interface optionally renders the potential privilege escalations as an appropriate representation. The method may include none or one or more of several pre-emptive mechanisms and reactive mechanisms. Further, the method may optionally include a mechanism for a periodic safety check on the system ensuring continued security on the network. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271864 | Containment of Rogue Systems in Wireless Network Environments - Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating containment of the effects of rogue or unauthorized access points on wireless computer network environments. Embodiments of the present invention support one to a plurality of rogue containment methodologies. A first rogue containment type involves identification of the physical connection of the rogue access point to the wired network infrastructure and, thus, allows for disabling of that physical connection to contain the rogue access point. Other rogue containment methods involve wireless techniques for containing the effect of rogue access points. As discussed below, the rogue containment functionality described herein can be applied to a wide variety of wireless network system architectures. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271865 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING FLOOD ATTACKS - Disclosed is a flood attack detection method, wherein the total number of keywords of a source packet is acquired, and the number of feature parameters corresponding to the source packet is acquired. A ratio of the number of feature parameters to the total number of keywords is compared with a preset threshold, and if the ratio is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, it is determined that a flood attack occurs. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271866 | System and Method for Protecting Against Malware Utilizing Key Loggers - A software, system and methodology for protecting against malware key logger attacks that utilize, for example, form-grabbing techniques. The application protects the browser from key logging malware attacks, and the loss of critical user confidential information often entered into internet forms for the purpose of buying items or logging into financial institutions. An embodiment of a method for blocking form-grabbing attacks includines the following steps. Upon detecting a form submission event from the browser, and immediately after allowing the data to be properly submitted, the form input fields are cleared of data. The method prevents hook-based key loggers or form-grabbing key loggers from capturing form input data, thereby protecting the user from theft of passwords or credentials. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271867 | Virtual machine to detect malicious code - One embodiment of the invention discloses a method for receiving in a virtual machine (VM) contents of a program for creating a virtual environment for interacting with a host platform in a computing device; and determining by the VM if the received contents comprise predetermined instructions for performing at least one unauthorized task. Another embodiment of the invention discloses a method for receiving a system call for a host platform in communication with a VM of a computing device; and determining by the VM if the received system call comprises at least one predetermined system call for performing at least one unauthorized task. Yet another embodiment of the invention discloses a method for receiving a virtualized memory address for a host platform in communication with a VM of a computing device; and determining by the VM if the received virtualized memory address comprises at least one predetermined unauthorized virtualized memory address. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271868 | SITE DETERMINING METHOD - A site check method is provided that enables a user to check, when the user accesses a predetermined site, whether the site is legitimate or not. The method includes a first display step in which, when the user accesses a first server managing the site from a first information terminal, the first server has the first information terminal display predetermined check information. The method further includes a second display step in which, when the user accesses a second server from a second information terminal, the second server has the second information terminal display the check information. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271869 | Process for Establishing a System Licensing Internal Code Table - A process for establishing a system licensing internal code table used in a basic input/output system is disclosed, in which the basic input/output system includes a system control module. According to the process, the system-locked pre-installation location of the system control module is determined whether it stores the identifying data. If the identifying data is stored in the system-locked pre-installation location, the identifying data is determined whether it is the pre-determined data. The system licensing internal code table is established if the identifying data is not the pre-determined data. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271870 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED ACCESS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT USING ACCESS RIGHTS FILTERS - An apparatus may include a processor configured to generate an access rights filter based upon a set of access rights settings. The processor may be further configured to generate an authorization key accepted by the generated access rights filter. The processor may be additionally configured to distribute one or more of the access rights filter and authorization key to an access rights management entity. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271871 | INTELLIGENT UPLOADED CONTENT PLACEMENT - Described herein is technology for, among other things, storing content (e.g., files) on a content storage system (e.g., online storage website). It involves various techniques for intelligently placing content in a hierarchy (e.g., folders) within the content storage system. Such intelligent placement of files facilitates easy use of the content storage system and speeds the upload process for users (e.g., via a single click). Therefore, the technology simplifies the uploading of files to an online file system. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271872 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC DATA WITH IDENTIFICATION DATA - An improved approach for managing and sending electronic data which allows one to access electronic data corresponding to a hardcopy document is provided. For example, when the hardcopy bearing a visible image is output, an identification image corresponding to identification data identifying the document is added to the visible image. The identification data can be recognized from the identification image, and used to retrieve various information in a database corresponding to the document. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271873 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A SEQUENCE OF MEDIA FILES - A server connected to a network may receive a media file and divide the media file into one or more display files according to the number of display components in the media file. The display files may be stored in a media storage library on the server. An image display sequence including an order list of one or more selected display files stored in the media storage library may be generated. The server may authenticate a display client configured for viewing a sequence of images on the server and transmit to the display client a pointer to the image in the sequence of images to present. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271874 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE LIGHTWEIGHT STREAM PROCESSING - A system and method for processing an information unit/packet (IU) in a stream processing system includes decomposing an IU into sub-information units persisted other than in the IU. An index or reference is generated in the IU for retrieving the persisted sub-information units during processing. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271875 | Upgrade Module, Application Program, Server, and Upgrade Module Distribution System - An upgrade module is configured to perform necessary upgrade of firmware to enable a function related to an operation of a device, and operates as part of an application program that uses the operation of the device. As a result, only those users that satisfy a special condition can upgrade the firmware. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271876 | IC CARD, AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - There has been no access control method combining two different authentication methods, i.e., authentication by password collation or secret key encryption and authentication by public key encryption. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271877 | METHOD TO SECURE EMBEDDED SYSTEM WITH PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BINDING, EXECUTION MONITORING AND COUNTERACTION - Systems and methods for securing an embedded system are disclosed. An embedded system comprises a hardware subsystem including physical components of the embedded system, a software subsystem including a software application and a program code, and a programmable logic subsystem programmed to monitor one or more parts of the hardware and software subsystems and interactions thereof to detect tampering of the embedded system. The programmable logic subsystem is capable of being activated by a security function in the software subsystem or by a special hardware component in the hardware subsystem. The activation of the programmable logic subsystem facilitate a coupling of the hardware, software, and the programmable logic subsystems. The program code can be used to dynamically re-program the programmable logic subsystem. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271878 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECORDING DISASSEMBLE HISTORY INFORMATION AND JUDGING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An exemplary electronic device includes a detecting component and a storage unit. The detecting component generates detecting signals when the electronic device has been disassembled. The storage unit stores disassemble history information based on detecting signals received from the detecting component. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271879 | ANALOGUES OF (-)-PICROPODOPHYLLIN, SYNTHESIS AND USES THEREOF - Compounds, compositions, methods of making, and methods of using analogues of (−)-picropodophyllin, as well as a transgenic animal model and its use for identifying anticancer agents. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271880 | BINDING MOLECULES - The present invention relates to methods for engineering VH domains to improve their solubility and stability. The invention provides for the incorporation of defined amino acid substitutions based on 3-D structural information into the V segments of a heavy chain locus, expressing the locus in a non-human mammal and selecting soluble VH domains. Further stabilising or solubilising mutations maybe introduced as a result affinity maturation during B-cell maturation in vivo. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271881 | MEGANUCLEASE VARIANTS CLEAVING A DNA TARGET SEQUENCE FROM A RAG GENE AND USES THEREOF - An I-CreI variant, wherein one of the I-CreI monomers has at least two substitutions, one in each of the two functional subdomains of the LAGLIDADG core domain situated respectively from positions 26 to 40 and 44 to 77 of I-CreI, said variant being able to cleave a DNA target sequence from a RAG gene. Use of said variant and derived products for the prevention and the treatment of a SCID syndrome associated with a mutation in a RAG gene. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271882 | Transgenic Pig with Diabetes and Method for Producing the Same - A transgenic animal having diabetes, which is more suitable as a model of human than rodents, and its preparation method are disclosed. The method for preparing the transgenic pig comprises introducing a nucleic acid into a fertilized egg, clonal egg or embryo, the nucleic acid comprising a foreign gene which contains a region encoding dimerization domain of hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α, but does not encode a normal hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α, and a promoter located upstream of the foreign gene, which promoter is capable of expressing the foreign gene in a pig cell; and developing an individual from the fertilized egg, clonal egg or embryo. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271883 | ABI1/HSSH3BP1 CONDITIONAL KNOCKOUT MOUSE - Genetically engineered conditional knock-out mice having conditional disruption of the Abi1/Hssh3bp1 gene are disclosed along with methods of making and using same. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271884 | ES Cell-Derived Mice From Diploid Host Embryo Injection - Genetically modified mice and nucleic acid constructs for making the genetically modified mice are described. A first mouse having a gene encoding an activator (such as a Cre recombinase) operably linked to a developmentally-regulated promoter (such as a Nanog promoter) is provided. A second mouse having a toxic responder gene (such as a gene encoding diphtheria toxin A) is provided, where the toxic gene is expressed only in the presence of an activator, Embryos from a mating of the first and the second mouse are provided as host embryos suitable for generating mice from donor cells introduced into the host embryos. Ablating the ICM of a mouse embryo physically, chemically, or genetically is described, as well as making F0 generation mice that are substantially or in full derived from donor cells, employing a host mouse embryo with an ablated or nonproliferating ICM. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271885 | SOYBEAN VARIETY D5142326 - The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5142326. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5142326. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5142326 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5142326 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271886 | SOYBEAN VARIETY D5896414 - The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5896414. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5896414. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5896414 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5896414 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271887 | SOYBEAN VARIETY A1007978 - The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1007978. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1007978. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1007978 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1007978 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271888 | METHODS OF PRODUCING POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE MUTANTS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF - The present invention comprises crystalline polyketide synthases, isolated non-native polyketide synthases having the structural coordinates of said crystalline polyketide synthases, and nucleic acid encoding such non-native polyketide synthases. Also disclosed are methods of producing mutant polyketide synthases, and methods of altering the activity and/or substrate specificity of putative polyketide synthases. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271889 | PRODUCTION OF POLYHYDROXYBUTYRATE IN SWITCHGRASS - Transgenic plants, plant material, and plant cells for synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates, preferably poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (also referred to a as PHB) are provided. Preferred plants that can be genetically engineered to produce PHB include plants that do not normally produce storage products such as oils and carbohydrates, and plants that have a C | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271890 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING A PLANT WITH A LASTING RESISTANCE TO A PATHOGEN - Corresponding results were obtained with A method for obtaining a plant, in particular a cultivated lettuce plant ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271891 | Pathogen Inducible Plant Thehalose-6-Phophate Phophatase Gene Promoters and Regulatory Elements - The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants roots. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271892 | LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID ACYLTRANSFERASE GENES AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to the identification and characterization of new lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferases (LPAAT) as well as to the use of these enzymes for modifying plants for efficient production of modified lipids. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271893 | Nucleic Acid Sequences and Methods of Use for the Production of Plants with Modified Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids - The present invention is directed to nucleic acid molecules and nucleic acid constructs, and other agents associated with fatty acid synthesis, particularly the ratios of saturated and unsaturated fats. Moreover, the present invention is directed to plants incorporating such agents where the plants exhibit altered ratios of saturated and unsaturated fats. In particular, the present invention is directed to plants incorporating such agents where the plants exhibit altered ratios of monounsaturated to polyunsaturated fatty acids. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271894 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING BIOMASS IN ENERGY CROPS - Methods for modulating plant biomass are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include the step of modulating in a plant cell the expression of an UPBEAT1 gene product. Also provided are improved energy crop plants, and seeds and parts thereof, which contain a heterologous nucleic acid that encodes an UPBEAT1 gene product and/orthat encodes an inhibitor of an UPBEAT1 gene product. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271895 | Plants having improved growth characteristics and method for making the same - The present invention concerns a method for improving growth characteristics of plants by increasing activity and/or expression in a plant of an SnRK2 kinase or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant an SnRK2 nucleic acid molecule or functional variant thereof. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having improved growth characteristics, which plants have modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an SnRK2 kinase. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271896 | METHOD FOR AGROBACTERIUM-MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION OF PLANTS - The invention provides methods and compositions for enhancing the efficiency of | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271897 | LETTUCE BREEDING METHOD - Methods for pollinating lettuce and producing hybrid lettuce seed are described. The methods include the steps of providing lettuce plants and releasing | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271898 | HELICHRYSUM PLANT NAMED 'PINK SAPPHIRE' | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271899 | HELICHRYSUM PLANT NAMED 'AMBER CLUSTER' | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271900 | Cynodon dactylon plant named 'LEG13A' - A new and distinct cultivar of | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271901 | AGASTACHE PLANT NAMED 'SUMMER LOVE' - A new and distinct form of | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271902 | ECHINACEA PLANT NAMED 'MISTRAL' | 10-29-2009 |
