Abstract: According to some embodiments, an Ethernet link speed is determined based on a power-related configuration, and an Ethernet link is negotiated at the link speed. Embodiments may also include determination of whether a power-conserving protocol is enabled, and/or may be implemented by an Ethernet controller.

Abstract: Briefly, system and method for message-based power management which may be used, for example, in computer systems and communications networks. Embodiments of the present invention may include, for example, a device connected to a power management controller (PMC); the device and/or the PMC may send, receive, and/or process power management event (PME) messages. Embodiments of the present invention may operate using links in communicative and/or non-communicative modes. Embodiments of the present invention may include a switch, to send/receive, process, create, re-format and/or route one or more PME message on behalf of various devices, for example, a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) device.

Abstract: A distributed power management system for a bus architecture or similar communications network. The system supports multiple low power states and defines entry and exit procedures for maximizing energy savings and communication speed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for data compression of network traffic is provided. A cache is provided at each end of a communications communications link for storing control information that has been transmitted across the communications link. The caches maintain the same contents based on the same caching scheme allowing data to be compressed by transmitting an index to a cache entry storing control information instead of transmitting the control information.

Abstract: A distributed power management system for a bus architecture or similar communications network. The system supports multiple low power states and defines entry and exit procedures for maximizing energy savings and communication speed.

Abstract: A distributed power management system for a bus architecture or similar communications network. The system supports multiple low power states and defines entry and exit procedures for maximizing energy savings and communication speed.

Abstract: A distributed power management system for a bus architecture or similar communications network. The system supports multiple low power states and defines entry and exit procedures for maximizing energy savings and communication speed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system for intrusion prevention. The method according to some exemplary embodiments of the invention may include determining whether a current packet associated with a host is a malicious packet based on at least one predetermined, host-specific, inspection rule related to the host. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: The invention introduces innovative elements to life-related annuities, and similar instruments (PI's) by transforming thereof from PI's issued permanently to a specific holder and priced according to a specific insured person, into PI issued initially to anonymous holders, without specific insured persons. Such PI's are convertible by any Holder, up to expiration date, to contracts similar to those under prior art, by identifying during such time specific insured Person, Beneficiaries and possibly Holder, who are identified under prior art contracts already at the issuance of such contracts. Initial purchase of such contract involves payment of an advance payment, while the balance, which is due if and after the initial contract is transformed into final contract, depends on the particulars of the identified insured persons. Until such identification, the initial contracts may change hands from one anonymous holder to another one, until the contract is activated or expired.

Abstract: Briefly, system and method for message-based power management which may be used, for example, in computer systems and communications networks. Embodiments of the present invention may include, for example, a device connected to a power management controller (PMC); the device and/or the PMC may send, receive, and/or process power management event (PME) messages. Embodiments of the present invention may operate using links in communicative and/or non-communicative modes. Embodiments of the present invention may include a switch, to send/receive, process, create, re-format and/or route one or more PME message on behalf of various devices, for example, a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) device.

Abstract: A distributed power management system for a bus architecture or similar communications network. The system supports multiple low power states and defines entry and exit procedures for maximizing energy savings and communication speed.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, an Ethernet link speed is determined based on a power-related configuration, and an Ethernet link is negotiated at the link speed. Embodiments may also include determination of whether a power-conserving protocol is enabled, and/or may be implemented by an Ethernet controller.

Abstract: A circuit and method for reducing an internal clocking frequency of the semiconductor device upon receiving a first signal indicating that a fan element disposed on the semiconductor device is operating at an unacceptable performance level and/or a second signal indicating that the semiconductor device is operating at a temperature greater than a prescribed boundary temperature.

Abstract: A variable length string matcher uses absolute addressing of a history buffer; the longest matching string is determined by an associative content addressable memory.

Abstract: In a data packet communications network capable of transmitting a digitally coded data packet message including an error-check code from a source node to a destination node over a selected transmission link which includes at least one intermediate node operative to intentionally alter a portion of a message to form an altered message which is ultimately routed to the destination node, a method of recomputing at the intermediate node a new error-check code for the altered message with a predetermined number of computational operations, i.e. computational time, independent of the length of the message, while preserving the integrity of the initially computed error-check code of the message.

Abstract: A variable length string matcher finds the longest string in a stored sequence of data elements (e.g., in a history buffer) that matches a string in a given sequence of data elements. The matcher includes circuitry that operates iteratively to compare data elements of the strings and determine the longest matching string based on when an iteration does not result in issuance of a match signal. In another aspect, the history buffer is an associative content addressable memory (CAM), and the string matcher uses absolute addressing of the CAM to determine the longest matching string.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for allocating memory for storage of vocabularies used in adaptive data compression of a frame-multiplexed data stream of a data communications network. More specifically, a memory of a data compression encoder of the network is partitioned into a plurality of sections for the temporary storage of a corresponding plurality of data compression vocabularies. A memory section of the plurality is assigned to a current frame of the frame-multiplexed data stream based on information of the current frame for storage of a vocabulary created adaptively from the current frame.

Abstract: Information encoded by data compression (or another data encoding technique, e.g., encryption, requiring synchronization between the encoder and decoder) is transmitted over an unreliable network by checking for transmission errors after decoding. If an error is detected, the encoder is reset, using a reset protocol which may operate over an unreliable reverse channel by using a timer to generate further reset requests when the receiver does not acknowledge them in a timely fashion.