Abstract:
Mobile devices can be wirelessly linked to an increasing number of wearable devices. Sensors included in both mobile and wearable devices possessed by a first party and a second party can detect physical, biometric, or environmental inputs. A logic circuit in each of the portable electronic devices can autonomously determine whether these inputs are indicative of a trusted contact between the first and the second parties in various social, business, and commercial settings based at least in part on local social, business, and interpersonal practices and norms. A first portable electronic device possessed by a first party and a second portable electronic device possessed by a second party may autonomously exchange public or private information based on detecting a trusted contact between the first party and the second party. Such devices may also track ongoing trusted contact between the first party and the second party in social, business, and commercial settings.
Abstract:
An apparatus, a system and a method for securing sensor data by a security engine circuitry of a system on chip (SoC). For example, the security engine may receive from a processor circuitry of the SoC an inter processor communication (IPC) request to secure sensor data, and may send to an integrated sensor hub (ISH) of the SoC an IPC request to receive sensor data. The ISH may collect sensor data from one or more internal and/or external sensors, and may send the collected sensor data to the security engine. The security engine may receive the collected sensor data from the ISH, may secure the collected sensor data, and may send secured sensor data to the processor circuitry.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for user activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the monitoring of one or more sensor values of a mobile platform device to gather sensor activity data. Once the sensor activity data is gathered, the user state may be predicted according to the gathered user activity and an updated user state model. In one embodiment, the user state model is updated according to the sensor activity data. In one embodiment, a switch occurs from the present power management policy to a new power management policy if the new user state differs from a present user state by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, at least one time-out parameter of a selected power management policy may be adjusted to comply with a predicted user state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
Technologies disclosed herein provide a method for receiving at a device from a remote server, a request for state information from a first processor of the device, obtaining the state information from one or more registers of the first processor based on a request structure indicated by a first instruction of a software program executing on the device, and generating a response structure based, at least in part, on the obtained state information. The method further includes using a cryptographic algorithm and a shared key established between the device and the remote server to generate a signature based, at least in part, on the response structure, and communicating the response structure and the signature to the remote server. In more specific embodiments, both the response structure and the request structure each include a same nonce value.
Abstract:
Technologies disclosed herein provide a method for receiving at a device from a remote server, a request for state information from a first processor of the device, obtaining the state information from one or more registers of the first processor based on a request structure indicated by a first instruction of a software program executing on the device, and generating a response structure based, at least in part, on the obtained state information. The method further includes using a cryptographic algorithm and a shared key established between the device and the remote server to generate a signature based, at least in part, on the response structure, and communicating the response structure and the signature to the remote server. In more specific embodiments, both the response structure and the request structure each include a same nonce value.
Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided that includes a first processor and a second processor, the first processor to wirelessly receive a data packet from another device, and to determine a property (or type) of the received data packet. When the property or type of the received data packet is a first property or first type then the first processor to process the data packet. On the other hand, when the property or type of the received data packet is a second property or second type then the second processor to process the data packet.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer (MPC) are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of a data synchronization wakeup event while the MPC is operating according to a sleep state. Subsequent to wakeup event, at least one system resource is disabled to provide a minimum number of system resources required to re-establish a network connection. In one embodiment, user data from a network server is synchronized on the MPC without user intervention; the mobile platform system resumes operation according to the sleep state. In one embodiment, a wakeup alarm is programmed according to a user history profile regarding received e-mails. In a further embodiment, data synchronizing involves disabling a display, and throttling the system processor to operate at a reduced frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.