Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Asustek Computer Inc.

Other

Pegatron Corporation

Academia Sinica

Chin-Yu Wang

Chung-Hsuan Chen

Jen-Chun Hsu

Ming-Chang Hung

Sheng-Lung Liao

Hsien-Shan Wang

Yao-Hui Wu

Bai-Ling Lin

Bing-Hao Cheng

Kuang-che Teng

In examples, an electronic device comprises a first speaker port, a second speaker port, and storage comprising a first port attribute corresponding to the first speaker port and a second port attribute corresponding to the second speaker port. The storage comprises executable code. The electronic device comprises a processor coupled to the first and second speaker ports and the storage. The processor, upon executing the executable code, is to collect ambient noise data using a first speaker corresponding to the first speaker port in response to the first port attribute indicating that the first speaker is to be used as a microphone and the second port attribute indicating that a second speaker corresponding to the second speaker port is to be used as a speaker. The processor is to modify an audio output signal using the ambient noise data collected using the first speaker. The processor is to provide the modified audio output signal to the second speaker port.

Modification of audio signals based on ambient noise collected by speakers

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing device is described. The computing device includes a printed circuit assembly and a basic input/output system (BIOS) coupled to the printed circuit assembly. The BIOS includes a subsystem identifier (SSID). The computing device also includes a non-volatile memory device which includes an override flag to indicate whether an override of the SSID is enabled and a protected variable value to, when enabled, override the SSID in the BIOS.

Overriding sub-system identifiers with protected variable values

A method includes executing an initialization routine upon startup of a processor. The method includes executing a benchmark program during the initialization routine after the startup. The method further includes comparing an amount of time for execution of the benchmark program to a reference time to determine if the processor has slowed due to thermal degradation of heat removal components for the processor.

Processor monitoring of thermal degradation

In one example, a method for inhibiting input at a remotely-booted computer. A wake-on-LAN signal is received at the computer from a network while the computer is in a low-power state. A boot function of the computer sets an indicator indicative of a wake-on-LAN condition, the indicator accessible by an operating system of the computer. The operating system is loaded, including a filter driver for an input device of the computer. The filter driver is to intercept input from the device to a function driver for the device. When the indicator is set, input received from the input device is disregarded.

Disregarding input in wake-on-LAN boot

Disclosed herein is an aptamer targeting a MHC-presented peptide and its uses thereof. The MHC-presented peptide is expressed in various cancer cells; therefor, the aptamer of the disclosure is useful as a bio-tool to label and/or treat peptide-presenting cancer cells. Also disclosed herein is a pharmaceutical composition containing the aptamer.

Aptamer targeting MAGE-A3 peptide and uses thereof

Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to selectively connecting an interconnect bus to an expansion slot. A first chip is connected to a first interconnect bus. A second chip is connected to a second interconnect bus. A switch selectively connects the first interconnect bus to one of a plurality of expansion slots.

Connecting expansion slots

Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to enabling or disabling a port by writing to a reset write-once register. A boot process for a device is initiated. The reset write-once register is set, during the boot process, to disable or enable the port.

Disabling communication ports

A method for protecting data, adapted for a computer system, is provided. The computer system includes a storage device. The method includes: when the computer system executes a power-off procedure, inspecting whether a preset external storage device is connected to the computer system; if it is determined that the preset external storage device is connected to the computer system, when the computer system executes the power-off procedure, backing up data of a predetermined segment of the storage device to the preset external storage device, and generating a back-up data, and then writing a specific data template to the predetermined segment for covering original data of the predetermined segment.

Method for protecting data and method for managing access authority

A data protection method for an electronic device having a storage medium is provided, wherein the storage medium includes a plurality of partitions and a partition table. In the data protection method, a partition entry point and a partition data corresponding to the specific partition are captured and sent to an external storage device when the electronic device enters a shutdown process. Then, the partition entry point is deleted from the partition table and the partition data is removed from the storage medium. When the electronic device is turned on, a user has to provide the corresponding external storage device to restore the partition entry point and the partition data back to the storage medium. Thereby, personal data stored in the storage medium is protected and accordingly data security is ensured.

Data protection method

A quick image capture system for a notebook computer able to capture the images while the notebook computer does not launch an operation system is described. The quick image capture system includes a hot key, a read-only memory, a central processing unit, a chip set, a random-access memory, a video module and a camera module. The read-only memory stores a driving software. When the hot key is triggered, the central processing unit reads the driving software from the read-only memory and executes the driving software so as to enable the video module, display and the camera module by the chip set.

Quick image capture system

A method and system for initiating a display chip in a computer system is provided, and the initiating system includes a non-volatile memory, an external storage media and a memory unit. A BIOS which is able to initiate the external storage media is stored in the non-volatile memory. First, a backup file is loaded into the memory unit from the initiated external storage media. Then, an initiating program is fetched from the backup file. Finally, the initiating program is executed to initiate a display chip of a computer system.

Method for initiating a display chip

A method and system for maintaining a System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) in a computer system is provided. According to the proposed method and system, the BIOS of the computer system is updated first. The reserved SMBIOS information pre-stored in a memory unit is then stored into the BIOS of the computer system after the BIOS is updated. While the computer system is restarted, the reserved SMBIOS information can be written back into the rebuilt SMBIOS block.

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Chin-Yu Wang