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Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

James E Lucari

Don D McCracken, Jr

Kas Kasravi

Cori B Reading

Paul T Congdon

Eric R Holton

Nicole A Reading

Oleg V Nikolsky

Stanely W Takata

Kenneth M Radford

Roy D Baird

An information security system and method that provides electric power to an authorized user and denies electric power to an unauthorized user. An administrator requests access for a user, and a site controller generates a key/receptacle tuple for the use. The key/receptacle tuple is communicated to a site power source, which broadcasts the key/receptacle information to all secure receptacles in a facility, or other infrastructure. The key is also communicated to the user. The user plugs in a device into a secure receptacle and provides the key via a secure adapter between the device and the secure receptacle. If the key is valid, the users' device is supplied with electric power; otherwise, electric power is denied to the unauthorized user's device. The usage of the secure receptacles are logged and analyzed by the site controller and reports are communicated to the administrator.

System and method for secure electric power delivery

A system and method are disclosed for virtual replication of a user's mobile device using a plurality of master and auxiliary host servers, a failover server, and connectivity to network and telephony, mobile voice and text services. According to one example embodiment, a user of a mobile device creates an account on the master host server via a mobile device application that uploads the data and settings of the mobile device to the master host server. The master host server via a master controller distributes the user data and settings among the plurality of the auxiliary host servers, where the user data and settings are combined into a mobile device image that is optionally compressed, mirrored, split, and stored in a plurality of storage facilities among the auxiliary host servers. Upon single or two-factor authentication, the user who no longer has access to their mobile device, accesses the host server via a client device's browser interface and gains access to the mobile device image via replication and hosting in an auxiliary host server optimally selected by the master host server. When the auxiliary host servers are unreachable, the user requests through a secondary channel for communication to the help facility that is a separately enabled process. The replicated mobile device images provide the user with access to the data and functionality of their original mobile device and the changes are stored in an updated mobile device image. Upon request by the user, the most recent version of the mobile device image is transferred to either the original mobile device for further use, or to a new mobile device in the event the user replaced the original.

Virtual mobile device system and method thereof

A suction-security system includes an adhesion membrane coupled to a swing arm. Rotation of the swing arm lifts a center portion of the adhesion membrane, creating suction and adhesion of the suction-security system to an anchor surface. The swing arm may have a low profile enabling use of the suction security system in an enclosure with minimal loss of available interior space. The system may include a shield protecting the adhesion membrane, and a bushing in the shield permits rotation of a portion of the shield without disturbing adhesion of the adhesion membrane to the anchor surface. The suction-security system may be used in consumer items such as purses, backpacks, briefcases, and suitcases.

Suction-security system

A &ldquo;virtual-chassis&rdquo; topology network includes three or more &ldquo;front-plane&rdquo; switches and two or more &ldquo;back-plane switches&rdquo;. Front-plane switches can be added to increase the number of ports available for connecting network segments; port count can be exchanged for bandwidth by adding more back-plane switches. The virtual-chassis topology relies on an asymmetrical trunk mode in which each front-plane switch is operating in trunk mode, while the back-plane switches are not. The number of ports per trunk equals the number of back-plane switches so that each front-plane switch is coupled to every back-plane switch (and vice versa). Each back-plane switch is only coupled to front-plane switches, while the untrunked ports of front-plane switches are available for links to network segments. In this topology, every node device (belonging to a segment connected to a front-plane port) is separated by at most three switches from any other node device (also belonging to a segment connected to a front-plane port). The topology is fault-tolerant in that, if any link between the front plane and the back plane is broken, or if an entire back-plane switch fails, the network can reroute packets to avoid the broken link or links. Without impairing performance, the topology can be expanded so that the number of ports available to network segments is almost the square of the number of ports per front-plane switch. The availability of the virtual-chassis topology allows a network user to acquire even a single switch with the confidence that it will remain useful as the network expands.

Virtual-chassis switch network topology

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Meadow Vista, CA, United States of America

James E Lucari