International Business Machines Corporation

Richard J Gusefski

James Richard Coon

Garry Joseph Sullivan

Jakob Christopher Lang

Brian D Valentine

Victor M Lourenco

Franz Hardt

Chon I Lei

Roger D Krsnak

Jan Schneider

Peter Kenneth Szwed

Steven G Glassen

Marco Kraemer

John C Dayka

Michael J Jordan

Klaus Werner

Thomas B Mathias

Edward W Chencinski

Kevin C Huang

Alfonso Ramirez

Thang T Do

James E Bohner

A system and method of managing a plurality of assets by associating a smart card with a compute subsystem by installing a database on the smart card and embedding an identifier of the compute subsystem. The system and method, in turn, may receive a request to access an asset of a compute subsystem; verify that a feature of the database is enabled in response to the request, the feature corresponding to the asset; and grant the access to access the asset upon the verifying of the feature.

Asset protection based on redundantly associated trusted entitlement verification

A computer program product for integrated key serving is provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes using a smart card of two or more smart cards with a support element of two or more support elements to create an encryption key and storing the encryption key in an encrypted file that can only be decrypted by the smart card and the support element used to create the encryption key.

Integrated key server

A multiprocessor computer system has a common master storage and data/instruction caches for each processor. Separate buffer storage units for each processor read data from the processor in parallel with the caches, but write data to the master storage sequentially, as directed by a controller for the master storage.

Store buffer apparatus in a multiprocessor system

An inpage buffer is used between a cache and slower storage device. When a processor requests data, the cache is checked to see if the data is already in the cache. If not, a request for the data is sent to the slower storage device. The buffer receives the data from the slower storage device and provides the data to the processor that requested the data. The buffer then provides the data to the cache for storage provided that the cache is not working on a separate storage request from the processor. The data will be written into the cache from the buffer when the cache is free from such requests. The buffer is also able to provide data corresponding to subsequent requests provided it contains such data. This may happen if a request for the same data occurs, and the buffer has not yet written the data into the cache. It can also occur if the areas of the cache which can hold data from an area of the slower storage is inoperable for some reason. The buffer acts as a minicache when such a catastrophic error in the cache occurs.

Cache bypass apparatus

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