Amer Haider

Storing personal medical data in the cloud can be scary to users and in the case of a data breach a huge liability for companies and cloud providers. This patent covers the idea of giving patients the power to secure their data in the cloud using their own encryptions keys. The patient can decide who sees their data by granting access to temporary encryption keys. Since cloud providers or corporations do not have access to the patient's encryption keys they benefit from offering private storage… Show more

Storing personal medical data in the cloud can be scary to users and in the case of a data breach a huge liability for companies and cloud providers. This patent covers the idea of giving patients the power to secure their data in the cloud using their own encryptions keys. The patient can decide who sees their data by granting access to temporary encryption keys. Since cloud providers or corporations do not have access to the patient's encryption keys they benefit from offering private storage and sharing with additional protection against liability and PR nightmares. Show less

We created this patent so we can enable features on processors in the field. The idea was to offer chip features as a service. We could sell chips with a low number of cores. If a customer wanted more performance they could pay us more money and enable more cores in the field. We have to consider power, yeild and BOM but in general the idea could be revolutionary in terms of business model and disrupting the $50B processor market

This idea enables consultants and experts to augment their client sessions with a realtime tool that can guide the experts to think of multiple options during a discussion. Imagine you are a consultant and after asking your client 3-5 questions you need to start focusing in on a solution or diagnosis. Instead of thinking of the obvious answer, a tool gave you 2-3 additional questions that you should ask the client before going down a certain path. This idea could reduce diagnositc errors… Show more

This idea enables consultants and experts to augment their client sessions with a realtime tool that can guide the experts to think of multiple options during a discussion. Imagine you are a consultant and after asking your client 3-5 questions you need to start focusing in on a solution or diagnosis. Instead of thinking of the obvious answer, a tool gave you 2-3 additional questions that you should ask the client before going down a certain path. This idea could reduce diagnositc errors, gather knowledge and ideas from other experts around the world and in general make consultant more powerful. Show less

Abstract: In an embodiment, authenticated hardware and authenticated software are cryptographically binded using symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software ensures that original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware will only run OEM software. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software protects the OEM binary code so it will only run on the OEM hardware and cannot be replicated or altered to operate on unauthorized hardware. This… Show more

Abstract: In an embodiment, authenticated hardware and authenticated software are cryptographically binded using symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software ensures that original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware will only run OEM software. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software protects the OEM binary code so it will only run on the OEM hardware and cannot be replicated or altered to operate on unauthorized hardware. This cryptographic binding technique is referred to herein as secure software and hardware association (SSHA). Show less

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for protecting secret device keys, such as High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) device keys. Instead of storing secret device keys in the plain, a security algorithm and one or more protection keys are stored on the device. The security algorithm is applied to the secret device keys and the one or more protection keys to produce encrypted secret device keys. The encrypted secret device keys are then stored either on chip or off-chip.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling access to a protected hardware resource. A hardware component includes at least one protected hardware resource. A unique hardware ID and a unique cryptographically secure or randomly generated enable value (EV) are integrated in the hardware component at the time of manufacturing. At run-time, special software generates or receives from an external source an enable register (ER) value and a comparison is made with the stored enable… Show more

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling access to a protected hardware resource. A hardware component includes at least one protected hardware resource. A unique hardware ID and a unique cryptographically secure or randomly generated enable value (EV) are integrated in the hardware component at the time of manufacturing. At run-time, special software generates or receives from an external source an enable register (ER) value and a comparison is made with the stored enable value. If the ER value and the EV match, access to the protected hardware resource is allowed. Show less

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power. Example embodiments may stall the issue or execution of instructions by the processor, allowing software or hardware to reduce the power of an application by imposing a decrease in the performance of… Show more

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power. Example embodiments may stall the issue or execution of instructions by the processor, allowing software or hardware to reduce the power of an application by imposing a decrease in the performance of the application. Show less

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling access to a protected hardware resource. A hardware component includes at least one protected hardware resource. A unique hardware ID and a unique cryptographically secure or randomly generated enable value (EV) are integrated in the hardware component at the time of manufacturing. At run-time, special software generates or receives from an external source an enable register (ER) value and a comparison is made with the stored enable… Show more

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling access to a protected hardware resource. A hardware component includes at least one protected hardware resource. A unique hardware ID and a unique cryptographically secure or randomly generated enable value (EV) are integrated in the hardware component at the time of manufacturing. At run-time, special software generates or receives from an external source an enable register (ER) value and a comparison is made with the stored enable value. If the ER value and the EV match, access to the protected hardware resource is allowed. Show less

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for protecting secret device keys, such as High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) device keys. Instead of storing secret device keys in the plain, a security algorithm and one or more protection keys are stored on the device. The security algorithm is applied to the secret device keys and the one or more protection keys to produce encrypted secret device keys. The encrypted secret device keys are then stored either on chip or off-chip.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power. Example embodiments may stall the issue or execution of instructions by the processor, allowing software or hardware to reduce the power of an application by imposing a decrease in the performance of… Show more

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power. Example embodiments may stall the issue or execution of instructions by the processor, allowing software or hardware to reduce the power of an application by imposing a decrease in the performance of the application. Show less

Abstract: In an embodiment, authenticated hardware and authenticated software are cryptographically binded using symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software ensures that original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware will only run OEM software. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software protects the OEM binary code so it will only run on the OEM hardware and cannot be replicated or altered to operate on unauthorized hardware. This… Show more

Abstract: In an embodiment, authenticated hardware and authenticated software are cryptographically binded using symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software ensures that original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware will only run OEM software. Cryptographically binding the hardware and software protects the OEM binary code so it will only run on the OEM hardware and cannot be replicated or altered to operate on unauthorized hardware. This cryptographic binding technique is referred to herein as secure software and hardware association (SSHA). Show less