Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

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Hewlett-packard Company

Bill Serra

Salil Pradhan

Jorge E Badillo

Antoni Drudis

Geoff M Lyon

Malena Rosa Mesarina

Steven J Simske

Cyril Brignone

Alipio Caban

Guillaume Oget

Vinay K Deolalikar

Jeffrey Alan Morgan

Geoffrey Martin Lyon

John C Schettino, Jr

Paul Charette

Allpio Caban

Antoni N Drudis

Rafael Luis Brugnini Mallo

A path-based identifier is provided. An entity identifier is generated at an entity of a supply chain and the entity identifier is based on a reliability of the entity of the supply chain at which the entity identifier is generated. In addition, an updated path-based identifier is stored based on a predetermined function, where the entity identifier is an input to the predetermined function.

Providing a path-based identifier

Differing network services can be provided to a single network agent such that a single agent can access services billed to different accounts. Different services and billed to different accounts by the network agent sending a network agent identifier to the network which identifies the agent. After an agent is identified, it sends a service qualifier that identifies a service being requested and an account to which the service should be billed or charged.

Providing different network services to a network agent

A computing node is connected to a sensor and an actuator. The computing node receives a module which is used to program the computing node to perform a function associated with the sensor and the actuator.

Programming a computing node connected to a sensor and an actuator

Aspects of the present invention describe a method of tracking an item, comprising. The items is associated with a tag and capable of responding to a query from a tag reader and tag combination. The tag reader and tag combination capable of identifying the item associated with the tag using a tag reader. In operation, a tag reader makes a request to at least one tag reader and tag combination for the identity of an item associated with a tag. The tag reader and tag combination identifies the item associated with the tag and provides the identity of the item and tag to the tag reader.

Method and system for item tracking with tags

A method and system for providing secure communications between a first and second peer device is disclosed. The invention includes allowing the first and second peer devices to verify the authenticity of each other only while each peer device is within an established zone of privacy wherein the established zone of privacy is an area close (for example, almost touching) to the peer device. Because the authenticity of the other device is verified only while each peer device is within the established zone of privacy, users can visually confirm that there are no potential interlopers within the zone. As a result, the two peer devices can discover each other in a more secure fashion The method and system include creating a zone of privacy with the first peer device, allowing the first and second peer devices to verify the authenticity of each other only while the second peer device is within the zone of privacy, and allowing encrypted data to transfer between the first and second peer device once the authenticity of each peer device has been verified.

Method and system for providing secure communications between a first and a second peer device

Data from a data source is received. A location in a spreadsheet is determined for placing at least a portion of the data from the data source based on location information for the data source.

Determining a location for placing data in a spreadsheet based on a location of the data source

A method of authenticating products includes receiving a description of detectable features read from a package. The package includes two or more detectable features, and the detectable features are affixed on the package based on encoded information. Authentication information is provided based on a comparison of the received description to one or more stored package identifiers.

Authenticating products

A method of authenticating a package is described. The method includes receiving a read identifier. The read identifier includes information from multiple modes of information storage on a package. Authentication information is provided based on a comparison of the read identifier and one or more stored identifiers.

Package authentication

A cell of a spreadsheet is automatically updated and a comment is determined to have a command associated with the update. In response to detecting the command, the command is processed.

Embedded spreadsheet commands

A seal for a package includes a circuit having electrical characteristics that change under mechanical deformation and an attaching material coupled to the circuit and for attaching the circuit to the package. The seal is attached to the package and processed prior to shipping to establish an untampered state for the seal. This includes identifying a circuit on the sealed package according to a seal type associated with the seal, recording one or more characteristics associated with the circuit from the seal and storing the seal type and one or more characteristics associated with the circuit from the seal for later comparison. To detect tampering to the package, the seal type and corresponding seal and circuit for the seal is identified, the characteristics associated with a circuit from the seal are determined and compared with the previous characteristics recorded when the seal was initially applied to the package. If the comparison indicates that a mechanical deformation of the seal occurred, it is possible the seal and package were tampered with during shipment or delivery.

Seal method and system for packages

A system for providing Internet-related services to a handheld device is described. The system includes a client module embedded in the handheld device to enable the handheld device to send a Universal Resource Locator (URL) via a communication link. The URL indicates a desired web page. The system also includes a receiver that receives the URL sent from the handheld device via the communication link. A web access module is coupled to the receiver and external Internet to access and retrieve the desired web page from a remote web server via the external Internet. A render system is coupled to the web access module to render the retrieved web page to the user of the handheld device.

System for providing internet-related services in response to a handheld device that is not required to be internet-enabled

A method for printing an image in a distributed network system is described. The distributed network system includes an image provider system, a printing service provider system, and a user terminal coupled together via a network. First, a low resolution version of the image is received in the user terminal from the image provider system. The user can customize the low resolution image using typical image processing operations. The low resolution version of the image is then sent to the printing service provider system if the image is determined to be printed. Then the printing service provider system receives a high resolution version of the image from the image provider system such that the high resolution version instead of the low resolution version of the image is printed by the printing service provider system. The customization of the low resolution image is applied to the high resolution image before it is printed. A system for printing an image in a distributed network system is also described.

Printing customized high resolution images in a distributed network system

A method and system of identifying operations of one or more computer programs include generating a representation of the programs as a visual display of graphs and manipulating the visual display while the program is executed. The manipulation of the display provides a visual indication of threads of execution of the events. In one selectable implementation, the threads of execution are indicated by forming traces that link nodes of a graph, where the nodes are representative of the sequentially occurring events. The dynamic visualization at run-time may be enabled by augmenting the source code of the computer program with stubs that uniquely identify blocks and lines of source code. Each executable event within the program may be uniquely associated with a stub that forms a message to a run-time visualizer as the executable event is triggered during run-time. The dynamic visualization may be set in a speed-controllable continuous execution mode or in a step-by-step execution mode. Optionally, the user can collapse, or cause to disappear, selected portions of the graph of nodes, thereby reducing the processing overhead imposed by the system. The user may also set a breakpoint at a particular node, so that the program stops when the execution path of a thread reaches the breakpoint. A user may associate one or more nodes with the launching of an external application, thereby augmenting the functionality of an existing program or programs at run-time, without requiring recompilation of the programs. Static visualization is also enabled.

Visualization method and system for dynamically displaying operations of a program

A database system embedded in an operating system command. The system is invoked by operating system commands and uses no system resources except when performing a command. Searching is performed by binary search on a sorted file and sequential search on an unsorted file. New and changed records are appended to the unsorted file and the files are merged whenever the unsorted file becomes too long.

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Bill Serra