Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

David W Magnuson

David J Luman

Randall Edward Grohs

Johnny MacArthur Lewis

Charles K Keyes

Laura I Reardon

An apparatus for generating a data processing pathway in a hardware-ready format is provided which includes a computer-based client and an output device. The client has processing circuitry, memory, a raster formatter, and a software-based data compression apparatus configured to render a rasterized, bitmapped image into image data in a hardware-ready format. The output device communicates with the client and has hardware-ready program code and a hardware-assisted print device. The hardware-assisted print device includes a printer controller, with the printer controller including processing circuitry, memory, and a data decompressor. The hardware-ready program code is operative via the printer controller to receive the hardware-ready image data from the client and render output containing the image to the hardware-assisted print device. A method is also provided.

Printer pipeline bypass in hardware-ready format

A system including a data projector and a plurality of touch-sensitive input tablets enables multiple participants to collaborate in the creation and marking up of a projected drawing or image. A data projector receives user markup data entered on various touch-sensitive tablets and projects the markup data onto a display surface as part of a collaborative drawing or image.

Collaborative markup projection system

A virtual device is created from a network of personal wireless devices so that they can query each other regarding the availability and sharing of resources. Each wireless device has a low power, limited range transceiver that enables it to communicate with other wireless devices similarly equipped. Once the network of wireless devices is formed, each wireless device stores a decision matrix that is made up of each wireless device's identification and the available resources within that device. A wireless device can then borrow those resources when an event occurs with that device that requires a resource that cannot be handled by the device.

System and method for generating a virtual device

A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic proximal security system comprising a master device including a first transmitter for communicating at least one device code, and a code processor. The system also comprises at least one slave device including a receiver for communicating the at least one device code, a code translator, and a slave controller for limiting access to functionality of the slave device responsive to the at least one device code transmitted from the master device.

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Boise, ID, United States of America

David W Magnuson