Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett-packard Development, L.p.

James W Barmettler

Kevin G Currans

Julian Sessions

Sally Kaneshiro

Various systems, methods, network pages, and programs embodied in a computer readable medium for automated content download and installation of an appropriate application on a client. In one embodiment, an installation system is provided that comprises a server coupled to a network and a network page maintained in the server and accessible by a client coupled to the network. The network page includes a link to a media element and a media actuator. The media actuator includes a link that provides for an execution of an installation plug-in to the client, the installation plug-in being adapted to perform an automated installation of an application in the client, the application being employed to render the media content.

Automated installation of an application

The present invention provides a method and system for selectively printing a desired portion of a web page. In one embodiment of the method, the steps typically include passing a named tag element for the desired portion into the desired portion of the web page, querying the named tag element for an inner Hyper-Text Markup Language block for the desired portion, opening a browser window, creating a stream of text for the desired portion and sending the stream of text to the browser, and activating printing, by the browser, of the stream of text. By sending the stream of text to a separate browser window for printing using, for example, JavaScript&#xae; or another suitable scripting language, installation of plug-ins, executables or ActiveX&#xae; controls is avoided, increasing the efficiency of the printing process.

Printing a well-defined subset of an HTML page

A voting ballot is provided that comprises a number of selection areas positioned thereon. The voting ballot also includes a ballot specification embodied in a two dimensional bar code and a number of coordinates included in the ballot specification. Each of the coordinates indicates a position of one of the selection areas on the voting ballot relative to a predefined point on the voting ballot. Also, the voting ballot includes at least one contest identified in the ballot specification, wherein at least one of the selection areas is associated with the at least one contest. In addition, the present invention provides for a voting machine and method for tabulating and storing votes cast on the voting ballot as well as a system and method for creating the voting ballot.

Voting ballot, voting machine, and associated methods

An alpha channel layer is generated by an opacity value that is assigned to each pixel of the image layer. The opacity value is represented by N bits/pixel and is generated by the expression j/(2 &minus;1) where j is a value that represents the binary value of the N bits. When the image is to be rendered on the new background, the background layer is combined with the image and alpha channel layers to generate the updated, final RGB values for each pixel. These updated RGB components are expressed as R &equals;R(p)*O&plus;R(p )*(1&minus;O), G &equals;G(p)*O&plus;G(p )*(1&minus;O), and B &equals;B(p)*O&plus;B(p )*(1&minus;O) where O is the opacity value of image pixel p and p is the background pixel associated with the image pixel p.

Dynamically anti-aliased graphics

A document, system, and method are provided for data storage and acquisition. In one embodiment, the document comprises an amount of data embodied in a bar code located on the document, where a number of data files are included in the data. Also, a selector is located on the document, the selector being positioned relative to a predefined point on the document. A selector specification is included in the data, the selector specification referencing the position of the selector relative to the predefined point on the document. An association in the data drawn between the selector specification and at least one of the data files.

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Corvallis, OR, United States of America

James W Barmettler