Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Corporation

Martin Robert Fink

David D Lee

Souvik Sen

William Girard McCollom

Shane Douglas Meyer

Carolyn Soberalske Cotten

Silvi Kiisk Steigerwald

Robert King Ables

Jacqueline Ann Bray

Kyu-Han Kim

Kyu Han Kim

Jeremy Gummeson

Described herein are techniques for beamforming a wireless signal to a harvesting device. In an example, a method to increase available energy to a harvesting device is performed by a WiFi transmitting device. The WiFi transmitting device determines a preferred wireless path to the harvesting device using input from a proxy device. The WiFi transmitting device then beamforms a WiFi signal to the harvesting device along the preferred wireless path.

Beamforming to a harvesting device

Examples herein disclose capturing a wifi signal from a computing device corresponding to a computing accessory and harvesting energy from the captured wifi signal. The examples power the computing accessory based on the harvested energy.

Supplying power to a computer accessory from a captured wifi signal

A system and method create and share purchasing lists in a network system. The system and method utilize a consumer user interface. The consumer user interface provides the consumer the ability to create a purchase list by receiving advertisement data on the consumer device, selecting an item desired for purchase, identifying the purchase list for the item to be saved, creating the purchase list if the purchase list identified does not exist, and saving the item to the identified purchase list. The consumer user interface further provides the consumer the ability to share a purchase list by identifying a purchase list to be shared, converting the purchase list to the appropriate format, identifying a recipient of the purchase list, and transmitting the purchase list to the recipient.

System and method for creating and sharing purchasing lists on a network

An apparatus and method provide privacy for the consumer identity and protects information concerning advertisements accessed by the consumer while still providing marketing and demographic statistics to the merchant regarding those advertisement accesses. A consumer user interface provides the consumer easy control over what advertisements the consumer is receiving and allows the consumer to easily subscribe and unsubscribe from advertisements from either particular merchants or categories of products and services. A commerce server receives the request for services from the consumer user interface program and provides the requested advertisements from specific merchants or from selected categories.

Apparatus and method for merchant-to-consumer advertisement communication system

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Martin Robert Fink