Marvell International Limited

Philip McDonnell

DeVerl Stokes

Burt Poppenga

Lyman Leonard Hall

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with determining the availability of a first device in a wireless network to provide a service to a second device within the wireless network are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes periodically transmitting a discovery packet, in accordance with a broadcast communication protocol, within a network. The discovery packet comprises a request to reply with a corresponding name of the responding device. The corresponding name of each responding device is received and stored in memory. When a request to identify devices in the network is received, a confirmation packet comprising a request to confirm availability is respectively transmitted, in accordance with a point-to-point protocol, to devices having a corresponding name stored in the memory. A response confirming availability is received from responding devices. Only the names of the responding devices that confirmed availability are provided in response to the request.

Method and apparatus for determining the availability of a first device in a wireless network to provide a service to a second device within the wireless network

Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising receiving an input from a touch input device. The input corresponds to a gesture produced by a user swiping a pattern on a surface of the touch input device. The method further comprises decomposing the gesture into segments, using a look-up table to determine alphanumeric elements that correspond to each of the segments, and assembling the alphanumeric elements into an encryption password.

Encryption based on touch gesture

Methods of determining a script to facilitate servicing a print request from a source device (e.g., a wireless mobile device) on a printer by a printing appliance are described. A printing appliance maintains a list of textual scripts that are mapped to a plurality of printers by a mapping relationship. For a given printer and requesting source device, if an appropriate script cannot be determined, the printing appliance will contact a server to resolve if a script on the printing appliance is an appropriate script, or whether the server should obtain and provide an appropriate script. A mapping relationship on the printing appliance is updated when an appropriate script is identified or provided by the server.

Method and apparatus for dynamically adapting a printing appliance to a printer

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with encoding and processing page description language (PDL) documents using a light-weight data interchange format are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a communication logic configured to receive a request for a page description language (PDL) document. The PDL document is encoded in accordance with a lightweight data interchange format that includes (i) content of the page, and (ii) an arrangement of the content within the page. The apparatus includes a processing logic configured to retrieve the PDL document from a data store and to interpret the PDL document to generate a rasterized document that defines a layout of the page to be printed. The layout of the page as defined by the rasterized document is consistent with the arrangement of the content within the page as specified by the PDL document encoded with the lightweight data interchange format.

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