Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Intuit, Inc.

Prashant Asthana

Rajesh Bhatia

Amrendra Kumar

Bharani Nunna

Muniyaraj Samayavel

Sriganesh Madhvanath

Kumaravel Ganesan

Lenin Fernandes

Sabrina Kwan

Sekhar Muni Sirigiri

Bipul Kumar

Amrenda Kumar

Jeniki Pradeep Kumar

Somnath Bhattacharya

Vipul Garg

Adarsh Thimmappa

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for entering user credentials through a proxy. One example method generally includes receiving, at a user device, a push request for user data from a cloud server and receiving a request file from an aggregation system. The method further includes injecting user credentials stored on the user device into the request file, wherein when injected the user credentials replace at least one dummy entry of the request file, and transmitting the request file to a data source associated with the request file. The method further includes receiving user data from the data source and transmitting the user data to the aggregation system.

Data aggregation using proxy entry of credentials

A method that involves establishing a network connection with a plurality of servers executing at least one web application; executing, via the network connection, a set of computer executable scraping instructions on the at least one web application to obtain a set of scraped data; receiving a plurality of electronic messages transmitted via a network; generating a first set of records from the set of scraped data; generating a second set of records from the plurality of electronic messages; validating the set of computer executable scraping instructions by locating a record in the second set of records that identifies a transaction missing in the first set of records to obtain a validation result; and generating, based on the validation result, an alert to update the set of computer executable scraping instructions.

Server validation of website scraped data

A first device broadcasts an intent to share data with a second device, using a first communications protocol, The first device connects to a cloud server using a second communications protocol, and shares the data with the second device on the cloud server when the second device is connected to the cloud server.

Cloud-based data sharing

In one example of the disclosure, establishment data for a plurality of hotspots is accessed, with each hotspot being linked to a hotspot payoff. Presence data indicative of a mobile device detecting a target hotspot is received via a network. An alternatives list for the target hotspot is determined based on an identification of the target hotspot and the establishment data. The hotspot payoff is caused to be sent to the mobile device for display, the payoff including the alternatives list.

Media hotspot payoffs with alternatives lists

Examples disclosed herein relate to capturing a first machine-readable link via art image capture device, retrieving a first content element associated with the first machine-readable Sink, determining whether the first content element is related to a second content element associated with a second machine-readable link, and in response to determining that the first content element is related to the second content element associated with a second machine-readable link, retrieving the second content element.

Link association

Approaches for processing a machine-readable link are described. The machine-readable link is readable by a computing system to obtain access to digital content using a communication network.

Processing a machine-readable link

Approaches and devices for processing a machine-readable link in the event of a failed scan are described. In one example, the processing may alter an image attribute corresponding to each image within the set of images, process the set of images with the altered image attribute to ascertain presence of the machine-readable link; and obtain an operational indication, wherein the operational indication is to aid a user of a computing system for subsequently scanning another machine-readable link.

Processing machine-readable link

An example implementation includes an apparatus including a processor to divide a digital image into a grid including a first grid region and a second grid region. The processor is also to generate a first grid-based watermark using shared watermark information and a first set of grid coordinates associated with the first grid region. The processor is further to generate a second grid-based watermark using the shared watermark information and a second set of grid coordinates associated with the second grid region. The processor is further to embed the first grid-based watermark into a first region of the digital image corresponding to the first grid region and to embed the second grid-based watermark into a second region of the digital image corresponding to the second grid region. The processor is further to generate a machine-readable digital image including the embedded first grid-based watermark and the embedded second grid-based watermark.

Grid-based watermark

Examples disclosed herein relate to generating a print format version with an overlaid machine-readable link. As an example, a set of machine-readable links assigned to a user account from a remote repository is obtained. In response to a print command associated with the user account, one machine-readable link from amongst the set of the machine-readable links is selected and applied onto a portion of the digital document. Thereafter, a print format version of the digital document along with the machine-readable link is generated.

Print format version with overlaid machine-readable link

An example electronic device includes a watermark scanner to scan a watermark embedded on an initial page of a physical medium. The electronic device also includes a gesture sensor to detect a hand movement of a consumer associated with the physical medium. The electronic device further includes a controller to: determine a page number of the initial page based on the scanned watermark; determine a current page number based on the page number of the initial page; determine a page number of a subsequent page of the physical medium based on the detected hand movement and the current page number; and determine payoff information associated with the subsequent page based on the page number of the subsequent page.

Payoff information determination

Examples disclosed herein relate to providing access to digital content using a machine-readable link. As an example, an annotation comprising digital content, for a portion of a digital content, is identified in response to a print request. Based on the annotations, a machine-readable link associated with the digital content is generated. Subsequently, a printable format version of the digital document comprising the machine-readable link, and excluding the annotation is obtained wherein the machine-readable link is readable by a computing device to obtain access to the digital content over a communication network.

Digital content access using a machine-readable link

Examples disclosed herein provide methods and systems for the authentication of a print request. As an example, an email service associated with an enterprise network may receive an electronic message having a destination address indicative of a request to print data included in the message, wherein the destination address may have a domain name associated with the enterprise network. The email service may access an authentication service associated with the enterprise network to determine whether a sender address of the electronic message is a valid address to submit print jobs. Upon determining the sender address is a valid address, the email service may forward the electronic message to a cloud print service to prepare the print job comprising the data included in the message for printing.

Authentication of a print request

Examples disclosed herein relate to replacement text for textual content to be printed. Examples include a covert version of a document including textual content to be printed, the covert version including replacement text having, for each character of a plurality of first characters of the textual content, a corresponding second character having a different semantic meaning than the first character. The covert version also includes an encrypted representation of the textual content.

Replacement text for textual content to be printed

Example embodiments relate to recognizing embedded information from images. In this manner, the embodiments disclosed herein enable recognition of a first barcode from a first image and a first machine-readable watermark based on the first barcode. The first barcode may be decoded to obtain a first group identifier. The first machine-readable watermark may also be decoded. A first payload associated with the first machine-readable watermark may be accessed based on the first group identifier and a first reusable watermark identifier of the first machine-readable watermark.

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