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Raunak Pandya

Abhishek Tiwari

Rama Krishna Amaravadi

Alok Jain

Santosh Kumar

A computing device is provided, including a storage device configured to store image data and a processor coupled to a memory that stores instructions, which, upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to select a target image from the image data. The processor is further configured to display conversion possibility information that indicates that the target image can be converted into a larger image that has a larger field of view by stitching other images together with at least a portion of the target image and an associated selector. The processor is further configured to display the larger image upon receiving a user selection of the selector.

Computing device displaying image conversion possibility information

In a computing device a domain name system (DNS) query is generated and sent, and a check is made as to whether a verified DNS response to the DNS query is received. The computing device is determined to be inside a particular network if a verified DNS response is received, and is determined to be outside that particular network if a verified DNS response is not received. A DNS response can be determined to be verified if both the DNS response has an expected value and the DNS response is digitally signed by a trusted authority, and otherwise can be determined to be not verified.

DNS-based determining whether a device is inside a network

A network address of a computing device is obtained, and an unencrypted request is sent to a resource access manager of a particular network. If both a response is received from the resource access manager and the computing device has a network address within a desired range of network addresses, then a determination is made that the computing device is inside the particular network. Otherwise, a determination is made that the computing device is outside the particular network.

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