Google Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Dropbox, Inc.

Tarantella, Inc.

Mobilespan Inc.

Sanjeev Radhakrishnan

Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Gutnik

Abhijit Kalamkar

Scott L Byer

Marc Pawliger

Tyler Odean

Yuri Dolgov

Paolo Ferraris

Akshay Kannan

Albert Scott Bodenhamer

Robert Toscano

Amit Joshi

Jonathan C Salas

Mike Jazayeri

Nils Milton Bunger

Gueorgui Nikolov Djabarov

Edwin J Lau

Shrikant S Kelkar

Prashant Navare

Omer Shakil

Benjamin Lewis

Randall Spangler

Anurag Sharma

Sigurdur Asgeirsson

Johann Tomas Sigurdsson

Vinit Chandrakant Deshpande

Tomas Gunnarsson

Wayne Gray

Finnur Thorarinsson

Ellen Konar

Sunil Namdeo Shilimkar

Daniel M Slotwiner

Ananta Iyengar

Implementations relate to peer-to-peer discovery, connection, and data transfer providing privacy protection and increased security features.

Peer discovery, connection, and data transfer

In one example, a device, such as a remote computing device or a mobile device, includes one or more processors configured to compare current values for one or more context dimensions to data indicative of relationships between accesses to resources maintained by a remote computing device and values for the one or more context dimensions during the accesses and to determine one or more of the resources maintained by the remote computing device that have a high probability of being accessed based on the comparison and a network interface configured to cause a mobile device to obtain information indicative of the determined one or more resources based on the determination that the one or more resources have the high probability of being accessed.

Context determination for mobile devices when accessing remote resources

In one example, a mobile device includes one or more processors configured to issue a request to access a resource maintained by a remote computing device, wherein the request causes the remote computing device to: execute an application to access the resource; receive, via the network interface, information corresponding to graphical output resulting from execution of the application, wherein the graphical output corresponds to a format specific to the remote computing device; present a graphical representation of the received information in an output format optimized for the mobile device; receive an input command in an input format specific to the mobile device, wherein the input command comprises a command for interacting with the application; translate the input command to a format specific to the application executed by the remote computing device; and send the translated command to the remote computing device.

Presenting execution of a remote application in a mobile device native format

At a server, during one or more first time periods, event data is received from a first client with respect to one or more events that occur at the first client. The event data is sent by the first client under control of a first application resident on a removable storage device. At the server, during one or more second time periods, event data is received from a second client with respect to one or more events that occur at the second client. The event data is sent by the second client under control of the first application resident on the removable storage device. The first and second time periods are non-overlapping.

Recording client events using application resident on removable storage device

Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for generating a user interface from a printer description file are discussed. The system comprising an interface module, an option module, and an interface generation module. The interface module may be configured to receive a printer description file comprising a plurality of printer options for a remote printer and the option module may be configured to select a subset of the plurality of printer options for the remote printer based on a list of prioritized printer options. The interface generation module may be configured to generate rendering code based on the subset of the plurality of printer options for the remote printer, the rendering code to enable a computing device to generate a user interface for the remote printer. The rendering code may be transmitted to a computing device in response to receiving, from the computing device, a print request for the remote printer.

System and method for generating a user interface from a printer description

A print server may include an application manager configured to receive a print job from a user and associate the print job with a printer. The print server may include a presence manager configured to provide a presence code for the print job and the printer, and to receive the presence code from the user in conjunction with a physical presence of the user at the printer, and a print job router configured to release the print job for printing by the printer, based on the receipt of the presence code.

Remote printing management for cloud printing

At a client, a first application is executed to identify event information with respect to events that occur at the client, including events associated with execution of one or more other applications resident on the client. The first application communicates with a second application, also executing on the client, to transmit the event information to a communications network, wherein the second application and not the first application is in communication with the communications network. In some embodiments, the second application is a browser application. Optionally, the first application installs a browser loadable object in the browser application, and the browser loadable object registers callback information with the first application. Later, the first application uses the callback information to communicate a network request to the browser loadable object.

Browser based event information delivery mechanism using application resident on removable storage device

A print server may include an access rights manager configured to receive an access request for printer access rights. The print server may also include a customized printer identifier generator configured to generate a customized printer identifier, based on the access request, with the printer access rights associated therewith, and a print job router configured to provide printing in response to receipt of the customized printer identifier and in accordance with the printer access rights.

Customized printer identifier with embedded access rights

A print server may include an anonymous printer registration module configured to receive, at a cloud print service, a registration request from a printer over a network and return a registration response to the printer over the network. The anonymous printer registration module may include a claim code provider configured to provide a claim code included within the registration response to the printer over the network, wherein the printer is configured to provide the claim code to a user of the printer, and a printer matcher configured to receive the claim code from the user over the network and match a user account of the user within the cloud print service with the printer, in response to the receipt of the claim code from the user.

Anonymous printer registration in a cloud-based print service

The embodiments provide a print server including at least one processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions executable by the at least one processor. The instructions are configured to implement an application manager configured to receive a print request over a network from an application associated with a device, and a printer searcher configured to determine printer search criteria associated with the print request, search a plurality of available printers associated with a user account of a user of the application based on the determined printer search criteria, and determine a subset of available printers based on the search. The application manager is configured to provide, over the network, a print dialog to the user of the application in response to the print request, where the print dialog may be configured to provide a list of the subset of available printers.

Printer search and selection for a cloud-based print service

The embodiments provide a data processing system including a print dialog manager configured to provide a print dialog in response to receipt of a print request for content to be printed in accordance with at least one printing option from a user of an application associated with a device. The print dialog identifies at least one printer and provides the at least one printing option. The data processing system includes a print preview generator configured to generate a print preview providing the content displayed in accordance with the at least one printing option within the print dialog, and a user interface controller configured to receive a selection of the at least one printing option through the displayed content. The print preview generator is configured to change the displayed content of the print preview according to the selection of the at least one printing option received through the displayed content.

Print preview with cloud printing

The embodiments provide a print server including a cloud print service. The print server includes an application manager configured to receive a print request for content to be printed, over a network, from a user of an application associated with a device, and provide, over the network, a print dialog to the user. The print dialog is configured to identify at least one available printer associated with the cloud print service. The print server also includes an options translator configured to determine at least one printing option associated with the at least one available printer, and translate a native printer display format of the at least one printing option to a common protocol display format associated with the cloud print service. The options translator is configured to provide the common protocol display format for inclusion in the print dialog.

Semantic printing options

The embodiments provide a print server including an application manager configured to receive, over a network, a print request for content to be printed in accordance with at least one selected printing option from an application associated with a device, and configured to provide a print dialog, over the network, to a user of the application in response to the print request, a pseudo preview generator configured to provide a pseudo print preview for display within the print dialog while a print preview is being generated, and a print preview generator configured to access the content in response to the print request and generate the print preview providing the at least a portion of the content displayed in accordance with at least one selected printing option, and further configured to transmit the print preview, over the network, for display within the print dialog thereby replacing the pseudo print preview.

Server providing pseudo print preview and final regular preview to device

A print server may include an application manager configured to receive a print request over a network from an application executing on a device, and configured to provide, over the network, a print dialog to a user of the application, the print dialog configured to provide for a selection of at least one printer associated with a user account of the user and thereafter receive a selected printer from the selection. A format converter may be configured to receive a print job designating the selected printer, the print job including print data and print characteristics expressed in a first format, and configured to convert the print job from the first format into a printer-specific format associated with the selected printer. A print job router may be configured to route the print job over the network from the print server to a print client associated with the selected printer, for printing by the selected printer, using the printer-specific format.

Cloud-based print service

An innovative security solution which separates a client into a Protected Context, which is the real files and resources of the client, and an Isolated Context, which is a restricted execution environment which makes use of virtualized resources to execute applications and modify content in the Isolated Context, without allowing explicit access to the resources in the Protected Context. The solution further consolidates user interfaces to allow users to seamlessly work with content in both contexts, and provide a visual indication of which display windows are rendered from content executed in the Isolated Context.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Sanjeev Radhakrishnan