Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Swee Huat Sng

Lena Sojian

Joseph W Yang

Sebastien A Jean

Roger Shih

Systems, devices, and methods for determining a unique identifier associated with a resource provider based on a received first pairing request from the resource provider identifying the resource provider as available to one or more resource requestors, sending the unique identifier to the resource provider, receiving a second pairing request from a resource requestor, wherein the request comprises the unique identifier associated with the resource provider, and initiating a communication channel between the resource provider and the resource requester, wherein the initiating is based on the unique identifier.

Method and system for indirectly establishing a unique communication channel between a plurality of devices

A method is provided for managing a social network of devices. The method provides a non-transitory memory, a network interface, and a social network application. Network-connected local devices create user accounts in the social network and populate a user profile listing device characteristics. Some examples of device characteristics include model and serial number. A central server is then able to access the user profiles in the social network, and cross-reference user profiles to a first device characteristic. The central server sends queries via the social network to selected local devices matching the first device characteristic and receives responses to the queries via the social network from the selected local devices. Further, the central server may maintain a database, stored in a central non-transitory memory, of queries and responses cross-referenced to the local devices. A system is also provided for managing devices using a social networking application.

System and method for device management using a social network

Methods, systems, and devices for determining a time-expiry algorithm based on a cached and verified security token, a disposition of the security token, and a cache table, where the disposition of the security token is based on whether the received security token is a single-use token or a multiple-use token and where the cache table is selected from two separate cache tables.

Security token caching in centralized authentication systems

Methods and devices for initiating, by a client, a set of one or more applications, wherein each initiated application is associated with an Uniform Resource Locator (URL), and wherein the initiating is based on a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request to a computer host having a server. The methods and devices further executing an application from the set of one or more applications, based on a rule set, in a processing environment limiting the functionality of the initiated application, and wherein the application is executed in the background of an operating system of the server based on the rule set.

Sandboxed daemon process invocation through HTTP

A method and system for socket API call emulation facilitates communication between an application and non-networked I/O devices. The present invention intercepts and modifies IP-aware socket API calls en route from the application to non-networked I/O devices so that such calls are received by non-networked I/O devices as IP-unaware I/O access calls. The invention allows the application to use socket API calls to communicate with all entity types and thereby relieves an application developer of the burden to write and debug/edit separate code and documentation for non-networked I/O device types with which an application is expected to communicate. Socket API call emulation is in some embodiments performed by an emulation module within a socket API operatively coupled between an application and a device driver associated with a non-networked I/O device.

Method and system for socket API call emulation

Methods and systems for comprehensive socket API loopback processing on a computing device. In an exemplary method and system, a socket API processes loopback calls without resort to a TCP/IP protocol stock or lower level systems (e.g. network drivers), reducing overhead requirements and processing burdens imposed on the TCP/IP stack and lower level systems and improving overall computing device performance.

Method and system for comprehensive socket application programming interface loopback processing

A method for a user to easily securely configure a device is provided. The method includes displaying a user interface including a plurality of symbols available for user selection, accepting user inputs including an indication of any symbols selected by the user, converting the symbols selected by the user into numeric data, and assigning the numeric data to configuration parameters for the device.

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Torrance, CA, United States of America

Swee Huat Sng