Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-Packard Company

Hewlett-Packard Corporation

William Girard McCollom

Michael J Barber

Robert Dwight Schettler

Martin Robert Fink

Shane Douglas Meyer

Robert King Ables

Jacqueline Ann Bray

David M Haimson

Carolyn Soberalske Cotten

Silvi Kiisk Steigerwald

Fred Charles Thomas, Iii

Matthew Dennis Haines

Philip Michael Walker

Darren D Smith

Jason D Goldman

Evelyn L Williams

Daniel Thero

Gregory J Lipinski

Caroline Nan Koff

Julio Cesar Garcia

A system is provided, the system having at least one client computer and a server computer coupled to the at least one client computer via a network. The system also has a printer coupled to the server computer and shared by the at least one client computer. The printer is perceived by each client computer to be a local printer.

Methods and systems for sharing a printer

A method comprises automatically determining whether a network device is local or remote to a client access device. If the network device is local to the client access device, the method comprises using a first access protocol to access the network device. If the network device is remote to the client access device, the method comprises using a second access protocol to access the network device.

Automatic protocol switching

According to one embodiment, a system comprises a network attached storage (NAS) server not having a general-purpose user input device. The NAS server comprises local data storage and a plurality of automated media portals each operable for receiving a direct communicative coupling of a portable storage media and reading data from the received portable storage media for storage to the local data storage. According to another embodiment, a method comprises receiving a direct communicative coupling of a portable storage media to any of a plurality of different automated media portals of a NAS server, wherein the NAS server comprises local data storage and wherein the NAS server does not include a general-purpose user input device. The NAS server reads data from the received portable storage media, and the NAS server stores the data to the local data storage.

Network attached storage (NAS) server having a plurality of automated media portals

A method for generating localizable message catalogs for Java-based applications is disclosed. Message catalogs that are automatically flagged for what needs to be manually translated are generated from a given Java source code file, which can then be used for translation. ListResourceBundle data structures that are compatible with Java's internationalization model are also generated from the message catalogs that were previously generated and manually translated into desired local language(s). This provides a more efficient means of maintaining a language-specific version of Java software after if has been released.

Method for generating localizable message catalogs for Java-based applications

A system and method create and share purchasing lists in a network system. The system and method utilize a consumer user interface. The consumer user interface provides the consumer the ability to create a purchase list by receiving advertisement data on the consumer device, selecting an item desired for purchase, identifying the purchase list for the item to be saved, creating the purchase list if the purchase list identified does not exist, and saving the item to the identified purchase list. The consumer user interface further provides the consumer the ability to share a purchase list by identifying a purchase list to be shared, converting the purchase list to the appropriate format, identifying a recipient of the purchase list, and transmitting the purchase list to the recipient.

System and method for creating and sharing purchasing lists on a network

An apparatus and method provide privacy for the consumer identity and protects information concerning advertisements accessed by the consumer while still providing marketing and demographic statistics to the merchant regarding those advertisement accesses. A consumer user interface provides the consumer easy control over what advertisements the consumer is receiving and allows the consumer to easily subscribe and unsubscribe from advertisements from either particular merchants or categories of products and services. A commerce server receives the request for services from the consumer user interface program and provides the requested advertisements from specific merchants or from selected categories.

Apparatus and method for merchant-to-consumer advertisement communication system

A system and method for enforcing configuration parameters and detecting tampering of configuration files used by a software application. An enforced configuration packet (ECP) file generator generates an enforced configuration packet (ECP) file from a configuration parameter description file containing a set of configuration parameters. The ECP file includes a set of enforced configuration packets, which each include one of the configuration parameters from the ECP description file and a corresponding configuration parameter fingerprint unique to that particular configuration parameter. At startup of the software application, an ECP file reader validates the ECP file and each of the enforced configuration packets contained in the ECP file. Validation is achieved by regenerating the configuration parameter fingerprint of each configuration parameter and comparing the regenerated fingerprint to the fingerprint contained in the enforced configuration packet. If any of the fingerprints in the enforced configuration packets do not match their regenerated fingerprint, the ECP file reader indicates that the configuration parameter fingerprint is not valid. If all of the configuration parameter fingerprints match up to their regenerated fingerprints, and the ECP file itself is determined to be valid, the configuration parameters encoded in the ECP file are used by the software application to set up its configuration.

Method of securing software configuration parameters with digital

Discovery/layout software configures a general purpose computer system to act as a management station using an industry standard SNMP protocol. The discovery/layout software has a discovery mechanism and a layout mechanism which, in combination, permit the discovery/layout software to provide various submaps to a display for illustrating network topology, which includes devices and device interconnections of the network. The submaps correspond to various hierarchical views of the network. Significantly, a persistence specification mechanism is provided in the discovery/layout software for specifying a submap as either transient (generated upon demand) or persistent (exists whether demanded or not). An integrating application as well as the user can identify a submap as persistent. This feature enables better interfacing of the integrating application with the station, thereby providing more information to the user. This feature further minimizes memory requirements as well as requisite processing time due to the elimination of unnecessary submaps and the elimination of processing of topology changes relative to the unnecessary submaps.

Persistence specification system and method for producing persistent and

A context identification system is implemented in a window manager to optimize association of menu items with windows. The context identification system has an application registration mechanism, a window creation mechanism, and a menu item placement mechanism. The application registration mechanism creates menu items to be placed in windows for display. Each menu item comprises a context expression, a predefined function specification defining an action to be taken by the window manager when the menu item is prompted, and a menu string defining a display image corresponding to the menu item. The window creation mechanism defines windows for display. A context list of context identifiers is maintained by the window creation mechanism for each window. Finally, the menu item placement mechanism determines which menu items are to be placed in each window based upon an evaluation of a context expression associated with each menu item and the context list of context identifiers associated with each window.

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

William Girard McCollom