Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for securely identifying devices that can interact by wired or wireless communication protocols. An transaction object is generated which contains details of an interaction between a pair of devices. The transaction object can subsequently be transferred to other devices to provide details of the interaction, thereby enabling the identity of the sending device to be determined by the receiving device, as well as other relevant information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of sharing data between devices, comprising determining an event at each of first and second devices, determining a time of the event at each of the first and second devices based on data wirelessly received at the first and second devices, and associating the first and second devices via a communication protocol to enable data communication therebetween if a time derived from an identifier of at least one of the devices used in the association is within a predetermined window of the time of the event at the other device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of sharing data between devices, comprising determining an event at each of first and second devices, determining a time of the event at each of the first and second devices based on data wirelessly received at the first and second devices, and associating the first and second devices via a communication protocol to enable data communication therebetween if a time derived from an identifier of at least one of the devices used in the association is within a predetermined window of the time of the event at the other device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for securely identifying devices that can interact by wired or wireless communication protocols. An transaction object is generated which contains details of an interaction between a pair of devices. The transaction object can subsequently be transferred to other devices to provide details of the interaction, thereby enabling the identity of the sending device to be determined by the receiving device, as well as other relevant information.

Abstract: To reduce memory space for storing applications only one copy, of otherwise duplicate coding, may be provided in a telecommunications device. To ensure that certain telephony functions are enabled relatively quickly on start-up of the device the invention provides a method of initialising telephony functionality and then initialising other functionality in two sequential phases, where the first phase includes initialising parts of the other functionality that are relied on by the telephone functionality prior to initialising other parts that the telephony functionality does not use.

Abstract: A method for determining dynamically how data processing requests are to be handled within a computing device. On receipt of a message at a central dispatching entity, the dispatching entity retrieves information from a database specifying how the message is to be handled, and in response it issues commands to selected components within the computing device to cause a data processing operation to be performed.

Abstract: A P2P printing system and method is disclosed. The printing comprising a system computer readable storage medium, storing instructions that, when executed, cause a printing device to perform a method. The method comprising establishing communications between one or more other printing devices, each printing device capable of sharing files with the other printing devices via a P2P file sharing network.

Abstract: A P2P printing system and method is disclosed. The printing comprising a system computer readable storage medium, storing instructions that, when executed, cause a printing device to perform a method. The method comprising establishing communications between one or more other printing devices, each printing device capable of sharing files with the other printing devices via a P2P file sharing network.