Abstract: A method for configuring a mobile device that includes retrieving encoded access information from an imaging device, decoding the encoded access information, and configuring the mobile device to communicate with the imaging device in accordance with the decoded access information. The imaging device and the mobile device may operate on different subnets of a network.

Abstract: A method for smoothing expanded bitmap data is provided for use in laser printers or computers that use two-state, two-dimensional image data created by word processors, computer-aided drafting systems, and the like. The method would typically be utilized within a laser printer at its common graphics engine, just after the input source data has been rasterized. The source bitmap data having low-resolution pels is first divided into higher resolution pels, and the appearance of its diagonal lines would otherwise have a jagged appearance if such data is not smoothed. Once the expansion factor is determined, the present method takes pel data in word-sized portions and performs (in an Outer Loop) various logical operations upon these words of data to smooth adjacent rows of the higher-resolution pels. Each pair of words of pels is evaluated through a series of logical operations in an Inner Loop, before indexing to the next group of pels in the same row and starting a new Outer Loop.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for performing error checking and syndrome generation on multibit characters of blocks of messages. The characters are processed ad seriatim and the symbols or syndromes are accumulated until all characters of a block have been processed. The check symbols are concatenated with the associated message block while the check symbols are accumulated for the next block. If there is a nonzero syndrome, the accumulated syndromes can be extracted while the syndromes for a next block are being generated.