Abstract: A device having a moniker to enhance privacy and power saving is described. According to one embodiment, the moniker is stored within and is associated with a first device. The moniker is provided to a second device, which sends an inquiry message, including the moniker, to the first device. The first device determines whether to respond to the inquiry message based on the moniker.

Abstract: Automatic exchange of information in an ad-hoc computing environment is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, a collection agent module facilitates a search for a first device to connect to via a wireless network. The collection agent queries for and receives a first document from the first device based on metadata associated with the first document and the collection agent automatically forwards the received first document to a second device connected to the wireless network upon receiving the first document from the first device. The collection agent also automatically sends a second document to the first device upon the first device connecting to the wireless network.

Abstract: An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to receive solicited or unsolicited computing platform service information associated with services offered by a plurality of service points in a range area, store some portion of the received information, and periodically transmit, with or without confirmation, some portion of the stored information to one or more potential subscribers.

Abstract: A system for N-space navigation of digital data sets. The system includes an electronic tag having a digitally readable identifier, an electronic tag reader configured to read the identifier of the electronic tag, and a computing system connected to the electronic tag reader to provide digital navigation services of N-space data sets in response to reading the identifier of the electronic tag. The computing system generates at least one transitional data point in N-space for output between a currently displayed start point and a target point referenced by the identifier.

Abstract: Documents may be greeked in whole or in part prior to viewing. Embodiments of the invention enable users to selectively greek and/or ungreek their documents for viewing in public locations. Various forms of greeking and/or ungreeking may be utilized to enable the user to view the document securely in whole or in part.

Abstract: Authenticating a user of an un-trusted computing system, the user having at least one portable computing device coupled to a peripheral device, may be accomplished by randomly generating a temporary password by the portable computing device, sending the temporary password to the peripheral device, rendering the temporary password by the peripheral device for perception by the user, inputting a password, by the user, into the un-trusted computing system, receiving, by the portable computing device, the password input by the user from the un-trusted computing system, and allowing access to the portable computing device using the un-trusted computing system when the temporary password matches the user-inputted password. In one embodiment, the peripheral device may be a small form factor device worn by the user. In one embodiment, the user may carry or have immediate access to multiple portable computing devices.

Abstract: Authenticating a user operating a portable computing device includes causing a sequence of images to be shown on a display, accepting an input selection from the user indicating that a currently displayed image of the sequence of images corresponds to a portion of the user's password, the user's password being known by the portable computing device, correlating the input selection to the currently displayed image, and allowing access to the portable computing device when the input selection and the currently displayed image temporally correspond to the portion of the user's password.

Abstract: A Unistrokes symbollogy in which strokes of like profile (i.e., strokes that are distinguished from each other by their rotational orientation) are rotationally offset from each other by at least 90° is provided. This provides a sufficient tolerance for disambiguating these strokes when they are written into hand-held pen computers and the like by users having widely divergent hand writing styles.

Abstract: System and method for navigating information. The system includes an information presentation device having an output portion (e.g., display device or audio device) and one or more motion sensors. The method includes the motion sensors monitoring for at least one movement of the information display device while the device dynamically presents information at its output portion. Upon the sensors detecting movement of the device, the device adjusts the manner in which the information is dynamically presented to enable operators of the device to easily navigate to an appropriate location of the information and adjust the manner in which it is dynamically presented (e.g., the rate of the dynamic presentation).

Abstract: Authenticating a user operating an un-trusted access device includes causing the display, on the un-trusted access device, of a plurality of photographs to the user, at least one of the photographs being from the user's personal photograph collection and already familiar to the user, remaining photographs being decoy photographs, accepting an input selection from the user identifying one of the displayed photographs, and allowing access when the user's selection correctly identifies a sequence of displayed photographs from the user's photograph collection. No user training prior to using the authentication system is needed and no pre-selection of a password or photograph is necessary.

Abstract: A document generating method and system is provided for autonomous selection and communication of information drawn from a varying data stream, keyed by a set of predetermined subjects corresponding to a parameter profile. An original set of predetermined subjects is selected comprised of contents which are updated over time to comprise the varying data stream. A user selects a subset of the original set to form a parameter profile. Incidental to the user generating a first document, a second document is generated comprised of data segments extracted from the subset. The first and second documents are associated and contemporaneously communicated to the user. Preferably, the subject invention is applicable to printed documents and the associating comprises identifying a white space within the first document and disposing the second document within that white space.

Abstract: A device supporting a user interface includes a feedback module for presenting information related to a data structure and a processor for controlling the feedback module and the data structure. The device also has a detector for determining handedness of a user, allowing modification of the displayed data structure based on handedness of a user.

Abstract: A display array element including a substrate, a prism rotatable relative to the substrate, and a fluid conduit defined in part by the substrate. The prism has a first viewable surface having fist reflectance characteristics and a second viewable surface having second reflectance characteristics. The fluid conduit permits direction of fluid against the prism to rotate the prism to selectively allow viewing of one of the first and second viewable surfaces.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for implementing the transmission of information to users—via peripheral, or background, auditory cues—in response to the physical action of the users in a particular environment, e.g., the workplace. The system combines three known technologies: active badges, distributed systems, and digital audio delivered via portable wireless headphones.

Abstract: A virtual interface is provided which allows a user to navigate through a representation of a physical target area, such as an office, school or home environment. Using the virtual interface, a user can alter the configuration of a system which transmits information to users via peripheral or background auditory cues in response to physical actions of the users in the environments.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for identifying which one of a plurality of first devices, within a wireless communication range of a second device, the second device is to establish substantive communications with. The method includes sensing which particular first device is within a physical range of the second device, and establishing substantive communications with the particular first device.

Abstract: A method and system for emulating an electronic apparatus is provided. The system includes a portable electronic device to emulate functionality provided by the electronic apparatus, and a separate access device. The portable electronic device includes a wireless communication module and the access device includes a display and a wireless communication interface to communicate with the wireless communication module when the portable electronic device is within wireless communication range of the access device. The display provides a display layout that simulates the physical appearance of the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: A method and device is provided for communicating with an access device. The device includes a wireless communications module to communicate with the access device in a wireless fashion, a data storage module to store bulk data, and a controller connected to the communication module and to the data storage module. The controller controls storage of data in the data storage module and retrieval of data from the data storage module in response to requests from a user via the access device. The device may function as a personal server which, for example, communicates with an access device (e.g., PC, PDA, cellular telephone, or the like) using Bluetooth technology. As Bluetooth is a universally accepted communication standard, a variety of different access devices, or any one particular preferred interface, in proximity to the user may be used to define a personal computing environment.

Abstract: A portable device is provided which includes a wireless communication module, a data storage module, and a controller for controlling the storage and/or retrieval of data from the data storage module. The wireless communication module communicates with each of a plurality of remote devices and the data storage module defines a first storage area and a second storage area. The controller controls the communication of data between the first storage area and the remote device, and the second storage area and the remote device dependent upon access rights associated with the remote device. The first storage area typically defines a public storage area with which data is exchanged in a relatively free manner, and the second storage area typically defines a private storage area with which data is exchanged in a relatively restricted manner.

Abstract: A method of operating a computing system that includes a display for rendered graphical images and an electronic tag reader configured to read an identifier of the electronic tag providing signals indicating target regions within images presented by the display. The method includes presenting a start image on the display, wherein the start image includes a first surface perceptible as viewed from a start viewpoint within a three-dimensional data space, receiving an identifier from an electronic tag indicating a target image, and presenting the target image on the display.