METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SCANNING FOR DATA PROCESSING DEVICES

There is provided a method of scanning for a remote device, the method comprising: generating, at a data processing device, a search input; transforming, at the data processing device, the search input to provide a transformed output, wherein the transformed output is representative of the search input; transmitting, a communication comprising the transformed output from the data processing device to the remote device; receiving, at the data processing a device, a communication from the remote device based on the transformed output.