48 US patents granted on 08 July 2008 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | D572,729 | Media player |
| 2 | D572,720 | Icon for a portion of a display screen |
| 3 | D572,712 | Portion of an adapter |
| 4 | D572,703 | Ear phones |
| 5 | 7,398,550 | Enhanced shared secret provisioning protocol |
| 6 | 7,398,546 | Network communication with client-forced authentication |
| 7 | 7,398,540 | System and method for tuning channels using a central point of control |
| 8 | 7,398,520 | Efficient construction of pruned SSA form |
| 9 | 7,398,514 | Test automation stack layering |
| 10 | 7,398,511 | System and method for providing a health model for software |
| 11 | 7,398,484 | Memory efficient array transposition via multi pass tiling |
| 12 | 7,398,480 | System and method of providing multiple installation actions |
| 13 | 7,398,478 | Controlled non-proportional scaling display |
| 14 | 7,398,475 | Noisy operating system user interface |
| 15 | 7,398,474 | Method and system for a digital device menu editor |
| 16 | 7,398,473 | In situ user interface template editing |
| 17 | 7,398,472 | Defining the visual appearance of user-interface controls |
| 18 | 7,398,462 | Common text framework |
| 19 | 7,398,433 | System and method of preventing a web browser plug-in module from generating a failure |
| 20 | 7,398,430 | System and method for self-diagnosing system crashes |
| 21 | 7,398,349 | System and methods for an overlay disk and cache using portable flash memory |
| 22 | 7,398,308 | Distributed policy model for access control |
| 23 | 7,398,304 | General dependency model for invalidating cache entries |
| 24 | 7,398,295 | Virtual lobby for data conferencing |
| 25 | 7,398,292 | System and method of enhancing web server throughput in single and multiple processor systems |
| 26 | 7,398,276 | Parallel predictive compression and access of a sequential list of executable instructions |
| 27 | 7,398,268 | Systems and methods that facilitate data mining |
| 28 | 7,398,258 | Dimensional reduction using data matching in high dimensional space |
| 29 | 7,398,250 | Method and system for restricting the usage of payment accounts |
| 30 | 7,398,211 | Method and apparatus for performing plan-based dialog |
| 31 | 7,398,210 | System and method for performing analysis on word variants |
| 32 | 7,398,203 | Linguistically intelligent text compression |
| 33 | 7,398,162 | Quantum mechanical model-based system and method for global optimization |
| 34 | 7,398,000 | Digital video segment identification |
| 35 | 7,397,952 | “Don’t care” pixel interpolation |
| 36 | 7,397,950 | Handwriting layout analysis of freeform digital ink input |
| 37 | 7,397,949 | Serial storage of ink and its properties |
| 38 | 7,397,948 | System and method for image and video segmentation by anisotropic kernel mean shift |
| 39 | 7,397,933 | Collusion resistant desynchronization for digital video fingerprinting |
| 40 | 7,397,922 | Group security |
| 41 | 7,397,801 | Method and apparatus to determine whether a network is quality of service enabled |
| 42 | 7,397,759 | Response for spurious timeout |
| 43 | 7,397,504 | Whiteboard view camera |
| 44 | 7,397,469 | Electronic module for sensing pen motion |
| 45 | 7,397,464 | Associating application states with a physical object |
| 46 | 7,397,425 | Electronically steerable sector antenna |
| 47 | 7,397,357 | Sensing and analysis of ambient contextual signals for discriminating between indoor and outdoor locations |
| 48 | 7,396,990 | Automatic music mood detection |
