26 US patents granted on 19 August 2008 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | D575,303 | Icon for a portion of a display screen |
| 2 | D575,269 | Ear phones |
| 3 | D575,261 | Audiovisual communication device |
| 4 | 7,415,712 | Heavyweight and lightweight instrumentation |
| 5 | 7,415,711 | System and method for a transport independent gaming API for mobile devices |
| 6 | 7,415,672 | System and method for designing electronic forms |
| 7 | 7,415,666 | Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments |
| 8 | 7,415,635 | Integrated software test framework for performance testing of a software application |
| 9 | 7,415,620 | System and method for authenticating an operating system to a central processing unit, providing the CPU/OS with secure storage, and authenticating the CPU/OS to a third party |
| 10 | 7,415,608 | On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system |
| 11 | 7,415,606 | Method and apparatus for managing secure collaborative transactions |
| 12 | 7,415,529 | Media streaming of web content data |
| 13 | 7,415,524 | Postback input handling by server-side control objects |
| 14 | 7,415,481 | Method and implementation for referencing of dynamic data within spreadsheet formulas |
| 15 | 7,415,474 | Programmable calculation engine |
| 16 | 7,415,459 | Scoping queries in a search engine |
| 17 | 7,415,454 | Allocation performance by query optimization |
| 18 | 7,415,448 | Adaptive engine for processing geographic data |
| 19 | 7,415,152 | Method and system for constructing a 3D representation of a face from a 2D representation |
| 20 | 7,415,117 | System and method for beamforming using a microphone array |
| 21 | 7,414,638 | Application sharing user interface improvements |
| 22 | 7,414,629 | Automatic scenery object generation |
| 23 | 7,414,628 | Methods and systems for rendering computer graphics |
| 24 | 7,414,625 | Generation of glow effect |
| 25 | 7,414,623 | Adaptive sampling for procedural graphics |
| 26 | 7,414,615 | System and method for inputting characters using a directional pad |
