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Microsoft patent applications published on 02 February 2012

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31 US patent applications published on 02 February 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20120030749	DYNAMIC LOAD REDISTRIBUTION AMONG DISTRIBUTED SERVERS
2	20120030674	Non-Disruptive, Reliable Live Migration of Virtual Machines with Network Data Reception Directly into Virtual Machines’ Memory
3	20120030609	VIRTUAL KEYBOARD TEXT REPLICATION
4	20120030473	UNIQUE BLOCK HEADER PATTERNS FOR MEDIA VERIFICATION
5	20120030355	DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING INDEX SERVER RESOURCES TO PARTNER ENTITIES
6	20120030338	WEB PAGE LOAD TIME PREDICTION AND SIMULATION
7	20120030333	Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Streaming Overlay Construction and Optimization
8	20120030325	WIRELESS SYNCHRONIZATION OF MEDIA CONTENT AND SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT
9	20120030317	Capture of Content from Dynamic Resource Services
10	20120030277	PREVIEW PUBLISHING OF REPORTS
11	20120030252	MODELING RECURRING EVENTS IN A DATA STORE
12	20120030227	SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS BASED ON ACCESSIBLE AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
13	20120030206	Employing Topic Models for Semantic Class Mining
14	20120030200	TOPICS IN RELEVANCE RANKING MODEL FOR WEB SEARCH
15	20120030178	INTERFACES FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS AND LOG SHIPPING
16	20120030169	APPLICATION INSTANCE AND QUERY STORES
17	20120030167	DATA MIGRATION FOR SERVICE UPGRADES
18	20120029938	Anonymous Healthcare and Records System
19	20120029906	Language Detection Service
20	20120028806	Method For Planar Implementation Of PI/8 Gate In Chiral Topological Superconductors
21	20120028687	Alternative Inputs of a Mobile Communications Device
22	20120028615	TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION OF EVENTS BETWEEN A MOBILE DEVICE AND REMOTE CLIENT
23	20120028610	PRIVACY-ENABLED TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
24	20120027313	LINE AND PIXEL BASED METHODS FOR INTRA FRAME CODING
25	20120027250	DATA DIFFERENCE GUIDED IMAGE CAPTURING
26	20120027242	ADJUSTABLE EARPHONE AND EARPHONE SET
27	20120027011	INTELLIGENT FORMATTING OF VOIP TELEPHONE NUMBERS
28	20120026992	Energy-Efficient On-The-Fly Wi-Fi Hotspot Using Mobile Devices
29	20120026917	SERVER-CENTRIC HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR MODULAR DATA CENTERS
30	20120026178	RAW IMAGE PROCESSING
31	20120026085	IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT IN DEPTH SENSOR

Microsoft patents granted on 31 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:43:29 +0000

50 US patents granted on 31 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D653,262	Display screen with an icon
2	8,108,920	Passive client single sign-on for web applications
3	8,108,902	System and method for local machine zone lockdown with relation to a network browser
4	8,108,899	Interactive entertainment system for presenting supplemental interactive content together with continuous video programs
5	8,108,868	Workflow execution plans through completion condition critical path analysis
6	8,108,848	Automatic and transparent memoization
7	8,108,831	Iterative component binding
8	8,108,799	Remoting of windows presentation framework based applications in a non-composed desktop
9	8,108,791	Multi-screen user interface
10	8,108,787	Distributing input events to multiple applications in an interactive media environment
11	8,108,785	Supporting user multi-tasking with clipping lists
12	8,108,777	Sections of a presentation having user-definable properties
13	8,108,767	Electronic data interchange transaction set definition based instance editing
14	8,108,711	Systems and methods for hosting and testing services over a network
15	8,108,623	Poll based cache event notifications in a distributed cache
16	8,108,612	Location updates for a distributed data store
17	8,108,587	Free-space reduction in cached database pages
18	8,108,578	Hidden desktop director for an adaptive device
19	8,108,548	Methodology and system for file replication based on a peergroup
20	8,108,540	Envelope attachment for message context
21	8,108,513	Remote monitoring of local behavior of network applications
22	8,108,497	Selective enablement of runtime-based application behaviors
23	8,108,483	System and method for generating a consistent user namespace on networked devices
24	8,108,466	Automated offloading of user-defined functions to a high performance computing system
25	8,108,450	Aggregation of write traffic to a data store
26	8,108,441	Efficient creation, storage, and provision of web-viewable documents
27	8,108,430	Carousel control for metadata navigation and assignment
28	8,108,421	Query throttling during query translation
29	8,108,399	Filtering of multi attribute data via on-demand indexing
30	8,108,398	Auto-summary generator and filter
31	8,108,396	Techniques for specifying and collecting data aggregations
32	8,108,388	Significant change search alerts
33	8,108,371	Web engine search preview
34	8,108,362	Secure content descriptions
35	8,108,361	Efficient column based data encoding for large-scale data storage
36	8,108,360	Database object update order determination
37	8,108,345	Managing rich presence collections in a single request
38	8,108,343	De-duplication and completeness in multi-log based replication
39	8,108,288	Distributed reverse auction
40	8,108,248	Market design for a resource exchange system
41	8,108,221	Mixed lossless audio compression
42	8,108,205	Leveraging back-off grammars for authoring context-free grammars
43	8,107,939	Software defined radio architecture
44	8,107,758	Block based image processing
45	8,107,671	Script detection service
46	8,107,642	Spatial noise suppression for a microphone array
47	8,107,571	Parameterized filters and signaling techniques
48	8,107,531	Signaling and repeat padding for skip frames
49	8,107,469	Enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device
50	8,106,909	Common key frame caching for a remote user interface

Microsoft patent applications published on 26 January 2012

Administrator — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:01:49 +0000

21 US patent applications published on 26 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20120023595	METHOD FOR UPDATING DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH RIGHTS MANAGEMENT POLICY
2	20120023492	WORKLOAD INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
3	20120023487	MEASURING ACTUAL END USER PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY OF WEB APPLICATIONS
4	20120023456	INTERACTIVE IMAGE MATTING
5	20120023442	DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE FOR PREVIEWING LIVE CONTENT
6	20120023423	ORIENTATION FREE USER INTERFACE
7	20120023251	DYNAMIC COMPOSITION OF MEDIA
8	20120023162	Executing Business Logic Extensions on a Client Computing System
9	20120023101	SMART DEFAULTS FOR DATA VISUALIZATIONS
10	20120023093	EXTRACTION OF RICH SEARCH INFORMATION FROM INDEX SERVERS VIA AN ALTERNATIVE ASYNCHRONOUS DATA PATH
11	20120023081	CUSTOMIZING SEARCH HOME PAGES USING INTEREST INDICATORS
12	20120023026	MOBILE WALLET AND DIGITAL PAYMENT
13	20120022962	ECOMMERCE MARKETPLACE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES
14	20120022948	ADVERTISING FRAMEWORK FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
15	20120022850	Statistical machine translation processing
16	20120021838	Automatic Delivery of Digital Content to a Computing Device
17	20120021815	Motivational Deployment Mechanism For Networked Systems
18	20120020554	VARIABLE KERNEL SIZE IMAGE MATTING
19	20120020409	ESTIMATING SAMPLE-DOMAIN DISTORTION IN THE TRANSFORM DOMAIN WITH ROUNDING COMPENSATION
20	20120019789	REAR-PROJECTION DISPLAY
21	20120019513	3D LAYERING OF MAP METADATA

Microsoft patents granted on 24 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:32:23 +0000

58 US patents granted on 24 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D652,841	Display screen with in-process indicator
2	8,104,088	Trusted operating environment for malware detection
3	8,104,080	Universal schema for representing management policy
4	8,104,074	Identity providers in digital identity system
5	8,104,070	Interest aligned manual image categorization for human interactive proofs
6	8,104,043	System and method for dynamic cooperative distributed execution of computer tasks without a centralized controller
7	8,104,025	Extensible metadata
8	8,104,021	Verifiable integrity guarantees for machine code programs
9	8,104,019	Debugging in an operating system with multiple subsystems
10	8,103,967	Generating and organizing references to online content
11	8,103,905	Detecting and recovering from process failures
12	8,103,847	Storage virtual containers
13	8,103,823	Host initiated background formatting of optical medium
14	8,103,815	Lazy handling of end of interrupt messages in a virtualized environment
15	8,103,759	Message redirection within a messaging infrastructure
16	8,103,753	Distributing membership information for multi-party application layer sessions
17	8,103,725	Communication using delegates
18	8,103,720	Apparatus and computer-readable media for processing HTTP requests
19	8,103,718	Content discovery and transfer between mobile communications nodes
20	8,103,706	Nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection using overlooking roots
21	8,103,687	Selecting member sets for generating asymmetric queries
22	8,103,686	Extracting similar entities from lists/tables
23	8,103,684	Abstract pipeline component connection
24	8,103,674	E-matching for SMT solvers
25	8,103,668	Search control and authoring environment
26	8,103,667	Ranking results of multiple intent queries
27	8,103,665	Soliciting information based on a computer user’s context
28	8,103,652	Indexing explicitly-specified quick-link data for web pages
29	8,103,646	Automatic tagging of content based on a corpus of previously tagged and untagged content
30	8,103,644	Data access layer class generator
31	8,103,638	Partitioning of contended synchronization objects
32	8,103,632	Self-contained partial database backups
33	8,103,629	Bi-directional data modification with synchronization
34	8,103,608	Reference model for data-driven analytics
35	8,103,599	Calculating web page importance based on web behavior model
36	8,103,598	Compiler for probabilistic programs
37	8,103,592	First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code on behalf of first process
38	8,103,547	Logocons: AD product for brand advertisers
39	8,103,537	Decision theoretic approach to targeted solicitation by maximizing expected profit increases
40	8,103,536	Unified model for authoring and executing flow-based and constraint-based workflows
41	8,103,503	Speech recognition for determining if a user has correctly read a target sentence string
42	8,103,498	Progressive display rendering of processed text
43	8,103,495	Feature oriented protocol modeling
44	8,103,445	Dynamic map rendering as a function of a user parameter
45	8,103,441	Caching navigation content for intermittently connected devices
46	8,103,247	Automated secure pairing for wireless devices
47	8,103,109	Recognizing hand poses and/or object classes
48	8,103,093	Image segmentation of foreground from background layers
49	8,103,011	Signal detection using multiple detectors
50	8,103,008	Loudness-based compensation for background noise
51	8,102,865	Group based allocation of network bandwidth
52	8,102,841	Auxiliary peripheral for alerting a computer of an incoming call
53	8,102,813	Coordinating a transition of a roaming client between wireless access points using another client in physical proximity
54	8,102,798	Method and apparatus for managing scanning in wireless computing devices to reduce power consumption
55	8,102,797	Web format-based wireless communications
56	8,102,765	Correlation-based rate adaptation for communication networks
57	8,102,426	3D vision on a chip
58	8,100,756	Dynamic problem solving for games

Microsoft patent applications published on 19 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:19 +0000

19 US patent applications published on 19 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20120017263	Security Authorization Queries
2	20120017223	Interface Protocol and API for a Wireless Transceiver
3	20120017213	ULTRA-LOW COST SANDBOXING FOR APPLICATION APPLIANCES
4	20120017172	DISPLAY-AGNOSTIC USER INTERFACE FOR MOBILE DEVICES
5	20120017120	MONITORING ACTIVITY WITH RESPECT TO A DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION
6	20120016903	IDENTITY MANAGEMENT USER EXPERIENCE
7	20120016869	Collecting and Presenting Temporal-Based Action Information
8	20120016866	SCALED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
9	20120016864	HIERARCHICAL MERGING FOR OPTIMIZED INDEX
10	20120016863	ENRICHING METADATA OF CATEGORIZED DOCUMENTS FOR SEARCH
11	20120016743	USING A DIRECTED GRAPH AS AN ADVERTISING SYSTEM TAXONOMY
12	20120016673	SPEAKER RECOGNITION VIA VOICE SAMPLE BASED ON MULTIPLE NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIERS
13	20120016586	VISUAL ASSESSMENT OF LANDMARKS
14	20120016583	MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO A DESTINATION WITHOUT PROVIDING A SPECIFIC ORIGIN
15	20120014540	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO NORMALIZATION
16	20120014363	SIMULTANEOUS WIRELESS SUPPORT IN SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO
17	20120014313	OPPORTUNISTIC USE OF WIRELESS NETWORK STATIONS AS REPEATERS
18	20120013932	PRINT PLUG-IN ISOLATION
19	20120013887	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PHASE DYNAMIC CALIBRATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SENSORS IN A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SYSTEM

Microsoft patents granted on 17 January 2012

Administrator — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:34:16 +0000

45 US patents granted on 17 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	8,099,774	Dynamic updating of firewall parameters
2	8,099,764	Secure push and status communication between client and server
3	8,099,761	Protocol for device to station association
4	8,099,758	Policy based composite file system and method
5	8,099,726	Implementing strong atomicity in software transactional memory
6	8,099,721	Parsing of declarations in all branches of preprocessor conditionals
7	8,099,720	Translating declarative models
8	8,099,719	Transactional debugger for a transactional memory system and detecting conflicts
9	8,099,710	UI behaviors
10	8,099,678	Dynamic determination of actions on selected items on a report
11	8,099,664	Dynamic help user interface control with secured customization
12	8,099,599	Controlling access to data streams
13	8,099,548	Power efficient media playback on general purpose portable devices
14	8,099,505	Aggregating connection maintenance to optimize resource consumption
15	8,099,503	Methods and systems for providing secure access to a hosted service via a client application
16	8,099,500	Policy service system architecture for sessions created using STUN
17	8,099,498	Probabilistic mesh routing
18	8,099,494	Tuning and optimizing distributed systems with declarative models
19	8,099,464	Method and apparatus for providing an instant message notification
20	8,099,459	Content feedback for authors of web syndications
21	8,099,458	Workgroup application with contextual clues
22	8,099,456	Application programming interface for implementing directory service access using directory service markup language
23	8,099,452	Event stream conditioning
24	8,099,432	Efficient paging of search query results
25	8,099,429	Relational linking among resoures
26	8,099,417	Semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging
27	8,099,408	Web forum crawling using skeletal links
28	8,099,373	Object detector trained using a working set of training data
29	8,099,370	System for financial documentation conversion
30	8,099,365	Extended data collection for multi-merchant purchasing environment for downloadable products
31	8,099,324	Securely providing advertising subsidized computer usage
32	8,099,292	Multi-channel audio encoding and decoding
33	8,099,288	Text-dependent speaker verification
34	8,099,279	Interactive clustering method for identifying problems in speech applications
35	8,098,964	Raw image processing
36	8,098,885	Robust online face tracking
37	8,098,842	Enhanced beamforming for arrays of directional microphones
38	8,098,831	Visual feedback in electronic entertainment system
39	8,098,730	Generating a motion attention model
40	8,098,728	Compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams employing multi-directional spatial encoding
41	8,098,593	Multi-level interconnection network
42	8,098,584	Optimization of traffic routing for data center services
43	8,098,245	Smart navigation for 3D maps
44	8,098,158	RFID server internals design
45	8,097,355	Protecting against incorrect battery polarity

Microsoft patent applications published on 12 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:10:42 +0000

20 US patent applications published on 12 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20120011511	METHODS FOR SUPPORTING USERS WITH TASK CONTINUITY AND COMPLETION ACROSS DEVICES AND TIME
2	20120011493	BINARY CODE CHANGE VULNERABILITY PRIORITIZATION
3	20120011454	Method and system for intelligently mining data during communication streams to present context-sensitive advertisements using background substitution
4	20120011259	User Authentication Across Multiple Network Stacks
5	20120011242	GENERATING ALERTS BASED ON MANAGED AND UNMANAGED DATA
6	20120011212	Cluster-Based Friend Suggestion Aggregator
7	20120011209	INTERNET E-MAIL BRIDGE
8	20120011199	PROVIDING WEB-BASED IMAGING SERVICES WITHIN A CLIENT-BASED APPLICATION
9	20120011195	URL-FACILITATED ACCESS TO SPREADSHEET ELEMENTS
10	20120011179	FAT DIRECTORY STRUCTURE FOR USE IN TRANSACTION SAFE FILE SYSTEM
11	20120011177	TRANSACTION-SAFE FAT FILE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS
12	20120011152	Generating Programs Based on Input-Output Examples Using Converter Modules
13	20120011106	SHARED LOG-STRUCTURED MULTI-VERSION TRANSACTIONAL DATASTORE WITH METADATA TO ENABLE MELDING TREES
14	20120011084	SEMANTIC ENTITY MANIPULATION USING INPUT-OUTPUT EXAMPLES
15	20120011014	MEDIA PURCHASE TECHNIQUES
16	20120010996	RECOMMENDATIONS AND TARGETED ADVERTISING BASED UPON DIRECTIONS REQUESTS ACTIVITY AND DATA
17	20120009999	UBIQUITOUS UNIFIED PLAYER IDENTITY TRACKING SYSTEM
18	20120009896	ABOVE-LOCK CAMERA ACCESS
19	20120008535	SOFT HANDOFFS IN NETWORKS
20	20120008128	Method and system to reduce stray light reflection error in time-of-flight sensor arrays

Microsoft patents granted on 10 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:55:06 +0000

52 US patents granted on 10 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D652,053	Display screen with a green position indicator icon
2	8,095,987	Software anti-piracy protection
3	8,095,985	Protected media path and refusal response enabler
4	8,095,979	Analysis of event information to perform contextual audit
5	8,095,977	Secure PIN transmission
6	8,095,970	Dynamically associating attribute values with objects
7	8,095,969	Security assertion revocation
8	8,095,963	Securing resource stores with claims-based security
9	8,095,935	Adapting message delivery assignments with hashing and mapping techniques
10	8,095,930	System and method for priority-based selection of applications for termination
11	8,095,917	Debugger for virtual intermediate language operations
12	8,095,912	Testing a context-free language compiler
13	8,095,910	Interruptible client-side scripts
14	8,095,892	Graphical user interface for 3-dimensional view of a data collection based on an attribute of the data
15	8,095,884	Automatic alignment with subcomponents on a visual layout
16	8,095,874	Inputting data on a portable computing device
17	8,095,872	Method and system for laying out paginated content for viewing–continuation
18	8,095,866	Filtering user interface for a data summary table
19	8,095,865	Layout manager
20	8,095,771	Method and system for caching address translations from multiple address spaces in virtual machines
21	8,095,767	Arbitrary precision floating number processing
22	8,095,687	Systems and methods for managing state in a cluster of servers
23	8,095,648	Network device information collection and analysis
24	8,095,629	Managing user accounts and groups in multiple forests
25	8,095,623	Device emulation to facilitate data transfer
26	8,095,618	In-memory caching of shared customizable multi-tenant data
27	8,095,601	Inter-proximity communication within a rendezvous federation
28	8,095,600	Inter-proximity communication within a rendezvous federation
29	8,095,571	Partitioning modeling platform data
30	8,095,565	Metadata driven user interface
31	8,095,561	Extensible framework for data import and export
32	8,095,559	Fast adaptive document filtering
33	8,095,551	Annotating shared contacts with public descriptors
34	8,095,518	Translating DRM system requirements
35	8,095,513	Safe buffer
36	8,095,511	Database data recovery system and method
37	8,095,499	Query consolidation for structured reports
38	8,095,495	Exchange of syncronization data and metadata
39	8,095,478	Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page
40	8,095,470	Identifying a content provider
41	8,095,417	Key performance indicator scorecard editor
42	8,095,366	Fonts with feelings
43	8,095,119	In-call contact information display
44	8,095,118	Address book remote access and extensibility
45	8,094,939	Digital ink-based search
46	8,094,928	Stereo video for gaming
47	8,094,719	Streaming methods and systems
48	8,094,673	Cable user interface
49	8,094,168	Adding secondary content to underutilized space on a display device
50	8,094,129	Touch sensing using shadow and reflective modes
51	8,094,124	Pointing device with customization options
52	8,092,289	Techniques for use with computerized games having cards

Microsoft patent applications published on 05 January 2012

Administrator — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:46:30 +0000

20 US patent applications published on 05 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20120005722	Application Context Based Access Control
2	20120005662	INDEXABLE TYPE TRANSFORMATIONS
3	20120005608	SMART COPY/PASTE OF GRAPHICAL NODES
4	20120005565	Small Form Factor Web Browsing
5	20120005490	PREDICTIVE COMPUTING DEVICE POWER MANAGEMENT
6	20120005422	Non-Volatile Memory Cache Performance Improvement
7	20120005282	COLLABORATIVE RANKING AND FILTERING OF ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES
8	20120005261	MANAGING RECURRING APPOINTMENTS
9	20120005254	USING DISTRIBUTED QUEUES IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK
10	20120005221	EXTRACTING FACTS FROM SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES
11	20120005220	DYNAMIC ASSET MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT USING A CONTINUOUS EVENT PROCESSING PLATFORM
12	20120005219	USING COMPUTATIONAL ENGINES TO IMPROVE SEARCH RELEVANCE
13	20120005168	Logical Recovery with Unbundled Transaction Services
14	20120005148	INTEGRATING SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE SOURCES INTO A GENERAL SEARCH SERVICE
15	20120005132	PREDICTING ESCALATION EVENTS DURING INFORMATION SEARCHING AND BROWSING
16	20120005131	Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Solve Tasks With Crowd Sourcing
17	20120004925	HEALTH CARE POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION
18	20120004914	AUDIO HUMAN VERIFICATION
19	20120004802	MEDIATION OF TASKS BASED ON ASSESSMENTS OF COMPETING COGNITIVE LOADS AND NEEDS
20	20120001861	Unintentional Touch Rejection

Microsoft patents granted on 03 January 2012

Administrator — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:48:30 +0000

55 US patents granted on 03 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D651,615	Display screen with an icon
2	D651,612	Display screen with an icon comprising a position indicator with a glowing perimeter
3	D651,609	Display screen with an animated image
4	D651,608	Dual display device with animated image
5	D651,604	Electronic mouse
6	D651,589	Controller
7	8,091,142	Supplementary trust model for software licensing/commercial digital distribution policy
8	8,091,141	Parental controls for entertainment content
9	8,091,126	Failure recognition
10	8,091,124	Caching public objects with private connections
11	8,091,115	Device-side inline pattern matching and policy enforcement
12	8,091,108	Meta data enhanced television programming
13	8,091,088	Method and system for hierarchical resource management involving hard and soft resource limits
14	8,091,087	Scheduling of new job within a start time range based on calculated current load and predicted load value of the new job on media resources
15	8,091,074	Execution-centric source code view
16	8,091,072	Framework for testing API of a software application
17	8,091,070	Deep embedding of program languages
18	8,091,065	Threat analysis and modeling during a software development lifecycle of a software application
19	8,091,021	Facilitating adaptive grid-based document layout
20	8,091,020	System and method for updating a table-of-contents in a frameset
21	8,091,018	Method and system for creating and implementing dynamic graphic media
22	8,091,016	Visually manipulating instance collections
23	8,090,954	Prevention of unauthorized forwarding and authentication of signatures
24	8,090,903	Fair and dynamic disk input/output bandwidth distribution
25	8,090,885	Automatically configuring computer devices wherein customization parameters of the computer devices are adjusted based on detected removable key-pad input devices
26	8,090,880	Data consistency within a federation infrastructure
27	8,090,861	Content management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds
28	8,090,847	Session broker extensibility application program interface
29	8,090,838	Shell operation flow change
30	8,090,834	System and method for optimizing server resources while providing interaction with documents accessible through the server
31	8,090,826	Scheduling data delivery to manage device resources
32	8,090,776	Dynamic content change notification
33	8,090,766	System and method to identify, rank, and audit network provided configurables
34	8,090,740	Search-centric hierarchichal browser history
35	8,090,738	Multi-modal search wildcards
36	8,090,729	Large graph measurement
37	8,090,719	Adaptive page layout utilizing block-level elements
38	8,090,709	Representing queries and determining similarity based on an ARIMA model
39	8,090,695	Dynamic restoration of message object search indexes
40	8,090,685	Knowledge based synchronization of subsets of data with no move condition
41	8,090,681	Resolving conflicts in content management systems
42	8,090,679	Method for measuring web site performance
43	8,090,677	Method and system for altering the configuration of a data warehouse
44	8,090,669	Adaptive learning framework for data correction
45	8,090,622	Preferred items list management
46	8,090,620	Query analysis for geographic-based listing service
47	8,090,610	Extensible framework for designing workflows
48	8,090,608	Identifying technological solutions for user-centric product designs
49	8,090,574	Entropy encoding and decoding using direct level and run-length/level context-adaptive arithmetic coding/decoding modes
50	8,090,532	Pedestrian route production
51	8,090,530	Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contexts
52	8,090,083	Unified messaging architecture
53	8,090,077	Testing acoustic echo cancellation and interference in VoIP telephones
54	8,089,465	Speckle interference laser tracking
55	8,088,011	Dynamic debugging dump for game console

Microsoft patent applications published on 29 December 2011

Administrator — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:17:00 +0000

73 US patent applications published on 29 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20110321152	TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY FOR NETWORK LAYER CLAIMS-ENABLED ACCESS CONTROL
2	20110321130	NETWORK LAYER CLAIMS BASED ACCESS CONTROL
3	20110321129	DISAMBIGUATING ONLINE IDENTITIES
4	20110321128	PUBLIC ACCESS POINT
5	20110321063	APPLICATION SETTINGS MIGRATION USING VIRTUALIZATION
6	20110321059	STACK OVERFLOW PREVENTION IN PARALLEL EXECUTION RUNTIME
7	20110321037	DATA ONLY SOLUTION PACKAGE
8	20110321031	UPDATING NODES CONSIDERING SERVICE MODEL CONSTRAINTS
9	20110321029	UPGRADE MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATION COMPONENTS
10	20110321028	APPLICATIONS INCLUDING MULTIPLE EXPERIENCE MODULES
11	20110321027	REBOOTLESS DISPLAY DRIVER UPGRADES
12	20110321001	VISUALIZATION OF RUNTIME ANALYSIS ACROSS DYNAMIC BOUNDARIES
13	20110320981	STATUS-ORIENTED MOBILE DEVICE
14	20110320956	INTERACTION BETWEEN ADS AND APPLICATIONS
15	20110320924	HANDWRITTEN PAPER-BASED INPUT DIGITAL RECORD MANAGEMENT
16	20110320889	Server Reachability Detection
17	20110320823	TRUSTED SENSORS
18	20110320822	KEYED HUMAN INTERACTIVE PROOF PLAYERS
19	20110320821	FEDERATION AMONG SERVICES FOR SUPPORTING VIRTUAL-NETWORK OVERLAYS
20	20110320767	Parallelization of Online Learning Algorithms
21	20110320745	DATA-SCOPED DYNAMIC DATA RACE DETECTION
22	20110320715	IDENTIFYING TRENDING CONTENT ITEMS USING CONTENT ITEM HISTOGRAMS
23	20110320603	APPLICATION INTEGRATION OF NETWORK DATA BASED ON RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS
24	20110320586	Flexible and Safe Monitoring of Computers
25	20110320564	HEALTH-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKING
26	20110320560	CONTENT AUTHORING AND PROPAGATION AT VARIOUS FIDELITIES
27	20110320556	Techniques For Migrating A Virtual Machine Using Shared Storage
28	20110320539	WiFi Proximity Messaging
29	20110320538	DELIVERING MESSAGES FROM MESSAGE SOURCES TO SUBSCRIBING RECIPIENTS
30	20110320536	ACCELERATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
31	20110320522	CONTEXT-SPECIFIC NETWORK RESOURCE ADDRESSING MODEL FOR DISTRIBUTED SERVICES
32	20110320520	DYNAMIC PARTITIONING OF APPLICATIONS BETWEEN CLIENTS AND SERVERS
33	20110320496	CONCURRENCY CONTROL FOR CONFLUENT TREES
34	20110320467	Using Message Sampling To Determine The Most Frequent Words In A User Mailbox
35	20110320446	Pushing Search Query Constraints Into Information Retrieval Processing
36	20110320443	Navigation to Popular Search Results
37	20110320441	ADJUSTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER SOCIAL PROFILES
38	20110320440	PLACEMENT OF SEARCH RESULTS USING USER INTENT
39	20110320433	Automated Joining of Disparate Data for Database Queries
40	20110320431	STRONG TYPING FOR QUERYING INFORMATION GRAPHS
41	20110320426	RICH SITE MAPS
42	20110320423	INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK DATA WITH SEARCH RESULTS
43	20110320407	SHARED DATA COLLECTIONS
44	20110320405	DETACHABLE COMPUTER WITH VARIABLE PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
45	20110320380	VIDEO CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS
46	20110320373	PRODUCT CONVERSATIONS AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS
47	20110320284	Market for Social Promotion of Digital Goods
48	20110320273	SERVING CONTENT BASED ON CONVERSATIONS
49	20110320250	ADVERTISING PRODUCTS TO GROUPS WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS
50	20110320119	LOCATION BROKERAGE SYSTEM
51	20110320116	PROVIDING AN IMPROVED VIEW OF A LOCATION IN A SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT
52	20110320114	Map Annotation Messaging
53	20110320018	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING GAME DATA ABOUT PLAYERS
54	20110319174	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING GAME DATA ABOUT PLAYERS
55	20110319166	Coordinating Device Interaction To Enhance User Experience
56	20110319148	VIRTUAL AND LOCATION-BASED MULTIPLAYER GAMING
57	20110319019	CAPACITIVE BONDING OF DEVICES
58	20110317914	TECHNIQUES FOR ROBUST COLOR TRANSFER
59	20110317871	SKELETAL JOINT RECOGNITION AND TRACKING SYSTEM
60	20110317633	FINE-GRAINED CHANNEL ACCESS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
61	20110317632	Integrating White Space Support into a Network Stack
62	20110317631	SCHEDULING COMMUNICATIONS IN A MOBILE DEVICE
63	20110317554	Distributed and Scalable Network Address Translation
64	20110317522	SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION BASED ON REFLECTIONS AND ROOM ESTIMATION
65	20110317399	DISPLAY BACKLIGHTS WITH ADJUSTABLE NARROW VIEWING ANGLE
66	20110317120	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD)
67	20110317019	ENABLING WHITE SPACE NETWORKS INDEPENDENT OF LOW-THRESHOLD SENSING
68	20110316984	ADAPTIVE ADJUSTMENT OF DEPTH CUES IN A STEREO TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM
69	20110316965	COMBINING DIRECT AND ROUTED COMMUNICATION IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE
70	20110316884	ALTERNATIVE SEMANTICS FOR ZOOM OPERATIONS IN A ZOOMABLE SCENE
71	20110316871	FAST RECONFIGURATION OF GRAPHICS PIPELINE STATE
72	20110316853	TELEPRESENCE SYSTEMS WITH VIEWER PERSPECTIVE ADJUSTMENT
73	20110316338	Hierarchical Power Smoothing

Microsoft patents granted on 27 December 2011

Administrator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:25:01 +0000

58 US patents granted on 27 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	8,087,073	Authentication architecture
2	8,087,072	Provisioning of digital identity representations
3	8,087,061	Resource-reordered remediation of malware threats
4	8,087,028	Computing device resource scheduling
5	8,087,015	Assignment of application models to deployment targets
6	8,087,006	Static performance analysis of software
7	8,086,992	Enable top-down service design
8	8,086,963	Inheritance model between masters, layouts and slides
9	8,086,959	Method and system for inferring a schema from a hierarchical data structure for use in a spreadsheet
10	8,086,954	Programmable object models for bibliographies and citations
11	8,086,906	Correlating hardware devices between local operating system and global management entity
12	8,086,902	Method and apparatus for testing media player software applications
13	8,086,899	Diagnosis of problem causes using factorization
14	8,086,882	Energy measurement techniques for computing systems
15	8,086,859	Generation of electronic signatures
16	8,086,853	Automatic centralized authentication challenge response generation
17	8,086,849	Secure internet-scale eventing
18	8,086,845	Secure tunnel over HTTPS connection
19	8,086,842	Peer-to-peer contact exchange
20	8,086,778	Filter driver to enumerate smartcard nodes for plug and play
21	8,086,772	Transferable component that effectuates plug-and-play
22	8,086,743	Multi-channel communication with request reordering or reprioritization
23	8,086,741	Method and system for delayed allocation of resources
24	8,086,719	Bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching
25	8,086,701	Platform for managing and configuring network state
26	8,086,686	Persisting a group in an instant messaging application
27	8,086,682	Tracking of electronic mail messages
28	8,086,672	When-free messaging
29	8,086,671	Systems and methods that facilitate in-order serial processing of related messages
30	8,086,659	Task sequence interface
31	8,086,631	Search result diversification
32	8,086,593	Dynamic filters for relational query processing
33	8,086,591	Combining domain-tuned search systems
34	8,086,590	Product suggestions and bypassing irrelevant query results
35	8,086,565	File system watcher in the presence of different file systems
36	8,086,562	Arrangement for anonymous API downloaded resources for advanced content
37	8,086,549	Multi-label active learning
38	8,086,536	Location based licensing
39	8,086,496	Aggregation of product data provided from external sources for presentation on an E-commerce website
40	8,086,465	Transform domain transcoding and decoding of audio data using integer-reversible modulated lapped transforms
41	8,086,455	Model development authoring, generation and execution based on data and processor dependencies
42	8,086,442	Efficient use of exceptions in text segmentation
43	8,086,439	Translation of text into numbers
44	8,086,437	Modeling and simulating software contention
45	8,086,275	Alternative inputs of a mobile communications device
46	8,086,227	Collaboratively locating disconnected clients and rogue access points in a wireless network
47	8,086,037	Tiling and merging framework for segmenting large images
48	8,086,031	Region detection
49	8,085,990	Hybrid maps with embedded street-side images
50	8,085,933	Cipher for disk encryption
51	8,085,844	Signaling reference frame distances
52	8,085,756	Automatically sending rich contact information coincident to a telephone call
53	8,085,701	Local area network translating bi-directional packet repeater
54	8,085,364	Display with focussed illumination
55	8,085,302	Combined digital and mechanical tracking of a person or object using a single video camera
56	8,085,281	Method of displaying input from a portable computing device
57	8,083,593	Recording media on gaming consoles
58	8,083,591	Game hosting service

Microsoft patent applications published on 22 December 2011

Administrator — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:54:23 +0000

158 US patent applications published on 22 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20110314555	ABSTRACTIONS AND AUTOMATION FOR ENHANCED SHARING AND COLLABORATION
2	20110314553	LOCATION ENABLED BOOKMARK AND PROFILE
3	20110314550	WATERMARK TO IDENTIFY LEAK SOURCE
4	20110314544	EVALUATING SHELL CODE FINDINGS
5	20110314543	SYSTEM STATE BASED DIAGNOSTIC SCAN
6	20110314540	PREVENTING ABUSE OF SERVICES THROUGH INFRASTRUCTURE INCOMPATIBILITY
7	20110314537	AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN INTERACTION PROOF ENGINES
8	20110314528	TECHNIQUES TO MODIFY AND SHARE BINARY CONTENT WHEN DISCONNECTED FROM A NETWORK
9	20110314520	ONLINE SERVICE ACCESS CONTROLS USING SCALE OUT DIRECTORY FEATURES
10	20110314516	TECHNIQUES TO SHARE BINARY CONTENT
11	20110314482	SYSTEM FOR UNIVERSAL MOBILE DATA
12	20110314475	RESOURCE ACCESS CONTROL
13	20110314461	IMPLEMENTING PARALLEL LOOPS WITH SERIAL SEMANTICS
14	20110314460	COMPILE TIME INTERPRETATION OF MARKUP CODES
15	20110314459	COMPILER WITH USER-DEFINED TYPE INFERENCE RULES
16	20110314458	BINDING DATA PARALLEL DEVICE SOURCE CODE
17	20110314454	INCREMENTAL COMPOSITIONAL DYNAMIC TEST GENERATION
18	20110314452	TRACING JUST-IN-TIME COMPILATION WITH POINTERS TO LOCAL VARIABLES
19	20110314445	USER AUGMENTED REVERSE ENGINEERING
20	20110314444	Compiler-Generated Invocation Stubs for Data Parallel Programming Model
21	20110314424	SCALING TYPE OVERLAY ICONS
22	20110314419	CUSTOMIZING A SEARCH EXPERIENCE USING IMAGES
23	20110314418	List Authoring Surface
24	20110314416	COLLECTED MEDIA CONTENT DATA
25	20110314412	COMPOSITING APPLICATION CONTENT AND SYSTEM CONTENT FOR DISPLAY
26	20110314408	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING MULTIPLE WEB PAGES WITH ANTI-SPOOFING PROTECTION
27	20110314407	CUSTOM VISUALIZATIONS IN TAB GROUPS
28	20110314405	CONTEXTUAL CONTROL OF DYNAMIC INPUT DEVICE
29	20110314404	Context-Based Task Generation
30	20110314402	Flagging, Capturing and Generating Task List Items
31	20110314400	ASSISTED FILTERING OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA
32	20110314399	WINDOWLESS RUNTIME CONTROL OF DYNAMIC INPUT DEVICE
33	20110314395	SEQUENTIAL AND NON-SEQUENTIAL ACCESS TO RECORDS WITHIN A LIST
34	20110314390	TECHNIQUES TO DYNAMICALLY MODIFY THEMES BASED ON MESSAGING
35	20110314383	SECURED AND FILTERED PERSONAL INFORMATION PUBLISHING
36	20110314381	NATURAL USER INPUT FOR DRIVING INTERACTIVE STORIES
37	20110314380	EXTENSIBLE VIDEO INSERTION CONTROL
38	20110314375	Personal Assistant for Task Utilization
39	20110314372	DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION TRANSITIONING
40	20110314370	TIERED PAGEVIEW GENERATION FOR COMPUTING DEVICES
41	20110314366	INTEGRATING A WEB-BASED CRM SYSTEM WITH A PIM CLIENT APPLICATION
42	20110314365	DECOMPILING LOOPS IN A SPREADSHEET
43	20110314364	GENERATING FINANCIAL DATA DOCUMENTS USING TEMPLATES
44	20110314361	GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING A PRESENTATION DOCUMENT
45	20110314338	DATA COLLISIONS IN CONCURRENT PROGRAMS
46	20110314326	MONITORING SERVICE ENDPOINTS
47	20110314279	Single-Use Authentication Methods for Accessing Encrypted Data
48	20110314270	ENCRYPTED NETWORK TRAFFIC INTERCEPTION AND INSPECTION
49	20110314266	ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVER STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN
50	20110314256	Data Parallel Programming Model
51	20110314251	MEMORY SAFETY OF FLOATING-POINT COMPUTATIONS
52	20110314246	HIERARCHICAL ALLOCATION FOR FILE SYSTEM STORAGE DEVICE
53	20110314244	COMPOSITION OF LOCKS IN SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY
54	20110314230	ACTION FRAMEWORK IN SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY
55	20110314229	Error Detection for Files
56	20110314210	LEVERAGING CHIP VARIABILITY
57	20110314202	MANAGING CACHE DATA AND METADATA
58	20110314168	SYSTEM FOR INTERACTION OF PAIRED DEVICES
59	20110314156	MEMORABLE RESOURCE NAMES
60	20110314153	NETWORKED DEVICE AUTHENTICATION, PAIRING AND RESOURCE SHARING
61	20110314127	QUICK DEPLOY OF CONTENT
62	20110314122	DISCREPANCY DETECTION FOR WEB CRAWLING
63	20110314121	CELLULAR DATA COMMUNICATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES
64	20110314085	OFFLINE MODIFICATION OF BUSINESS DATA
65	20110314070	OPTIMIZATION OF STORAGE AND TRANSMISSION OF DATA
66	20110314064	Notifications Platform
67	20110314048	SOCIAL NETWORK USER LIST DETECTION AND SEARCHING
68	20110314047	SUBSCRIPTION FOR INTEGRATING EXTERNAL DATA FROM EXTERNAL SYSTEM
69	20110314045	FAST SET INTERSECTION
70	20110314044	FLEXIBLE CONTENT ORGANIZATION AND RETRIEVAL
71	20110314043	FULL-FIDELITY REPRESENTATION OF XML-REPRESENTED OBJECTS
72	20110314041	COMMUNITY AUTHORING CONTENT GENERATION AND NAVIGATION
73	20110314039	Media Item Recommendation
74	20110314030	PERSONALIZED MEDIA CHARTS
75	20110314028	PRESENTING DISPLAY CHARACTERISTICS OF HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURES
76	20110314024	SEMANTIC CONTENT SEARCHING
77	20110314023	Online Stratified Sampling for Classifier Evaluation
78	20110314018	ENTITY CATEGORY DETERMINATION
79	20110314017	TECHNIQUES TO AUTOMATICALLY MANAGE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS
80	20110314013	RANKING ADVERTISEMENTS
81	20110314012	DETERMINING QUERY INTENT
82	20110314011	AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING TRAINING DATA
83	20110314010	KEYWORD TO QUERY PREDICATE MAPS FOR QUERY TRANSLATION
84	20110314003	TEMPLATE CONCATENATION FOR CAPTURING MULTIPLE CONCEPTS IN A VOICE QUERY
85	20110314001	PERFORMING QUERY EXPANSION BASED UPON STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURED DATA
86	20110314000	TRANSFORMATION RULE PROFILING FOR A QUERY OPTIMIZER
87	20110313999	SLICING RELATIONAL QUERIES USING SPOOL OPERATORS
88	20110313994	CONTENT PERSONALIZATION BASED ON USER INFORMATION
89	20110313993	GRAMMAR COMPRESSION
90	20110313992	Generating Search Result Summaries
91	20110313991	AUTOMATIC SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
92	20110313975	VALIDATING FILES USING A SLIDING WINDOW TO ACCESS AND CORRELATE RECORDS IN AN ARBITRARILY LARGE DATASET
93	20110313968	HYPERLOCAL SMOOTHING
94	20110313954	COMMUNITY MODEL BASED POINT OF INTEREST LOCAL SEARCH
95	20110313953	Automated Classification Pipeline Tuning Under Mobile Device Resource Constraints
96	20110313865	AD COPY QUALITY DETECTION AND SCORING
97	20110313859	TECHNIQUES FOR ADVERTISER GEOTARGETING USING MAP COORDINATES
98	20110313857	USER CENTRIC REAL-TIME ADVERTISEMENT BIDDING
99	20110313851	TOOL FOR ANALYSIS OF ADVERTISING AUCTIONS
100	20110313848	METADATA-ENABLED DYNAMIC UPDATES OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS
101	20110313847	MAPPING IDENTIFIERS
102	20110313846	INCLUDING PERSONALIZED CONTENT IN AN ADVERTISEMENT
103	20110313845	Learning Display Parameters to Maximize Advertising Revenue
104	20110313844	REAL-TIME-READY BEHAVIORAL TARGETING IN A LARGE-SCALE ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM
105	20110313843	SEARCH ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING
106	20110313834	ELICITING SOCIAL SEARCH RESPONSES FROM SPONSORING AGENTS
107	20110313833	RECONSTRUCTING THE ONLINE FLOW OF RECOMMENDATIONS
108	20110313832	PRICING IN SOCIAL ADVERTISING
109	20110313827	APPLICATION USAGE REWARDS PLATFORM
110	20110313817	KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR WEIGHTING
111	20110313807	DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR GLOBAL ADVERTISEMENT INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION
112	20110313805	CUSTOMIZABLE USER INTERFACE INCLUDING CONTACT AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT FEATURES
113	20110313803	Social Task Lists
114	20110313779	AUGMENTATION AND CORRECTION OF LOCATION BASED DATA THROUGH USER FEEDBACK
115	20110313766	IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE USING MULTIPLE TYPES OF INPUT
116	20110313648	Probabilistic Map Matching From A Plurality Of Observational And Contextual Factors
117	20110313582	CLASSIFYING DEVICES BY FINGERPRINTING VOLTAGE AND CURRENT CONSUMPTION
118	20110313553	PREDICTIVE RESAMPLER SCHEDULER ALGORITHM
119	20110313548	Event Prediction Using Hierarchical Event Features
120	20110312414	AUTOMATED CERTIFICATION OF VIDEO GAME ADVERTISING USING OCR
121	20110312398	Tracking Career Progression Based On User Activities
122	20110312374	MOBILE AND SERVER-SIDE COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
123	20110312303	CONTEXT-DRIVEN DATA SHARING
124	20110311205	RECORDING OF SPORTS RELATED TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
125	20110311144	RGB/DEPTH CAMERA FOR IMPROVING SPEECH RECOGNITION
126	20110311137	HIERARCHICAL FILTERED MOTION FIELD FOR ACTION RECOGNITION
127	20110311136	CROSS-DOMAIN BROWSER PRE-FETCHING THROUGH DATA TRANSCODING
128	20110311104	Multi-Stage Linear Structure from Motion
129	20110311101	METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SEGMENT DEPTH IMAGES AND TO DETECT SHAPES IN THREE-DIMENSIONALLY ACQUIRED DATA
130	20110311094	TECHNIQUES TO VERIFY LOCATION FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES
131	20110310961	VIDEO RATE CONTROL BASED ON TRANSFORM-COEFFICIENTS HISTOGRAM
132	20110310899	Distributed Virtual Network Gateways
133	20110310898	4TO6 NETWORK STACK FOR IPV4 APPLICATIONS
134	20110310891	MERCHANT POWERED CLICK-TO-CALL METHOD
135	20110310872	PUBLIC ACCESS POINT
136	20110310735	Resource Allocation Framework for Wireless/Wired Networks
137	20110310439	OPTIMIZED FONT SUBSETTING FOR A PRINT PATH
138	20110310427	PRINTING DIRECT2D-RENDERED ITEMS
139	20110310233	Optimization of a Multi-View Display
140	20110310232	SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MULTIPLEXING DISPLAY
141	20110310226	USE OF WAVEFRONT CODING TO CREATE A DEPTH IMAGE
142	20110310220	DEPTH CAMERA ILLUMINATOR WITH SUPERLUMINESCENT LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE
143	20110310217	REDUCING USE OF PERIODIC KEY FRAMES IN VIDEO CONFERENCING
144	20110310216	COMBINING MULTIPLE BIT RATE AND SCALABLE VIDEO CODING
145	20110310125	COMPARTMENTALIZING FOCUS AREA WITHIN FIELD OF VIEW
146	20110310120	TECHNIQUES TO PRESENT LOCATION INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS USING AUGMENTED REALITY
147	20110310118	Ink Lag Compensation Techniques
148	20110310117	LOCALIZED LAYOUT AND ROUTING IN AN INTERACTIVE DIAGRAMMING SYSTEM
149	20110310109	VISUAL PREVIEWS
150	20110310088	PERSONALIZED NAVIGATION THROUGH VIRTUAL 3D ENVIRONMENTS
151	20110310031	STYLUS SETTINGS
152	20110310026	EASY WORD SELECTION AND SELECTION AHEAD OF FINGER
153	20110310016	COMPUTER MOUSE SLEEVE
154	20110310015	COMPUTER MOUSE
155	20110310007	ITEM NAVIGATION USING MOTION-CAPTURE DATA
156	20110310002	FREE SPACE DIRECTIONAL FORCE FEEDBACK APPARATUS
157	20110309956	LOW POWER SENSING VIA RESISTIVE SENSOR MATRIX
158	20110309919	Providing Directional Force Feedback In Freespace

Microsoft patents granted on 20 December 2011

Administrator — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:58:36 +0000

66 US patents granted on 20 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D650,808	Display screen with an icon
2	D650,807	Display screen with an icon
3	D650,806	Display screen with an icon
4	D650,805	Display screen with an icon
5	D650,804	Display screen with an icon
6	D650,803	Display screen with an icon
7	D650,802	Display screen with an icon
8	D650,801	Display screen with an icon
9	D650,800	Display screen with an icon
10	D650,799	Display screen with an icon
11	D650,798	Display screen with a graphical user interface
12	D650,797	Display screen with an icon
13	D650,796	Display screen with a position indicator icon
14	D650,795	Display screen with an icon
15	D650,794	Display screen with an icon
16	D650,793	Display screen with an animated position indicator icon
17	D650,792	Display screen with an icon
18	D650,791	Display screen with an animated user interface
19	D650,790	Display screen with an animated user interface
20	D650,789	Display screen with in-process indicator
21	D650,788	Display screen with an icon
22	8,082,555	Routing calls via reflective interfaces and a proxy
23	8,082,521	DVD changer UX
24	8,082,518	Scrollable area multi-scale viewing
25	8,082,517	Application sharing viewer presentation
26	8,082,512	Fractal display advertising on computer-driven screens
27	8,082,507	Scalable user interface
28	8,082,497	System and method for adaptive document layout via manifold content
29	8,082,494	Rendering markup language macro data for display in a graphical user interface
30	8,082,471	Self healing software
31	8,082,459	Power management based on policy
32	8,082,442	Securely sharing applications installed by unprivileged users
33	8,082,402	System and method for using virtual memory for redirecting auxiliary memory operations
34	8,082,384	Booting an electronic device using flash memory and a limited function memory controller
35	8,082,358	ISP-friendly rate allocation for P2P applications
36	8,082,344	Transaction manager virtualization
37	8,082,279	System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification
38	8,082,278	Generating query suggestions from semantic relationships in content
39	8,082,276	Techniques using captured information
40	8,082,274	Scheduling application allowing freeform data entry
41	8,082,258	Updating an inverted index in a real time fashion
42	8,082,247	Best-bet recommendations
43	8,082,246	System and method for ranking search results using click distance
44	8,082,239	Defining sub-cube scope based upon a query
45	8,082,233	Comparing data sets through identification of matching blocks
46	8,082,218	Analysis of software conflicts
47	8,082,193	Multi-jurisdictional payroll requirements
48	8,082,179	Monitoring television content interaction to improve online advertisement selection
49	8,082,145	Character manipulation
50	8,082,143	Extracting treelet translation pairs
51	8,082,129	Real-time rendering of light-scattering media
52	8,081,965	Simple technique for detection of physical presence and management of information
53	8,081,963	Utilizing mobile device functionality from remote computers
54	8,081,848	Extracting metadata from a digitally scanned document
55	8,081,842	Image resizing for web-based image search
56	8,081,824	Generating search requests from multimodal queries
57	8,081,756	Implementation of media-protection policies
58	8,081,755	JPEG2000 syntax-compliant encryption with full scalability
59	8,081,753	Hybrid echo canceller controllers
60	8,081,745	Dynamic information publication enabling direct access to a preferred communication channel connection in integrated communication server
61	8,081,680	Selective inter-layer prediction in layered video coding
62	8,081,581	Sampling rules for information dissemination
63	8,081,190	System and method for optimizing a graphics intensive software program for the user’s graphics hardware
64	8,081,186	Spatial exploration field of view preview mechanism
65	8,081,181	Prefix sum pass to linearize A-buffer storage
66	8,079,911	Viewing a gamer card across multiple devices and networks

Microsoft patent applications published on 15 December 2011

Administrator — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:36:17 +0000

114 US patent applications published on 15 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20110307959	SELECTIVELY EXPOSING BASE CLASS LIBRARIES BASED ON APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTEXT
2	20110307948	EXTENDING A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT EVENTING FRAMEWORK TO A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT IN A SECURE MANNER
3	20110307947	FLEXIBLE END-POINT COMPLIANCE AND STRONG AUTHENTICATION FOR DISTRIBUTED HYBRID ENTERPRISES
4	20110307938	Integrating Account Selectors with Passive Authentication Protocols
5	20110307905	INDICATING PARALLEL OPERATIONS WITH USER-VISIBLE EVENTS
6	20110307900	CHANGING STREAMING MEDIA QUALITY LEVEL BASED ON CURRENT DEVICE RESOURCE USAGE
7	20110307895	Managing Requests Based on Request Groups
8	20110307888	PROTECTION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES EXECUTING ON A HOST DEVICE
9	20110307881	MULTI-BRANCH MANAGEMENT FOR UPDATING SOFTWARE
10	20110307875	TRACKING VARIABLE INFORMATION IN OPTIMIZED CODE
11	20110307874	CREATING TEXT FUNCTIONS FROM A SPREADSHEET
12	20110307872	SCRIPT DEBUGGING
13	20110307870	EXECUTION CAPTURE AND REPLAY BASED DEBUGGING
14	20110307869	DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE PROGRAMMING
15	20110307866	MULTI-ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION OF DATA INTEGRATION PROJECTS
16	20110307865	USER INTERFACE INVENTORY
17	20110307861	INSERTING CLOSING CODE CONSTRUCTS
18	20110307859	DYNAMIC LANGUAGES FOR STATIC HOSTS
19	20110307858	PRE-COMPILING HOSTED MANAGED CODE
20	20110307856	WORKFLOW VISUALIZATION
21	20110307840	ERASE, CIRCLE, PRIORITIZE AND APPLICATION TRAY GESTURES
22	20110307838	FAST EDGE ROUTING FOR INTERACTIVE DIAGRAMMING
23	20110307831	User-Controlled Application Access to Resources
24	20110307828	MEMORY ALLOCATION VISUALIZATION FOR UNMANAGED LANGUAGES
25	20110307819	NAVIGATING DOMINANT CONCEPTS EXTRACTED FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES
26	20110307818	WORKFLOW AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT AND RUNTIME
27	20110307817	Secure Application Interoperation via User Interface Gestures
28	20110307811	WEB APPLICATION HOME BUTTON
29	20110307809	RENDERING WEB CONTENT WITH A BRUSH
30	20110307808	RENDERING INCOMPATIBLE CONTENT WITHIN A USER INTERFACE
31	20110307798	Merging Modifications to User Interface Components While Preserving User Customizations
32	20110307788	ROLE-BASED PRESENTATION VIEWS
33	20110307781	SEAMLESS PLAYBACK OF COMPOSITE MEDIA
34	20110307780	CLOUD-BASED APPLICATION HELP
35	20110307777	WEB SERVICE USER EXPERIENCE WITHOUT UPFRONT STORAGE EXPENSE
36	20110307740	Minimizing Database Repros using Language Grammars
37	20110307739	MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE EMULATION FOR APPLICATION TESTING
38	20110307730	Power-Aware Thread Scheduling and Dynamic Use of Processors
39	20110307711	DEVICE BOOTING WITH AN INITIAL PROTECTION COMPONENT
40	20110307641	Lazy Handling of End of Interrupt Messages in a Virtualized Environment
41	20110307633	PREVENTING ACCESS TO A DEVICE FROM AN EXTERNAL INTERFACE
42	20110307630	EFFICIENT TRANSFORM FROM XML TO JAVASCRIPT OBJECTS
43	20110307623	SMOOTH STREAMING CLIENT COMPONENT
44	20110307614	Techniques For Efficient Remote Presentation Session Connectivity And Routing
45	20110307607	MANAGING NAVIGATION HISTORY FOR INTRA-PAGE STATE TRANSITIONS
46	20110307605	SERVER SESSION MANAGEMENT APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE AND SCHEMA
47	20110307601	SERVER ARRAY CAPACITY MANAGEMENT CALCULATOR
48	20110307587	DEFINITION CONFIGURATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF DISTRIBUTED SERVER SYSTEMS THROUGH STRUCTURED DATA MODEL
49	20110307555	Synchronization and Collaboration Within Peer-to-Peer and Client/Server Environments
50	20110307551	Sharing of User Preferences
51	20110307544	Sessions To Host Processes With Special Requirements
52	20110307542	Active Image Tagging
53	20110307541	SERVER LOAD BALANCING AND DRAINING IN ENHANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
54	20110307535	FREEFORM MATHEMATICAL COMPUTATIONS
55	20110307524	UNIFIED CONCURRENT CHANGES TO DATA, SCHEMA, AND APPLICATION
56	20110307522	Light Weight Transformation
57	20110307520	REFLECTION OVER OBJECTS
58	20110307519	Cogeneration of Database Applications and Their Databases
59	20110307517	RELAXATION FOR STRUCTURED QUERIES
60	20110307507	IDENTIFYING ENTRIES AND EXITS OF STRONGLY CONNECTED COMPONENTS
61	20110307504	COMBINING ATTRIBUTE REFINEMENTS AND TEXTUAL QUERIES
62	20110307502	EXTENSIBLE EVENT-DRIVEN LOG ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK
63	20110307501	Automating Evolution of Schemas and Mappings
64	20110307493	MULTI-FACETED METADATA STORAGE
65	20110307485	EXTRACTING TOPICALLY RELATED KEYWORDS FROM RELATED DOCUMENTS
66	20110307483	ENTITY DETECTION AND EXTRACTION FOR ENTITY CARDS
67	20110307482	SEARCH RESULT DRIVEN QUERY INTENT IDENTIFICATION
68	20110307479	Automatic Extraction of Structured Web Content
69	20110307461	QUERY CONTEXT SELECTION USING GRAPHICAL PROPERTIES
70	20110307460	NAVIGATING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ENTITIES
71	20110307455	CONTACT INFORMATION MERGER AND DUPLICATE RESOLUTION
72	20110307449	CHECKPOINTS FOR A FILE SYSTEM
73	20110307445	BACKGROUND SYNCHRONIZATION OF DATA OBJECTS
74	20110307444	REPLICATING SERVER CONFIGURATION DATA IN DISTRIBUTED SERVER ENVIRONMENTS
75	20110307442	TRANSPARENT ACCESS MECHANISM FOR LOCAL AND REMOTE DATA
76	20110307436	PATTERN TREE-BASED RULE LEARNING
77	20110307432	RELEVANCE FOR NAME SEGMENT SEARCHES
78	20110307425	ORGANIZING SEARCH RESULTS
79	20110307423	DISTRIBUTED DECISION TREE TRAINING
80	20110307422	EXPLORING DATA USING MULTIPLE MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS
81	20110307391	AUDITING CROWD-SOURCED COMPETITION SUBMISSIONS
82	20110307304	CROWD-SOURCED COMPETITION PLATFORM
83	20110307252	Using Utterance Classification in Telephony and Speech Recognition Applications
84	20110307251	Sound Source Separation Using Spatial Filtering and Regularization Phases
85	20110307244	JOINT OPTIMIZATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM COMBINATION
86	20110307243	MULTILINGUAL RUNTIME RENDERING OF METADATA
87	20110307240	DATA MODELING OF MULTILINGUAL TAXONOMICAL HIERARCHIES
88	20110306468	CALORIC BURN DETERMINATION FROM BODY MOVEMENT
89	20110306426	Activity Participation Based On User Intent
90	20110306375	TRANSMITTING DATA IN A WIRELESS WHITE SPACE NETWORK
91	20110306301	Channel Discovery Protocol
92	20110305399	IMAGE CLUSTERING
93	20110305393	TECHNIQUES IN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION
94	20110305392	Resource-Aware Computer Vision
95	20110305386	Color Indication Tool for Colorblindness
96	20110305366	Adaptive Action Detection
97	20110305273	PARALLEL MULTIPLE BITRATE VIDEO ENCODING
98	20110304841	System architecture design for time-of- flight system having reduced differential pixel size, and time-of- flight systems so designed
99	20110304774	CONTEXTUAL TAGGING OF RECORDED DATA
100	20110304745	LIGHT TRANSPORT RECONSTRUCTION FROM SPARSELY CAPTURED IMAGES
101	20110304713	INDEPENDENTLY PROCESSING PLANES OF DISPLAY DATA
102	20110304687	GENERATING SHARP IMAGES, PANORAMAS, AND VIDEOS FROM MOTION-BLURRED VIDEOS
103	20110304686	UNIFIED COMMUNICATION BASED MULTI-SCREEN VIDEO SYSTEM
104	20110304649	CHARACTER SELECTION
105	20110304643	Ink Rendering
106	20110304641	AUTOMATED CONTRAST VERIFICATIONS
107	20110304632	INTERACTING WITH USER INTERFACE VIA AVATAR
108	20110304629	REAL-TIME ANIMATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
109	20110304625	ADAPTIVE IMAGE RENDERING AND USE OF IMPOSTER
110	20110304557	Indirect User Interaction with Desktop using Touch-Sensitive Control Surface
111	20110304556	ACTIVATE, FILL, AND LEVEL GESTURES
112	20110304503	SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND RF MODELING
113	20110304281	THERMALLY-TUNED DEPTH CAMERA LIGHT SOURCE
114	20110304211	Rack-Based Uninterruptible Power Supply

Microsoft patents granted on 13 December 2011

Administrator — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:11:18 +0000

61 US patents granted on 13 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D650,393	Display screen with user interface
2	8,079,079	Multimodal authentication
3	8,079,074	Dynamic security shielding through a network resource
4	8,079,073	Distributed firewall implementation and control
5	8,079,065	Indexing encrypted files by impersonating users
6	8,079,039	Isolating, managing and communicating with user interface elements
7	8,079,038	Method and apparatus for creating, sending, and using self-descriptive objects as messages over a message queuing network
8	8,079,036	Method and system for structured DMA transactions
9	8,079,023	Typed intermediate language support for existing compilers
10	8,079,020	Preferential path profiling
11	8,079,018	Test impact feedback system for software developers
12	8,078,992	Rendering a customized list of controls
13	8,078,984	Virtual keyboard text replication
14	8,078,979	Web page editor with element selection mechanism
15	8,078,974	Relating web page change with revisitation patterns
16	8,078,965	Automatic switching fonts on multilingual text runs
17	8,078,960	Rendering an HTML electronic form by applying XSLT to XML using a solution
18	8,078,957	Document synchronization over stateless protocols
19	8,078,953	Math calculation in word processors
20	8,078,952	Site redirection
21	8,078,914	Open error-handling system
22	8,078,913	Automated identification of performance crisis
23	8,078,911	Error recovery for application-level intermediaries
24	8,078,880	Portable personal identity information
25	8,078,870	HTTP-based authentication
26	8,078,760	Digital asset format transformation
27	8,078,749	Synchronization of multidimensional data in a multimaster synchronization environment with prediction
28	8,078,740	Running internet applications with low rights
29	8,078,693	Inserting a multimedia file through a web-based desktop productivity application
30	8,078,691	Web page load time prediction and simulation
31	8,078,655	Generation of database deltas and restoration
32	8,078,650	Parsing unstructured resources
33	8,078,648	Data structure for supporting a single access operation
34	8,078,639	File system filters and transactions
35	8,078,612	Providing data based on language choice
36	8,078,604	Identifying executable scenarios in response to search queries
37	8,078,587	Configuring a data protection system
38	8,078,582	Data change ordering in multi-log based replication
39	8,078,564	Controlling forward chaining execution in a rules system
40	8,078,555	Decoupling static program data and execution data
41	8,078,454	Two-pass hash extraction of text strings
42	8,078,451	Interface and methods for collecting aligned editorial corrections into a database
43	8,078,394	Indexing large-scale GPS tracks
44	8,078,302	Low latency real-time audio streaming
45	8,078,208	Multi-radio unification protocol
46	8,078,002	Matte-based video restoration
47	8,077,994	Compression of MQDF classifier using flexible sub-vector grouping
48	8,077,975	Handwriting symbol recognition accuracy using speech input
49	8,077,888	Positioning audio output for users surrounding an interactive display surface
50	8,077,855	Enhanced addressing for fax recipients
51	8,077,718	Distributed network management
52	8,077,699	Independent message stores and message transport agents
53	8,077,658	Packet forwarding in multi-radio multi-hop wireless networks
54	8,077,641	Echo cancellation for channels with unknown time-varying gain
55	8,077,457	Modularization of data center functions
56	8,077,175	Photo mantel view and animation
57	8,077,153	Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens
58	8,077,143	Motion based display management
59	8,077,090	Simultaneous localization and RF modeling
60	8,076,666	Use of sack geometry to implement a single qubit phase gate
61	8,075,404	Multi-player gaming

Microsoft patent applications published on 08 December 2011

Administrator — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:30:15 +0000

84 US patent applications published on 08 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20110302606	AGGREGATED TUNER SCHEDULING
2	20110302581	State Separation for Virtual Applications
3	20110302577	VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION TECHNIQUES
4	20110302576	BOOKMARKS AND PERFORMANCE HISTORY FOR NETWORK SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT EVALUATION
5	20110302573	METADATA DRIVEN AUTOMATIC DEPLOYMENT OF DISTRIBUTED SERVER SYSTEMS
6	20110302564	Library Conformity Checker
7	20110302555	ASSIGNING TYPE PARAMETERS
8	20110302553	GENERATING TEXT MANIPULATION PROGRAMS USING INPUT-OUTPUT EXAMPLES
9	20110302550	Providing Diverse Solutions Using Design Space Exploration
10	20110302530	JUMP, CHECKMARK, AND STRIKETHROUGH GESTURES
11	20110302527	ADJUSTABLE AND PROGRESSIVE MOBILE DEVICE STREET VIEW
12	20110302522	Sketching and Searching Application for Idea Generation
13	20110302521	RELATED TASKS AND TASKLETS FOR SEARCH
14	20110302503	FEATURE SET DIFFERENTIATION BY TENANT AND USER
15	20110302487	Web Client Command Infrastructure Integration into a Rich Client Application
16	20110302455	TARGETED BLACK BOX FUZZING OF INPUT DATA
17	20110302449	COLLECTION ORDERING FOR REPLICATED STATE MACHINES
18	20110302432	SUPER CAPACITOR SUPPLEMENTED SERVER POWER
19	20110302398	KEY PROTECTORS BASED ON ONLINE KEYS
20	20110302388	Hierarchical Scalable Memory Allocator
21	20110302315	DISTRIBUTED SERVICES AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT
22	20110302314	EDGE TRAVERSAL SERVICE DORMANCY
23	20110302293	RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR SHARING INFORMATION
24	20110302267	Web Site Implementation by Mapping Expression Evaluation
25	20110302265	LEADER ARBITRATION FOR PROVISIONING SERVICES
26	20110302250	THREAD DATA AGGREGATION
27	20110302247	CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION DEPENDENT MODALITY SELECTION
28	20110302238	VIRTUAL PLAYBACK SPEED MODIFICATION
29	20110302237	Client-Server Interaction Frequency Control
30	20110302193	APPROXIMATION FRAMEWORK FOR DIRECT OPTIMIZATION OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MEASURES
31	20110302179	Using Context to Extract Entities from a Document Collection
32	20110302172	TOPICAL SEARCH ENGINES AND QUERY CONTEXT MODELS
33	20110302170	UTILIZING SEARCH POLICIES TO DETERMINE SEARCH RESULTS
34	20110302162	Snippet Extraction and Ranking
35	20110302157	COMPARATIVE ENTITY MINING
36	20110302156	RE-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON LEXICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
37	20110302155	RELATED LINKS RECOMMENDATION
38	20110302152	PRESENTING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN CONTEXT
39	20110302149	IDENTIFYING DOMINANT CONCEPTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOURCES
40	20110302146	DETERMINING QUALITY OF TIER ASSIGNMENTS
41	20110302143	MULTI-VERSION CONCURRENCY WITH ORDERED TIMESTAMPS
42	20110302142	STORAGE SYSTEM FORMAT FOR TRANSACTION SAFE FILE SYSTEM
43	20110302124	Mining Topic-Related Aspects From User Generated Content
44	20110302113	MONITORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIGITAL ITEMS ON A COMPUTING APPARATUS
45	20110302097	BEHAVIOR-BASED NETWORKS
46	20110302052	Protecting Game Related Content In A Centralized Marketplace
47	20110302031	CLICK MODELING FOR URL PLACEMENTS IN QUERY RESPONSE PAGES
48	20110302028	SELECTING AND DELIVERING PERSONALIZED CONTENT
49	20110302024	EXTENDED CONVERSION TRACKING FOR OFFLINE COMMERCE
50	20110301966	REAL-TIME SYNCHRONOUS SEMANTIC PROCESSING IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION
51	20110301958	System-Initiated Speech Interaction
52	20110301935	LOCATING PARALLEL WORD SEQUENCES IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS
53	20110301934	MACHINE BASED SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER
54	20110301832	Searching Similar Trajectories by Locations
55	20110300940	Generating Position Information Using a Video Camera
56	20110300929	SYNTHESIS OF INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES
57	20110300901	Intelligent Input Handling
58	20110300841	MEETING LOBBY FOR WEB CONFERENCING
59	20110300516	Tactile Tile Vocalization
60	20110299832	ADAPTIVE VIDEO ZOOM
61	20110299787	INVARIANT VISUAL SCENE AND OBJECT RECOGNITION
62	20110299785	MOTION DETECTION TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED IMAGE REMOTING
63	20110299766	DATA DRIVEN INTERPOLATION USING GEODESIC AFFINITY
64	20110299743	SCALABLE FACE IMAGE RETRIEVAL
65	20110299741	Distinguishing Live Faces from Flat Surfaces
66	20110299728	AUTOMATIC DEPTH CAMERA AIMING
67	20110299675	SAFE CONVERSATION PARK AND RETRIEVAL
68	20110299612	UNCONTROLLED SPATIAL MULTIPLE ACCESS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
69	20110299526	MULTIPARTY REAL TIME CONTENT DELIVERY
70	20110299408	Dynamic Channel and Transmission Rate Selection
71	20110299387	SURVIVABLE AND RESILIENT REAL TIME COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURE
72	20110298967	Controlling Power Levels Of Electronic Devices Through User Interaction
73	20110298928	SIMULATED VIDEO WITH EXTRA VIEWPOINTS AND ENHANCED RESOLUTION FOR TRAFFIC CAMERAS
74	20110298918	DEPTH ILLUMINATION AND DETECTION OPTICS
75	20110298827	LIMITING AVATAR GESTURE DISPLAY
76	20110298819	HARDWARE-ACCELERATED COLOR DATA PROCESSING
77	20110298816	UPDATING GRAPHICAL DISPLAY CONTENT
78	20110298801	VIEW GENERATION USING INTERPOLATED VALUES
79	20110298714	ERGONOMIC INPUT DEVICE
80	20110298708	Virtual Touch Interface
81	20110298689	Device for Sharing Photographs in Social Settings
82	20110298668	Mobile Device Antenna with Dielectric Loading
83	20110298607	LOW-COST HIGH-FIDELITY ASSET TRACKING IN DATA CENTER FACILITIES
84	20110298589	IDENTIFICATION OF DEVICES ON TOUCH-SENSITIVE SURFACE

Microsoft patents granted on 06 December 2011

Administrator — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:08:38 +0000

71 US patents granted on 06 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	8,074,288	Isolation of application-specific data within a user account
2	8,074,287	Renewable and individualizable elements of a protected environment
3	8,074,281	Malware detection with taint tracking
4	8,074,272	Browser security notification
5	8,074,264	Secure key distribution to internet clients
6	8,074,258	Obtaining digital identities or tokens through independent endpoint resolution
7	8,074,234	Web service platform for keyword technologies
8	8,074,231	Configuration of isolated extensions and device drivers
9	8,074,227	Utilizing a first managed process to host at least a second managed process
10	8,074,226	Systems and methods for switching internet contexts without process shutdown
11	8,074,219	Order preservation in data parallel operations
12	8,074,217	Methods and systems for delivering software
13	8,074,209	Extending native data types
14	8,074,205	Binary verification service
15	8,074,204	Test automation for business applications
16	8,074,199	Unified messaging state machine
17	8,074,181	Screen magnifier panning model with dynamically resizable panning regions
18	8,074,178	Visual feedback display
19	8,074,175	User interface for an inkable family calendar
20	8,074,173	Associating input with computer based content
21	8,074,167	Cross domain presence of web user interface and logic
22	8,074,166	XSLT/XPATH focus inference for optimized XSLT implementation
23	8,074,117	Inference of contract using declarative program definition
24	8,074,116	Exception raised notification
25	8,074,087	Configuring processors and loads for power management
26	8,074,038	Converting luns into files or files into luns in real time
27	8,074,027	Multi-level read caching for multiplexed transactional logging
28	8,074,014	Storage systems using write off-loading
29	8,073,979	Enhanced network system through the combination of networking objects
30	8,073,978	Proximity guided data discovery
31	8,073,976	Synchronizing clocks in an asynchronous distributed system
32	8,073,971	Message based network configuration of dynamic domain name services
33	8,073,959	Automatically detecting whether a computer is connected to a public or private network
34	8,073,956	Multimedia communications using preferred devices
35	8,073,952	Proactive load balancing
36	8,073,928	Aggregating and searching profile data from multiple services
37	8,073,926	Virtual machine image server
38	8,073,906	Inviting a conferencing unaware endpoint to a conference
39	8,073,905	Method and apparatus for maintaining consistency of a shared space across multiple endpoints in a peer-to-peer collaborative computer system
40	8,073,897	Selecting values in a distributed computing system
41	8,073,886	Non-privileged access to data independent of filesystem implementation
42	8,073,879	Systems and methods that transform constructs from domain to domain
43	8,073,847	Extended user profile
44	8,073,844	Pre-purchase device interoperability validation
45	8,073,838	Pseudo-anchor text extraction
46	8,073,832	Estimating rank on graph streams
47	8,073,829	HTTP cache with URL rewriting
48	8,073,818	Co-location visual pattern mining for near-duplicate image retrieval
49	8,073,812	Preserving user intention in distributed data systems
50	8,073,809	Graphical model for data validation
51	8,073,789	Method and system for web resource location classification and detection
52	8,073,779	Disaggregated secure execution environment
53	8,073,766	Truth revealing market equilibrium
54	8,073,749	Digital content billing via multiple channels
55	8,073,680	Language detection service
56	8,073,679	Aligning hierarchial and sequential document trees to identify parallel data
57	8,073,673	Emulated memory management
58	8,073,671	Dynamic software performance models
59	8,073,467	WiFi and GSM landmarks and neighborhoods for location based services
60	8,073,442	Binding a device to a provider
61	8,073,258	Using handwriting recognition in computer algebra
62	8,073,125	Spatial audio conferencing
63	8,073,122	Message recall using digital rights management
64	8,073,113	Marking voice messages as heard
65	8,072,954	Mashup application and service for wireless devices
66	8,072,860	Data recording/reproduction for write-once discs
67	8,072,467	Request-driven on-demand processing
68	8,072,457	System and method for providing a dynamic expanded timeline
69	8,072,449	Workstation for processing and producing a video signal
70	8,072,433	Ink editing architecture
71	8,070,606	Progressive stall timer

Microsoft patent applications published on 01 December 2011

Administrator — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:18:57 +0000

100 US patent applications published on 01 December 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20110296533	DYNAMIC ASSERTION PROVIDERS FOR LOGIC-BASED SECURITY POLICY LANGUAGES
2	20110296532	SECURE SERIAL NUMBER
3	20110296524	Campaign Detection
4	20110296523	ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT MAPPING RESOURCE/ACTION PAIRS TO PRINCIPALS
5	20110296510	PROTECTING USER CREDENTIALS USING AN INTERMEDIARY COMPONENT
6	20110296505	CLOUD-BASED PERSONAL TRAIT PROFILE DATA
7	20110296497	Delegation-Based Authorization
8	20110296472	CONTROLLABLE DEVICE COMPANION DATA
9	20110296468	AUGMENTING TELEVISION MEDIA
10	20110296432	PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
11	20110296414	UPGRADING ROLES IN A ROLE-BASED ACCESS-BASED CONTROL MODEL
12	20110296407	EXPOSURE OF VIRTUAL CACHE TOPOLOGY TO A GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM
13	20110296406	HYPERVISOR SCHEDULER
14	20110296388	STATIC ANALYSIS USING INTERACTIVE AND INTEGRATION TOOLS
15	20110296377	DEPLOYMENT SCRIPT GENERATION AND EXECUTION
16	20110296373	COMMAND LINE SHELL COMMAND GENERATION BASED ON SCHEMA
17	20110296352	ACTIVE CALIBRATION OF A NATURAL USER INTERFACE
18	20110296349	RECENT CONTACTS AND ITEMS
19	20110296347	TEXT ENTRY TECHNIQUES
20	20110296342	TRANSLATING OVERLAPPING STATES INTO REPRESENTATIVE STATES
21	20110296331	GENERATION OF A BEST-FIT RIGGED BODY MODEL
22	20110296300	Concurrent Editing of a Document by Multiple Clients
23	20110296299	Concurrent Utilization of a Document by Multiple Threads
24	20110296292	EFFICIENT APPLICATION-NEUTRAL VECTOR DOCUMENTS
25	20110296290	METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROVIDING INFORMATION TO COMPUTER USERS
26	20110296258	ERROR CORRECTING POINTERS FOR NON-VOLATILE STORAGE
27	20110296250	Distributed Computing
28	20110296244	LOG MESSAGE ANOMALY DETECTION
29	20110296238	DATA ENCRYPTION CONVERSION FOR INDEPENDENT AGENTS
30	20110296234	VIRTUAL MACHINE I/O MULTIPATH CONFIGURATION
31	20110296225	Resource-Based Adaptive Server Loading
32	20110296187	CLAIM BASED CONTENT REPUTATION SERVICE
33	20110296155	AUTOMATICALLY STARTING SERVERS AT LOW TEMPERATURES
34	20110296109	CACHE CONTROL FOR ADAPTIVE STREAM PLAYER
35	20110296069	Fabric Based Lock Manager Service
36	20110296052	Virtual Data Center Allocation with Bandwidth Guarantees
37	20110296050	REALTIME WEBSITES WITH PUBLICATION AND SUBSCRIPTION
38	20110296043	Managing Shared Sessions in a Shared Resource Computing Environment
39	20110296003	USER ACCOUNT BEHAVIOR TECHNIQUES
40	20110295987	TRANSLATION OF TECHNOLOGY-AGNOSTIC MANAGEMENT COMMANDS INTO MULTIPLE MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS
41	20110295969	TOTALLY ORDERED LOG ON APPENDABLE STORAGE
42	20110295957	CONTINUOUS REPLICATION FOR SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
43	20110295949	Distributed Computing Using Communities
44	20110295948	CONTENT IDENTIFICATION FOR PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT RETRIEVAL
45	20110295934	Cached and Server Views with Automatic Caching and Smooth Scrolling
46	20110295929	Optimistic Concurrency Utilizing Distributed Constraint Enforcement
47	20110295921	Hybrid Greatest Common Divisor Calculator for Polynomials
48	20110295920	Computer-Implemented Symbolic Polynomial Factorization
49	20110295897	QUERY CORRECTION PROBABILITY BASED ON QUERY-CORRECTION PAIRS
50	20110295878	ASSISTED CONTENT AUTHORING
51	20110295875	LOCATION-AWARE QUERY BASED EVENT RETRIEVAL AND ALERTING
52	20110295871	Filtering and Sorting Information
53	20110295865	Schema Contracts for Data Integration
54	20110295863	EXPOSING METADATA RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH FILTER INTERPLAY
55	20110295855	Graph-Processing Techniques for a MapReduce Engine
56	20110295852	FEDERATED IMPLICIT SEARCH
57	20110295851	REAL-TIME ANNOTATION AND ENRICHMENT OF CAPTURED VIDEO
58	20110295850	DETECTION OF JUNK IN SEARCH RESULT RANKING
59	20110295847	CONCEPT INTERFACE FOR SEARCH ENGINES
60	20110295845	Semi-Supervised Page Importance Ranking
61	20110295844	ENHANCING FRESHNESS OF SEARCH RESULTS
62	20110295833	Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules
63	20110295802	SCALABLE POLICY-BASED DATABASE SYNCHRONIZATION OF SCOPES
64	20110295796	SYNCHRONIZATION OF SUBSETS OF DATA INCLUDING SUPPORT FOR VARYING SET MEMBERSHIP
65	20110295775	ASSOCIATING MEDIA WITH METADATA OF NEAR-DUPLICATES
66	20110295774	Training SVMs with Parallelized Stochastic Gradient Descent
67	20110295773	ASSISTED CLUSTERING
68	20110295693	Generating Tailored Content Based On Scene Image Detection
69	20110295688	DEFINING USER INTENT
70	20110295687	Per-User Predictive Profiles for Personalized Advertising
71	20110295677	EVENT-BASED AD TARGETING
72	20110295651	MESH PLATFORM UTILITY COMPUTING PORTAL
73	20110295626	INFLUENCE ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
74	20110295589	LOCATING PARAPHRASES THROUGH UTILIZATION OF A MULTIPARTITE GRAPH
75	20110295567	MIXTURE MODELING WITH COMPONENT-DEPENDENT PARTITIONS
76	20110295497	DETERMINING ALTERNATIVE ROUTES
77	20110295392	DETECTING REACTIONS AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK TO AN INTERACTION
78	20110294565	CONSOLIDATED GAME FLOW FOR LEARNING PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS
79	20110294564	ANIMATION FOR A PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS LEARNING TOOL GAME
80	20110294515	HYBRID MOBILE PHONE GEOPOSITIONING
81	20110294487	MANAGING SUBSCRIBERS ON A CELLULAR NETWORK
82	20110294486	EXTENSIBLE PHONE APPLICATION
83	20110293189	Facial Analysis Techniques
84	20110293180	Foreground and Background Image Segmentation
85	20110293177	Efficient Image and Video Recoloring for Colorblindness
86	20110293084	MANAGING CALL FORWARDING PROFILES
87	20110293077	PROCESS-INTEGRATED TREE VIEW CONTROL FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE DESIGN
88	20110292992	AUTOMATING DYNAMIC INFORMATION INSERTION INTO VIDEO
89	20110292792	Applying Policies to Schedule Network Bandwidth Among Virtual Machines
90	20110292347	3D Interaction for Mobile Device
91	20110292321	SHADOW ELIMINATION IN THE BACKLIGHT FOR A 3-D DISPLAY
92	20110292280	Interest Messaging Entertainment System
93	20110292162	NON-LINGUISTIC SIGNAL DETECTION AND FEEDBACK
94	20110292072	Pluggable Web-Based Visualizations for Applications
95	20110292066	Soft Disk Blue Noise Sampling
96	20110292064	Discrete Element Texture Synthesis
97	20110292053	PLACEMENT OF ANIMATED ELEMENTS USING VECTOR FIELDS
98	20110292031	MANIPULABLE HUMAN INTERACTIVE PROOFS
99	20110291901	SLOT ANTENNA
100	20110290882	QR CODE DETECTION

Microsoft patents granted on 29 November 2011

Administrator — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:44:52 +0000

31 US patents granted on 29 November 2011 and assigned to Microsoft

1	8,069,446	Parallel programming and execution systems and techniques
2	8,069,439	Framework for modeling continuations in workflows
3	8,069,433	Multi-format centralized distribution of localized resources for multiple products
4	8,069,417	Bifocal view: a novel calendar user interface
5	8,069,374	Fingerprinting event logs for system management troubleshooting
6	8,069,341	Unified provisioning of physical and virtual images
7	8,069,267	Advertisement refresh rules for network applications
8	8,069,260	Dynamic buffer settings for media playback
9	8,069,232	Wireless synchronization of media content and subscription content
10	8,069,211	High availability message transfer system for side effect messages
11	8,069,210	Graph based bot-user detection
12	8,069,208	Peer-to-peer buddy request and response
13	8,069,192	Computing device with relatively limited storage space and operating / file system thereof
14	8,069,186	Computer system architecture for automatic context associations
15	8,069,179	Preference judgements for relevance
16	8,069,167	Calculating web page importance
17	8,069,148	Configuration of multiple database audits
18	8,069,141	Interfaces for high availability systems and log shipping
19	8,069,081	Targeted advertising using object identification
20	8,069,052	Quantization and inverse quantization for audio
21	8,069,050	Multi-channel audio encoding and decoding
22	8,069,032	Lightweight windowing method for screening harvested data for novelty
23	8,068,588	Unified rules for voice and messaging
24	8,068,443	Using distributed timers in an overlay network
25	8,068,436	Methods and systems for estimating network available bandwidth using packet pairs and spatial filtering
26	8,068,433	Low power operation of networked devices
27	8,068,255	Gamut mapping spectral content to reduce perceptible differences in color appearance
28	8,068,247	System and method for users of mobile computing devices to print documents
29	8,068,121	Manipulation of graphical objects on a display or a proxy device
30	8,068,117	Parallel texture synthesis by upsampling pixel coordinates
31	8,066,568	System and method for providing feedback on game players and enhancing social matchmaking