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Microsoft patent applications published on 20 November 2008

Administrator — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:25:56 +0000

43 US patent applications published on 20 November 2008 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20080289027	Incorporating network connection security levels into firewall rules
2	20080289026	Firewall installer
3	20080289020	Identity Tokens Using Biometric Representations
4	20080288921	Transformations for Software Obfuscation and Individualization
5	20080288919	Encoding of Symbol Table in an Executable
6	20080288894	User interface for documents table of contents
7	20080288861	Generating a word-processing document from database content
8	20080288857	SHARING EDITABLE INK ANNOTATED IMAGES WITH ANNOTATION-UNAWARE APPLICATIONS
9	20080288822	EXHAUSTIVE SECURITY FUZZING FOR TRANSACT STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE
10	20080288750	Small barrier with local spinning
11	20080288695	DYNAMIC CREATION OF LOW-LEVEL INTERFACES
12	20080288666	Embedded System Development Platform
13	20080288659	MAINTAINING CONSISTENCY WITHIN A FEDERATION INFRASTRUCTURE
14	20080288647	APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE AND GENERALIZED NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATOR FOR TRANSLATION OF TRANSPORT-LAYER SESSIONS
15	20080288646	DATA CONSISTENCY WITHIN A FEDERATION INFRASTRUCTURE
16	20080288637	HIGHLY AVAILABLE CENTRAL CONTROLLER TO STORE AND ENFORCE VALID STATE TRANSITIONS OF DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS
17	20080288631	STANDARD BASED DETECTION AND LAUNCH OF CLIENT APPLICATIONS
18	20080288625	RFID DEVICE GROUPS
19	20080288622	Managing Server Farms
20	20080288580	Peer-to-peer collaboration system with edge routing
21	20080288562	Interactive storage meter for a storage container
22	20080288531	METADATA EDITING CONTROL
23	20080288526	Composition of electronic document layout
24	20080288524	FILTERING OF MULTI ATTRIBUTE DATA VIA ON-DEMAND INDEXING
25	20080288519	Format Negotiation for Media Remoting Scenarios
26	20080288510	DATA MODEL FOR A COMMON LANGUAGE
27	20080288492	Assisted management of bookmarked web pages
28	20080288491	User segment suggestion for online advertising
29	20080288487	Typed Relationships between Items
30	20080288483	Efficient retrieval algorithm by query term discrimination
31	20080288482	Leveraging constraints for deduplication
32	20080288481	Ranking online advertisement using product and seller reputation
33	20080288439	COMBINED PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY LISTS
34	20080288348	Ranking online advertisements using retailer and product reputations
35	20080288338	ONE-CLICK POSTING
36	20080288259	SPEECH RECOGNITION MACRO RUNTIME
37	20080288239	Localization and internationalization of document resources
38	20080288219	SENSOR ARRAY BEAMFORMER POST-PROCESSOR
39	20080287190	GAME HOSTING SERVICE
40	20080285654	Multiview coding with geometry-based disparity prediction
41	20080285088	Techniques to manage facsimile communications
42	20080284739	Human Interface Device
43	20080284667	Modification of antenna radiation pattern using loading elements

Microsoft patents granted on 18 November 2008

Administrator — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:22:36 +0000

65 US patents granted on 18 November 2008 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D580,950	Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D580,946	Graphical identification element for a display screen
3	D580,945	Image for a portion of a display screen
4	D580,944	Image for a portion of a display screen
5	D580,943	Portion of a display screen showing a user interface
6	D580,942	Graphical user interface for a portion of a display screen
7	7,454,797	Secure image authentication with discrete level tamper localization
8	7,454,789	Systems and methods for processing message attachments
9	7,454,778	Enforcing rights management through edge email servers
10	7,454,763	System and method for linking page content with a video media file and displaying the links
11	7,454,741	Method and apparatus for sharing data files among runtime environment applets in an integrated circuit card
12	7,454,718	Browser navigation for devices with a limited input system
13	7,454,717	Delimiters for selection-action pen gesture phrases
14	7,454,716	Clustering messages
15	7,454,715	Open grid navigational system
16	7,454,711	Auto thumbnail gallery
17	7,454,706	Multiple-page shell user interface
18	7,454,705	Cluster-based visualization of user traffic on an internet site
19	7,454,702	Tool for selecting ink and other objects in an electronic document
20	7,454,700	Method and apparatus for restricting the application of formatting to the contents of an electronic document
21	7,454,699	Smart content insertion
22	7,454,653	Reliability of diskless network-bootable computers using non-volatile memory cache
23	7,454,614	Method and apparatus for fault tolerant TCP handshaking
24	7,454,612	On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system
25	7,454,530	System and method to facilitate native use of small form factor devices
26	7,454,527	Architecture and related methods for streaming media content through heterogeneous networks
27	7,454,521	Byzantine fault quantifying clock synchronization
28	7,454,516	Scalable virtual partitioning of resources
29	7,454,510	Controlled relay of media streams across network perimeters
30	7,454,508	Consent mechanism for online entities
31	7,454,486	Profiling and tracing distributed applications
32	7,454,483	Method and apparatus for configuring servers
33	7,454,479	Flexible teleport architecture
34	7,454,477	Zero-copy transfer of memory between address spaces
35	7,454,471	Sending a range
36	7,454,465	Real-time collaboration and communication in a peer-to-peer networking infrastructure
37	7,454,462	Distributed computing services platform
38	7,454,447	Declarative pinning
39	7,454,444	Method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple versions of digital data
40	7,454,436	Generational global name table
41	7,454,435	Systems and methods for granular changes within a data storage system
42	7,454,413	Query expressions and interactions with metadata
43	7,454,408	System and method for optimized distributed file transfer
44	7,454,407	Techniques for estimating progress of database queries
45	7,454,393	Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora
46	7,454,344	Language model architecture
47	7,454,338	Training wideband acoustic models in the cepstral domain using mixed-bandwidth training data and extended vectors for speech recognition
48	7,454,336	Variational inference and learning for segmental switching state space models of hidden speech dynamics
49	7,454,332	Gain constrained noise suppression
50	7,454,088	Estimating orientation angle and translation values of a scanned image
51	7,454,077	Slideshow animation algorithms
52	7,453,997	Wireless internet services billing
53	7,453,939	Automatic video object extraction
54	7,453,906	Systems and methods for providing automatic network optimization with application variables
55	7,453,875	Querying for services using soap over UDP
56	7,453,868	Strategies for sending content to a target device
57	7,453,585	Error notification handling
58	7,453,474	Flexibly resizeable vector graphics
59	7,453,473	Method and apparatus for high-performance rendering and hit testing of a window tree
60	7,453,465	Encoding for remoting graphics to decoder device
61	7,453,463	Enlargement of font characters
62	7,453,419	Edge lighting system for interactive display surface
63	7,453,162	Systems and methods for performing quantum computations
64	7,452,278	Web access to secure data
65	7,451,926	Securing payment data

Microsoft patent applications published on 13 November 2008

Administrator — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:17:23 +0000

70 US patent applications published on 13 November 2008 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20080282354	ACCESS CONTROL BASED ON PROGRAM PROPERTIES
2	20080282351	Trusted Operating Environment for Malware Detection
3	20080282350	Trusted Operating Environment for Malware Detection
4	20080282347	Real-time network malware protection
5	20080282340	SAFE HASHING FOR NETWORK TRAFFIC
6	20080282336	Firewall control with multiple profiles
7	20080282335	Software firewall control
8	20080282315	Host control of partial trust accessibility
9	20080282314	Firewall with policy hints
10	20080282313	MULTI-PROFILE INTERFACE SPECIFIC NETWORK SECURITY POLICIES
11	20080282290	Interactive Viewer for Advertisements
12	20080282262	AUTOMATIC AND CONFIGURABLE LOADING OF LOOSELY COUPLED SERVICE ORIENTED SOFTWARE COMPONENTS
13	20080282260	DYNAMIC DISPATCH FOR CLASSES AND INTERFACES
14	20080282259	DECLARATIVE CONCURRENCY AND COORDINATION SCHEME FOR SOFTWARE SERVICES
15	20080282244	Distributed transactional deadlock detection
16	20080282238	STATIC TYPE FOR LATE BINDING
17	20080282233	RAPID APPLICATION INNOVATION UTILIZING AN ORTHOGONAL PROGRAMMING COMPONENT
18	20080282224	Type and property definition support for software
19	20080282202	GESTURED MOVEMENT OF OBJECT TO DISPLAY EDGE
20	20080282188	Shape elasticity in visual layout
21	20080282187	Visualization of citation and coauthor traversal
22	20080282174	Signing up to a person or entity
23	20080282159	Summarization of attached, linked or related materials
24	20080282147	Constraint and rule-based page layout
25	20080282111	Worker thread corruption detection and remediation
26	20080282108	PROGRAM SYNTHESIS AND DEBUGGING USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
27	20080282104	Self Healing Software
28	20080282103	Lightweight time change detection
29	20080282081	MUTUALLY AUTHENTICATED SECURE CHANNEL
30	20080282056	Hardware memory management unit simulation
31	20080282017	Serial Peripheral Interface Switch
32	20080281972	SECURE SHARING OF LOB BOUND INFORMATION IN CLIENT APPLICATIONS
33	20080281958	Unified Console For System and Workload Management
34	20080281927	Summarization tool and method for a dialogue sequence
35	20080281922	AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF EMAIL PREVIEWS AND SUMMARIES
36	20080281886	Concurrent, lock-free object copying
37	20080281885	Interleaved garbage collections
38	20080281856	Utilizing a schema for documenting managed code
39	20080281851	Archive for Physical and Digital Objects
40	20080281834	Block tracking mechanism for web personalization
41	20080281833	Configuration change management tool
42	20080281827	USING STRUCTURED DATABASE FOR WEBPAGE INFORMATION EXTRACTION
43	20080281821	Concept Network
44	20080281817	Accounting for behavioral variability in web search
45	20080281809	Automated analysis of user search behavior
46	20080281808	Recommendation of related electronic assets based on user search behavior
47	20080281806	SEARCHING A DATABASE OF LISTINGS
48	20080281786	PRODUCER/CONSUMER OPTIMIZATION
49	20080281777	Complex datastore with bitmap checking
50	20080281692	Virtual Points Clearinghouse
51	20080281606	IDENTIFYING AUTOMATED CLICK FRAUD PROGRAMS
52	20080281591	METHOD OF PATTERN RECOGNITION USING NOISE REDUCTION UNCERTAINTY
53	20080281586	REAL-TIME DETECTION AND PRESERVATION OF SPEECH ONSET IN A SIGNAL
54	20080281580	DYNAMIC PARSER
55	20080281578	DOCUMENT TRANSLATION SYSTEM
56	20080281510	RECOMMENDING ACTIONS BASED ON CONTEXT
57	20080279535	Subtitle data customization and exposure
58	20080279467	Learning image enhancement
59	20080279423	RECOVERING PARAMETERS FROM A SUB-OPTIMAL IMAGE
60	20080279291	OFDM transmission and reception for non-OFDMA signals
61	20080279197	Application level router for routing heterogeneous input to the most appropriate application
62	20080279147	Spectrum auction and sharing on wireless clients
63	20080279128	Simultaneous wireless support in software defined radio
64	20080279101	Context-Based Routing in Multi-hop Networks
65	20080279093	Interference detection
66	20080279092	Channel control based on error correction values
67	20080278568	Internet Video Conferencing On A Home Television
68	20080278481	PHOTO GENERATED 3-D NAVIGABLE STOREFRONT
69	20080278479	Creating optimized gradient mesh of a vector-based image from a raster-based image
70	20080277877	Progressive stall timer

Microsoft patents granted on 11 November 2008

Administrator — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:53:54 +0000

59 US patents granted on 11 November 2008 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D580,453	Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D580,452	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	D580,451	Icon for a portion of a display screen
4	D580,450	Graphical user interface for a display screen
5	D580,448	Graphical user interface for a portion of a display screen
6	D580,447	Key for a keyboard
7	D580,446	Set of keys for a keyboard
8	D580,440	Electronic mouse
9	7,451,490	Media data protection with secure installer
10	7,451,469	Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming
11	7,451,459	Systems, methods, and apparatus for indicating processor hierarchical topology
12	7,451,457	Facilitating interaction between video renderers and graphics device drivers
13	7,451,455	Apparatus and method for automatically manipulating software products
14	7,451,453	DVD navigator and application programming interfaces (APIs)
15	7,451,450	Resource manager architecture
16	7,451,435	Self-describing artifacts and application abstractions
17	7,451,432	Transformation of componentized and extensible workflow to a declarative format
18	7,451,407	Presentation of groups of items
19	7,451,402	Methods and systems for creating skins
20	7,451,399	Methods and systems for creating skins
21	7,451,397	System and method for automatically completing spreadsheet formulas
22	7,451,392	Rendering an HTML electronic form by applying XSLT to XML using a solution
23	7,451,391	Method for web page rules compliance testing
24	7,451,389	Method and system for semantically labeling data and providing actions based on semantically labeled data
25	7,451,352	Web controls validation
26	7,451,347	Failover scopes for nodes of a computer cluster
27	7,451,331	Method and apparatus for managing power in network interface modules
28	7,451,297	Computing system and method that determines current configuration dependent on operand input from another configuration
29	7,451,269	Ordering real-time accesses to a storage medium
30	7,451,232	Method for request and response direct data transfer and management of content manifests
31	7,451,229	System and method for embedding a streaming media format header within a session description message
32	7,451,211	Message exchange pattern tracking to avoid invalid message exchange
33	7,451,198	WAP XML extension for WiFi and desktop passthrough connections
34	7,451,186	Method and system of integrating instant messaging with other computer programs
35	7,451,180	System and method for using packed compressed buffers for improved client server communications
36	7,451,176	System and method providing multi-tier applications architecture
37	7,451,158	System and method for creating, appending and merging a work management file
38	7,451,157	Scoped metadata in a markup language
39	7,451,156	Method and apparatus for maintaining relationships between parts in a package
40	7,451,151	Training, inference and user interface for guiding the caching of media content on local stores
41	7,451,137	Using a rowset as a query parameter
42	7,451,136	System and method for searching multiple disparate search engines
43	7,451,127	Web store events
44	7,451,123	Probability estimate for K-nearest neighbor
45	7,451,083	Removing noise from feature vectors
46	7,451,075	Compressed speech lexicon and method and apparatus for creating and accessing the speech lexicon
47	7,450,852	IR control signal distribution via a communications network
48	7,450,786	Whiteboard imaging system
49	7,450,758	Stylization of video
50	7,450,754	Radiometric calibration from a single image
51	7,450,600	Method and apparatus for managing a data carousel
52	7,450,571	Resource allocation in multi-stream IP network for optimized quality of service
53	7,450,261	Wet ink
54	7,450,130	Adaptive scheduling to maintain smooth frame rate
55	7,450,126	Methods and systems for animating facial features, and methods and systems for expression transformation
56	7,450,125	Method and system for representing and displaying digital ink
57	7,450,124	Generating 2D transitions using a 3D model
58	7,450,084	System and method for managing computer monitor configurations
59	7,448,950	Game machine, method and program

Microsoft patent applications published on 06 November 2008

Administrator — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:45:22 +0000

38 US patent applications published on 06 November 2008 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20080276321	Secure Transfer Of Product-Activated Software To A New Machine Using A Genuine Server
2	20080276314	SOFTWARE PROTECTION INJECTION AT LOAD TIME
3	20080276278	USER INTERFACE PRESENTING ENHANCED VIDEO CONTENT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH VIDEO PROGRAMS
4	20080276260	Adaptive User Interface Verification
5	20080276253	AUTOMATED EVENT CORRELATION
6	20080276252	KERNEL EVENT VISUALIZATION
7	20080276248	Visibility-aware services
8	20080276243	Resource Management Platform
9	20080276238	Use of Metrics to Control Throttling and Swapping in a Message Processing
10	20080276195	LIVE COMPANION WINDOW
11	20080276181	Mesh-Managing Data Across A Distributed Set of Devices
12	20080276177	Tag-sharing and tag-sharing application program interface
13	20080276173	Iteratively Locating A Position Corresponding To A Desired Seek Time
14	20080276166	Automatic switching fonts on multilingual text runs
15	20080276123	AUTOMATION OF BARE METAL RECOVERIES
16	20080276098	ONE-TIME PASSWORD ACCESS TO PASSWORD-PROTECTED ACCOUNTS
17	20080276025	LOCK INFERENCE FOR ATOMIC SECTIONS
18	20080276007	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROXYING TELEPHONY MESSAGES
19	20080275993	Web service for user and subscription data storage
20	20080275978	METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR LOCATING GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS OF ONLINE USERS
21	20080275959	Distributed Search in a Casual Network of Servers
22	20080275957	Identifying and correlating electronic mail messages
23	20080275924	Bare Metal Recovery From Backup Media To Virtual Machine
24	20080275921	Self-managed processing device
25	20080275915	Image File Container
26	20080275902	Web page analysis using multiple graphs
27	20080275863	SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED UPON SEARCH RESULTS
28	20080275862	SPECTRAL CLUSTERING USING SEQUENTIAL MATRIX COMPRESSION
29	20080275847	Scalable minimal perfect hashing
30	20080275833	Link spam detection using smooth classification function
31	20080275770	Publisher advertisement return on investment optimization
32	20080273796	Image Text Replacement
33	20080273795	FLEXIBLE MATCHING WITH COMBINATIONAL SIMILARITY
34	20080273676	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE TELEPHONY SESSIONS
35	20080273672	Automated attendant grammar tuning
36	20080273475	Reconfigurable computer bus
37	20080273455	Retry Strategies for Use in a Streaming Environment
38	20080273435	OPTICAL DNA

Microsoft patents granted on 04 November 2008

Administrator — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:33:34 +0000

33 US patents granted on 04 November 2008 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,448,070	Network fingerprinting
2	7,448,068	Automatic client authentication for a wireless network protected by PEAP, EAP-TLS, or other extensible authentication protocols
3	7,448,062	Seamless playback of multiple clips of media data across a data network
4	7,448,039	Method and system for logging test data
5	7,448,023	Method and system for verifying rule compliance of an application object
6	7,447,999	Graphical user interface, data structure and associated method for cluster-based document management
7	7,447,997	Reducing information transfer in screen capture series
8	7,447,993	System and method for displaying a user interface object using an associated style
9	7,447,989	Method and system for setting document-linked timed reminders
10	7,447,947	System and method for economizing trace operations
11	7,447,942	Fast data breakpoint emulation
12	7,447,917	Obfuscated state store for rights management system and the like
13	7,447,912	Protecting digital goods using oblivious checking
14	7,447,896	OS mini-boot for running multiple environments
15	7,447,857	Multi-client cluster-based backup and restore
16	7,447,801	Composable data streams for managing flows
17	7,447,785	Dependent context trees for related network offerings
18	7,447,754	Methods and systems for processing multi-media editing projects
19	7,447,744	Challenge response messaging solution
20	7,447,741	Internet video conferencing on a home television
21	7,447,740	Internet video conferencing on a home television
22	7,447,707	Automatic schema discovery for electronic data interchange (EDI) at runtime
23	7,447,706	Method and system for generating an auto-completion list for a cascading style sheet selector
24	7,447,705	System and methods for the automatic transmission of new, high affinity media
25	7,447,677	System and method for enabling client applications to interactively obtain and present taxonomy information
26	7,447,630	Method and apparatus for multi-sensory speech enhancement
27	7,447,627	Compound word breaker and spell checker
28	7,447,622	Flexible network simulation tools and related methods
29	7,447,360	Analyzing tabular structures in expression recognition
30	7,447,299	Voice and telephone keypad based data entry for interacting with voice information services
31	7,447,176	Making roaming decisions based on association qualities between wireless devices and wireless access points
32	7,446,894	Synchronization of plugins
33	7,446,772	Spectator experience for networked gaming