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Microsoft patent applications published on 11 March 2010

Administrator — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:29:28 +0000

30 US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100064361	SECURELY ROAMING DIGITAL IDENTITIES
2	20100064284	Satisfying Missing Dependencies on a Running System
3	20100064282	DECLARATIVE TESTING FOR USER INTERFACES
4	20100064261	PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH RELATIVE GESTURE RECOGNITION MODE
5	20100064225	Network Map
6	20100064178	World-Readiness and Globalization Testing Assemblies
7	20100064177	NETWORK HANG RECOVERY
8	20100064141	EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR FINDING CANDIDATE OBJECTS FOR REMOTE DIFFERENTIAL COMPRESSION
9	20100064105	Leveraging Synchronous Communication Protocols to Enable Asynchronous Application and Line-of-Business Behaviors
10	20100064040	CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON BROWSING INFORMATION
11	20100064011	Automatic Non-Junk Message List Inclusion
12	20100063992	PIPELINE FOR NETWORK BASED SERVER-SIDE 3D IMAGE RENDERING
13	20100063967	UNIFIED SEARCHING AND RUNNING OF FILES
14	20100063882	SYNDICATED ADVERTISING AND COMMERCE THROUGH WIDGETS
15	20100063871	LINKING SERVICE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS TO PERFORMING ENTITIES
16	20100063855	FLEXIBLE SYSTEM HEALTH AND REMEDIATION AGENT
17	20100063797	DISCOVERING QUESTION AND ANSWER PAIRS
18	20100063785	Visualizing Relationships among Components Using Grouping Information
19	20100063732	NAVIGATION COMMUNICATION WITH SELF-IDENTIFYING ELEMENTS
20	20100063644	ENERGY COST REDUCTION AND AD DELIVERY
21	20100062753	INTELLIGENT CONTACT MANAGEMENT
22	20100061447	SKIP MODES FOR INTER-LAYER RESIDUAL VIDEO CODING AND DECODING
23	20100060925	Controlling Sensitive Information Leakage in Printing
24	20100060666	ZOOMING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
25	20100060645	MODIFYING A CHART
26	20100060606	HARD TAP
27	20100060605	PRESSURE SENSITIVE CONTROLS
28	20100060588	TEMPORALLY SEPARATE TOUCH INPUT
29	20100060567	CONTROLLING DEVICE OPERATION RELATIVE TO A SURFACE
30	20100060488	CLUTCH-HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT IN AN OPTICAL TRACKING DEVICE

Microsoft patents granted on 09 March 2010

Administrator — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:29:54 +0000

88 US patents granted on 09 March 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D611,497	Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D611,496	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	D611,494	Icon for a portion of a display screen
4	D611,488	Image for a display screen
5	D611,487	Image for a display screen
6	D611,486	Image for a portion of a display screen
7	D611,485	User interface for a portion of a display screen
8	D611,484	User interface for a portion of a display screen
9	D611,482	Keyboard
10	D611,481	Keyboard
11	D611,475	Electronic input device
12	D611,474	Computer input device
13	7,676,846	Binding content to an entity
14	7,676,845	System and method of selectively scanning a file on a computing device for malware
15	7,676,843	Executing applications at appropriate trust levels
16	7,676,840	Use of hashing in a secure boot loader
17	7,676,833	Login screen with identifying data
18	7,676,829	Multiple credentials in a distributed system
19	7,676,815	System and related methods for accessing management functionality through a command line utility
20	7,676,812	Large scale event notification system
21	7,676,811	Ensuring thread affinity for interprocess communication in a managed code environment
22	7,676,806	Deployment, maintenance and configuration of complex hardware and software systems
23	7,676,798	Mechanism for obtaining and applying constraints to constructs within an interactive environment
24	7,676,791	Implementation of concurrent programs in object-oriented languages
25	7,676,789	Architecture for customizable applications
26	7,676,787	Component based design time architecture
27	7,676,785	Hosted application as a designer in an integrated development environment
28	7,676,767	Peel back user interface to show hidden functions
29	7,676,761	Window grouping
30	7,676,756	Mapping tool graphical user interface
31	7,676,752	System and method to specify device specific user interface information in the firmware of a USB device
32	7,676,741	Structural context for fixed layout markup documents
33	7,676,740	XML serialization and deserialization
34	7,676,737	Synchronization mechanism and the implementation for multimedia captioning and audio descriptions
35	7,676,699	Event trace conditional logging
36	7,676,675	Architecture for connecting a remote client to a local client desktop
37	7,676,672	Administrative security systems and methods
38	7,676,638	Combined pessimistic and optimistic concurrency control
39	7,676,590	Background transcoding
40	7,676,586	Hierarchical federation metadata
41	7,676,582	Optimized desktop sharing viewer join
42	7,676,581	Web application resource management
43	7,676,580	Message delivery with configurable assurances and features between two endpoints
44	7,676,573	Node monitor client cache synchronization for mobile device management
45	7,676,565	Light weight software and hardware inventory
46	7,676,564	Managing stored data on a computer network
47	7,676,563	Task-oriented management of server configuration settings
48	7,676,562	Computer system for accessing instrumentation information
49	7,676,560	Using URI’s to identify multiple instances with a common schema
50	7,676,553	Incremental web crawler using chunks
51	7,676,551	Lookup partitioning storage system and method
52	7,676,549	Techniques for providing accessibility options in remote terminal sessions
53	7,676,541	Peer communication channel partitioning
54	7,676,540	Scoped referral statements
55	7,676,525	Efficient query processing of merge statement
56	7,676,524	Hierarchical cursor-based object model
57	7,676,521	Keyword search volume seasonality forecasting engine
58	7,676,520	Calculating importance of documents factoring historical importance
59	7,676,517	Search results injected into client applications
60	7,676,513	Scheduling of index merges
61	7,676,508	Method and system for recording and replaying input-output requests issued by a user-mode program
62	7,676,503	Hybrid computer restore using network service
63	7,676,495	Advanced streaming format table of contents object
64	7,676,493	Incremental approach to an object-relational solution
65	7,676,482	Method and apparatus for providing data from a data source to a data consumer, and for rendering data from a data provider to an interface
66	7,676,481	Serialization of file system item(s) and associated entity(ies)
67	7,676,476	Data types with incorporated collation information
68	7,676,469	Maintaining and displaying user ordered lists
69	7,676,461	Implementation of stream algebra over class instances
70	7,676,454	Private clustering and statistical queries while analyzing a large database
71	7,676,448	Controlling installation update behaviors on a client computer
72	7,676,437	Real-time license enforcement system and method
73	7,676,391	Resource-based capacity scheduling system
74	7,676,365	Method and apparatus for constructing and using syllable-like unit language models
75	7,676,242	Compact and durable thin smartphone
76	7,676,138	Television program pause for interactive sessions
77	7,676,118	Transformation of EXIF images
78	7,676,081	Image segmentation of foreground from background layers
79	7,676,066	System and method for selectively encoding a symbol code in a color space
80	7,676,063	System and method for eye-tracking and blink detection
81	7,675,976	Video coding using wavelet transform and sub-band transposition
82	7,675,922	System and method for providing a universal communications port with computer-telephony interface
83	7,675,856	Bandwidth estimation in broadband access networks
84	7,675,652	Correcting eye color in a digital image
85	7,675,527	Multisource composable projection of text
86	7,675,435	Smart filtering with multiple simultaneous keyboard inputs
87	7,675,418	Synchronous command model for RFID-enabling applications
88	7,673,795	Manipulation of unified messaging pins

Microsoft patent applications published on 04 March 2010

Administrator — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:09:41 +0000

64 US patent applications published on 04 March 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100058478	SOFTWARE ANTI-PIRACY PROTECTION
2	20100058454	COLLECTING ANONYMOUS AND TRACEABLE TELEMETRY
3	20100058451	LOAD BALANCING FOR SERVICES
4	20100058432	PROTECTING A VIRTUAL GUEST MACHINE FROM ATTACKS BY AN INFECTED HOST
5	20100058363	Intent-Oriented User Interface Application Programming Interface
6	20100058355	FIREWALL DATA TRANSPORT BROKER
7	20100058353	EXPOSURE OF REMOTELY INVOKABLE METHOD THROUGH A WEBPAGE TO AN APPLICATION OUTSIDE WEB BROWSER
8	20100058347	DATA CENTER PROGRAMMING MODEL
9	20100058320	Managing Distributed System Software On A Gaming System
10	20100058318	ROLLING UPGRADES IN DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS
11	20100058304	TYPE DESCRIPTOR MANAGEMENT FOR FROZEN OBJECTS
12	20100058297	SEAMLESS DEBUGGING AMONG DIFFERENT APPLICATION VIEWS
13	20100058293	DETOURING IN SCRIPTING SYSTEMS
14	20100058285	COMPOSITIONAL VIEW OF IMPERATIVE OBJECT MODEL
15	20100058283	FLEXIBLE BASE CLASS LIBRARY
16	20100058227	INTERNAL SCROLL ACTIVATION AND CURSOR ADORNMENT
17	20100058226	SCROLLABLE AREA MULTI-SCALE VIEWING
18	20100058203	MODIFYING CONVERSATION WINDOWS
19	20100058191	DISCOVERING ALTERNATIVE USER EXPERIENCES FOR WEBSITES
20	20100058172	HIERARCHICAL BIT STREAM MARKUP COMPILATION AND RENDERING
21	20100058167	Displaying Subscribable Content
22	20100058120	Dynamic Inline Sequence Interface
23	20100058105	Environment Wide Configuration System
24	20100058064	LOGIN AUTHENTICATION USING A TRUSTED DEVICE
25	20100058061	CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DATA STREAMS
26	20100058023	EFFICIENTLY MANAGING MODULAR DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS
27	20100057933	PROBABILISTIC MESH ROUTING
28	20100057923	Maintaining Client Affinity in Network Load Balancing Systems
29	20100057864	EMAIL MESSAGES
30	20100057863	COMPOSING MESSAGE PROCESSING PIPELINES
31	20100057859	EMAIL CONFIRMATION PAGE FOR SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS
32	20100057858	LEVERAGING COMMUNICATIONS TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL NETWORK FRIENDS
33	20100057837	SHARED HOSTING USING HOST NAME AFFINITY
34	20100057822	INVERSE TRANSFORMATION LOADING
35	20100057814	Project Property Sheets
36	20100057808	INTELLIGENT CONTAINER INDEX AND SEARCH
37	20100057798	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING SEARCH RESULTS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION NEEDS
38	20100057785	MINIMAL EXTENSIONS REQUIRED FOR MULTI-MASTER OFFLINE AND COLLABORATION FOR DEVICES AND WEB SERVICES
39	20100057784	Dynamic Metadata
40	20100057772	AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF AN ENTITY’S SEARCHABLE SOCIAL NETWORK USING ROLE-BASED INFERENCES
41	20100057754	PERSISTING A GROUP IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION
42	20100057707	QUERY-ORIENTED MESSAGE CHARACTERIZATION
43	20100057695	POST-PROCESSING SEARCH RESULTS ON A CLIENT COMPUTER
44	20100057689	SYNCHRONIZATION OF RECORDS OF A TABLE USING BOOKMARKS
45	20100057687	PREDICTING FUTURE QUERIES FROM LOG DATA
46	20100057682	Information Feeds of a Social Network
47	20100057675	Search Provider Recommendation
48	20100057647	ACCOMMODATING LEARNED CLAUSES IN RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR BOOLEAN SATISFIABILITY SOLVER
49	20100057508	STRUCTURED IMPLEMENTATION OF BUSINESS FUNCTIONALITY CHANGES
50	20100057452	SPEECH INTERFACES
51	20100056280	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM WIDE PARTY SYSTEM WITHIN A MULTIPLAYER GAMING ENVIRONMENT
52	20100056273	EXTENSIBLE SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZED AVATARS AND ACCESSORIES
53	20100056268	AUTOMATED DIRECT BIDS TO PURCHASE ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT UPON A PREDETERMINED EVENT
54	20100056100	RULES-BASED ASSOCIATION OF A PHONE NUMBER WITH ONE OR MORE DESTINATION LOCATIONS
55	20100054601	Image Tagging User Interface
56	20100054600	Tagging Images With Labels
57	20100054595	Automatic Image Straightening
58	20100054584	IMAGE-BASED BACKGROUNDS FOR IMAGES
59	20100054544	Photography Auto-Triage
60	20100053771	FLAT PANEL LENS
61	20100053592	METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGING
62	20100053154	METHODS FOR AUTOMATED AND SEMIAUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF VISUAL SEQUENCES, FLOWS, AND FLYOVERS BASED ON CONTENT AND CONTEXT
63	20100053110	SIMULTANEOUS INPUT ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS
64	20100053084	COLLAPSIBLE MOUSE WITH PINCH-RISK SOLUTION

Microsoft patents granted on 02 March 2010

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:03:46 +0000

68 US patents granted on 02 March 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D611,053	Transitional user interface for a portion of a display screen
2	7,673,341	System and method of efficiently identifying and removing active malware from a computer
3	7,673,330	Ad-hoc creation of group based on contextual information
4	7,673,326	System and method utilizing clean groups for security management
5	7,673,325	Configuration of WiFi network parameters
6	7,673,322	System and method for recording a signal using a central point of control
7	7,673,315	System and method for providing program criteria representing audio and/or visual programming
8	7,673,306	Extensible kernel-mode audio processing architecture
9	7,673,304	Multithreaded kernel for graphics processing unit
10	7,673,303	Simplified device drivers for hardware devices of a computer system
11	7,673,299	System and method for dynamically verifying the compatibility of a user interface resource
12	7,673,286	Architecture for converting control types in a data bound user interface
13	7,673,255	Interface and system for manipulating thumbnails of live windows in a window manager
14	7,673,250	Systems and methods for a dimmable user interface
15	7,673,235	Method and apparatus for utilizing an object model to manage document parts for use in an electronic document
16	7,673,233	Browser tab management
17	7,673,230	Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs
18	7,673,228	Data-driven actions for network forms
19	7,673,227	User interface for integrated spreadsheets and word processing tables
20	7,673,178	Break and optional hold on failure
21	7,673,148	Versioning component for applications
22	7,673,135	Request authentication token
23	7,673,131	Booting an operating system in discrete stages
24	7,673,109	Restricting type access to high-trust components
25	7,673,088	Multi-tasking interference model
26	7,673,069	Strong routing consistency protocol in structured peer-to-peer overlays
27	7,673,051	Resource usage conflict identifier
28	7,673,050	System and method for optimizing server resources while providing interaction with documents accessible through the server
29	7,673,046	Trusted network transfer of content using off network input code
30	7,673,045	Multiple site automated logout
31	7,673,040	Monitoring of service provider performance
32	7,673,020	System and method for facilitating communication between a computing device and multiple categories of media devices
33	7,673,013	Methods and systems for processing multi-media editing projects
34	7,673,003	Social network email filtering
35	7,673,001	Enterprise management of public instant message communications
36	7,673,000	Email service
37	7,672,995	System and method for publishing collaboration items to a web site
38	7,672,986	Managing graphic databases
39	7,672,975	Methods and systems for repairing playlists
40	7,672,967	Method and system for obfuscating data structures by deterministic natural data substitution
41	7,672,966	Adding extrinsic data columns to an existing database schema using a temporary column pool
42	7,672,960	Performing operations on a set of objects in a database system
43	7,672,953	Publishing work activity information key tags associated with shared databases in social networks
44	7,672,943	Calculating a downloading priority for the uniform resource locator in response to the domain density score, the anchor text score, the URL string score, the category need score, and the link proximity score for targeted web crawling
45	7,672,940	Processing an electronic document for information extraction
46	7,672,939	System and method providing automated margin tree analysis and processing of sampled data
47	7,672,938	Creating search enabled web pages
48	7,672,931	Searching for content using voice search queries
49	7,672,928	Query forced indexing
50	7,672,912	Classifying knowledge aging in emails using Naive Bayes Classifier
51	7,672,909	Machine learning system and method comprising segregator convergence and recognition components to determine the existence of possible tagging data trends and identify that predetermined convergence criteria have been met or establish criteria for taxonomy purpose then recognize items based on an aggregate of user tagging behavior
52	7,672,852	Localization of prompts
53	7,672,832	Standardized natural language chunking utility
54	7,672,743	Digital audio processing
55	7,672,542	Image frame abstraction model for image codecs
56	7,672,483	Controlling and customizing access to spatial information
57	7,672,234	Congestion avoidance within aggregate channels
58	7,671,893	System and method for interactive multi-view video
59	7,671,891	Online camera calibration
60	7,671,862	Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline
61	7,671,860	Representing implicit curves of procedural geometric surfaces
62	7,671,845	Directional input device and display orientation control
63	7,671,782	State-sensitive navigation aid
64	7,671,737	Monitoring and notification apparatus
65	7,671,497	Hobby servo adapter
66	7,670,701	Apparatus and method for heating fuel cells
67	7,670,227	Changeable console face plate
68	7,670,220	Racing games and other games having garage, showroom, and test drive features

Microsoft patent applications published on 25 February 2010

Administrator — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:26:40 +0000

18 US patent applications published on 25 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100050092	Content Sharing and Instant Messaging
2	20100049785	RECOVERY OF DISCONNECTED CHANNELS OVER A RELIABLE PROTOCOL
3	20100049776	FAT DIRECTORY STRUCTURE FOR USE IN TRANSACTION SAFE FILE
4	20100049772	EXTRACTION OF ANCHOR EXPLANATORY TEXT BY MINING REPEATED PATTERNS
5	20100049750	RECOVERY OF A COMPUTER THAT INCLUDES VIRTUAL DISKS
6	20100049609	GEOGRAPHICALLY TARGETED ADVERTISING
7	20100049502	METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING REFERENCE VARIATIONS FOR DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE DATA
8	20100049498	DETERMINING UTILITY OF A QUESTION
9	20100046849	Image Restoration By Vector Quantization Utilizing Visual Patterns
10	20100046626	ENTROPY CODING/DECODING OF HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED DATA
11	20100046612	CONVERSION OPERATIONS IN SCALABLE VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING
12	20100046399	RENDEZVOUSING RESOURCE REQUESTS WITH CORRESPONDING RESOURCES
13	20100045962	Distance Estimation Based On Image Contrast
14	20100045697	Social Virtual Avatar Modification
15	20100045611	TOUCH SCREEN MOBILE DEVICE AS GRAPHICS TABLET INPUT
16	20100045513	STABILITY MONITORING USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
17	20100045490	CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIC KEY CONTROL
18	20100044438	Counterfeit and Tamper Resistant Labels with Randomly Occurring Features

Microsoft patents granted on 23 February 2010

Administrator — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:39:47 +0000

57 US patents granted on 23 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,669,238	Evidence-based application security
2	7,669,235	Secure domain join for computing devices
3	7,669,222	Virtual tuner management
4	7,669,219	Synchronized media experience
5	7,669,208	Object synchronization between object stores on different computers
6	7,669,206	Dynamic redirection of streaming media between computing devices
7	7,669,205	Using messages to extend CRM functionality
8	7,669,178	System and method for interacting with computer programming languages at semantic level
9	7,669,177	System and method for preference application installation and execution
10	7,669,142	Viewable and actionable search results
11	7,669,140	System and method for providing rich minimized applications
12	7,669,124	System and method for managing resource loading in a multilingual user interface operating system
13	7,669,121	Transcode matrix
14	7,669,120	Method and system for encoding a mark-up language document
15	7,669,089	Multi-level file representation corruption
16	7,669,085	Method and apparatus for performing wireless diagnostics and troubleshooting
17	7,669,082	Fault tolerant and hang resistant media processing applications
18	7,669,070	Efficient communication power usage
19	7,669,056	Method and apparatus for measuring presentation data exposure
20	7,669,049	System and method for protecting privacy and anonymity of parties of network communications
21	7,669,048	Computing device limiting mechanism
22	7,669,044	Accelerated system boot
23	7,669,021	File system based offline disk management
24	7,668,972	System and method for multi-layered network communications
25	7,668,961	Unilateral web services interaction contract
26	7,668,960	Territorial determination of remote computer location in a wide area network for conditional delivery of digitized products
27	7,668,957	Partitioning social networks
28	7,668,939	Routing of resource information in a network
29	7,668,938	Method and system for dynamically purposing a computing device
30	7,668,931	Context-aware systems and methods, location-aware systems and methods, context-aware vehicles and methods of operating the same, and location-aware vehicles and methods of operating the same
31	7,668,929	Abstracting links to electronic resources in a network environment
32	7,668,918	Utilizing instant messaging to effectuate structured communication
33	7,668,908	System and method for generalized and distributed scalable eventing system
34	7,668,907	Method and system for selectively viewing participants of a multimedia network conference
35	7,668,906	Wire protocol for a media server system
36	7,668,902	Application programming interface for implementing directory service access using directory service markup language
37	7,668,873	Data store for software application documents
38	7,668,867	Array-based discovery of media items
39	7,668,847	Semi-structured data storage schema selection
40	7,668,845	C-tree for multi-attribute indexing
41	7,668,842	Playlist structure for large playlists
42	7,668,816	Dynamically updated quick searches and strategies
43	7,668,791	Distinguishing facts from opinions using a multi-stage approach
44	7,668,728	Time polynomial arrow-debreu market equilibrium
45	7,668,721	Indexing and strong verbal content
46	7,668,712	Audio encoding and decoding with intra frames and adaptive forward error correction
47	7,668,691	Activity classification from route and sensor-based metadata
48	7,668,537	Place specific buddy list services
49	7,668,513	Platform for enterprise wireless network management applications
50	7,668,386	Lossless compression algorithms for spatial data
51	7,668,382	Block-based fast image compression
52	7,668,346	Joint boosting feature selection for robust face recognition
53	7,668,242	Dynamically adaptive multimedia application program interface and related methods
54	7,667,872	Gamut mapping and rendering intent management system
55	7,667,717	System and method for displaying images utilizing multi-blending
56	7,667,704	System for efficient remote projection of rich interactive user interfaces
57	7,667,121	Kernel-mode audio processing modules

Microsoft patent applications published on 18 February 2010

Administrator — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:32:21 +0000

29 US patent applications published on 18 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100043056	PORTABLE DEVICE ASSOCIATION
2	20100043000	High Accuracy Timer
3	20100042988	Installation Management using Virtual Machines
4	20100042982	OPTIMIZATION OF IMPERATIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPOSITIONAL CONTENT
5	20100042963	Constrained Physical Design Tuning
6	20100042948	Web Page Content Discovery
7	20100042947	ANIMATIONS AND TRANSITIONS
8	20100042937	Activities Operating on Structured Data
9	20100042913	VARIABLE FORMATTING OF CELLS
10	20100042910	Social Media Guided Authoring
11	20100042735	CROSS-DOMAIN AUTHENTICATION
12	20100042656	CLAIM GENERATION FOR TESTING CLAIMS-BASED APPLICATIONS
13	20100042626	Transactional File System
14	20100042610	RANK DOCUMENTS BASED ON POPULARITY OF KEY METADATA
15	20100042604	Deployment of a Solution Artifact to a Client Application
16	20100042471	DETERMINATION OF ADVERTISEMENT REFERRER INCENTIVES AND DISINCENTIVES
17	20100042470	CONTEXT BASED ADVERTISEMENT FILTRATION
18	20100042469	MOBILE DEVICE ENHANCED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
19	20100042428	PROCESSING GASOLINE PRICE DATA IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT
20	20100042421	CONTEXT BASED ADVERTISEMENT BIDDING MECHANISM
21	20100042403	CONTEXT BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING
22	20100042320	LOCATION AWARE MOBILE-DEVICE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
23	20100040233	PROTOCOL FOR DEVICE TO STATION ASSOCIATION
24	20100039909	Host Initiated Background Formatting Of Optical Medium
25	20100039546	CMOS PHOTOGATE 3D CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED CHARGE SENSING CELL AND PIXEL GEOMETRY
26	20100039497	SATELLITE MICROPHONES FOR IMPROVED SPEAKER DETECTION AND ZOOM
27	20100039430	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFINING AND CONTROLLING ALGORITHMIC ELEMENTS IN A GRAPHICS DISPLAY SYSTEM
28	20100039066	ADVANCED INDUCTIVE CHARGING PAD FOR PORTABLE DEVICES
29	20100038821	Tactile Enhancement For Input Devices

Microsoft patents granted on 16 February 2010

Administrator — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +0000

88 US patents granted on 16 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,665,143	Creating secure process objects
2	7,665,131	Origination/destination features and lists for spam prevention
3	7,665,126	Mesh networks with exclusion capability
4	7,665,120	Visual summary of a web service policy document
5	7,665,115	Integration of media playback components with an independent timing specification
6	7,665,112	Dynamically generating video streams for slideshow presentations
7	7,665,109	Electronic program guide with hyperlinks to target resources
8	7,665,107	Viral advertising for interactive services
9	7,665,098	System and method for monitoring interactions between application programs and data stores
10	7,665,095	Dynamic reconfiguration of multimedia stream processing modules
11	7,665,093	Synchronization of runtime and application state via batching of workflow transactions
12	7,665,091	Cross-process common system resource data sharing
13	7,665,082	Methods and systems for adaptation, diagnosis, optimization, and prescription technology for network-based applications
14	7,665,077	System and method for sharing objects between applications in a virtual runtime environment
15	7,665,074	Mechanism for converting text output into objects
16	7,665,073	Compile time meta-object protocol systems and methods
17	7,665,072	Generating test cases for software with complex preconditions
18	7,665,061	Code builders
19	7,665,041	Architecture for controlling a computer using hand gestures
20	7,665,034	Accelerated scrolling
21	7,665,032	Sidebar engine, object model and schema
22	7,665,031	Method and system of taskbar button interfaces
23	7,665,028	Rich drag drop user interface
24	7,665,014	Method and apparatus for generating forms using form types
25	7,664,997	Failure handling and debugging with causalities
26	7,664,993	Automation of testing in remote sessions
27	7,664,966	Secure storage on recordable medium in a content protection system
28	7,664,949	Certifying and grouping distributed objects
29	7,664,944	Booting from a compressed image
30	7,664,937	Self-checking code for tamper-resistance based on code overlapping
31	7,664,932	Scalable and configurable execution pipeline of handlers having policy information for selectively acting on payload
32	7,664,927	Hash tables
33	7,664,916	Global smartcard cache methods and apparatuses
34	7,664,882	System and method for accessing multimedia content
35	7,664,880	Lightweight address for widely-distributed ADHOC multicast groups
36	7,664,871	Methods and apparatus for communication media commands and data using the HTTP protocol
37	7,664,870	Method and system for providing users a lower fidelity alternative until a higher fidelity experience is available
38	7,664,865	Securely hosting a webbrowser control in a managed code environment
39	7,664,856	Dynamically balancing user experiences in a multi-user computing system
40	7,664,828	Invalid policy detection
41	7,664,819	Incremental anti-spam lookup and update service
42	7,664,816	Multi-participant online activities
43	7,664,814	Presence-based seamless messaging
44	7,664,813	Dynamic data presentation
45	7,664,804	Method, system, and apparatus for exposing workbook ranges as data sources
46	7,664,796	Electronic labeling for offline management of storage devices
47	7,664,795	Apparatus and method for database migration
48	7,664,788	Method and system for synchronizing cached files
49	7,664,774	Sequence based physical design tuning
50	7,664,771	Optimizing defragmentation operations in a differential snapshotter
51	7,664,760	Inferred relationships from user tagged content
52	7,664,752	Authorization over a distributed and partitioned management system
53	7,664,746	Personalized search and headlines
54	7,664,740	Automatically displaying keywords and other supplemental information
55	7,664,739	Object search ui and dragging object results
56	7,664,735	Method and system for ranking documents of a search result to improve diversity and information richness
57	7,664,728	Systems and methods for parallel evaluation of multiple queries
58	7,664,726	Influence based rewards for word-of-mouth advertising ecosystems
59	7,664,724	Schema-based services for identity-based data access
60	7,664,723	Symbolic computation using an inverted match
61	7,664,537	Performance and efficiency of wireless devices
62	7,664,465	Robust coexistence service for mitigating wireless network interference
63	7,664,336	Video noise reduction
64	7,664,325	Framework for detecting a structured handwritten object
65	7,664,323	Scalable hash-based character recognition
66	7,664,266	Compression of fiber-based certificate of authenticity data
67	7,664,258	Randomized sparse formats for efficient and secure computation on elliptic curves
68	7,664,249	Methods and interfaces for probing and understanding behaviors of alerting and filtering systems based on models and simulation from logs
69	7,664,246	Sorting speakers in a network-enabled conference
70	7,664,203	Simultaneous tuning of multiple channels using intermediate frequency sub-sampling
71	7,664,185	Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding
72	7,664,177	Intra-coded fields for bi-directional frames
73	7,664,109	System and method for distributed streaming of scalable media
74	7,664,107	Self-stabilizing and fast-convergent structured peer-to-peer overlays
75	7,664,092	Multi-packet transport structure and method for encoding and transmitting network data over satellite network
76	7,664,075	Access point to access point range extension
77	7,664,067	Preserving socket connections over a wireless network
78	7,664,054	Neighbor location discovery with directional antennas in a mesh network
79	7,664,050	Auto-configuring operation modes for network elements
80	7,664,023	Dynamic protocol construction
81	7,663,641	Gamut mapping utilizing cusp points and three-dimensional boundary surfaces
82	7,663,639	Methods and systems for providing texture tiling and mirroring
83	7,663,623	Spherical harmonics scaling
84	7,663,620	Accessing 2D graphic content using axonometric layer views
85	7,663,602	Removable wireless keyboard with base
86	7,663,511	Dynamic character encoding
87	7,663,049	Kernel-mode audio processing modules
88	7,663,045	Music replacement in a gaming system

Microsoft patent applications published on 11 February 2010

Administrator — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:12:31 +0000

25 US patent applications published on 11 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100037319	TWO STAGE ACCESS CONTROL FOR INTELLIGENT STORAGE DEVICE
2	20100037303	Form Filling with Digital Identities, and Automatic Password Generation
3	20100037240	Non Intrusive Application Mechanism
4	20100037213	GRAMMAR-BASED GENERATION OF TYPES AND EXTENSIONS
5	20100037212	IMMUTABLE PARSING
6	20100037166	USER FEEDBACK CORRELATED TO SPECIFIC USER INTERFACE OR APPLICATION FEATURES
7	20100037164	RECYCLING OF VIEW COMPONENTS IN A USER INTERFACE
8	20100037148	Social Networking Tool
9	20100037140	Sections of a Presentation having User-Definable Properties
10	20100036959	SECURE RESOURCE NAME RESOLUTION
11	20100036903	DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
12	20100036859	Message Exchange Pattern Rendezvous Abstraction
13	20100036858	META FILE SYSTEM – TRANSPARENTLY MANAGING STORAGE USING MULTIPLE FILE SYSTEMS
14	20100036854	Sharing Television Clips
15	20100036848	EFFICIENT SIZE OPTIMIZATION OF VISUAL INFORMATION OR AUDITORY INFORMATION
16	20100036720	UBIQUITOUS INTENT-BASED CUSTOMER INCENTIVE SCHEME
17	20100036699	STRUCTURED IMPLEMENTATION OF BUSINESS ADAPTABILITY CHANGES
18	20100036693	FLOW TRACKING OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUBSTANCES
19	20100035695	REDUCING BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS FOR PEER-TO-PEER GAMING BASED ON IMPORTANCE OF REMOTE OBJECTS TO A LOCAL PLAYER
20	20100035692	AVATAR CLOSET/ GAME AWARDED AVATAR
21	20100035691	METHOD AND SYSTEM PROVIDING SPECTATOR INFORMATION FOR A MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION
22	20100034381	SECURE RESOURCE NAME RESOLUTION USING A CACHE
23	20100034361	AUGMENTING A CALL WITH CONTEXT
24	20100033504	Windowless Shape Drawing
25	20100033488	Example-Based Motion Detail Enrichment in Real-Time

Microsoft patents granted on 09 February 2010

Administrator — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:32:47 +0000

63 US patents granted on 09 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,661,141	Systems and methods that optimize row level database security
2	7,661,126	Systems and methods for authenticating a user interface to a computer user
3	7,661,124	Rule-driven specification of web service policy
4	7,661,123	Security policy update supporting at least one security service provider
5	7,661,109	Transporting objects between a client and a server
6	7,661,096	Interaction with nested and non-nested streams
7	7,661,093	Method and system for assessing performance of a video interface using randomized parameters
8	7,661,091	Extensible on-demand property system
9	7,661,088	Systems and methods to efficiently and automatically effect population of custom controls onto a visual designer toolbox
10	7,661,076	Two dimensional trees to edit graph-like diagrams
11	7,661,074	Keyboard accelerator
12	7,661,072	Accelerated scrolling
13	7,661,071	Creation of three-dimensional user interface
14	7,661,069	System and method for visually expressing user interface elements
15	7,661,068	Extended eraser functions
16	7,661,065	Systems and methods that facilitate improved display of electronic documents
17	7,661,064	Displaying text intraline diffing output
18	7,660,999	MIME handling security enforcement
19	7,660,993	Cryptographic puzzle cancellation service for deterring bulk electronic mail messages
20	7,660,950	Output cache manager
21	7,660,914	Auxiliary display system architecture
22	7,660,904	Providing keys to share data within an instant messaging session
23	7,660,899	Web site cobrowsing
24	7,660,891	Node discovery involving stealth node enumerators
25	7,660,871	System and method for automatically generating networked service installation based on subscription status
26	7,660,865	Spam filtering with probabilistic secure hashes
27	7,660,859	Tracking of electronic mail messages
28	7,660,856	Method and system for web-based event notification
29	7,660,852	Meeting structures and global unique identifiers
30	7,660,851	Meetings near me
31	7,660,850	Supporting a serial and a parallel invitation protocol
32	7,660,833	Granular control over the authority of replicated information via fencing and unfencing
33	7,660,829	System and method for delegating file system operations
34	7,660,817	System and method for representing content in a file system
35	7,660,813	Facility for highlighting documents accessed through search or browsing
36	7,660,811	System that facilitates database querying
37	7,660,809	Using a file server as a central shared database
38	7,660,808	Automatically indexing a collection of files of a selected type
39	7,660,806	Automated error checking system and method
40	7,660,804	Joint optimization of wrapper generation and template detection
41	7,660,797	Scanning data in an access restricted file for malware
42	7,660,792	System and method for spam identification
43	7,660,791	System and method for determining initial relevance of a document with respect to a given category
44	7,660,789	Entity agent
45	7,660,786	Data independent relevance evaluation utilizing cognitive concept relationship
46	7,660,781	Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for searching and navigating a document database
47	7,660,779	Intelligent autofill
48	7,660,713	Systems and methods that detect a desired signal via a linear discriminative classifier that utilizes an estimated posterior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
49	7,660,705	Bayesian approach for learning regression decision graph models and regression models for time series analysis
50	7,660,512	Systems and methods for managing frame rates during multimedia playback
51	7,660,463	Foreground extraction using iterated graph cuts
52	7,660,422	Encryption key updating for multiple site automated login
53	7,660,351	Video deblocking
54	7,660,285	Traffic-aware routing in wireless networks
55	7,660,047	Flat panel lens
56	7,659,920	System and method for very low frame rate teleconferencing employing image morphing and cropping
57	7,659,902	API communications for vertex and pixel shaders
58	7,659,901	Application program interface for programmable graphics pipeline
59	7,659,890	Automatic height adjustment for electronic highlighter pens and mousing devices
60	7,659,887	Keyboard with a touchpad layer on keys
61	7,659,885	Method and system for using a keyboard overlay with a touch-sensitive display screen
62	7,659,851	Radio frequency certificates of authenticity and related scanners
63	7,658,625	AC Power adapter with swiveling plug having folding prongs

Microsoft patent applications published on 04 February 2010

Administrator — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:22:41 +0000

39 US patent applications published on 04 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100031370	SOFTWARE ENHANCED TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE
2	20100031354	Distributive Security Investigation
3	20100031353	Malware Detection Using Code Analysis and Behavior Monitoring
4	20100031320	USER INDICATOR SIGNIFYING A SECURE MODE
5	20100031287	AUTOMATION-RESISTANT, ADVERTISING-MERGED INTERACTIVE SERVICES
6	20100031254	Efficient detection and response to spin waits in multi-processor virtual machines
7	20100031248	Installation Sequence Manager
8	20100031203	USER-DEFINED GESTURE SET FOR SURFACE COMPUTING
9	20100031202	USER-DEFINED GESTURE SET FOR SURFACE COMPUTING
10	20100031152	Creation and Navigation of Infinite Canvas Presentation
11	20100031150	RAISING THE VISIBILITY OF A VOICE-ACTIVATED USER INTERFACE
12	20100030906	RE-ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION FOR AN APPLICATION LAYER VIA A SERVICE LAYER
13	20100030900	Peer-to-Peer Identity Management Interfaces and Methods
14	20100030896	ESTIMATING LATENCIES FOR QUERY OPTIMIZATION IN DISTRIBUTED STREAM PROCESSING
15	20100030871	POPULATING AND USING CACHES IN CLIENT-SIDE CACHING
16	20100030845	ENFORCEMENT OF OBJECT PERMISSIONS IN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE
17	20100030840	Content Discovery and Transfer Between Mobile Communications Nodes
18	20100030809	MAINTAINING LARGE RANDOM SAMPLE WITH SEMI-RANDOM APPEND-ONLY OPERATIONS
19	20100030796	EFFICIENT COLUMN BASED DATA ENCODING FOR LARGE-SCALE DATA STORAGE
20	20100030770	SEARCHING QUESTIONS BASED ON TOPIC AND FOCUS
21	20100030769	CLUSTERING QUESTION SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON TOPIC AND FOCUS
22	20100030757	QUERY BUILDER FOR TESTING QUERY LANGUAGES
23	20100030748	EFFICIENT LARGE-SCALE PROCESSING OF COLUMN BASED DATA ENCODED STRUCTURES
24	20100030695	MOBILE DEVICE SECURITY USING WEARABLE SECURITY TOKENS
25	20100030648	SOCIAL MEDIA DRIVEN ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING
26	20100029355	Real-Time Sequential Game Play
27	20100027889	CURVISE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION WITH HIERARCHICAL PROTOTYPE SEARCH
28	20100027843	SURFACE UI FOR GESTURE-BASED INTERACTION
29	20100027835	RECOGNIZING ACTIONS OF ANIMATE OBJECTS IN VIDEO
30	20100027776	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RINGBACK TONES
31	20100027588	Content Transfer
32	20100027563	EVOLUTION CODES (OPPORTUNISTIC ERASURE CODING) PLATFORM
33	20100027424	Path Estimation in a Wireless Mesh Network
34	20100027419	INVERSE MULTIPLEXING HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS LINKS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE VEHICULAR CONNECTIVITY
35	20100026850	IMAGING SYSTEM
36	20100026781	VIDEO REGION OF INTEREST FEATURES
37	20100026700	GPU SCENE COMPOSITION AND ANIMATION
38	20100026698	AVATAR ITEMS AND ANIMATIONS
39	20100026470	FUSING RFID AND VISION FOR SURFACE OBJECT TRACKING

Microsoft patents granted on 02 February 2010

Administrator — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:56:37 +0000

63 US patents granted on 02 February 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,657,932	Extendible security token management architecture and secure message handling methods
2	7,657,923	Framework for a security system
3	7,657,922	Dynamic digital recording
4	7,657,917	Interactivity emulator for broadcast communication
5	7,657,896	Method and system for exposing nested data in a computer-generated document in a transparent manner
6	7,657,888	Method for forking or migrating a virtual machine
7	7,657,876	System and method for using data address sequences of a program in a software development tool
8	7,657,874	Pattern types as constraints on generic type parameters
9	7,657,873	Visualizer system and methods for debug environment
10	7,657,869	Integration of external tools into an existing design environment
11	7,657,867	System and method for generating a predicate abstraction of a program
12	7,657,846	System and method for displaying stack icons
13	7,657,845	Media frame object visualization system
14	7,657,842	Sidebar tile free-arrangement
15	7,657,830	Layout size sharing in a grid layout for a user interface
16	7,657,829	Audio and video buffer synchronization based on actual output feedback
17	7,657,827	Control-scoped user interface workflow
18	7,657,789	Multi-machine testing system and method for testing software
19	7,657,752	Digital signal watermaker
20	7,657,746	Supporting statements for credential based access control
21	7,657,745	Secure electronic transfer without requiring knowledge of secret data
22	7,657,655	Method and system to determine the geographic location of a network user
23	7,657,648	Hybrid tree/mesh overlay for data delivery
24	7,657,638	Routing client requests to back-end servers
25	7,657,612	XML schema for network device configuration
26	7,657,592	System and method for persisting state across navigations in a navigation-based application and for responding to navigation-related events throughout an application
27	7,657,591	Dispatching client requests to appropriate server-side methods
28	7,657,580	System and method providing virtual applications architecture
29	7,657,574	Persistent storage file change tracking
30	7,657,572	Selectively utilizing a plurality of disparate solid state storage locations
31	7,657,571	Electronic data snapshot generator
32	7,657,558	Establishing relationships between objects based on object interfaces
33	7,657,556	Positional access using a b-tree
34	7,657,554	Method and system for managing user interface messages
35	7,657,552	Declarative sequenced report parameterization
36	7,657,519	Forming intent-based clusters and employing same by search
37	7,657,513	Adaptive help system and user interface
38	7,657,507	Pseudo-anchor text extraction for vertical search
39	7,657,506	Methods and apparatus for automated matching and classification of data
40	7,657,505	Data retrieval from a database utilizing efficient eager loading and customized queries
41	7,657,504	User interface for displaying images of sights
42	7,657,493	Recommendation system that identifies a valuable user action by mining data supplied by a plurality of users to find a correlation that suggests one or more actions for notification
43	7,657,454	Server-side project manager
44	7,657,450	Reliable, secure and scalable infrastructure for event registration and propagation in a distributed enterprise
45	7,657,417	Method, system and machine readable medium for publishing documents using an ontological modeling system
46	7,657,397	Statistical method and system for taking performance measurements
47	7,657,379	Methods and systems for determining the biological function of cell constituents using response profiles
48	7,657,255	Provisioning of wireless connectivity for devices using NFC
49	7,657,123	Text document capture with jittered digital camera
50	7,657,102	System and method for fast on-line learning of transformed hidden Markov models
51	7,657,094	Handwriting recognition training and synthesis
52	7,657,089	Automatic classification of photographs and graphics
53	7,657,060	Stylization of video
54	7,657,029	Systems and methods for generating random addition chains
55	7,656,894	Offloading processing tasks to a peripheral device
56	7,656,853	Reducing power consumption of a wireless device
57	7,656,810	System and method for monitoring and reacting to peer-to-peer network metrics
58	7,656,415	Aggregation of curve effects
59	7,656,412	Texture resampling with a processor
60	7,656,395	Methods and apparatuses for compound tracking systems
61	7,656,389	Input device with forward/backward control
62	7,656,385	Slip resistant and/or non-linear force response pedal peripheral device
63	7,654,858	Indicator light for connector

Microsoft patent applications published on 28 January 2010

Administrator — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:16:35 +0000

28 US patent applications published on 28 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100024044	SPECIFYING RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL RIGHTS LICENSE ACCORDING TO EVENTS
2	20100024034	DETECTING MACHINES COMPROMISED WITH MALWARE
3	20100024030	RESTARTABLE TRANSFORMATION AUTOMATON
4	20100023954	Generic User Interface Command Architecture
5	20100023934	Computer Application Packages with Customizations
6	20100023924	NON-CONSTANT DATA ENCODING FOR TABLE-DRIVEN SYSTEMS
7	20100023895	Touch Interaction with a Curved Display
8	20100023893	ACTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE TARGETED ADVERTISING
9	20100023885	SYSTEM FOR EDITING AN AVATAR
10	20100023852	DECLARATIVE FORMS AND VIEWS
11	20100023851	PRESENTING ANNOTATIONS IN HIERARCHICAL MANNER
12	20100023798	ERROR RECOVERY AND DIAGNOSIS FOR PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA
13	20100023788	Reducing Power Consumption by Offloading Applications
14	20100023767	API for Diffie-Hellman secret agreement
15	20100023738	State Separation for Application Changes
16	20100023547	AUTOMATIC USER INTERFACE GENERATION FOR ENTITY INTERACTION
17	20100023508	SEARCH ENGINE ENHANCEMENT USING MINED IMPLICIT LINKS
18	20100023497	Using an ID Domain to Improve Searching
19	20100023486	STATIC TYPING OF XQUERY EXPRESSIONS IN LAX VALIDATION CONTENT
20	20100023315	RANDOM WALK RESTARTS IN MINIMUM ERROR RATE TRAINING
21	20100023259	DISCOVERING POINTS OF INTEREST FROM USERS MAP ANNOTATIONS
22	20100021060	METHOD FOR OVERLAPPING VISUAL SLICES
23	20100020882	Barbell Lifting for Wavelet Coding
24	20100020774	INTERACTIVE WiFi CONNECTIVITY FOR MOVING VEHICLES
25	20100020234	Closed captioning preferences
26	20100020101	PRESENTING DYNAMIC GRIDS
27	20100020071	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING GRAPHICS OBJECTS IN A GRAPHICS DISPLAY SYSTEM
28	20100020026	Touch Interaction with a Curved Display

Microsoft patents granted on 26 January 2010

Administrator — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:47:26 +0000

54 US patents granted on 26 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D608,786	Graphical user interface for a portion of a display screen
2	D608,773	Handset
3	D608,768	Microphone
4	7,653,944	Segmentation based content alteration techniques
5	7,653,943	Secure media path methods, systems, and architectures
6	7,653,936	Distributed expression-based access control
7	7,653,921	System and method for providing user control over repeating objects embedded in a stream
8	7,653,916	Uniform resource discovery
9	7,653,913	Method and apparatus for creating templates
10	7,653,896	Smart UI recording and playback framework
11	7,653,893	Methods and apparatus for implementing checkin policies in source code control systems
12	7,653,881	Failure handling and debugging with causalities
13	7,653,880	Application of data-binding mechanism to perform command binding
14	7,653,879	User interface for context sensitive creation of electronic mail message handling rules
15	7,653,875	Browser sensitive web content delivery
16	7,653,812	Method and system for evaluating confidence in a sending domain to accurately assign a trust that a communication is not unwanted
17	7,653,802	System and method for using address lines to control memory usage
18	7,653,794	Converting physical machines to virtual machines
19	7,653,761	Automatic delivery of personalized content to a portable media player with feedback
20	7,653,749	Remote protocol support for communication of large objects in arbitrary format
21	7,653,747	Resolving virtual network names
22	7,653,743	Protocol for throttling high volume messages
23	7,653,731	Management of connections to external data
24	7,653,720	Propagation of information on an indexed addressed network
25	7,653,715	Method and system for supporting the communication of presence information regarding one or more telephony devices
26	7,653,705	Interactive recording and playback for network conferencing
27	7,653,700	System and method for performing client-centric load balancing of multiple globally-dispersed servers
28	7,653,694	E-mail containing a web-based form
29	7,653,684	Enabling inter-subsystem resource sharing
30	7,653,665	Systems and methods for avoiding database anomalies when maintaining constraints and indexes in presence of snapshot isolation
31	7,653,664	Anchor for database synchronization excluding uncommitted transaction modifications
32	7,653,657	Strategies for discovering media resources
33	7,653,653	Dynamically configurable lists for including multiple content types
34	7,653,652	Database schema for structured query language (SQL) server
35	7,653,648	Permissions using a namespace
36	7,653,643	Method and apparatus for compressing a data set
37	7,653,642	Auto quota
38	7,653,640	Two-way and multi-master synchronization over web syndications
39	7,653,638	Data ecosystem awareness
40	7,653,637	Indirect persistent storage for plugin in container
41	7,653,629	Priority differentiated subtree locking
42	7,653,627	System and method for utilizing the content of an online conversation to select advertising content and/or other relevant information for display
43	7,653,622	Automated content categorization
44	7,653,615	Preserving privacy when statistically analyzing a large database
45	7,653,611	Diagnostic report improvement utilizing unobtrusive workflow logging
46	7,653,547	Method for testing a speech server
47	7,653,535	Learning statistically characterized resonance targets in a hidden trajectory model
48	7,653,528	Resource authoring incorporating ontology
49	7,653,363	System and apparatus for performing broadcast and localcast communications
50	7,653,261	Image tapestry
51	7,653,191	Voice call routing by dynamic personal profile
52	7,653,134	Video coding using wavelet transform of pixel array formed with motion information
53	7,653,018	Differential update for data broadcasting
54	7,652,716	Computer-controlled lighting for video communication

Microsoft patent applications published on 21 January 2010

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:21:40 +0000

19 US patent applications published on 21 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100017883	LOCKBOX FOR MITIGATING SAME ORIGIN POLICY FAILURES
2	20100017845	DIFFERENTIATED AUTHENTICATION FOR COMPARTMENTALIZED COMPUTING RESOURCES
3	20100017843	Scenario Based Security
4	20100017798	Automatic Computer Program Customization Based On A User Information Store
5	20100017740	PAN AND ZOOM CONTROL
6	20100017734	RICH DRAG DROP USER INTERFACE
7	20100017701	NOTIFICATION OF ACTIVITY AROUND DOCUMENTS
8	20100017602	Ad-Hoc Trust Establishment Using Visual Verification
9	20100017597	SECURE NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISIONING
10	20100017581	LOW OVERHEAD ATOMIC MEMORY OPERATIONS
11	20100017495	Fast Byzantine Paxos
12	20100017403	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCOPING SEARCHES USING INDEX KEYS
13	20100017386	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-ADAPTING CLASSIFICATION OF USER GENERATED CONTENT
14	20100017314	TRAVEL EXPENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
15	20100017292	NEED-DRIVEN ADVERTISING
16	20100017238	TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
17	20100014312	Prismatic Film Backlight
18	20100013854	GPU BEZIER PATH RASTERIZATION
19	20100013777	TRACKING INPUT IN A SCREEN-REFLECTIVE INTERFACE ENVIRONMENT

Microsoft patents granted on 19 January 2010

Administrator — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:30:08 +0000

49 US patents granted on 19 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,650,641	Lightweight privacy cover for displayed sensitive information
2	7,650,639	System and method for protecting a limited resource computer from malware
3	7,650,603	Resource management for virtualization of graphics adapters
4	7,650,600	Unique identifier resolution interfaces for lightweight runtime identity
5	7,650,599	Method and system for accepting precompiled information
6	7,650,595	Sound transaction-based reduction without cycle detection
7	7,650,593	Proxy objects for display
8	7,650,575	Rich drag drop user interface
9	7,650,573	Layout rules for whitespace sensitive literals
10	7,650,568	Implementing handwritten shorthand in a computer system
11	7,650,566	Representing list definitions and instances in a markup language document
12	7,650,563	Aggregating metadata for media content from multiple devices
13	7,650,539	Observing debug counter values during system operation
14	7,650,514	Scalable leases
15	7,650,495	Security gateway for online console-based gaming
16	7,650,493	System and method for integrating secure and non-secure software objects
17	7,650,492	Automatic update of computer-readable components to support a trusted environment
18	7,650,482	Enhanced shadow page table algorithms
19	7,650,478	Using limits on address translation to control access to an addressable entity
20	7,650,458	Flash memory driver
21	7,650,436	I/O handling in generic USB drivers
22	7,650,433	Power management for multi-interface device clusters
23	7,650,431	Serving locally relevant advertisements
24	7,650,421	Adaptable accelerated content streaming
25	7,650,406	Termination of a security association between devices
26	7,650,404	Method and mechanism for providing computer programs with computer system events
27	7,650,403	System and method for client side monitoring of client server communications
28	7,650,395	Network connectivity management
29	7,650,394	Synchronizing email recipient lists using block partition information
30	7,650,384	Maintaining real-time conversations over unreliable connections
31	7,650,371	Finalizable object usage in software transactions
32	7,650,360	System and methods for database lock with reference counting
33	7,650,357	Translation of object queries involving inheritence
34	7,650,356	Generating an optimized restore plan
35	7,650,353	XML specification for electronic data interchange (EDI)
36	7,650,349	Prescribed navigation using topology metadata and navigation path
37	7,650,346	User-defined type consistency checker
38	7,650,345	Entity lookup system
39	7,650,337	Managing rich presence collections
40	7,650,333	Smartfilter in messaging
41	7,650,332	Database query tools
42	7,650,317	Active learning framework for automatic field extraction from network traffic
43	7,650,031	Method and system for detecting black frames in a sequence of frames
44	7,649,983	Apparatus and method for channel-transparent multimedia broadcast messaging
45	7,649,943	Interface and related methods facilitating motion compensation in media processing
46	7,649,899	System and method for dynamic egress routing through a single default gateway in a mesh network
47	7,649,841	Competitive and considerate congestion control
48	7,649,539	Image formats for video capture, processing and display
49	7,649,534	Design of arbitrary linear and non-linear maps

Microsoft patent applications published on 14 January 2010

Administrator — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:01:26 +0000

21 US patent applications published on 14 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100011446	VERIFICATION OF UN-TRUSTED CODE FOR CONSUMPTION ON AN INSECURE DEVICE
2	20100011432	AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PROTECTION
3	20100011313	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A TAB WITHIN A TABBED BROWSER
4	20100011308	Text box numbering and linking visual aids
5	20100011288	SIMULTANEOUSLY REFORMATTING A DOCUMENT WITH MULTIPLE COLORS
6	20100011284	DYNAMIC WEB PAGE BEHAVIOR
7	20100011203	CONTROL PROTOCOL FOR IMAGE ENUMERATION AND TRANSFER
8	20100011194	STATE AS A FIRST-CLASS CITIZEN OF AN IMPERATIVE LANGUAGE
9	20100011119	AUTOMATIC BIT RATE DETECTION AND THROTTLING
10	20100011050	Content Management that Addresses Levels of Functionality
11	20100010945	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB RESOURCE LOCATION CLASSIFICATION AND DETECTION
12	20100010866	ADVERTISING ACROSS SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION PATHWAYS
13	20100010822	SOCIAL PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENTS
14	20100010801	CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND ERROR RECOVERY STRATEGIES
15	20100010733	ROUTE PREDICTION
16	20100010653	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED AUDIO CONTROL ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER
17	20100009747	Programming APIS for an Extensible Avatar System
18	20100009662	DELAYING INTERACTION WITH POINTS OF INTEREST DISCOVERED BASED ON DIRECTIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION
19	20100008513	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING WORLD ENVIRONMENT REVERBERATION FROM A GAME GEOMETRY
20	20100008488	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED AUDIO CONTROL ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER
21	20100008255	MESH NETWORK SERVICES FOR DEVICES SUPPORTING DYNAMIC DIRECTION INFORMATION

Microsoft patents granted on 12 January 2010

Administrator — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:58:20 +0000

65 US patents granted on 12 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D607,897	Icon for a portion of a display screen
2	D607,896	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	D607,895	Icon for a portion of a display screen
4	D607,893	Transitional icon for a portion of a display screen
5	D607,892	User interface for a portion of a display screen
6	D607,891	User interface for a portion of a display screen
7	7,647,640	System for binding secrets to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes
8	7,647,636	Generic RootKit detector
9	7,647,634	Managing access to a network
10	7,647,629	Hosted code runtime protection
11	7,647,597	Transparent and sub-classable proxies
12	7,647,587	Methods for enhancing type reconstruction
13	7,647,582	Application domain manager
14	7,647,580	General programming language support for nullable types
15	7,647,560	User interface for multi-sensory emoticons in a communication system
16	7,647,559	Method and computer-readable medium for navigating between attachments to electronic mail messages
17	7,647,553	View templates for HTML source documents
18	7,647,551	System and method for formatting a cell in response to data stored in a separate location
19	7,647,522	Operating system with corrective action service and isolation
20	7,647,500	Synchronous validation and acknowledgment of electronic data interchange (EDI)
21	7,647,496	Process-mode independent driver model
22	7,647,468	Compaction, de-fragmentation, and merging of virtual storage device of virtual machine
23	7,647,430	Remote command framework for devices
24	7,647,400	Dynamically exchanging computer user’s context
25	7,647,394	Scaling UPnP v1.0 device eventing using peer groups
26	7,647,385	Techniques for limiting network access
27	7,647,383	Intelligent message deletion
28	7,647,380	Datacenter mail routing
29	7,647,365	Training, inference and user interface for guiding the caching of media content on local stores
30	7,647,361	Automatically maintaining metadata in a file backup system
31	7,647,358	Computing device with relatively limited storage space and operating/file system thereof
32	7,647,348	Color management system that supports legacy and advanced color management applications
33	7,647,347	Color management system that supports legacy and advanced color management applications
34	7,647,346	Automatic rules-based device synchronization
35	7,647,338	Content item query formulation
36	7,647,333	Cube-based percentile calculation
37	7,647,332	Aggregating content from multiple content delivery types in a discovery interface
38	7,647,331	Detecting duplicate images using hash code grouping
39	7,647,325	Hardware and software identifier categorization and review
40	7,647,317	Search techniques for page-based document layouts
41	7,647,312	System and method for automatic generation of suggested inline search terms
42	7,647,304	Adaptive picker for selecting data in disparate information systems
43	7,647,298	Generation of query and update views for object relational mapping
44	7,647,297	Optimizing media player memory during rendering
45	7,647,291	B-tree compression using normalized index keys
46	7,647,289	Learning belief distributions for game moves
47	7,647,285	Tools for health and wellness
48	7,647,281	Systems and methods for modeling approximate market equilibria
49	7,647,215	Modeling directed scale-free object relationships
50	7,647,181	Computer generated land cover classification
51	7,647,171	Learning, storing, analyzing, and reasoning about the loss of location-identifying signals
52	7,647,128	Methods, computer-readable media, and data structures for building an authoritative database of digital audio identifier elements and identifying media items
53	7,646,940	Robust indexing and retrieval of electronic ink
54	7,646,931	Automatic analysis and adjustment of digital images with exposure problems
55	7,646,913	Allograph based writer adaptation for handwritten character recognition
56	7,646,909	Method and system for constructing a 3D representation of a face from a 2D representation
57	7,646,894	Bayesian competitive model integrated with a generative classifier for unspecific person verification
58	7,646,817	Accelerating video decoding using a graphics processing unit
59	7,646,816	Generalized reference decoder for image or video processing
60	7,646,812	Special predictive picture encoding using color key in source content
61	7,646,810	Video coding
62	7,646,755	Seamless integration of portable computing devices and desktop computers
63	7,646,404	Foveated wide-angle imaging system and method for capturing and viewing wide-angle images in real time
64	7,646,388	Systems and methods for reducing redundant checks on graphics memory
65	7,646,380	Correction of alignment and linearity errors in a stylus input system

Microsoft patent applications published on 07 January 2010

Administrator — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:31:49 +0000

9 US patent applications published on 07 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100005398	Method and Apparatus for Viewing and Managing Collaboration Data from Within the Context of a Shared Document
2	20100005291	APPLICATION REPUTATION SERVICE
3	20100005155	STANDARDIZED MECHANISM OF REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF EMBEDDED RADIO MODULES
4	20100005089	PERFORMING A COLLABORATIVE SEARCH IN A COMPUTING NETWORK
5	20100005071	ORGANIZING RESOURCES INTO COLLECTIONS TO FACILITATE MORE EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE RESOURCE ACCESS
6	20100004982	QUANTIFYING TRUST IN COMPUTING NETWORKS
7	20100002884	Optical Out-Of-Band Key Distribution
8	20100002873	Cipher For Disk Encryption
9	20100001833	REPRESENTING SECURITY IDENTITIES USING CLAIMS

Microsoft patents granted on 05 January 2010

Administrator — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:31:39 +0000

61 US patents granted on 05 January 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D607,456	Electronic mouse
2	D607,455	Electronic mouse
3	D607,454	Electronic mouse
4	D607,452	Electronic mouse
5	7,644,446	Encryption and data-protection for content on portable medium
6	7,644,445	Secure key management for scalable codestreams
7	7,644,442	Systems and methods for using machine attributes to deter software piracy in an enterprise environment
8	7,644,440	Integrity ordainment and ascertainment of computer-executable instructions with consideration for execution context
9	7,644,437	Method and apparatus for local area networks
10	7,644,427	Time-centric training, interference and user interface for personalized media program guides
11	7,644,423	System and method for generating media consumption statistics
12	7,644,415	Application programming interface to the simple object access protocol
13	7,644,414	Application program interface for network software platform
14	7,644,413	User mode device driver interface
15	7,644,396	Optimal program execution replay and breakpoints
16	7,644,393	System and method for storing and reporting information associated with asserts
17	7,644,391	Sidebar engine, object model and schema
18	7,644,376	Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes
19	7,644,374	Computer input control for specifying scope with explicit exclusions
20	7,644,373	User interface for viewing clusters of images
21	7,644,372	Area frequency radial menus
22	7,644,371	User interface and method to facilitate hierarchical specification of queries using an information taxonomy
23	7,644,367	User interface automation framework classes and interfaces
24	7,644,364	Photo and video collage effects
25	7,644,354	Systems and methods for supporting flexible information appearance and behavior with extensible multi-phase transform engine
26	7,644,314	Retroactive verbose logging
27	7,644,305	Quorum establishment based on a vote from a voting device
28	7,644,287	Portion-level in-memory module authentication
29	7,644,275	Pass-thru for client authentication
30	7,644,246	Using limits on address translation to control access to an addressable entity
31	7,644,239	Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement
32	7,644,238	Timestamp based transactional memory
33	7,644,175	Client-to-server streaming of multimedia content using HTTP
34	7,644,172	Communicating via a connection between a streaming server and a client without breaking the connection
35	7,644,144	Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration
36	7,644,111	Framework for content representation and delivery
37	7,644,107	System and method for batched indexing of network documents
38	7,644,103	MediaDescription data structures for carrying descriptive content metadata and content acquisition data in multimedia systems
39	7,644,094	System and method for processing a large data set using a prediction model having a feature selection capability
40	7,644,077	Methods, computer readable mediums and systems for linking related data from at least two data sources based upon a scoring algorithm
41	7,644,075	Keyword usage score based on frequency impulse and frequency weight
42	7,644,074	Search by document type and relevance
43	7,644,064	Systems and methods for filter table optimization
44	7,644,002	Multi-pass variable bitrate media encoding
45	7,643,999	Microphone feedback and control
46	7,643,995	Method of automatically ranking speech dialog states and transitions to aid in performance analysis in speech applications
47	7,643,989	Method and apparatus for vocal tract resonance tracking using nonlinear predictor and target-guided temporal restraint
48	7,643,985	Context-sensitive communication and translation methods for enhanced interactions and understanding among speakers of different languages
49	7,643,953	Determination of incremental value in server processed data
50	7,643,687	Analysis hints
51	7,643,676	System and method for adaptive interpolation of images from patterned sensors
52	7,643,675	Strategies for processing image information using a color information data structure
53	7,643,637	Efficient code constructions via cryptographic assumptions
54	7,643,491	Scheduling connections between peers in a peer-to-peer file sharing environment
55	7,643,483	System and method for using a hop limited cast for internet egress point selection
56	7,643,473	Instant messaging with audio connection formation
57	7,643,283	Adaptive dock for use with personal media players
58	7,643,035	High dynamic range image viewing on low dynamic range displays
59	7,643,034	Synthesis of advecting texture using adaptive regeneration
60	7,643,032	Texture-based packing, such as for packing 8-bit pixels into two bits
61	7,643,030	Method and system for efficiently evaluating and drawing NURBS surfaces for 3D graphics