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Microsoft patent applications published on 02 September 2010

Administrator — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:42:23 +0000

31 US patent applications published on 02 September 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100223664	TOOLBAR DASHBOARD FUNCTIONALITY
2	20100223656	TRUSTED ENTITY BASED ANTI-CHEATING MECHANISM
3	20100223627	Application Tune Manifests and Tune State Recovery
4	20100223600	THREAD EXECUTION ANALYZER
5	20100223581	VISUALIZATION OF PARTICIPANT RELATIONSHIPS AND SENTIMENT FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING
6	20100223575	User Interface for Providing Task Management and Calendar Information
7	20100223574	Multi-Screen User Interface
8	20100223559	TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING DATA WITH UNSTRUCTURED DATA
9	20100223499	FINGERPRINTING EVENT LOGS FOR SYSTEM MANAGEMENT TROUBLESHOOTING
10	20100223498	OPERATING SYSTEM-BASED APPLICATION RECOVERY
11	20100223446	CONTEXTUAL TRACING
12	20100223443	MULTI-PROTOCOL ACCESS TO FILES AND DIRECTORIES
13	20100223389	Enabling Trusted Conferencing Services
14	20100223374	COMBINED HEADER PROCESSING FOR NETWORK PACKETS
15	20100223372	Methods and Systems for Performing Remote Diagnostics
16	20100223345	COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATION HAVING CONVERSATION AND MEETING ENVIRONMENTS
17	20100223341	ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TAILORED TO USER INTEREST
18	20100223334	DISTRIBUTED ROUTING OF CONFERENCES USING CONFERENCE IDENTIFIER
19	20100223302	FEATURES SUCH AS TITLES, TRANSITIONS, AND/OR EFFECTS WHICH VARY ACCORDING TO POSITIONS
20	20100223286	WEB SERVER DOCUMENT LIBRARY
21	20100223270	Reviewing User-Created Content Before Website Presentation
22	20100223264	REPORTING INCLUDING FILLING DATA GAPS AND HANDLING UNCATEGORIZED DATA
23	20100223257	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING SEARCH QUERY RESULTS
24	20100223236	DYNAMIC AGGREGATION OF CONTENT BASED ON A FALLBACK DEFINITION
25	20100223212	TASK-RELATED ELECTRONIC COACHING
26	20100223085	MODULARIZATION OF DATA CENTER FUNCTIONS
27	20100223049	MACHINE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION WITH TRANSFER MAPPINGS HAVING VARYING CONTEXT
28	20100222147	MULTIGAME MULTIPLAYER PARTY SESSION
29	20100222146	Common Controller
30	20100222109	PROTECTIVE SHROUD FOR HANDHELD DEVICE
31	20100220921	STEREO IMAGE SEGMENTATION

Microsoft patents granted on 31 August 2010

Administrator — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:05:03 +0000

70 US patents granted on 31 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D622,731	Portion of a display screen with user interface
2	D622,730	Portion of a display screen with user interface
3	D622,725	Electronic mouse
4	7,788,729	Method and system for integrating multiple identities, identity mechanisms and identity providers in a single user paradigm
5	7,788,698	Pre-negotiation and pre-caching media policy
6	7,788,696	Inferring information about media stream objects
7	7,788,678	Urgent replication facility
8	7,788,676	Method and apparatus for creating, sending, and using self-descriptive objects as messages over a message queuing network
9	7,788,669	System for isolating first computing environment from second execution environment while sharing resources by copying data from first portion to second portion of memory
10	7,788,665	Migrating a virtual machine that owns a resource such as a hardware device
11	7,788,662	Automatic upgrade of pluggable components
12	7,788,652	Representing type information in a compiler and programming tools framework
13	7,788,651	Anonymous types
14	7,788,640	Using code analysis to generate documentation
15	7,788,637	Operating system process identification
16	7,788,602	Method and system for providing restricted actions for recognized semantic categories
17	7,788,597	Windows radio toolbar
18	7,788,592	Architecture and engine for time line based visualization of data
19	7,788,590	Lightweight reference user interface
20	7,788,589	Method and system for improved electronic task flagging and management
21	7,788,588	Realizing users’ preferences
22	7,788,578	System and method for a tool pane within a markup language document
23	7,788,540	Tracking down elusive intermittent failures
24	7,788,499	Security tokens including displayable claims
25	7,788,498	Triple-tap password entry
26	7,788,496	First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code on behalf thereof
27	7,788,495	Systems and methods for automated configuration of secure web site publishing
28	7,788,484	Using hierarchical identity based cryptography for authenticating outbound mail
29	7,788,474	Operating system shut down
30	7,788,464	Scalability of virtual TLBs for multi-processor virtual machines
31	7,788,463	Cyclic buffer management
32	7,788,435	Interrupt redirection with coalescing
33	7,788,395	Adaptive media playback
34	7,788,378	Apparatus and method for community relay node discovery
35	7,788,356	Remote management of a client computer via a computing component that is a single board computer
36	7,788,351	Scalable transfer feedback
37	7,788,328	Cross-forest sharing
38	7,788,321	Collecting default user settings for a web application
39	7,788,297	Interactive storage meter for a storage container
40	7,788,292	Raising the baseline for high-precision text classifiers
41	7,788,290	Automatic file conversion to a target format
42	7,788,283	On demand data proxy
43	7,788,275	Customization of relationship traversal
44	7,788,263	Probabilistic retrospective event detection
45	7,788,259	Locating, viewing and interacting with information sources
46	7,788,257	Easy-to-use data report specification
47	7,788,254	Web page analysis using multiple graphs
48	7,788,247	Characteristic tagging
49	7,788,246	Linguistic structure for data flow diagrams
50	7,788,237	Method and system for tracking changes in a document
51	7,788,234	Staged, lightweight backup system
52	7,788,228	Recursive file backup
53	7,788,227	Schema signing and just-in-time installation
54	7,788,223	Resource freshness and replication
55	7,788,200	Goal seeking using predictive analytics
56	7,788,198	Method for detecting anomalies in server behavior using operational performance and failure mode monitoring counters
57	7,788,181	Software licensing using certificate issued by authorized authority
58	7,788,164	Truth revealing market equilibrium
59	7,788,144	System and method for storing and presenting images and related items to a user
60	7,788,131	Advertising keyword cross-selling
61	7,788,096	Method and apparatus for generating decision tree questions for speech processing
62	7,788,087	System for processing sentiment-bearing text
63	7,788,086	Method and apparatus for processing sentiment-bearing text
64	7,787,706	Method for controlling an intensity of an infrared source used to detect objects adjacent to an interactive display surface
65	7,787,693	Text detection on mobile communications devices
66	7,787,411	Gaming console wireless protocol for peripheral devices
67	7,786,994	Determination of unicode points from glyph elements
68	7,786,981	Circular touch sensor
69	7,786,952	Auxiliary display unit for a computer system
70	7,785,178	Computing a target speed in a virtual racing environment

Microsoft patent applications published on 26 August 2010

Administrator — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:31:17 +0000

48 US patent applications published on 26 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100218260	Provisions for Validating Content Using a Content Registration Authority
2	20100218251	Detection of Artificially Generated System Load
3	20100218249	AUTHENTICATION VIA A DEVICE
4	20100218248	REDIRECTION OF SECURE DATA CONNECTION REQUESTS
5	20100218247	SERVICE ACCESS USING A SERVICE ADDRESS
6	20100218198	HARDWARE CONTROL INTERFACE FOR IEEE STANDARD 802.11 INCLUDING TRANSMISSION CONTROL INTERFACE COMPONENT
7	20100218183	POWER-SAVING OPERATING SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
8	20100218179	MANAGED ENVIRONMENT UPDATE SELECTION
9	20100218173	IMPLICIT LINE CONTINUATION
10	20100218169	CONTRACT FAILURE BEHAVIOR WITH ESCALATION POLICY
11	20100218139	SEARCH-FRIENDLY TEMPLATES
12	20100218131	MULTIPLE VIEWS OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WAREHOUSE LAYOUT
13	20100218122	ASYNCHRONOUSLY UPLOADING AND RESIZING CONTENT IN WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS
14	20100218120	RICH SIGNALING FEEDBACK MECHANISM FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION
15	20100218103	DISCOVERING, DEFINING, AND IMPLEMENTING COMPUTER APPLICATION TOPOLOGIES
16	20100218094	SECOND-PERSON AVATARS
17	20100218086	FONT HANDLING FOR VIEWING DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB
18	20100218053	WEB PAGE ERROR REPORTING
19	20100218005	ENERGY-AWARE SERVER MANAGEMENT
20	20100217989	VISUALIZATION OF TRUST IN AN ADDRESS BAR
21	20100217929	Using External Memory Devices to Improve System Performance
22	20100217924	HYBRID MEMORY DEVICE WITH SINGLE INTERFACE
23	20100217890	USING SERVER TYPE TO OBTAIN NETWORK ADDRESS
24	20100217874	TUNNELING OF REMOTE DESKTOP SESSIONS THROUGH FIREWALLS
25	20100217872	NOTIFICATION MODEL OVER A SERVER-TO-SERVER CONNECTION POOL
26	20100217862	SUPPLYING NOTIFICATIONS RELATED TO SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION OF USER CONTEXT DATA
27	20100217834	CONFIGURATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT AT CAPTURE
28	20100217805	ASSOCIATING MULTIPLE PHYSICAL MAILBOXES WITH SAME USER OBJECT IN MESSAGING SYSTEM
29	20100217788	STORAGE SYSTEM FORMAT FOR TRANSACTION SAFE FILE SYSTEM
30	20100217782	Service Discovery and Publication
31	20100217776	ANONYMOUS TYPES FOR STATICALLY TYPED QUERIES
32	20100217732	Unbiased Active Learning
33	20100217720	IDENTIFYING USERS FOR EFFECTIVE PROPAGATION OF CONTENT
34	20100217655	SERVICES ADVERTISEMENT IN A WIRELESS MESH
35	20100217612	CHOOSING LOCATION OR MANNER OF STORING DATA
36	20100217579	EMULATING LEGACY HARDWARE USING IEEE 754 COMPLIANT HARDWARE
37	20100216493	TEXT MESSAGING PIPELINE CONFIGURATION
38	20100215340	Triggers For Launching Applications
39	20100215280	RDP BITMAP HASH ACCELERATION USING SIMD INSTRUCTIONS
40	20100214979	GATEWAY ADVERTISEMENT IN A WIRELESS MESH
41	20100214959	AUTOMATIC NETWORK ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT IN A WIRELESS MESH
42	20100214945	Distributed Overlay Multi-Channel Media Access Control (MAC) for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
43	20100214894	Optical Medium with Added Descriptor to Reduce Counterfeiting
44	20100214419	Video Sharing
45	20100214301	VGPU: A real time GPU emulator
46	20100214299	GRAPHICAL MANIPULATION OF CHART ELEMENTS FOR INTERACTING WITH CHART DATA
47	20100214294	METHOD FOR TESSELLATION ON GRAPHICS HARDWARE
48	20100214135	DYNAMIC REAR-PROJECTED USER INTERFACE

Microsoft patents granted on 24 August 2010

Administrator — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:11:20 +0000

59 US patents granted on 24 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D622,284	User interface for a display screen
2	D622,282	Graphical user interface image for a display screen
3	D622,281	Graphical user interface image for a display screen
4	7,784,101	Identifying dependencies of an application upon a given security context
5	7,784,096	Outgoing connection attempt limiting to slow down spreading of viruses
6	7,784,065	Interface for consistent program interaction with auxiliary computing devices
7	7,784,059	Stateless asynchronous message transmission
8	7,784,044	Patching of in-use functions on a running computer system
9	7,784,029	Network service for modularly constructing a software defined radio
10	7,783,990	Association of display elements
11	7,783,987	User experience enforcement
12	7,783,971	Graphic object themes
13	7,783,891	System and method facilitating secure credential management
14	7,783,880	Method and apparatus for secure internet protocol (IPSEC) offloading with integrated host protocol stack management
15	7,783,811	Efficient interrupt message definition
16	7,783,803	Pairing service technologies
17	7,783,773	Glitch-free media streaming
18	7,783,772	Session description message extensions
19	7,783,752	Automated role based usage determination for software system
20	7,783,742	Dynamic process recovery in a distributed environment
21	7,783,731	Firmware cache coherence
22	7,783,718	Locating services using compiled scopes
23	7,783,708	Attachment browser
24	7,783,702	Using a mobile phone to control a personal computer
25	7,783,698	Generalized web-service
26	7,783,689	On-site search engine for the World Wide Web
27	7,783,686	Application program interface to manage media files
28	7,783,677	Tracking file system namespace changes during transactions
29	7,783,674	Application and method for transferring information between platforms
30	7,783,672	Support mechanisms for improved group policy management user interface
31	7,783,664	Method and system for protecting the consistency of information in a distributed file system
32	7,783,657	Search authoring metrics and debugging
33	7,783,652	Keeping offensive content out of default view on a website
34	7,783,641	Taxonometric personal digital media organization
35	7,783,637	Label system-translation of text and multi-language support at runtime and design
36	7,783,636	Personalized information retrieval search with backoff
37	7,783,632	Using popularity data for ranking
38	7,783,629	Training a ranking component
39	7,783,614	Linking elements of a document to corresponding fields, queries and/or procedures in a database
40	7,783,605	Calculating cluster availability
41	7,783,588	Context modeling architecture and framework
42	7,783,573	Performance optimized smartcard transaction management
43	7,783,476	Word extraction method and system for use in word-breaking using statistical information
44	7,783,247	Satellite receiving system with transmodulating outdoor unit
45	7,783,075	Background blurring for video conferencing
46	7,782,954	Scan patterns for progressive video content
47	7,782,802	Optimizing conferencing performance
48	7,782,771	Adjusting to network latency changes
49	7,782,759	Enabling network devices to run multiple congestion control algorithms
50	7,782,357	Minimizing dead zones in panoramic images
51	7,782,331	Cross-platform runtime code generation for bit block transfer functions
52	7,782,316	Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system
53	7,782,306	Input device and method of configuring the input device
54	7,782,302	Trackball for a mobile device
55	7,782,296	Optical tracker for tracking surface-independent movements
56	7,782,294	RF data compression for a high-speed mouse
57	7,782,203	Strong typing of components in RFID business processes
58	7,782,161	Magnetically actuated microelectromechanical systems actuator
59	7,780,084	2-D barcode recognition

Microsoft patent applications published on 19 August 2010

Administrator — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:23:53 +0000

50 US patent applications published on 19 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100212018	GENERATING HUMAN INTERACTIVE PROOFS
2	20100212016	CONTENT PROTECTION INTEROPERRABILITY
3	20100212008	Identification Security Elevation
4	20100212002	CONSTRAINING A LOGIN TO A SUBSET OF ACCESS RIGHTS
5	20100211988	MANAGING RESOURCES TO DISPLAY MEDIA CONTENT
6	20100211962	INPUT/OUTPUT BROKER MODEL
7	20100211931	STM WITH GLOBAL VERSION OVERFLOW HANDLING
8	20100211927	WEBSITE DESIGN PATTERN MODELING
9	20100211924	DISCOVERING AND EXPLOITING RELATIONSHIPS IN SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES
10	20100211918	Web Cam Based User Interaction
11	20100211893	CROSS-BROWSER PAGE VISUALIZATION PRESENTATION
12	20100211889	Conversation Grouping of Electronic Mail Records
13	20100211865	CROSS-BROWSER PAGE VISUALIZATION GENERATION
14	20100211863	ACTION-BASED PRE-POPULATION OF USER PROFILES
15	20100211862	FACILITATING SPREADSHEET AND DATABASE VIEWS ON COMMON DATA STORE
16	20100211860	CREATING AND INSERTING LINKS BY DRAG AND DROP
17	20100211802	Storage Volume Protection Supporting Legacy Systems
18	20100211792	COMMUNICATION CHANNEL ACCESS BASED ON CHANNEL IDENTIFIER AND USE POLICY
19	20100211782	TRUSTED CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES FRAMEWORK
20	20100211781	TRUSTED CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES FRAMEWORK
21	20100211773	Validating the Origin of Web Content
22	20100211741	Shared Composite Data Representations and Interfaces
23	20100211694	ROUTING USERS TO RECEIVE ONLINE SERVICES BASED ON ONLINE BEHAVIOR
24	20100211658	DYNAMIC FIREWALL CONFIGURATION
25	20100211641	PERSONALIZED EMAIL FILTERING
26	20100211588	Context-Aware Query Suggestion By Mining Log Data
27	20100211587	APPLICATION LAUNCHING VIA INDEXED DATA
28	20100211561	PROVIDING REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES WITHIN SEARCH RESULT SETS
29	20100211554	TRANSACTIONAL RECORD MANAGER
30	20100211548	TENANT MANAGEMENT OF A HOSTED MULTI-TENANT APPLICATION
31	20100211545	Context-Aware Management of Shared Composite Data
32	20100211543	SYNCHRONIZING METADATA AND DOCUMENT CONTENT ACROSS CLIENT SYSTEMS USING DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
33	20100211542	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HALTING SYNCHRONIZATION LOOPS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
34	20100211533	EXTRACTING STRUCTURED DATA FROM WEB FORUMS
35	20100211420	CONVERTING COMMAND UNITS INTO WORKFLOW ACTIVITIES
36	20100211375	PROXYING EXTERNAL DATA AND SERVICES INTO APPLICATIONS AS NATIVE TYPES
37	20100211317	DETERMINING VELOCITY USING MULTIPLE SENSORS
38	20100211308	IDENTIFYING INTERESTING LOCATIONS
39	20100210364	MANAGEMENT OF GAMING DATA
40	20100210210	FACILITATING USE OF A DEVICE BASED ON SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
41	20100208997	Image-Based Advertisement Platform
42	20100208984	EVALUATING RELATED PHRASES
43	20100208898	MANAGING GROUP KEYS
44	20100208889	TWO-PARTY STORAGE OF ENCRYPTED SENSITIVE INFORMATION
45	20100208873	TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR THE DEAF (TDD) INTERFACE FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE (IVR) SYSTEMS
46	20100208620	DETECTION OF HOME NETWORK CONFIGURATION PROBLEMS
47	20100208033	Personal Media Landscapes in Mixed Reality
48	20100207950	DEFINING SIMPLE AND COMPLEX ANIMATIONS
49	20100207908	TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE FOR SCROLLING A DOCUMENT ON A DISPLAY
50	20100207904	TARGETING IN A STYLUS-BASED USER INTERFACE

Microsoft patents granted on 17 August 2010

Administrator — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:50:02 +0000

68 US patents granted on 17 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,779,480	Identifying dependencies of an application upon a given security context
2	7,779,478	System and method for distributed module authentication
3	7,779,465	Distributed peer attack alerting
4	7,779,462	Switching an application, user and security context based on device orientation
5	7,779,460	Partial grant set evaluation from partial evidence in an evidence-based security policy manager
6	7,779,427	Automated application configuration using device-provided data
7	7,779,426	Describing and querying discrete regions of flash storage
8	7,779,425	Managed file system filter model and architecture
9	7,779,419	Method and apparatus for creating templates
10	7,779,406	Method and system for managing lifecycles of deployed applications
11	7,779,397	Data interfaces
12	7,779,396	Syntactic program language translation
13	7,779,388	System and methods for providing a declarative syntax for specifying SOAP-based web services
14	7,779,387	Offline source code control
15	7,779,382	Model checking with bounded context switches
16	7,779,367	Dynamic control configuration
17	7,779,353	Error checking web documents
18	7,779,343	Opening network-enabled electronic documents
19	7,779,300	Server outage data management
20	7,779,275	Communication of information via an in-band channel using a trusted configuration space
21	7,779,274	Systems and methods for providing time-and weight-based flexibility tolerant hardware ID
22	7,779,265	Access control list inheritance thru object(s)
23	7,779,253	Encryption systems and methods for identifying and coalescing identical objects encrypted with different keys
24	7,779,249	Secure transmission of digital content between a host and a peripheral by way of a digital rights management (DRM) system
25	7,779,248	Moving principals across security boundaries without service interruption
26	7,779,207	Accelerated write performance
27	7,779,171	Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected
28	7,779,139	Normalization of binary data
29	7,779,130	Method and apparatus to transfer a new data object from a data acquisition device to a user storage device
30	7,779,079	Reducing unsolicited instant messages by tracking communication threads
31	7,779,050	Method, apparatus, and system for data modeling and processing
32	7,779,045	Lazy updates to indexes in a database
33	7,779,043	Extensible mechanism for object composition
34	7,779,027	Methods, systems, architectures and data structures for delivering software via a network
35	7,779,019	Linear combination of rankers
36	7,779,017	Employing abstract pipeline component connections to maintain data flow
37	7,779,015	Logging and analyzing context attributes
38	7,779,012	Method and apparatus for intranet searching
39	7,779,001	Web page ranking with hierarchical considerations
40	7,779,000	Associating conditions to summary table data
41	7,778,987	Locally storing web-based database data
42	7,778,984	System and method for a distributed object store
43	7,778,983	Application migration file scanning and conversion
44	7,778,963	Constraint-based conflict handling for synchronization
45	7,778,962	Client store synchronization through intermediary store change packets
46	7,778,959	Protecting storages volumes with mock replication
47	7,778,956	Portal and key management service database schemas
48	7,778,945	Training random walks over absorbing graphs
49	7,778,892	Bonus depreciation record and proposal system
50	7,778,869	Fair discounting auction
51	7,778,837	Demographic based classification for local word wheeling/web search
52	7,778,821	Controlled manipulation of characters
53	7,778,820	Inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of answers based on application employed by the user based at least on informational content being displayed to the user at the query is received
54	7,778,816	Method and system for applying input mode bias
55	7,778,632	Multi-modal device capable of automated actions
56	7,778,491	Oblique image stitching
57	7,778,487	Region selection for image compositing
58	7,778,422	Security associations for devices
59	7,778,282	Propagation of conflict knowledge
60	7,778,273	Application-level multicasting architecture
61	7,778,203	On-demand MAC address lookup
62	7,778,170	Spectrum and medium access allocation for fairness
63	7,777,902	System and method for generating resolution-independent output via visual tree object
64	7,777,722	Multi-mode optical navigation
65	7,777,648	Mode information displayed in a mapping application
66	7,777,125	Constructing a table of music similarity vectors from a music similarity graph
67	7,775,886	Targeted merchandising on a user console
68	7,775,801	Device interfaces with non-mechanical securement mechanisms

Microsoft patent applications published on 12 August 2010

Administrator — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:33:42 +0000

36 US patent applications published on 12 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100205674	Monitoring System for Heap Spraying Attacks
2	20100205673	CODE PROPERTY ANALYSIS FOR SECURITY MITIGATIONS
3	20100205664	Management of Organizational Boundaries in Unified Communications Systems
4	20100205649	CREDENTIAL GATHERING WITH DEFERRED INSTANTIATION
5	20100205646	Method and Apparatus for Selecting Among Multiple Tuners
6	20100205594	IMAGE-BASED SOFTWARE UPDATE
7	20100205588	GENERAL PURPOSE DISTRIBUTED DATA PARALLEL COMPUTING USING A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
8	20100205562	USER GENERATED TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS
9	20100205540	TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING ONE-CLICK ACCESS TO VIRTUAL CONFERENCE EVENTS
10	20100205521	DISPLAYING MULTIPLE ROW AND COLUMN HEADER AREAS IN A SUMMARY TABLE
11	20100205508	Redundant Data in Storage Medium
12	20100205419	DIRECT COMPUTING EXPERIENCE
13	20100205269	Actionable Email Documents
14	20100205259	EMAIL MANAGEMENT BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR
15	20100205257	TRANSPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA ACKNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
16	20100205207	USER INTERFACE AND GEO-PARSING DATA STRUCTURE
17	20100205202	Visual and Textual Query Suggestion
18	20100205190	SURFACE-BASED COLLABORATIVE SEARCH
19	20100205186	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING AND ORGANIZING ITEMS BASED ON COMMON ELEMENTS
20	20100205176	Discovering City Landmarks from Online Journals
21	20100205168	Thread-Based Incremental Web Forum Crawling
22	20100205160	UPDATING AN INVERTED INDEX IN A REAL TIME FASHION
23	20100205126	LOCAL GRAPH PARTITIONING USING EVOLVING SETS
24	20100205120	PLATFORM FOR LEARNING BASED RECOGNITION RESEARCH
25	20100205038	TRAVEL MARKET ANALYSIS TOOLS
26	20100204981	QUEUE BASED MECHANISM TO SUPPORT MULTI-LANGUAGE CHAT ROOMS
27	20100202449	Bufferless Routing in On-Chip Interconnection Networks
28	20100202298	NETWORK COORDINATE SYSTEMS USING IP INFORMATION
29	20100201886	SATURATION CONTRAST IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
30	20100201823	Low-Light Imaging Augmented With Non-Intrusive Lighting
31	20100201808	CAMERA BASED MOTION SENSING SYSTEM
32	20100201695	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A GRAPHICS INTENSIVE SOFTWARE PROGRAM FOR THE USER’S GRAPHICS HARDWARE
33	20100201691	SHADER-BASED FINITE STATE MACHINE FRAME DETECTION
34	20100201681	Image Editing Consistent with Scene Geometry
35	20100201636	MULTI-MODE DIGITAL GRAPHICS AUTHORING
36	20100201634	MANIPULATION OF GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS ON GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE VIA MULTI-TOUCH GESTURES

Microsoft patents granted on 10 August 2010

Administrator — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:43:21 +0000

58 US patents granted on 10 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,774,830	Access control policy engine controlling access to resource based on any of multiple received types of security tokens
2	7,774,823	System and method for managing electronic communications
3	7,774,817	Meta data enhanced television programming
4	7,774,799	System and method for linking page content with a media file and displaying the links
5	7,774,797	Playback control methods and arrangements for a DVD player
6	7,774,796	Methods of factoring operating system functions, methods of converting operating systems, and related apparatus
7	7,774,792	Automatic create, update and delete event publishing
8	7,774,787	Method for specifying and verifying multi-threaded object-oriented programs with invariants
9	7,774,784	Determining an actual amount of time a processor consumes in executing a portion of code
10	7,774,783	Method and apparatus for detecting deadlocks
11	7,774,760	Tracing errors in software
12	7,774,755	Quick-creating objects in an application
13	7,774,752	Runtime services for network software platform
14	7,774,750	Common concurrency runtime
15	7,774,741	Automatically resource leak diagnosis and detecting process within the operating system
16	7,774,734	Enhanced reach-based graph processing using shortcuts
17	7,774,722	Creation and manipulation of canvases based on ink strokes
18	7,774,721	Intelligent backward resource navigation
19	7,774,713	Dynamic user experience with semantic rich objects
20	7,774,703	Virtual shadow awareness for multi-user editors
21	7,774,623	Obfuscated state store for rights management system and the like
22	7,774,620	Executing applications at appropriate trust levels
23	7,774,607	Fast RSA signature verification
24	7,774,490	Crisscross cancellation protocol
25	7,774,477	Peer networking host framework and hosting API
26	7,774,459	Honey monkey network exploration
27	7,774,446	Discovering, defining, and implementing computer application topologies
28	7,774,442	Distributed configuration management using loosely-coupled action-style documents
29	7,774,437	Configurable multi-connector storage device
30	7,774,413	Email message hygiene stamp
31	7,774,405	Coordination of set enumeration information between independent agents
32	7,774,389	Optimized garbage collection techniques
33	7,774,376	Type-system extensions for object-oriented language based on coercive subtyping with restrictions
34	7,774,375	Media foundation topology
35	7,774,360	Building bridges for web query classification
36	7,774,359	Business alerts on process instances based on defined conditions
37	7,774,349	Statistical models and methods to support the personalization of applications and services via consideration of preference encodings of a community of users
38	7,774,345	Lightweight list collection
39	7,774,344	Displaying key differentiators based on standard deviations within a distance metric
40	7,774,343	Multiple media vendor support
41	7,774,340	Method and system for calculating document importance using document classifications
42	7,774,339	Using search trails to provide enhanced search interaction
43	7,774,322	File transfer error handling
44	7,774,321	Partial XML validation
45	7,774,310	Client-specific transformation of distributed data
46	7,774,299	Flow computing
47	7,774,219	Long running transaction integration with selective dehydration and selective compensation
48	7,774,205	Coding of sparse digital media spectral data
49	7,774,195	Method and system for creating, storing, managing and consuming culture specific data
50	7,774,193	Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpus
51	7,773,859	Resolving recording conflicts between coinciding programming
52	7,773,813	Capture-intention detection for video content analysis
53	7,773,812	Method and system for performing searches and returning results based on weighted criteria
54	7,773,743	Integration of a microphone array with acoustic echo cancellation and residual echo suppression
55	7,773,671	Block transform and quantization for image and video coding
56	7,773,106	System and apparatus for sending complete responses to truncated electronic mail messages on a mobile device
57	7,773,096	Alternative graphics pipe
58	7,773,071	Moving an image with an input device

Microsoft patent applications published on 05 August 2010

Administrator — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:39:24 +0000

60 US patent applications published on 05 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100199357	SECURE HOSTING FOR UNTRUSTED CODE
2	20100199338	ACCOUNT HIJACKING COUNTER-MEASURES
3	20100199320	MULTIMODAL ESCALATION TO ENDPOINTS IN ENHANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
4	20100199265	PROGRAM DEBUGGING WITH DYNAMICALLY INSERTED INSTRUMENTATION
5	20100199231	PREDICTIVE DETERMINATION
6	20100199230	GESTURE RECOGNIZER SYSTEM ARCHITICTURE
7	20100199229	MAPPING A NATURAL INPUT DEVICE TO A LEGACY SYSTEM
8	20100199228	Gesture Keyboarding
9	20100199221	NAVIGATION OF A VIRTUAL PLANE USING DEPTH
10	20100199205	SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS IN A HISTOGRAM/CLUSTER FORMAT
11	20100199198	LAYOUT OF USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS
12	20100199190	SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION ACCESS AND INFORMATION AWARENESS IN AN INTERACTIVE PERIPHERAL DISPLAY
13	20100199185	COMMON NAVIGATION MECHANISM FOR DESKTOP AND BROWSER-BASED APPLICATIONS
14	20100199181	WIZARD FOR SELECTING VISUALIZATION
15	20100199174	EXTENSIBLE FONT FILE LOADING
16	20100199109	ABSTRACTING PROGRAMMATIC REPRESENTION OF DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS
17	20100199108	Device Enforced File Level Protection
18	20100199063	METHODS AND MECHANISMS FOR PROACTIVE MEMORY MANAGEMENT
19	20100199043	METHODS AND MECHANISMS FOR PROACTIVE MEMORY MANAGEMENT
20	20100198970	ENHANCING AVAILABILITY OF REMOTE APPLICATIONS
21	20100198948	DYNAMIC WEB SERVICE DEPLOYMENT AND INTEGRATION
22	20100198902	COMPUTING MINIMAL POLYNOMIALS OF RADICAL EXPRESSIONS
23	20100198868	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION TRANSFORMATION AND EXCHANGE IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENT
24	20100198838	MANAGING ADD-ONS
25	20100198800	ALLOCATION LOCKS AND THEIR USE
26	20100198787	VISUALIZATION AS INPUT MECHANISM
27	20100198757	PERFORMANCE OF A SOCIAL NETWORK
28	20100198685	PREDICTING WEB ADVERTISEMENT CLICK SUCCESS BY USING HEAD-TO-HEAD RATINGS
29	20100198641	ECOMMERCE MARKETPLACE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES
30	20100198579	UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR
31	20100198577	STATE MAPPING FOR CROSS-LANGUAGE SPEAKER ADAPTATION
32	20100197405	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THWARTING TRAFFIC ANALYSIS IN ONLINE GAMES
33	20100197404	GAMING CONSOLE WIRELESS PROTOCOL FOR PERIPHERAL DEVICES
34	20100197400	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING
35	20100197399	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING
36	20100197395	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING
37	20100197392	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING
38	20100197391	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING
39	20100197390	POSE TRACKING PIPELINE
40	20100197327	Mobile Communication Device Dynamic Service Application and Dynamic Service Application Scripting
41	20100195869	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING
42	20100195867	VISUAL TARGET TRACKING USING MODEL FITTING AND EXEMPLAR
43	20100195812	AUDIO TRANSFORMS IN CONNECTION WITH MULTIPARTY COMMUNICATION
44	20100195721	LOCAL PICTURE IDENTIFIER AND COMPUTATION OF CO-LOCATED INFORMATION
45	20100195548	NETWORK ASSISTED POWER MANAGEMENT
46	20100195488	OPTIMIZED TRANSPORT PROTOCOL FOR DELAY-SENSITIVE DATA
47	20100195202	DIFFUSING SCREEN
48	20100195139	PRINT RENDERING VERIFICATION
49	20100194977	Full Scale Video with Overlaid Graphical User Interface and Scaled Image
50	20100194896	AUTOMATICALLY TAGGING IMAGES WITH NEARBY SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION DEVICE INFORMATION
51	20100194881	SPEAKER DETECTION AND TRACKING USING AUDIOVISUAL DATA
52	20100194872	BODY SCAN
53	20100194778	PROJECTING DATA DIMENSIONS ON A VISUALIZATION DATA SET
54	20100194762	Standard Gestures
55	20100194747	Dynamic Fragment Coverage Antialiasing
56	20100194741	DEPTH MAP MOVEMENT TRACKING VIA OPTICAL FLOW AND VELOCITY PREDICTION
57	20100194690	CONCURRENTLY DISPLAYING MULTIPLE CHARACTERS FOR INPUT FIELD POSITIONS
58	20100194677	MAPPING OF PHYSICAL CONTROLS FOR SURFACE COMPUTING
59	20100194350	ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN DEVICES
60	20100192755	AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENT FOR VOCAL MELODIES

Microsoft patents granted on 03 August 2010

Administrator — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:05:10 +0000

70 US patents granted on 03 August 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	7,770,206	Delegating right to access resource or the like in access management system
2	7,770,205	Binding a device to a computer
3	7,770,202	Cross assembly call interception
4	7,770,201	Interactive entertainment and information system using television set-top box
5	7,770,188	Winsock APIs
6	7,770,186	Framework for database transactions
7	7,770,183	Indirect event stream correlation
8	7,770,182	Event routing model for an extensible editor
9	7,770,181	System and method for transferring computer-readable objects across a remote boundary
10	7,770,180	Exposing embedded data in a computer-generated document
11	7,770,172	Conditional variables without spinlocks
12	7,770,170	Blocking local sense synchronization barrier
13	7,770,165	Providing firmware updates to portable media devices
14	7,770,160	System and method for declaring a resource within a markup document
15	7,770,159	Virtual types
16	7,770,153	Heap-based bug identification using anomaly detection
17	7,770,148	Methods and apparatus enabling diagram customization retention
18	7,770,136	Gesture recognition interactive feedback
19	7,770,134	Methods and apparatuses for handling single-user applications in multi-user computing environments
20	7,770,129	Viewable document section
21	7,770,126	Assisting user interface element use
22	7,770,124	Using a description language to build a management system
23	7,770,121	Host controlled user interface
24	7,770,120	Accessing remote screen content
25	7,770,116	System and method for whiteboard and audio capture
26	7,770,111	Method and computer readable medium for optimized paragraph layout
27	7,770,109	Adaptive layout for content
28	7,770,106	Dynamic generation of compliant style sheets from non-compliant style sheets
29	7,770,102	Method and system for semantically labeling strings and providing actions based on semantically labeled strings
30	7,770,100	Dynamic thresholds for conditional formats
31	7,770,069	Controlling software failure data reporting and responses
32	7,770,029	Software protection using oblivious data structures
33	7,770,023	Exclusive encryption
34	7,770,014	Randomized signal transforms and their applications
35	7,770,007	Method and system for integrating security mechanisms into session initiation protocol request messages for client-proxy authentication
36	7,770,001	Process and method to distribute software product keys electronically to manufacturing entities
37	7,769,995	System and method for providing secure network access
38	7,769,993	Method for ensuring boot source integrity of a computing system
39	7,769,974	Increasing data locality of recently accessed resources
40	7,769,880	Carrying protected content using a control protocol for streaming and a transport protocol
41	7,769,866	Virtual connectivity with subscribe-notify service
42	7,769,852	Detection and notification of network-related events
43	7,769,841	Management of media content ratings information communicated discretely from media content
44	7,769,832	Media variations browser
45	7,769,809	Associating real-time conversations with a logical conversation
46	7,769,804	Server side search with multi-word word wheeling and wildcard expansion
47	7,769,802	Systems and methods that employ correlated synchronous-on-asynchronous processing
48	7,769,794	User interface for a file system shell
49	7,769,779	Reverse name mappings in restricted namespace environments
50	7,769,770	Secondary index and indexed view maintenance for updates to complex types
51	7,769,755	Efficient execution of aggregation queries
52	7,769,750	Metadata based hypermedia management system
53	7,769,744	Missing index analysis and index useage statistics
54	7,769,727	Resolving update-delete conflicts
55	7,769,709	Method, system, and apparatus for creating an archive routine for protecting data in a data protection system
56	7,769,707	Data diameter privacy policies
57	7,769,582	Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty
58	7,769,237	Dynamic, locally-adaptive, lossless palettization of color and grayscale images
59	7,769,186	System and method facilitating acoustic echo cancellation convergence detection
60	7,769,168	Locally interative encryption generating compliant ciphertext for general syntax specifications
61	7,769,167	Weil and Tate pairing techniques using parabolas
62	7,769,165	Semi-public white-box cipher
63	7,769,142	Asynchronous discrete manageable instant voice messages
64	7,769,035	Facilitating a channel change between multiple multimedia data streams
65	7,768,783	Electronic module cooling
66	7,768,668	Fax accounts
67	7,768,525	Dynamic paint pickup
68	7,768,524	Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling
69	7,768,523	Shading using texture space lighting and non-linearly optimized MIP-maps
70	7,766,794	Mobile exercise enhancement with virtual competition

Microsoft patent applications published on 29 July 2010

Administrator — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:41:33 +0000

61 US patent applications published on 29 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100192230	PROTECTING TRANSACTIONS
2	20100192227	OFFLINE EXTRACTION OF CONFIGURATION DATA
3	20100192222	MALWARE DETECTION USING MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS
4	20100192211	Revocable Object Access
5	20100192209	PASSIVE SECURITY ENFORCEMENT
6	20100192196	HEALTH-BASED ACCESS TO NETWORK RESOURCES
7	20100192193	SECURITY RESTRICTION TECHNIQUES FOR BROWSER-BASED APPLICATIONS
8	20100192182	ANIMATED STATION IDENTIFIER IN PROGRAM GUIDES
9	20100192167	GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GENERATION THROUGH USE OF A BINARY FILE
10	20100192165	ASCERTAINING DOMAIN CONTEXTS
11	20100192161	Lock Free Queue
12	20100192156	TECHNIQUE FOR CONSERVING SOFTWARE APPLICATION RESOURCES
13	20100192143	CONSISTENT OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICING FOR DISTRIBUTED NODES
14	20100192134	MAPPING BREAKPOINTS BETWEEN WEB BASED DOCUMENTS
15	20100192132	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED ERROR REPORTING
16	20100192130	AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF A TYPE-SAFE OPERATING SYSTEM
17	20100192129	SEMANTIC SUBTYPING FOR DECLARATIVE DATA SCRIPTING LANGUAGE BY CALLING A PROVER
18	20100192124	SOURCE CODE WRAPPER GENERATION
19	20100192121	DEBUGGING REMOTE FILES USING A VIRTUAL PROJECT
20	20100192098	ACCELERATORS FOR CAPTURING CONTENT
21	20100192074	PLUGGABLE MARGIN EXTENSION
22	20100192026	IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PROGRAM RUNTIME CHECKS
23	20100192025	AVAILABILITY AND SCALABILITY IN A MESSAGING SYSTEM IN A MANNER TRANSPARENT TO THE APPLICATION
24	20100191998	APPORTIONING AND REDUCING DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, INCLUDING A CARBON FOOTPRINT
25	20100191975	PRIVACY-PRESERVING COMMUNICATION
26	20100191974	SOFTWARE APPLICATION VERIFICATION
27	20100191969	DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT WITH PERSISTENTLY-UNENCRYPTED CONTENT
28	20100191957	AUTHENTICATION/AUTHORIZATION PROTOCOL FOR MEDIA PROCESSING COMPONENTS
29	20100191930	TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY COMPATIBILITY MANAGEMENT
30	20100191928	AUTOMATIC REGION-BASED VERIFICATION OF GARBAGE COLLECTORS
31	20100191919	APPEND-BASED SHARED PERSISTENT STORAGE
32	20100191844	CLUSTER-BASED FRIEND SUGGESTION AGGREGATOR
33	20100191818	Automatic Grouping of Electronic Mail
34	20100191810	TRANSPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR SIDE EFFECT MESSAGES
35	20100191793	Symbolic Computation Using Tree-Structured Mathematical Expressions
36	20100191753	Extracting Patterns from Sequential Data
37	20100191746	Competitor Analysis to Facilitate Keyword Bidding
38	20100191727	DYNAMIC FEATURE PRESENTATION BASED ON VISION DETECTION
39	20100191713	UNBUNDLED STORAGE TRANSACTION SERVICES
40	20100191712	COMMIT RATE MANAGEMENT WITH DECOUPLED COMMIT OPERATIONS
41	20100191707	TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING COPY CREATION
42	20100191693	Segmenting Sequential Data with a Finite State Machine
43	20100191686	Answer Ranking In Community Question-Answering Sites
44	20100191606	TAX CALCULATION EXTENSIBILITY TECHNIQUES
45	20100191599	LOCAL TARGETING ENGINE
46	20100191586	Providing Cashback Offers
47	20100191558	LINEAR-PROGRAM FORMULATION FOR OPTIMIZING INVENTORY ALLOCATION
48	20100191549	ICAFE PRE-ORDERING
49	20100191529	Systems And Methods For Managing Multiple Grammars in a Speech Recognition System
50	20100191519	TOOL AND FRAMEWORK FOR CREATING CONSISTENT NORMALIZATION MAPS AND GRAMMARS
51	20100191513	REFINING HLA DATA
52	20100189310	System and Method Providing Improved Head Motion Estimations for Animation
53	20100189260	CONVERSATION RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
54	20100189259	PEER COMMUNITIES
55	20100189183	MULTIPLE BIT RATE VIDEO ENCODING USING VARIABLE BIT RATE AND DYNAMIC RESOLUTION FOR ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMING
56	20100189179	VIDEO ENCODING USING PREVIOUSLY CALCULATED MOTION INFORMATION
57	20100188810	SELF-CONTAINED AND MODULAR AIR-COOLED CONTAINERIZED SERVER COOLING
58	20100188575	SHARED TELEVISION SESSIONS
59	20100188412	CONTENT BASED CACHE FOR GRAPHICS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
60	20100188404	SINGLE-PASS BOUNDING BOX CALCULATION
61	20100188328	ENVIRONMENTAL GESTURE RECOGNITION

Microsoft patents granted on 27 July 2010

Administrator — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:06:49 +0000

44 US patents granted on 27 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D620,514	Electronic camera and base
2	7,765,592	Changed file identification, software conflict resolution and unwanted file removal
3	7,765,575	Combining real-time and batch mode logical address links
4	7,765,571	Continuous selection graphs
5	7,765,570	Maintaining accurate channel line-up by persistently monitoring availability of accessible channels
6	7,765,553	Method and system for regulating background tasks using performance measurements
7	7,765,540	Use of attribution to describe management information
8	7,765,501	Settings and constraints validation to enable design for operations
9	7,765,483	Filtering obscured data from a remote client display
10	7,765,467	Undoing pending changes applied to web pages
11	7,765,432	Reporting diagnostic information for code of an application program interface
12	7,765,410	System and method of aggregating the knowledge base of antivirus software applications
13	7,765,405	Receive side scaling with cryptographically secure hashing
14	7,765,401	Multiple user authentication for online console-based gaming
15	7,765,400	Aggregation of the knowledge base of antivirus software
16	7,765,397	Generating, migrating or exporting bound keys
17	7,765,374	Protecting operating-system resources
18	7,765,361	Enforced transaction system recoverability on media without write-through
19	7,765,341	Universal serial bus device including a USB connector and a transmitter
20	7,765,305	Retry request overload protection
21	7,765,287	Platform management techniques of handling providers
22	7,765,252	Five-term karatsuba-variant calculator
23	7,765,241	Describing expected entity relationships in a model
24	7,765,239	System and method for storing and retrieving a field of a user defined type outside of a database store in which the type is defined
25	7,765,236	Extracting data content items using template matching
26	7,765,229	Single view of data in a networked computer system with distributed storage
27	7,765,224	Using multi-dimensional expression (MDX) and relational methods for allocation
28	7,765,220	Data relevance filtering
29	7,765,219	Sort digits as number collation in server
30	7,765,216	Multidimensional analysis tool for high dimensional data
31	7,765,212	Automatic organization of documents through email clustering
32	7,765,208	Keyword analysis and arrangement
33	7,765,207	Fast rich application view initiation
34	7,765,204	Method of finding candidate sub-queries from longer queries
35	7,765,195	Trimmed and merged search result sets in a versioned data environment
36	7,765,102	Generic spelling mnemonics
37	7,764,965	Dynamically changing service characteristics based on device and network connectivity attributes
38	7,764,849	User interface for navigating through images
39	7,764,834	System and method facilitating document image compression utilizing a mask
40	7,764,691	Allowing IPv4 clients to communicate using teredo addresses when both clients are behind a NAT
41	7,764,634	Suppression of acoustic feedback in voice communications
42	7,764,247	Adaptive heads-up user interface for automobiles
43	7,763,841	Optical component for a depth sensor
44	7,762,892	Mode-altering key for a character input device

Microsoft patent applications published on 22 July 2010

Administrator — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:57:22 +0000

62 US patent applications published on 22 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100186095	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAP BASED ANTI-PIRACY
2	20100186082	Web Management Authorization and Delegation Framework
3	20100186079	REMOTE ACCESS TO PRIVATE NETWORK RESOURCES FROM OUTSIDE THE NETWORK
4	20100186062	PROTECTING CONTENT FROM THIRD PARTY USING CLIENT-SIDE SECURITY PROTECTION
5	20100186056	Lecture Capture and Broadcast System
6	20100186009	Parameterized Installation Packages
7	20100186003	Per Group Verification
8	20100185978	CONTEXT PANE WITH SEMANTIC ZOOM
9	20100185973	Visual Creation Of Computer-Based Workflows
10	20100185961	FLEXIBLE VISUALIZATION FOR SERVICES
11	20100185956	SIGNALING SUPPORT FOR SHARER SWITCHING IN APPLICATION SHARING
12	20100185954	Collaborative Environment Project Extensibility with Composition Containers
13	20100185928	EXTENSIBILITY FOR WEB BASED DIAGRAM VISUALIZATION
14	20100185883	POWER MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS
15	20100185861	ANONYMOUS KEY ISSUING FOR ATTRIBUTE-BASED ENCRYPTION
16	20100185856	Stateless Agent
17	20100185854	MULTIPLE CONTENT PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN A FILE
18	20100185843	HARDWARE ENCRYPTING STORAGE DEVICE WITH PHYSICALLY SEPARABLE KEY STORAGE DEVICE
19	20100185840	PROPAGATING UNOBSERVED EXCEPTIONS IN A PARALLEL SYSTEM
20	20100185825	TRANSIENT STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURATION SILO
21	20100185770	PRESENCE CAPABILITIES AND PREFERENCES
22	20100185747	INTERFACING DISTINCT SERVICES FOR PROVIDING WEB BASED DOCUMENT MANIPULATION ACCESS
23	20100185735	EXTENSIBILITY FOR HOSTED MESSAGING SERVERS
24	20100185714	DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DATABASE INSTANCES
25	20100185704	CLIENT-BASED CACHING OF REMOTE FILES
26	20100185689	Enhancing Keyword Advertising Using Wikipedia Semantics
27	20100185687	SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS
28	20100185677	AGGREGATED SUBSCRIBER PROFILE BASED ON STATIC AND DYNAMIC INFORMATION
29	20100185671	PERSONALIZED MEDIA RECOMMENDATION
30	20100185670	MINING TRANSLITERATIONS FOR OUT-OF-VOCABULARY QUERY TERMS
31	20100185669	EFFICIENT INCREMENTAL PARSING OF CONTEXT SENSITIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
32	20100185650	INDEXING AND SEARCHING DYNAMICALLY CHANGING SEARCH CORPORA
33	20100185649	SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR QUERIES
34	20100185644	AUTOMATIC SEARCH SUGGESTIONS FROM CLIENT-SIDE, BROWSER, HISTORY CACHE
35	20100185631	TECHNIQUES FOR DATA AGGREGATION, ANALYSIS, AND DISTRIBUTION
36	20100185630	MORPHING SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED ON USER CONTEXT
37	20100185629	INDEXING AND QUERYING DATA STORES USING CONCATENATED TERMS
38	20100185624	COLORBLIND ACCESSIBLE IMAGE SEARCH
39	20100185618	Techniques For Specifying And Collecting Data Aggregations
40	20100185587	DATA MOVEMENT WITH REDUCED SERVICE OUTAGE
41	20100185586	MESSAGE-BASED SCALABLE DATA TRANSPORT PROTOCOL
42	20100185582	Web Deployment Functions and Interfaces
43	20100185577	OBJECT CLASSIFICATION USING TAXONOMIES
44	20100185569	Smart Attribute Classification (SAC) for Online Reviews
45	20100185541	NETWORK SERVICE FOR MODULARLY CONSTRUCTING A SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO
46	20100185474	Milestone Generation Techniques
47	20100185473	DOCUMENT VAULT AND APPLICATION PLATFORM
48	20100185456	MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
49	20100185447	Markup language-based selection and utilization of recognizers for utterance processing
50	20100184517	USE OF ONLINE MESSAGING TO FACILITATE SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS IN GAME PLAY
51	20100184512	APPLICATION-CENTRIC USER INTERFACE TECHNIQUES
52	20100184440	MOBILE DEVICE NETWORK SELECTION
53	20100184416	ATTRIBUTE AND LOCATION BASED ENTITY PRESENTATION IN PRESENCE BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
54	20100183136	MEDIA SPECIFIC FEATURE INVOCATION SIGNALING IN ENHANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
55	20100183126	IN-BAND SIGNALING IN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS
56	20100183034	SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTI-TIME BASE DATA SOURCES
57	20100182444	DETERMINING EXPOSURE TIME IN A DIGITAL CAMERA
58	20100182430	DETERMINING TRIGGER RATE FOR A DIGITAL CAMERA
59	20100182396	DATA CAPTURE SYSTEM
60	20100182247	BI-MODAL MULTISCREEN INTERACTIVITY
61	20100182246	TOUCH SENSITIVE COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD
62	20100182220	SURFACE PUCK

Microsoft patents granted on 20 July 2010

Administrator — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:55:18 +0000

56 US patents granted on 20 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D620,037	Electronic camera
2	D620,027	Animated avatar for a display screen
3	D620,026	Animated avatar for a display screen
4	D620,025	Animated avatar for a display screen
5	D620,024	Group of icons for a display screen
6	D620,019	Display screen with image
7	7,761,924	Manipulation of information embedded in content
8	7,761,912	Reputation driven firewall
9	7,761,884	Method and system for maintaining connections between surfaces and objects in a graphics display system
10	7,761,881	Event bookmarks
11	7,761,858	Semantic programming language
12	7,761,849	Automated analysis and recovery of localization data
13	7,761,814	Flick gesture
14	7,761,812	Media user interface gallery control
15	7,761,809	Targeted user interface fall-through
16	7,761,799	Mobile information services
17	7,761,796	Animation on object user interface
18	7,761,785	Providing resilient links
19	7,761,783	Document performance analysis
20	7,761,708	Method and framework for integrating a plurality of network policies
21	7,761,700	Methods and arrangements for providing a mark-up language based graphical user interface for user identification to an operating system
22	7,761,638	Dynamic creation of low-level interfaces
23	7,761,619	Method and system for parallelizing completion event processing
24	7,761,618	Using a USB host controller security extension for controlling changes in and auditing USB topology
25	7,761,607	User based communication mode selection on a device capable of carrying out network communications
26	7,761,601	Strategies for transforming markup content to code-bearing content for consumption by a receiving device
27	7,761,586	Accessing and manipulating data in a data flow graph
28	7,761,585	Techniques for automatically detecting protocols in a computer network
29	7,761,584	Generalized protocol mapping
30	7,761,578	Communicating in a virtual environment
31	7,761,549	Social mapping of contacts from computer communication information
32	7,761,545	System and method for remote management
33	7,761,538	Dynamically configuring, allocating and deploying computing systems
34	7,761,530	Configuration change management tool
35	7,761,503	Peer distribution point feature for system management server
36	7,761,484	Complete mapping between the XML infoset and dynamic language data expressions
37	7,761,481	Schema generator: quick and efficient conversion of healthcare specific structural data represented in relational database tables, along with complex validation rules and business rules, to custom HL7XSD with applicable annotations
38	7,761,473	Typed relationships between items
39	7,761,464	Diversifying search results for improved search and personalization
40	7,761,451	Efficient querying and paging in databases
41	7,761,448	System and method for ranking search results using click distance
42	7,761,447	Systems and methods that rank search results
43	7,761,430	Verification of cross domain data system query results
44	7,761,412	Synchronization move support systems and methods
45	7,761,393	Creating and managing activity-centric workflow
46	7,761,290	Flexible frequency and time partitioning in perceptual transform coding of audio
47	7,761,287	Inferring opinions based on learned probabilities
48	7,760,946	Handwriting teaching data selection system
49	7,760,903	Tamper-resistant text stream watermarking
50	7,760,865	Escalation from a conversation to a conference
51	7,760,728	System and method for efficient broadcast of information over a network
52	7,760,659	Transmission optimization for application-level multicast
53	7,760,654	Using a connected wireless computer as a conduit for a disconnected wireless computer
54	7,760,193	Durable top surface for interactive display
55	7,759,997	Multi-phase correction circuit
56	7,758,422	Hard drive authentication

Microsoft patent applications published on 15 July 2010

Administrator — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:47:03 +0000

39 US patent applications published on 15 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100180347	PLUGGABLE FILE-BASED DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT API LAYER FOR APPLICATIONS AND ENGINES
2	20100180333	Communication Abuse Prevention
3	20100180332	INFORMATION PROTECTION APPLIED BY AN INTERMEDIARY DEVICE
4	20100180330	Securing Communications for Web Mashups
5	20100180305	Categorized Electronic Program Guide
6	20100180281	OFFLINE MIGRATION FROM PRIOR OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION
7	20100180269	DOMAINS WITH POLYMORPHIC TYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS
8	20100180266	Multi Level Virtual Function Tables
9	20100180264	HANDLING MULTIPLE DEFINITION OF TYPES
10	20100180257	TESTING STM USING NON-STM CODE
11	20100180254	Graphical Mashup
12	20100180226	User Interface for Displaying Selectable Software Functionality Controls that are Relevant to a Selected Object
13	20100180221	Configuration Creation for Deployment and Monitoring
14	20100180210	Multi-User Multi-Input Desktop Workspaces And Applications
15	20100180048	Server-Centric High Performance Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers
16	20100180042	Simulcast Flow-Controlled Data Streams
17	20100180041	SERVICE FOR POLICY RULE SPECIFICATION EVALUATION AND ENFORCEMENT ON MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MODES
18	20100180040	Incrementally Changing the Availability of a Feature
19	20100180028	POLICY SERVICE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR SESSIONS CREATED USING STUN
20	20100180015	PERFORMING CONFIGURATION IN A MULTIMACHINE ENVIRONMENT
21	20100180011	URL BASED RETRIEVAL OF PORTIONS OF MEDIA CONTENT
22	20100179997	MESSAGE TRACKING BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS
23	20100179971	Concurrent, Lock-Free Object Copying
24	20100179929	SYSTEM FOR FINDING QUERIES AIMING AT TAIL URLs
25	20100179759	Detecting Spatial Outliers in a Location Entity Dataset
26	20100179753	Estimating Time Of Arrival
27	20100178985	ARRANGEMENT FOR BUILDING AND OPERATING HUMAN-COMPUTATION AND OTHER GAMES
28	20100178984	Game Controller That Converts Between Wireless Operation And Wired Operation
29	20100178902	ADDRESS BOOK REMOTE ACCESS AND EXTENSIBILITY
30	20100177931	VIRTUAL OBJECT ADJUSTMENT VIA PHYSICAL OBJECT DETECTION
31	20100177908	ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER USING A LOG DOMAIN OPTIMIZATION CRITERION
32	20100177884	ECHO PRESENCE DETERMINATION IN VOICE CONVERSATIONS
33	20100177877	ENHANCED VOICEMAIL USAGE THROUGH AUTOMATIC VOICEMAIL PREVIEW
34	20100177776	RECOVERING FROM DROPPED FRAMES IN REAL-TIME TRANSMISSION OF VIDEO OVER IP NETWORKS
35	20100177387	END REFLECTOR FOR A FLAT PANEL LENS
36	20100177051	TOUCH DISPLAY RUBBER-BAND GESTURE
37	20100177049	VISUAL RESPONSE TO TOUCH INPUTS
38	20100177048	EASY-TO-USE SOFT KEYBOARD THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE A STYLUS
39	20100176943	PRE-SELECTION DISPLAY OF ALERTS IN AN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM

Microsoft patents granted on 13 July 2010

Administrator — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:13:40 +0000

77 US patents granted on 13 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D619,618	Animated avatar for a display screen
2	D619,617	Group of icons for a display screen
3	D619,616	Group of icons for a display screen
4	D619,613	Transitional image for a portion of a display screen
5	D619,600	Display screen with image
6	D619,599	Display screen with image
7	D619,598	Display screen with image
8	D619,597	Display screen with image
9	D619,596	Display screen with image
10	D619,595	Display screen with image
11	D619,590	Keyboard
12	D619,577	Keyboard
13	D619,564	Portion of a remote controller
14	D619,485	Motion sensor
15	D619,484	Motion sensor
16	7,757,299	Conditional access to digital rights management conversion
17	7,757,290	Bypassing software services to detect malware
18	7,757,282	System and method for distinguishing safe and potentially unsafe data during runtime processing
19	7,757,281	Privilege restriction enforcement in a distributed system
20	7,757,275	One time password integration with Kerberos
21	7,757,254	Interactive entertainment system for presenting supplemental interactive content together with continuous video programs
22	7,757,250	Time-centric training, inference and user interface for personalized media program guides
23	7,757,241	Playback control methods and arrangements for a DVD player
24	7,757,240	System and related interfaces supporting the processing of media content
25	7,757,227	Dynamic multilingual resource support for applications
26	7,757,225	Linktime recognition of alternative implementations of programmed functionality
27	7,757,224	Software support for dynamically extensible processors
28	7,757,219	Method for enhancing program analysis
29	7,757,218	Method of instrumenting code having restrictive calling conventions
30	7,757,213	Aggregation-based management of a distributed business process application
31	7,757,207	Form skin and design time WYSIWYG for .net compact framework
32	7,757,182	Taskbar media player
33	7,757,181	Agenda and day hybrid calendar view
34	7,757,171	Media authoring and presentation
35	7,757,077	Specifying security for an element by assigning a scaled value representative of the relative security thereof
36	7,757,075	State reference
37	7,757,030	Simulating hardware dynamic partitioning capabilities
38	7,757,004	System and method for enabling a graphical window modification command to be applied to a remotely generated graphical window
39	7,756,987	Cybersquatter patrol
40	7,756,980	Using channel concepts to control computer networking
41	7,756,929	System and method for processing e-mail
42	7,756,924	Peer communities
43	7,756,909	Configuration profiles for output cached pages
44	7,756,893	Independent computation environment and data protection
45	7,756,882	Method and apparatus for elegant mapping between data models
46	7,756,881	Partitioning of data mining training set
47	7,756,874	System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to consonance properties
48	7,756,864	System and method for performing a search and a browse on a query
49	7,756,841	System and method for identity decisions and invalidation
50	7,756,839	Version tolerant serialization
51	7,756,838	Robust end-of-log processing
52	7,756,836	Peer-to-peer file sharing
53	7,756,833	Method and system for synthetic backup and restore
54	7,756,828	Configuration management database state model
55	7,756,825	Synchronization peer participant model
56	7,756,824	Spreadsheet collaboration between rich and browser clients
57	7,756,821	Virtual deletion in merged file system directories
58	7,756,802	Combiner training and evaluation with random data partition
59	7,756,747	RFID business process-decoupling of design and deployment time activities
60	7,756,739	System and method for aggregating a measure over a non-additive account dimension
61	7,756,594	Systems and methods for parsing flexible audio codec topologies
62	7,756,539	Push-to-talk event notification
63	7,756,388	Media item subgroup generation from a library
64	7,756,333	Document layout verification
65	7,756,294	Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose
66	7,756,271	Scalable layered access control for multimedia
67	7,756,051	Content distribution using network coding
68	7,756,044	Inverse multiplexing heterogeneous wireless links for high-performance vehicular connectivity
69	7,755,786	Systems and methods for support of various processing capabilities
70	7,755,645	Object-based image inpainting
71	7,755,637	Initialization of color appearance model
72	7,755,619	Automatic 3D face-modeling from video
73	7,755,517	Navigation device
74	7,755,324	Recharging system for wireless input devices
75	7,753,788	Game controller that converts between wireless operation and wired operation
76	7,753,787	Convertible lap rest and table mount for racing wheel
77	7,753,260	Information processing system, information processing method, program, and recording system

Microsoft patent applications published on 08 July 2010

Administrator — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:53:02 +0000

39 US patent applications published on 08 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100175133	REORDERING DOCUMENT CONTENT TO AVOID EXPLOITS
2	20100175103	REACTIVE THROTTLING OF INBOUND MESSAGES AND RANGES
3	20100175079	VIDEO AD DELIVERY USING CONFIGURABLE VIDEO AD POLICIES
4	20100175049	SCOPE: A STRUCTURED COMPUTATIONS OPTIMIZED FOR PARALLEL EXECUTION SCRIPT LANGUAGE
5	20100175048	ARCHITECTURE THAT EXTENDS TYPES USING EXTENSION METHODS
6	20100175031	DISCOVERY OF MEDIA CONTENT VIA USER INTERFACE
7	20100175027	NON-UNIFORM SCROLLING
8	20100175023	REVEALING OF TRUNCATED CONTENT ON SCROLLABLE GRID
9	20100175019	DATA EXPLORATION TOOL INCLUDING GUIDED NAVIGATION AND RECOMMENDED INSIGHTS
10	20100175018	VIRTUAL PAGE TURN
11	20100175000	DYNAMICALLY CREATING AND MANAGING ALTERNATE CONTACTS LIST
12	20100174968	HEIRARCHICAL ERASURE CODING
13	20100174921	DEVICE SIDE HOST INTEGRITY VALIDATION
14	20100174912	UNIQUE ACCOUNT IDENTIFICATION
15	20100174818	Input Service for Client Devices
16	20100174811	NETWORK ISOLATION AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT OF CLONED VIRTUAL MACHINES
17	20100174808	NETWORK PRESENCE OFFLOADS TO NETWORK INTERFACE
18	20100174788	HONORING USER PREFERENCES IN EMAIL SYSTEMS
19	20100174773	SYNCHRONIZING PRESENTATION STATES BETWEEN MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS
20	20100174734	ASYNCHRONOUS DATABASE UPDATES BETWEEN COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS AND SEARCH UTILITIES
21	20100174712	EXPERTISE RANKING USING SOCIAL DISTANCE
22	20100174711	CONCURRENCY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION
23	20100174703	RELEVANCE IMPROVEMENTS FOR IMPLICIT LOCAL QUERIES
24	20100173687	SPEED-DEPENDENT SUGGESTED DRIVING LINES
25	20100173585	SEAMLESS DATA COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE
26	20100172626	Trick Mode Based Advertisement Portion Selection
27	20100172625	Client-side Ad Insertion During Trick Mode Playback
28	20100172590	Combined Image and Text Document
29	20100172491	Computing Isogenies Between Genus-2 Curves for Cryptography
30	20100172358	Quality of Service Support for A/V Streams
31	20100172343	Dynamic Network Classification
32	20100172275	Energy Efficient Device Discovery with Short-Range Radios
33	20100172274	Energy saving using cellular footprint for mobile device Wi-Fi access point discovery
34	20100171846	Automatic Capture Modes
35	20100171813	GATED 3D CAMERA
36	20100171759	MULTI-LAYER IMAGE COMPOSITION WITH INTERMEDIATE BLENDING RESOLUTIONS
37	20100171754	CONVERTING DIGITAL INK TO SHAPES AND TEXT
38	20100171748	Motion Desktop
39	20100171721	User Interface for Stylus-Based User Input

Microsoft patents granted on 06 July 2010

Administrator — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:34:05 +0000

50 US patents granted on 06 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D619,157	Electronic camera base
2	D619,147	Icon for a portion of a display screen
3	D619,145	Color animated image for a portion of a display screen
4	7,752,674	Secure media path methods, systems, and architectures
5	7,752,658	Multi-session connection across a trust boundary
6	7,752,632	Method and system for exposing nested data in a computer-generated document in a transparent manner
7	7,752,605	Precise data-race detection using locksets
8	7,752,597	Layered software development and implementation using files
9	7,752,596	Connecting alternative development environment to interpretive runtime engine
10	7,752,569	Software key labeling on software keyboards
11	7,752,561	Method and system for creating temporary visual indicia
12	7,752,560	Systems and methods for creating and managing graphical user interface lists
13	7,752,555	Controlling multiple map application operations with a single gesture
14	7,752,554	Bot identification and control
15	7,752,548	Features such as titles, transitions, and/or effects which vary according to positions
16	7,752,545	Generator system
17	7,752,543	Applying effects to a merged text path
18	7,752,536	Designating, setting and discovering parameters for spreadsheet documents
19	7,752,456	Saving and retrieving data based on symmetric key encryption
20	7,752,442	Virtual distributed security system
21	7,752,431	Virtual distributed security system
22	7,752,327	Receiver driven streaming in a peer-to-peer network
23	7,752,253	Collaborative invitation system and method
24	7,752,237	User interface having a search preview
25	7,752,235	Method and apparatus for maintaining relationships between parts in a package
26	7,752,224	Programmability for XML data store for documents
27	7,752,201	Recommendation of related electronic assets based on user search behavior
28	7,752,153	Forward chaining and identifying rule dependencies and rule triggering side effects in terms of data objects accessed by rules in a ruleset
29	7,752,152	Using predictive user models for language modeling on a personal device with user behavior models based on statistical modeling
30	7,752,148	Math problem checker
31	7,752,054	Advisor referral tool
32	7,752,040	Stationary-tones interference cancellation
33	7,752,034	Writing assistance using machine translation techniques
34	7,752,028	Signed/unsigned integer guest compare instructions using unsigned host compare instructions for precise architecture emulation
35	7,751,971	Location mapping for key-point based services
36	7,751,944	Context-aware and location-aware systems, methods, and vehicles, and method of operating the same
37	7,751,623	Writing guide for a free-form document editor
38	7,751,585	System and method for encoding high density geometric symbol set
39	7,751,377	Wireless network interference mitigation
40	7,751,340	Management of incoming information
41	7,751,317	Cost-aware networking over heterogeneous data channels
42	7,751,315	Shared network path contention reduction
43	7,750,924	Method and computer-readable medium for generating graphics having a finite number of dynamically sized and positioned shapes
44	7,750,923	Implementing limited function mode in a display device
45	7,750,904	Modeling variable illumination in an image sequence
46	7,750,903	Modeling reflections within an image sequence
47	7,750,895	Navigating lists using input motions
48	7,749,084	Tool for real-time graphical exploration of interconnected friends and groups
49	7,749,057	Speed-dependent suggested driving lines
50	7,748,622	Direct customer ERP access

Microsoft patent applications published on 01 July 2010

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:49:46 +0000

46 US patent applications published on 01 July 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	20100169976	EXTENSIBLE ACTIVATION EXPLOIT SCANNER
2	20100169972	SHARED REPOSITORY OF MALWARE DATA
3	20100169906	User-Annotated Video Markup
4	20100169871	STRUCTURED SEARCH IN SOURCE CODE
5	20100169868	Unifying Type Checking and Property Checking for Low Level Programs
6	20100169862	INTERFACE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CONTINUATION BASED RUNTIME
7	20100169842	Control Function Gestures
8	20100169838	ANALYSIS OF IMAGES LOCATED WITHIN THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
9	20100169827	SETTING CONTROL USING EDGES OF A USER INTERFACE
10	20100169789	Scaling Social Networks
11	20100169776	GENERALIZED INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES
12	20100169765	CATEGORIZING DOCUMENT ELEMENTS BASED ON DISPLAY LAYOUT
13	20100169753	MEDIA PORTABILITY AND COMPATIBILITY FOR DIFFERENT DESTINATION PLATFORMS
14	20100169618	IDENTIFYING CONCURRENCY CONTROL FROM A SEQUENTIAL PROOF
15	20100169605	ARBITRARY PRECISION FLOATING NUMBER PROCESSING
16	20100169536	DYNAMIC VIRTUAL MACHINE MEMORY MANAGEMENT
17	20100169406	ROAMING PERSONAL INFORMATION ITEMS ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPUTING DEVICES USING AN IMAP SERVER
18	20100169335	Detecting and Reordering Fixed-Length Records to Facilitate Compression
19	20100169334	PEER-TO-PEER WEB SEARCH USING TAGGED RESOURCES
20	20100169324	RANKING DOCUMENTS WITH SOCIAL TAGS
21	20100169323	Query-Dependent Ranking Using K-Nearest Neighbor
22	20100169318	CONTEXTUAL REPRESENTATIONS FROM DATA STREAMS
23	20100169317	Product or Service Review Summarization Using Attributes
24	20100169300	Ranking Oriented Query Clustering and Applications
25	20100169258	Scalable Parallel User Clustering in Discrete Time Window
26	20100169257	TRANSPARENT PARALLELISM AMONG LINEAR SOLVERS
27	20100169220	WEARING HEALTH ON YOUR SLEEVE
28	20100169219	PLUGGABLE HEALTH-RELATED DATA USER EXPERIENCE
29	20100169178	Advertising Method for Image Search
30	20100169153	User-Adaptive Recommended Mobile Content
31	20100169134	FOSTERING ENTERPRISE RELATIONSHIPS
32	20100169118	CENTRALIZED HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT
33	20100169108	DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS USED FOR HEALTH-BASED DATA COLLECTION
34	20100167801	KIDS PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS FED INTO VIDEO GAMES
35	20100166314	Segment Sequence-Based Handwritten Expression Recognition
36	20100165976	HANDLING EARLY MEDIA IN VOIP COMMUNICATION WITH MULTIPLE ENDPOINTS
37	20100165879	WIRELESS PROVISIONING A DEVICE FOR A NETWORK USING A SOFT ACCESS POINT
38	20100165840	Triggering animation actions and media object actions
39	20100165815	GAPLESS AUDIO PLAYBACK
40	20100165123	Data-Driven Video Stabilization
41	20100164986	Dynamic Collage for Visualizing Large Photograph Collections
42	20100164983	LEVERAGING GRAPHICS PROCESSORS TO OPTIMIZE RENDERING 2-D OBJECTS
43	20100164908	DUAL-MODE ROTATABLE INPUT DEVICE
44	20100164787	CORRECTING GPS THROUGH SECONDARY SENSORS AND SIGNAL STRENGTH
45	20100164745	REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE ACTIVE SURFACES
46	20100163316	Handwriting Recognition System Using Multiple Path Recognition Framework

Microsoft patents granted on 29 June 2010

Administrator — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:22:29 +0000

71 US patents granted on 29 June 2010 and assigned to Microsoft

1	D618,683	Dual display device
2	D618,647	Handset
3	D618,646	Handset
4	7,748,046	Security claim transformation with intermediate claims
5	7,748,033	Windows remote debugger service
6	7,748,016	Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming
7	7,748,009	Use of a precursor to select cached buffer
8	7,748,004	System and method for implementing a client side HTTP stack
9	7,747,998	Elevated patching
10	7,747,988	Software feature usage analysis and reporting
11	7,747,986	Generating static performance modeling factors in a deployed system
12	7,747,985	Conformance testing of multi-threaded and distributed software systems
13	7,747,984	Automatic test case for graphics design application
14	7,747,970	Previews of information for selected download on auxiliary display
15	7,747,966	User interface for providing task management and calendar information
16	7,747,965	System and method for controlling the opacity of multiple windows while browsing
17	7,747,956	Integrated experience of vogue system and method for shared integrated online social interaction
18	7,747,952	Floating action buttons
19	7,747,946	System and method for adorning shapes with data driven objects
20	7,747,944	Semantically applying style transformation to objects in a graphic
21	7,747,943	Robust anchoring of annotations to content
22	7,747,939	Generating free form reports within a data array
23	7,747,899	Providing mapping fault processing
24	7,747,894	Transport-neutral in-order delivery in a distributed system
25	7,747,854	Advanced stream format (ASF) data stream header object protection
26	7,747,823	Strategies for reading information from a mass storage medium using a cache memory
27	7,747,820	Managing working set use of a cache via page coloring
28	7,747,814	Virtual machine state snapshots
29	7,747,801	Reducing information reception delays
30	7,747,797	Mass storage device with near field communications
31	7,747,785	Instant messaging plug-ins
32	7,747,742	Online predicate checking for distributed systems
33	7,747,719	Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration
34	7,747,704	Context aware computing devices and methods
35	7,747,701	Methods and systems for adaptive delivery of multimedia contents
36	7,747,681	Systems and methods for conducting internet content usage experiments
37	7,747,664	Storage system format for transaction safe file system
38	7,747,652	Structured data storage
39	7,747,647	Distributing permission information via a metadirectory
40	7,747,641	Modeling sequence and time series data in predictive analytics
41	7,747,637	For each item enumerator for custom collections of items
42	7,747,634	Rich data tunneling
43	7,747,633	Incremental parsing of hierarchical files
44	7,747,626	Search results clustering in tabbed browsers
45	7,747,618	Augmenting user, query, and document triplets using singular value decomposition
46	7,747,611	Systems and methods for enhancing search query results
47	7,747,604	Dynamic sitemap creation
48	7,747,600	Multi-level search
49	7,747,597	Security execution context for a database management system
50	7,747,594	Converting information into different formats
51	7,747,589	Transaction time indexing with version compression
52	7,747,588	Extensible XML format and object model for localization data
53	7,747,578	Reducing database fragmentation
54	7,747,568	Integrated user interface
55	7,747,567	Separation of conflict resolution from synchronization
56	7,747,565	Garbage collector support for transactional memory
57	7,747,560	Methods and systems for providing a distributed database store with correlation service
58	7,747,557	Application of metadata to documents and document objects via an operating system user interface
59	7,747,556	Query-based notification architecture
60	7,747,540	Account linking with privacy keys
61	7,747,533	Digital application operating according to aggregation of plurality of licenses
62	7,747,249	GSM/UMTS emulator
63	7,747,070	Training convolutional neural networks on graphics processing units
64	7,747,040	Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose
65	7,747,006	Handset and base unit with semi-translucent finish
66	7,746,885	Tower discovery and failover
67	7,746,803	Audio application programming interface
68	7,746,382	Video processing system and method for automatic enhancement of digital video
69	7,746,351	Systems and methods for updating a frame buffer based on arbitrary graphics calls
70	7,746,250	Message encoding/decoding using templated parameters
71	7,744,451	Speed-dependent suggested driving lines