24 US patents granted on 10 January 2006 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | 6,986,123 | Extensible on-demand property system |
| 2 | 6,986,121 | Managing code when communicating using heirarchically-structured data |
| 3 | 6,986,107 | Dynamic generation of visual style variants for a graphical user interface |
| 4 | 6,986,106 | Correction widget |
| 5 | 6,986,103 | Document formatting based on optimized formatting values |
| 6 | 6,986,100 | Normalized rotation on a web site of display items from multiple sources |
| 7 | 6,986,062 | Set top box object security system |
| 8 | 6,986,059 | Hierarchical trusted code for content protection in computers |
| 9 | 6,986,043 | Encrypting file system and method |
| 10 | 6,986,036 | System and method for protecting privacy and anonymity of parties of network communications |
| 11 | 6,986,018 | Method and apparatus for selecting cache and proxy policy |
| 12 | 6,986,006 | Page granular curtained memory via mapping control |
| 13 | 6,985,966 | Resynchronizing globally unsynchronized multimedia streams |
| 14 | 6,985,958 | Messaging infrastructure for identity-centric data access |
| 15 | 6,985,950 | System for creating a space-efficient document categorizer for training and testing of automatic categorization engines |
| 16 | 6,985,947 | Server access control methods and arrangements |
| 17 | 6,985,946 | Authentication and authorization pipeline architecture for use in a web server |
| 18 | 6,985,858 | Method and apparatus for removing noise from feature vectors |
| 19 | 6,985,852 | Method and apparatus for dynamic grammars and focused semantic parsing |
| 20 | 6,985,851 | Method and apparatus for providing improved HMM POS tagger for multi-word entries and factoids |
| 21 | 6,985,160 | Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems |
| 22 | 6,985,157 | Alpha correction to compensate for lack of gamma correction |
| 23 | 6,985,156 | System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views |
| 24 | 6,985,148 | Interactive water effects using texture coordinate shifting |
