30 US patents granted on 21 March 2006 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | 7,017,189 | System and method for activating a rendering device in a multi-level rights-management architecture |
| 2 | 7,017,162 | Application program interface for network software platform |
| 3 | 7,017,155 | Installing software on a mobile computing device using the rollback and security features of a configuration manager |
| 4 | 7,017,144 | Combined image views and method of creating images |
| 5 | 7,017,143 | External resource files for application development and management |
| 6 | 7,017,112 | Importing and exporting markup language data in a spreadsheet application document |
| 7 | 7,017,105 | Deleting objects from a store of a device |
| 8 | 7,017,037 | Apparatus and method to decrease boot time and hibernate awaken time of a computer system utilizing disk spin-up-time |
| 9 | 7,017,004 | System and method for updating contents of a flash ROM |
| 10 | 7,016,960 | Authenticating user access to a network server without communicating user authentication cookie to the network server |
| 11 | 7,016,950 | System and method for restricting data transfers and managing software components of distributed computers |
| 12 | 7,016,914 | Performant and scalable merge strategy for text indexing |
| 13 | 7,016,912 | Write-back to cells |
| 14 | 7,016,909 | Method and system for expansion of recurring calendar events |
| 15 | 7,016,902 | Flexible subscription-based event notification |
| 16 | 7,016,884 | Probability estimate for K-nearest neighbor |
| 17 | 7,016,881 | Method for boosting the performance of machine-learning classifiers |
| 18 | 7,016,838 | Method and system for frame alignment and unsupervised adaptation of acoustic models |
| 19 | 7,016,830 | Use of a unified language model |
| 20 | 7,016,829 | Method and apparatus for unsupervised training of natural language processing units |
| 21 | 7,016,746 | Digital audio signal filtering mechanism and method |
| 22 | 7,016,705 | Reducing power consumption in a networked battery-operated device using sensors |
| 23 | 7,016,547 | Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content |
| 24 | 7,016,529 | System and method facilitating pattern recognition |
| 25 | 7,016,498 | Encrypting a digital object on a key ID selected therefor |
| 26 | 7,016,419 | Systems for MPEG subsample decoding |
| 27 | 7,016,055 | Synchronization of plugins |
| 28 | 7,015,926 | System and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a scene |
| 29 | 7,015,925 | System and method for producing a video signal |
| 30 | 7,015,837 | Lossless adaptive encoding and decoding of integer data |
