44 US patents granted on 23 June 2009 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | 7,552,460 | Modifying an electronic program guide based on viewer statistics |
| 2 | 7,552,452 | Safe, secure resource editing for application localization with language fallback |
| 3 | 7,552,451 | Persisting state across navigations in a navigation-based application and responding to navigation-related events throughout an application |
| 4 | 7,552,450 | Systems and methods for enabling applications via an application programming interface (API) to interface with and configure digital media components |
| 5 | 7,552,431 | Multiple patching in a single installation transaction |
| 6 | 7,552,430 | Patch sequencing |
| 7 | 7,552,426 | Systems and methods for using synthetic instructions in a virtual machine |
| 8 | 7,552,422 | Test case inheritance controlled via attributes |
| 9 | 7,552,418 | Systems and methods for creating and providing templates in a single file |
| 10 | 7,552,403 | Controlling an electronic component within an environment using a pointing device |
| 11 | 7,552,402 | Interface orientation using shadows |
| 12 | 7,552,397 | Multiple window behavior system |
| 13 | 7,552,391 | Methods and arrangements for providing multiple concurrent desktops and workspaces in a shared computing environment having remote nodes |
| 14 | 7,552,386 | Methods and systems for treating overflow conditions and for re-sizing printable content |
| 15 | 7,552,349 | User configurable power conservation through LCD display screen reduction |
| 16 | 7,552,341 | Licensing the use of software on a particular CPU |
| 17 | 7,552,337 | Service protection |
| 18 | 7,552,336 | Watermarking with covert channel and permutations |
| 19 | 7,552,331 | Secure media path methods, systems, and architectures |
| 20 | 7,552,244 | Universal graphic adapter for interfacing with UGA hardware for support of a plurality of emumerated devices |
| 21 | 7,552,243 | Discovering printers and shares |
| 22 | 7,552,228 | System and method for recording a presentation for on-demand viewing over a computer network |
| 23 | 7,552,208 | Methods for managing capacity |
| 24 | 7,552,206 | Throttling service connections based on network paths |
| 25 | 7,552,204 | Method and system for supporting the communication of presence information among computing devices of a network |
| 26 | 7,552,179 | Envelope e-mail journaling with best effort recipient updates |
| 27 | 7,552,176 | Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzles |
| 28 | 7,552,175 | Mechanism for controlling communication paths between conference members |
| 29 | 7,552,148 | Shutdown recovery |
| 30 | 7,552,115 | Method and system for efficient generation of storage reports |
| 31 | 7,552,089 | Method and apparatus for automatically applying/linking transactions in a financial management system |
| 32 | 7,552,055 | Dialog component re-use in recognition systems |
| 33 | 7,552,046 | Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof |
| 34 | 7,552,044 | Simulated storage area network |
| 35 | 7,552,036 | Preconditioning for stochastic simulation of computer system performance |
| 36 | 7,551,789 | Reversible overlap operator for efficient lossless data compression |
| 37 | 7,551,784 | Continuous inference for sequence data |
| 38 | 7,551,779 | Word or character boundary-based scratch-out gesture recognition |
| 39 | 7,551,727 | Unified messaging architecture |
| 40 | 7,551,552 | Method for providing guaranteed distributed failure notification |
| 41 | 7,551,199 | Computer camera system and method for reducing parallax |
| 42 | 7,551,187 | Systems and methods that utilize a dynamic digital zooming interface in connection with digital inking |
| 43 | 7,551,181 | Image region filling by exemplar-based inpainting |
| 44 | 7,549,924 | Instant messaging embedded games |
