58 US patents granted on 24 January 2012 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | D652,841 | Display screen with in-process indicator |
| 2 | 8,104,088 | Trusted operating environment for malware detection |
| 3 | 8,104,080 | Universal schema for representing management policy |
| 4 | 8,104,074 | Identity providers in digital identity system |
| 5 | 8,104,070 | Interest aligned manual image categorization for human interactive proofs |
| 6 | 8,104,043 | System and method for dynamic cooperative distributed execution of computer tasks without a centralized controller |
| 7 | 8,104,025 | Extensible metadata |
| 8 | 8,104,021 | Verifiable integrity guarantees for machine code programs |
| 9 | 8,104,019 | Debugging in an operating system with multiple subsystems |
| 10 | 8,103,967 | Generating and organizing references to online content |
| 11 | 8,103,905 | Detecting and recovering from process failures |
| 12 | 8,103,847 | Storage virtual containers |
| 13 | 8,103,823 | Host initiated background formatting of optical medium |
| 14 | 8,103,815 | Lazy handling of end of interrupt messages in a virtualized environment |
| 15 | 8,103,759 | Message redirection within a messaging infrastructure |
| 16 | 8,103,753 | Distributing membership information for multi-party application layer sessions |
| 17 | 8,103,725 | Communication using delegates |
| 18 | 8,103,720 | Apparatus and computer-readable media for processing HTTP requests |
| 19 | 8,103,718 | Content discovery and transfer between mobile communications nodes |
| 20 | 8,103,706 | Nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection using overlooking roots |
| 21 | 8,103,687 | Selecting member sets for generating asymmetric queries |
| 22 | 8,103,686 | Extracting similar entities from lists/tables |
| 23 | 8,103,684 | Abstract pipeline component connection |
| 24 | 8,103,674 | E-matching for SMT solvers |
| 25 | 8,103,668 | Search control and authoring environment |
| 26 | 8,103,667 | Ranking results of multiple intent queries |
| 27 | 8,103,665 | Soliciting information based on a computer user’s context |
| 28 | 8,103,652 | Indexing explicitly-specified quick-link data for web pages |
| 29 | 8,103,646 | Automatic tagging of content based on a corpus of previously tagged and untagged content |
| 30 | 8,103,644 | Data access layer class generator |
| 31 | 8,103,638 | Partitioning of contended synchronization objects |
| 32 | 8,103,632 | Self-contained partial database backups |
| 33 | 8,103,629 | Bi-directional data modification with synchronization |
| 34 | 8,103,608 | Reference model for data-driven analytics |
| 35 | 8,103,599 | Calculating web page importance based on web behavior model |
| 36 | 8,103,598 | Compiler for probabilistic programs |
| 37 | 8,103,592 | First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code on behalf of first process |
| 38 | 8,103,547 | Logocons: AD product for brand advertisers |
| 39 | 8,103,537 | Decision theoretic approach to targeted solicitation by maximizing expected profit increases |
| 40 | 8,103,536 | Unified model for authoring and executing flow-based and constraint-based workflows |
| 41 | 8,103,503 | Speech recognition for determining if a user has correctly read a target sentence string |
| 42 | 8,103,498 | Progressive display rendering of processed text |
| 43 | 8,103,495 | Feature oriented protocol modeling |
| 44 | 8,103,445 | Dynamic map rendering as a function of a user parameter |
| 45 | 8,103,441 | Caching navigation content for intermittently connected devices |
| 46 | 8,103,247 | Automated secure pairing for wireless devices |
| 47 | 8,103,109 | Recognizing hand poses and/or object classes |
| 48 | 8,103,093 | Image segmentation of foreground from background layers |
| 49 | 8,103,011 | Signal detection using multiple detectors |
| 50 | 8,103,008 | Loudness-based compensation for background noise |
| 51 | 8,102,865 | Group based allocation of network bandwidth |
| 52 | 8,102,841 | Auxiliary peripheral for alerting a computer of an incoming call |
| 53 | 8,102,813 | Coordinating a transition of a roaming client between wireless access points using another client in physical proximity |
| 54 | 8,102,798 | Method and apparatus for managing scanning in wireless computing devices to reduce power consumption |
| 55 | 8,102,797 | Web format-based wireless communications |
| 56 | 8,102,765 | Correlation-based rate adaptation for communication networks |
| 57 | 8,102,426 | 3D vision on a chip |
| 58 | 8,100,756 | Dynamic problem solving for games |
