43 US patents granted on 30 December 2008 and assigned to Microsoft
| 1 | D583,823 | Graphical identification element image for a display screen |
| 2 | 7,472,424 | Parental controls for entertainment content |
| 3 | 7,472,395 | Systems for generating and managing filter strings in a filter graph |
| 4 | 7,472,393 | Method and system for real time scheduler |
| 5 | 7,472,391 | Resource loader for applications that utilize relative uniform resource identifiers |
| 6 | 7,472,385 | Method and computer-readable medium for installing an upgrade to an application program |
| 7 | 7,472,376 | Method and system for customizations in a dynamic environment |
| 8 | 7,472,357 | Method and apparatus for managing list items |
| 9 | 7,472,356 | Collapsible container with semi-collapsed view |
| 10 | 7,472,347 | Aligned behavior in templated lists |
| 11 | 7,472,340 | Method and computer-readable medium for generating a multiple column layout |
| 12 | 7,472,286 | Selectively authorizing software functionality after installation of the software |
| 13 | 7,472,270 | Secure transmission of digital content between a host and a peripheral by way of a digital rights management (DRM) system |
| 14 | 7,472,252 | Merging identical memory pages |
| 15 | 7,472,204 | Routing multiple media signals through a patchbay |
| 16 | 7,472,202 | Context-aware systems and methods, location-aware systems and methods, context-aware vehicles and methods of operating the same, and location-aware vehicles and methods of operating the same |
| 17 | 7,472,198 | Media file format to support switching between multiple timeline-altered media streams |
| 18 | 7,472,145 | Compact garbage collection tables |
| 19 | 7,472,133 | System and method for improved prefetching |
| 20 | 7,472,130 | Select indexing in merged inverse query evaluations |
| 21 | 7,472,129 | Lossless recovery for computer systems with map assisted state transfer |
| 22 | 7,472,119 | Prioritizing search results by client search satisfaction |
| 23 | 7,472,118 | Systems and methods for improving information discovery |
| 24 | 7,472,113 | Query preprocessing and pipelining |
| 25 | 7,472,112 | Distributed query engine pipeline method and system |
| 26 | 7,472,110 | System and method for employing social networks for information discovery |
| 27 | 7,472,107 | Integrating horizontal partitioning into physical database design |
| 28 | 7,472,102 | Cluster-based and rule-based approach for automated web-based targeted advertising with quotas |
| 29 | 7,472,096 | Training a learning system with arbitrary cost functions |
| 30 | 7,472,094 | Multi-ordered distributed constraint search |
| 31 | 7,472,070 | Grain aeration systems and techniques |
| 32 | 7,472,067 | Application program interfaces and structures in a resource limited operating system |
| 33 | 7,472,053 | Geometric model database for use in ubiquitous computing |
| 34 | 7,472,040 | Automated collection of information |
| 35 | 7,471,870 | Time-shifting and synchronizing content and enhanced file-based state data |
| 36 | 7,471,850 | Reversible transform for lossy and lossless 2-D data compression |
| 37 | 7,471,829 | System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity |
| 38 | 7,471,827 | Automatic browsing path generation to present image areas with high attention value as a function of space and time |
| 39 | 7,471,726 | Spatial-domain lapped transform in digital media compression |
| 40 | 7,471,646 | System and methods for inline property editing in tree view based editors |
| 41 | 7,471,296 | Formatting object for modifying the visual attributes of visual objects to reflect data values |
| 42 | 7,471,284 | Tactile scroll bar with illuminated document position indicator |
| 43 | 7,470,195 | Camera control for third-person console video game |
