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  • Patent number: 11922168
    Abstract: A program is executed using a call stack and shadow stack. The call stack includes frames having respective return addresses. The frames may also store variables and/or parameters. The shadow stack stores duplicates of the return addresses in the call stack. The call stack and the shadow stack are maintained by, (i) each time a function is called, adding a corresponding stack frame to the call stack and adding a corresponding return address to the shadow stack, and (ii) each time a function is exited, removing a corresponding frame from the call stack and removing a corresponding return address from the shadow stack. A backtrace of the program's current call chain is generated by accessing the return addresses in the shadow stack. The outputted backtrace includes the return addresses from the shadow stack and/or information about the traced functions that is derived from the shadow stack's return addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Niu, Gregory John Colombo, Weidong Cui, Jason Lin, Kenneth Dean Johnson
  • Patent number: 11922194
    Abstract: A method of operating a computing device in support of improved accessibility includes displaying a user interface to an application on a display screen of the computing device, wherein the computing device includes an accessibility assistant that reads an audible description of an element of the user interface; initiating, on the computing device, a virtual assistant that conducts an audible conversation between a user and the virtual assistant through at least a microphone and a speaker associated with the computing device, wherein the virtual assistant is not integrated with an operating system of the computing device; inhibiting an ability of the accessibility assistant to read the audible description of the element of the user interface; and upon transition of the virtual assistant from an active state, enabling the ability of the accessibility assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jaclyn Carley Knapp, Lisa Stifelman, André Roberto Lima Tapajós, Jin Xu, Steven DiCarlo, Kaichun Wu, Yuhua Guan
  • Patent number: 11922195
    Abstract: Some embodiments support embedding of a notebooks software component in a surrounding host application, thereby promoting consistency of notebook user interfaces and user experiences between different kinds of applications. For instance, the notebook access added to an integrated development environment (IDE) may be aesthetically consistent with the notebook access added to a business analytics tool from the same vendor as the IDE. Departures from the aesthetic are still supported, e.g., a notebook access provided in a video gaming environment to teach gamers programming skills may have the same aesthetic as the simulated world of the video game, rather than an IDE aesthetic or an enterprise software aesthetic. Direct integration or proxied integration architectures may be used. Efficiencies may be gained by distinguishing between notebook viewing, editing, and executing operations, and providing more computationally expensive resources only as needed for the notebook access being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Francis Lam, Safia Abdalla, Shibani Raj Basava, Dinesh Chandnani, Zhu Chen, Kwangje Cho, Ram Kumar Donthula, Katherine Kampf, Daniel Moth, Andrew Christopher Neil, Vaishnavi Sannidhanam, Barry Manh Tu, Vijaya Krishna Upadya, Dileep Yavanmandha
  • Patent number: 11922183
    Abstract: A cross-platform deployment computing system receives an application to be deployed to a cloud. The application is parsed to identify assignment criteria and is assigned to an application availability group the defines security that defines a topology in which the application will be deployed. The application is then provided to a control plane for deployment at a target remote server architecture. In order to deploy the application to a different remote server architecture, the control plane for the different remote server architecture accesses the deployment definitions in the AAG and deploys the application to the different remote server architecture using the deployment definitions in the AAG to which the application is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Dmitry Dmitrievich Garaev, Andrey Anatolyevich Lukyanov, Haruya Shida, Marc Andrew Power
  • Patent number: 11921738
    Abstract: Methods for synchronizing a source document repository with a target document repository include monitoring documents of the source document repository to detect changes to the documents. A last processed time is stored in association each changed document that indicates a time when the document was last processed. A transaction item is added to a synchronization queue each time a document is changed, and a queue time is stored in association with each of the transaction items that indicates when the transaction item was added to the queue. The transaction items are processed by comparing the queue time of the transaction item with the last processed time of the document pertaining to the transaction item. If the queue time is earlier than the last processed time, the transaction item is ignored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shivani Thakur, Guoqiang Zhou, Ana Monica Irimia
  • Patent number: 11921981
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for a windowing container that enables two or more windows associated with application(s) to be grouped within the container such that the windows may behave or function uniformly as a single window. For example, responsive to a request to group two windows, a container may be generated to include the windows arranged based on one or more rules and features enabling group functions associated with the container to be performed. When a group function is performed on the container, the function may be performed to each of the windows arranged therein as if they were a single window. As new windows are grouped within or existing windows are released from the container, the container and/or windows may be rearranged based on the rules. A state of the container may be stored to enable subsequent invocation of the container after closing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samantha Madeline Song, Anna Marion Pfoertsch, Roberth Karman, Nihar Niranjan Shah
  • Patent number: 11922200
    Abstract: A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment remote from the virtualized computing service provider is implemented. A control plane management functions is configured to provide and implement the virtual machines of the virtual network and executed at the virtualized computing service provider. Data plane management functions are configured to manage data traffic to and from the virtual machines of the virtual network and executed at the remote computing environment. A secure network connection between the virtualized computing service provider and the remote computing environment is established. The control plane management functions cause instantiation of the virtual machines of the virtual network at the remote computing environment. Using the control plane management functions executing at the virtualized computing service provider, operation of the virtual machines of the virtual network is managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Deepak Bansal, Qi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11921609
    Abstract: Systems and methods for data anomaly detection include recommending one or more algorithms from a set of algorithms to process received time series data, wherein the one or more algorithms are recommended based at least in part on a type of workload for processing the received time series data. Assisted parameter tuning is provided for a detected anomaly alert and calibration, and the received time series data is processed based on a user selected algorithm that is parameter tuned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Roman Batoukov, Richard Wydrowski, Sai Sankalp Arrabolu, Zeqiang Wang, Lech Gudalewicz, Keiji Kanazawa, Benjamin J. Lofton, Thomas W. Potthast, Suren Aghajanyan, Khoa Tran, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11921736
    Abstract: Techniques performed by a data processing system for diagnosing problems with a communications platform include obtaining query parameters including an aggregation operator for invoking a machine learning algorithm configured to analyze performance data for the communications platform, automatically executing the query on the performance data to obtain query results by invoking the machine learning algorithm on the performance data to automatically identify a plurality of clusters of data indicative of a performance problem, and presenting a visualization of the query results. The visualization includes indicators identifying cluster properties for which the query results are further refinable and one or more second indicators identifying the second subset of the second cluster properties which are not relevant for further refining the first query results. The indicators are actuatable to automatically update and re-execute the first query based on the respective indicator that is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pritesh Kanani, Siunie Sutjahjo, James Feore, Wei Zhong
  • Patent number: 11921582
    Abstract: A computer system is configured to manage a value of a variable via firmware. Managing the value of the variable includes detecting a system management interrupt (SMI), causing the computer system to enter a system management mode, in which a request associated with the SMI is handled by the firmware. In response to determining that the SMI is generated by a baseboard management controller (BMC) and that a cause thereof is associated with reading or writing a value of a variable, one or more parameters associated with the variable are obtained from the BMC. Based on the cause of the request and the one or more parameters, the value of the variable is read or overwritten with a new value. The value or the new value is then sent to the BMC, which in turn passes the value or new value to a second computer system over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Neeraj Ladkani, Kuo-Shu Huang, James George Cavalaris
  • Patent number: 11921603
    Abstract: Techniques of automated interoperation tracking in computing systems are disclosed herein. One example technique includes tokenizing a first event log from a first software component and a second event log from the second software component by calculating frequencies of appearance corresponding to strings in the first and second event logs and selecting, as tokens, a first subset of the strings in the first event log and a second subset of the strings in the second event log individually having calculated frequencies of appearance above a preset frequency threshold. The example technique can also include generating an overall event log for a task executed by both the first and second software components by matching one of the strings in the first subset to another of the strings in the second subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gunjan Bansal, Niteesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 11921728
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for performing targeted searching based on a user profile. In examples, a user profile including a user embedding may be retrieved based on the receipt of a user indication. The user embedding may be created based on one or more user interest. A plurality of document embeddings may be identified based on the user embedding, where each document embedding of the plurality of document embeddings is determined to be within a first distance of the user embedding. In examples, a ranking for each document embedding of the plurality of document embeddings may be generated, where the ranking for each document embedding of the plurality of document embeddings is based on the user embedding. At least one document may be recommend based on a ranking associated with a document embedding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Junaid Ahmed, Waleed Malik, Arnold Overwijk
  • Patent number: 11921749
    Abstract: A synchronization adapter is coupled to the application that does not support synchronization and generates the necessary synchronization metadata for all data in the application that is to be synchronized. The synchronization adapter then combines the metadata to the actual data to be synchronized to form a synchronization feed. The synchronization feed is stored in an internal cache (or data store) which is internal to the application, or an external cache (or data store), which is external to the application, or it can be stored in both caches. The synchronization adapter also intermittently determines whether the application data has changed, thus warranting a change in its metadata, or whether a synchronization operation is warranted to synchronization operation is warranted to synchronize the data with data in another application. In either case, the synchronization adapter makes the changes to the data, or performs a synchronization operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing
    Inventors: Paresh Suthar, Jack Ozzie, Steven Lees
  • Patent number: 11921730
    Abstract: Described herein are mechanisms to allow users to access functionality of applications in a suite of applications. In a first aspect, when a query relating to functionality of an application is received from a user, an index containing both top-level and sub-level functionality is searched. Results are ranked using a trained machine learning model using both context describing user interactions and the search results. A subset of the ranked results are presented to the user as options. In a second aspect the index can comprise entries describing functionality from other applications so that results presented to the user can include cross-application functionality. In a third aspect, the index can be searched using the context prior to receiving a query and adjusting the user interface based on the results. In a fourth aspect, the system can recommend other applications and/or devices that are better suited to a user's intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Madeline Schuster Kleiner, Nathaniel George Freier, Bernhard Kohlmeier, Amod Anil Agashe, Jignesh Shah, Tomasz Lukasz Religa
  • Patent number: 11918916
    Abstract: A method of recommending an unplayed game application to a user includes obtaining a game history associated with a user profile, wherein the game history includes at least one game record of a game application the user profile has been used to play, and evaluating the game history to obtain a plurality of game events associated with a game application of the game history. The method further includes accessing a table of tags associated with the plurality of game events associated with the game application, aggregating a plurality of tags in a tag list in the user profile based at least partially on the table of tags and the plurality of game events, and presenting to the user a recommendation of an unplayed game application based at least partially on the plurality of tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gershom Payzer, Bridgette Marie Kuehn, Christopher Ian Charla, Kathryn Stone Perez, Madeline Jaye Whisenant, Lily Wang, Jennifer Rose Guriel
  • Patent number: 11921782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of multi-modal chatting, which may provide response to user query by using multi-modal response in the interaction between chatbot and human beings, so that the expressing ways and the expressed content by the chatbot could be richer by using such response in a multi-modal way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11921565
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for enhanced adjustment of quantities and placement of decoupling capacitance on circuit boards for integrated circuits is provided herein. An example method includes iterating application of a load profile across different populations of decoupling capacitors on a circuit board for supply voltage domains of an integrated circuit device until a target transient performance is reached for the supply voltage domains. The load profile is applied onto electrical connections corresponding to the supply voltage domains for the integrated circuit device. The method also includes generating a capacitor population configuration for the circuit board based on a population of the decoupling capacitors that achieves the target transient performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vlad Radu Calugaru, William Paul Hovis
  • Patent number: 11921788
    Abstract: A system level search module receives system level search user interface registration information for an application of the computing device. The registration information includes an indication of how the system level search module can launch the application. The registration information is added to a registration store, and the application is included as one of one or more applications that can be searched using the system level search user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Priya Vaidyanathan, Brian E. Uphoff, Brandon H. Paddock, Stephanie M. Monk, Dona Sarkar, Wentao Chen, Edward Boyle Averett, Manav Mishra, Derek S. Gebhard, Richard Jacob White, Yin Liu
  • Patent number: 11921475
    Abstract: A control system controls tenant services to various tenants by obtaining tenant attributes for each tenant, with respect to a particular workload. A model is generated that models tenant usage performance for a set of best performing tenants. The model is then applied to a remainder of the tenants to obtain a metric indicative of a likely tenant capacity for incremental usage of the workload. The control system controls the services provided to the tenant based upon the likelihood of adoption metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Ravikumar Venkata Seetharama Bandaru, Michael Karl-Frans Berg
  • Patent number: 11922198
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assigning and associating resources in a cloud computing environment. Virtual machines in the cloud computing environment can be assigned or associated with pools corresponding to users as dedicated, standby, or preemptible machines. The various states provide users with the ability to reserve a desired level of resources while also allowing the operator of the cloud computing environment to increase resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang, Vaman Bedekar, Sriram Sankaran, Marvin McNett, II, Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Yang Zhang, Shyam Antony, Kavitha Manivannan, Hemal Khatri
  • Patent number: 11922128
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution related to establishing a characterized chatbot with personality. On one hand, a corpus database matched with a specific character may be established, and a generated regular/conventional response messages may be converted into a characterized response messages with character's features during conversation, so that the conversation style of a chatbot may be characterized with a certain character's features. On the other hand, a chatbot may select a response message with a specific emotion by using an emotion conversation table corresponding to a personality when generating the response message against a content of a conversation input by a user, so that a chatbot may be characterized and have certain personality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pingping Lin, Ruihua Song, Min Zeng, Yan Chen, Yue Liu
  • Publication number: 20240069697
    Abstract: A system and method for loading a user interface (UI) component of a UI screen on an as needed basis is conducted by examining a list of UI components included in the UI screen to identify a UI component having an associated replacement component, the replacement component imitating an appearance of the UI component but offering fewer functionalities than the UI component. The replacement component is then loaded in place of the UI component, before user interactions with the UI screen are examined to determine when the UI component is likely to be used. Responsive to determining that UI component is likely to be used in the near future, the replacement component is replaced with the UI component in the UI screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul GUPTA, Manoj KUMAR, Ankush SHARMA, Yash SONI
  • Publication number: 20240070172
    Abstract: A method for friction reduction during professional network expansion is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The method includes executing, via a network, an enterprise application on a remote computing system operated by a user associated with an enterprise and surfacing a professional networking UI on a display of the remote computing system during execution of the enterprise application. The method includes generating parameters that are representative of a connection between the user and each suggested professional contact based on enterprise-level data corresponding to the user and each suggested professional contact and generating friction-reducing UI elements for each suggested professional contact based on the generated parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Choo Yei CHONG, Heidi KENYON, Neha Parikh SHAH, Deepa SHENVI PRIOLKAR, Christopher Michael DOLLAR, Jin Young KIM, Aaron Nash MELHAFF, Venkata Sreekanth KANNEPALLI, Wende E. COPFER, Harald BECKER, Amy L. HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240070202
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for assisting a user in advancing a task objective. The technique uses a suggestion-generating system (SGS) to provide one or more suggestions to a user in response to at least a last-submitted query provided by the user. The SGS may correspond to a classification-type or generative-type neural network. The SGS uses a machine-trained model that is trained using a multi-task training framework based on plural groups of training examples, which, in turn, are produced using different respective example-generating methods. One such example-generating method constructs a training example from queries in a search session. It operates by identifying the task-related intent the queries, and then identifying at least one sequence of queries in the search session that exhibits a coherent task-related intent. A training example is constructed based on queries in such a sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Corby Louis ROSSET, Chenyan XIONG, Paul Nathan BENNETT, Saurabh Kumar TIWARY, Daniel Fernando CAMPOS, Xia SONG, Nicholas Eric CRASWELL
  • Publication number: 20240069605
    Abstract: A computing device includes a first display-supporting frame rotatably coupled to a second display-supporting frame along a hinge axis via a hinge assembly comprising a central spine extending parallel to the hinge axis. A flexible display is supported by the first display-supporting frame and the second display-supporting frame. A spine cover plate extends over the central spine and is moveably coupled to the hinge assembly for translation relative to the central spine as the first display-supporting frame is rotated relative to the second display-supporting frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tung Yuen LAU, Blair Madison KENT, Amit KAISTHA, Eric Paul WITT
  • Publication number: 20240070616
    Abstract: A method for integrated professional network expansion during employee onboarding is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The method includes executing, via a network, an enterprise application on a first remote computing system operated by an employer associated with an enterprise, as well as causing surfacing of a professional networking UI on a display of the first remote computing system during the execution of the enterprise application. The method also includes receiving, via the professional networking UI surfaced on the display of the first remote computing system, user input including a specification of onboarding parameters for an employee of the enterprise, where the onboarding parameters correspond to one or more professional networking intentions for the employee. The method further includes causing the enterprise application to be executed on a second remote computing system operated by the employee in accordance with the specified onboarding parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Choo Yei CHONG, Heidi KENYON, Neha Parikh SHAH, Deepa SHENVI PRIOLKAR, Christopher Michael DOLLAR, Jin Young KIM, Aaron Nash MELHAFF, Venkata Sreekanth KANNEPALLI, Wende E. COPFER, Harald BECKER, Amy L. HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240070790
    Abstract: A method for data-driven professional network expansion techniques is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The method includes executing, via a network, an enterprise application on a remote computing system operated by a user associated with an enterprise and surfacing a professional networking UI on a display of the remote computing system during execution of the enterprise application. The method includes accessing enterprise-level data corresponding to the user and the enterprise, extracting parameters associated with the user and the enterprise from the enterprise-level data, and automatically generating, based on the extracted parameters, the user's professional network and a list of suggested professional contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Choo Yei CHONG, Heidi KENYON, Neha Parikh SHAH, Deepa SHENVI PRIOLKAR, Christopher Michael DOLLAR, Jin Young KIM, Aaron Nash MELHAFF, Venkata Sreekanth KANNEPALLI, Wende E. COPFER, Harald BECKER, Qintian ZHANG, Amy L. HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240071042
    Abstract: An image-processing technique is described herein for removing a visual effect in a face region of an image caused, at least in part, by screen illumination provided by an electronic screen. The technique can perform this removal without advance knowledge of the nature of the screen illumination provided by the electronic screen. The technique improves the quality of the image and also protects the privacy of a user by removing the visual effect in the face region that may reveal the characteristics of display information presented on the electronic screen. In some implementations, the technique first adjusts a face region of the image, and then adjusts other regions in the image for consistency with the face region. In some implementations, the technique is applied by a videoconferencing application, and is performed by a local computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sunando SENGUPTA, Ebey Paulose ABRAHAM, Alexandros NEOFYTOU, Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE
  • Publication number: 20240069886
    Abstract: A data processing system implements scalable, secure, and reliable targeted release (TR) deployments of updates in cloud-based service. The TR deployment framework is provided that solves the technical problem of facilitating deployment of updates to targeted release customers. TR customers are associated with pre-deployment requirements (PDRs) associated with accreditation and/or validation tasks that must be completed before the update may be deployed to the customer base of the TR customers. A subset of the TR customer base is provided with segregated access to complete these accreditation tasks and/or validation tasks before the update is provided to the remainder of the userbase of the TR customer. This approach ensures that the industry standards and/or customer requirements are met before the update is deployed to the entire userbase of the TR customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nidhi VERMA, Sandhya SHAHDEO, Rahul NIGAM
  • Publication number: 20240070523
    Abstract: A method of training a machine learning model for classification is described. Training data elements to be classified and rules for classification are received. A first content payload, configured to be served by a content delivery system, is generated. The first content payload represents a first training data element and corresponding rules for classification. The first content payload is sent to the content delivery system for classification of the first training data element by users of a plurality of user devices. Classification samples are received for the first training data element based on the first content payload. Classification identifiers that indicate selected classes for the first training data element are generated based on the classification samples. A machine learning model is trained to classify wild data elements according to the rules for classification using the classification identifiers and the first training data element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Rafael CASCANTE VALVERDE
  • Publication number: 20240069598
    Abstract: A wearable computing device, including a device body, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a processor. The processor may receive, from the IMU, a plurality of kinematic measurements collected within a time window. With one or more machine learning models, based at least in part on the kinematic measurements, the processor may compute a current velocity estimate for the wearable computing device at a current timestep and a prior velocity estimate for the wearable computing device at a prior timestep. The processor may compute a current pose estimate and a prior pose estimate based at least in part on the current velocity estimate and the prior velocity estimate, respectively. The processor may compute a composite pose estimate for the wearable computing device at the current timestep based on the current pose estimate and the prior pose estimate. The processor may output the composite pose estimate to a target program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Evan Gregory LEVINE
  • Publication number: 20240071118
    Abstract: Systems and methods for shape prediction for digital inking applications include training a shape prediction model to predict complete shapes based digital ink data defining unfinished shapes. During use, digital ink data representing an unfinished shape is input to a digital inking application and displayed in a canvas area of the application. The digital ink data is also provided to the shape prediction model as input. The shape prediction model generates a shape prediction based on the digital ink data. The shape prediction is displayed in the canvas area. When a second input is received indicating acceptance of the shape prediction, the digital ink forming the unfinished shape is replaced with digital ink forming a predicted complete shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ava Jane SCHREIBER, Christian Mendel CANTON, Erica Simone MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20240071543
    Abstract: A TPM with programmable fuses in an SOC includes an on-die RAM storing a blown-fuse count and a TPM state read from off-die NV memory. During initialization, if the blown-fuse count is greater than a TPM state fuse count, a TPM state PIN-attempt-failure count is incremented, thereby thwarting a replay attack. If a PIN satisfies a PIN failure policy, and if a TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to true, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented depending on the PIN being incorrect, but if the TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to false, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented independent of whether the PIN is correct or incorrect. The TPM state fuse count is set equal to the blown-fuse count. If a counter cleared before processing the PIN remains cleared during the next initialization, a fuse voltage cut is detected and a penalty imposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ling Tony CHEN, Felix DOMKE, Ankur CHOUDHARY, Bradley Joseph LITTERELL
  • Publication number: 20240074331
    Abstract: A semiconductor-superconductor hybrid device comprises a semiconductor component having first and second terminals, first and second gate electrodes for electrostatically gating the first and second terminals. A second gate electrode electrostatically gates the second terminal, and a superconductor component is configured for energy level hybridisation with the semiconductor component. A method of measuring a non-local conductance of the semiconductor component comprises applying a first gate voltage to the first gate electrode to gate the first terminal to an open regime, applying a second gate voltage to the second gate electrode to gate the second terminal to a tunnelling regime, applying a bias voltage to the first terminal, and while applying the first gate voltage, the second gate voltage, and the bias voltage, measuring a current through the second terminal; with the superconductor component grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Esteban Adrian MARTINEZ, Saulius VAITIEKENAS, Lucas CASPARIS, Esben Bork HANSEN
  • Patent number: 11916807
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein enable a system to perform a robust evaluation of resource requirement recommendations through a simulated computing environment that closely resembles current conditions of a live computing environment. To achieve this, system characteristics such as CPU, RAM, and storage are extracted from currently available computing resources at the live computing environment. In addition, active software deployments at the live computing environment are randomly sampled to generate an activity dataset. The system characteristics and the activity dataset are then used to generate the simulated computing environment. Instances of a pending software deployment are then assigned to the simulated computing environment according to a resource requirement recommendation. The instances are then executed across various scenarios and analyzed to calculate a level of resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Hagit Grushka, Rachel Lemberg, Jeremy Samama, Eliya Habba, Mohammad Salama
  • Patent number: 11914600
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for generating multiple semantic hypotheses for search query intent understanding. In aspects, a search query may be received by a query analysis component associated with a search system. The query analysis component may be used to evaluate the search query for ambiguity in the domain, intent, and/or slot(s) of the search query. A set of hypotheses representing for one or more combinations of the domain, intent, and/or slot(s) of the search query may be generated. The set of hypotheses may be scored and/or ranked. Based on the scores/ranks, one or more of the hypotheses in the set of hypotheses may be provided to a user and/or one or more processing components accessible to the search system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Wu, Yong Ni, Guo Mei
  • Patent number: 11914705
    Abstract: An approach for clustering large sets of categorical data involves iteratively ordering the data points, partitioning the data into blocks based on the ordering, and clustering the data points within each block, where different iterations use different orderings and, thus, different partitionings. In some embodiments, the data points are represented by multi-dimensional categorical vectors, and the orderings are based on permutations of the categorical dimensions. The iterative clustering may be repeated for multiple successive time windows to track the clusters. Various applications of the disclosed clustering approach, including for cyber security, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Michael A. Betser
  • Patent number: 11916739
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for method for detecting misconfigurations and detecting incorrect cabling of physical adapters in a VLAN cluster. A Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packet is received. Data is extracted identifying VLANs available on ports, and the MAC address of the switch. Incorrectly coupled adapters and misconfigured VLANs are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Frederick Cuomo, Jr., Travis Luke
  • Patent number: 11916809
    Abstract: Computing resources are managed in a computing network comprising a computing service provider and an edge computing network. The edge computing network receives an indication of a disconnection of communications between the computing service provider and the edge computing network. In response to the indication, the edge computing network initiates an autonomous mode at the edge computing network. The edge computing network is configured to continue providing computing and network services at the edge computing network while the edge computing network is operating in the autonomous mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Bose, Mark Gordon Libby, Anand Muthurajan, Ronald Mark Parker, Michael Anthony Brown, Leland Douglas Benson
  • Patent number: 11916919
    Abstract: The resolving of a decentralized identifier to a corresponding data structure using multiple resolvers. This allows for the use of a consensus of resolvers to improve trust in the resolution process. In order to resolve, a decentralized identifier is sent to multiple resolvers. In response, each of at least some of those resolvers will return a data structure of a particular type (e.g., a decentralized identifier document) that is associated with the decentralized identifier. Then, it is determined whether the data structure for at least some number of resolvers matches each other. That is, it is determined whether at least some predetermined threshold of resolvers is returning the same data structure (e.g., the same decentralized identifier document). If so, then it is determined that the matching data structure is indeed associated with the decentralized identifier. Otherwise, the resolution process has failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Murdoch, Ankur Patel, Daniel James Buchner
  • Patent number: 11914663
    Abstract: Technologies related to generating diverse electronic summary documents for a webpage are described herein. A sequence of tokens is extracted from the webpage, and the sequence of tokens is provided to several computer-implemented models. The computer-implemented models output respective sets of candidate assets based upon the sequence of tokens, where the candidate assets are potentially included in an electronic summary document for the webpage. Subsequently, a user query is received, and at least one candidate asset from the candidate assets are selected for inclusion in the electronic summary document based upon the query. Thus, different electronic summary documents can be generated for the webpage when different queries are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Junyi Chai, Konstantin Andreyevich Golobokov, Bingyu Chi, Fang Gu, Ye Dong, Jie Cao, Yi Liu
  • Patent number: 11914759
    Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Andrew Jackson Klein, Cory Ryan Bramall, Kyle Mouritsen, Ethan Harris Arnowitz, Jeremy Bruce Kersey, Victor Jia, Justin Thomas Savino, Stephen Michael Lucas, Darren A. Bennett
  • Patent number: 11914036
    Abstract: One example provides a method of operating a time-of-flight camera system comprising an illumination source and an image sensor. The method comprises operating the illumination source and the image sensor to control a plurality of integration cycles and a plurality of readout cycles. In each integration cycle, the method comprises performing a plurality of pulse width modulated (PWM) illumination cycles where each PWM illumination cycle is separated from one or more adjacent PWM illumination cycles by a non-illumination cycle. For each PWM illumination cycle, the method comprises directing photocharge to in-pixel memory for each pixel that is performing image integration and for each non-illumination cycle conducting photocharge away from the in-pixel memory for each pixel that is performing image integration. The readout cycle comprises, for each pixel that performed image integration, reading a charge stored in the in-pixel memory after the integration cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Peter Godbaz, Brock McCray Roland, Rui Jin, Minseok Oh
  • Patent number: 11914581
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for a graphic search bar with responsive results is provided. A search bar may be generated. The search bar may include a text input area and a number of dropdown menus, each of which contain a selectable list of options. The search bar may be rendered in an application user interface that provides content options that are searchable using the search bar. A selection of an option from a first of the dropdown menus may be received. In response to receiving the selection, the content options may be filtered in real time based on the selected option to generate search results. The search results may be rendered for immediate display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Laralyn McWilliams, Alberto Cerriteno Avendano, Jennifer Laurie Shetterly
  • Patent number: 11915002
    Abstract: Providing extended branch target buffer (BTB) entries for storing trunk branch metadata and leaf branch metadata is disclosed herein. In one aspect, a processor comprises a BTB circuit comprising a BTB comprising a plurality of extended BTB entries. The BTB circuit is configured to store trunk branch metadata for a first branch instruction in an extended BTB entry of the plurality of extended BTB entries, wherein the extended BTB entry corresponds to a first aligned memory block containing an address of the first branch instruction. The BTB circuit is also configured to store leaf branch metadata for a second branch instruction in the extended BTB entry in association with the trunk branch metadata, wherein an address of the second branch instruction is subsequent to a target address of the first branch instruction within a second aligned memory block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Saransh Jain, Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh, Daren Eugene Streett, Michael Scott McIlvaine
  • Patent number: 11916789
    Abstract: A method performed by a packet processor comprises retrieving a first prefix length for a first lookup stage and a shorter second prefix length for a second lookup stage. The packet processor can receive instructions to program an action entry. The length of the action entry prefix is compared to the first prefix and second prefix length. If it is determined that the length of the action entry prefix is shorter than the second prefix length, the second prefix length is selected as an expanded prefix length. If it is determined that the length of the action entry prefix is longer than the second prefix length and shorter than the first prefix length, then the first prefix length is selected as the expanded prefix length. Expanded action entries are generated with expanded prefixes of the expanded prefix length and stored at the lookup stage associated with the expanded prefix length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Balls, Matthew Ian Ronald Williams, Abhishek Pandey, Daniel Thomas O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11914093
    Abstract: A method for human movement classification includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) antennas to expose a body surface of a human user to an E-field, at least a part of the human user positioned within a near-field region relative to the RF antennas. The plurality of RF antennas are scanned to determine ground-relative changes in electrical conditions. A differential-scanning subset of RF antennas are selected, including two or more RF antennas for which the changes in electrical conditions exceed a threshold. For each RF antenna in the differential-scanning subset, a set of antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions are determined by comparing the RF antenna to one or more other RF antennas in the differential-scanning subset as a plurality of pairs. Based at least in part on the ground-relative changes in electrical conditions and the antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions, a movement performed by the human user is classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jouya Jadidian, Emily Po-Kay Chung, James Chester Meador
  • Patent number: 11917780
    Abstract: The description relates to hinged devices. One example relates to a device that has a first portion hingedly secured along a spine and a second portion hingedly secured along the spine. The example can also include a first spine cover secured relative to the spine and extending into the first portion and a second spine cover secured relative to the spine and extending into the second portion. An extent to which the first spine cover extends into the first portion and the second spine cover extends into the second portion is controlled by an angular orientation of the first and second portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Devin Caplow-Munro, Denys Yaremenko, Brett Tomky, Luke Schwartzel, Anne Pirie, Errol Mark Tazbaz
  • Patent number: 11915013
    Abstract: An operating system service for persistently executing programs comprises a registration service configured to register a manifest defining a persistence mode of a user-controllable program. The operating system service further comprises a runtime service configured, based on the persistence mode defined via the manifest, to detect and reject termination requests for the program, and to detect that the program has terminated and restart execution of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John James Vintzel, Sarjana Sheth Mitra
  • Patent number: RE49866
    Abstract: Systems are provided for logging transactions in heterogeneous networks that include a combination of one or more instrumented components and one or more non-instrumented components. The instrumented components are configured to generate impersonated log records for the non-instrumented components involved in the transaction processing hand-offs with the instrumented components. The impersonated log records are persisted with other log records that are generated by the instrumented components in a transaction log that is maintained by a central logging system to reflect a complete flow of the transaction processing performed on the object, including the flow through the non-instrumented component(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Christopher Wright, Arijit Chatterjee, Qingqing Yuan, Praveen Kumar Barli, Basaveshwar S. Hiremath, Nosheen M. Syed, Autumn Lee Johnson