Patents Assigned to Microsoft Technolgy
  • Patent number: 10667278
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for the management of wireless resources, which can reduce call blocking by allowing high priority services, under suitable conditions, to use resources allocated to low priority services. Thus high priority services can pre-empt the usage of wireless resources by low priority services. This has the advantage of reducing call blocking for high priority calls, while permitting low priority calls to have more access to radio resources than conventional systems with the same call blocking rate. Thus a base station can implement a preemption mechanism that would reclaim Walsh Code and Forward Power resources from an active Supplemental Channel (SCH) burst in order to accommodate incoming Fundamental Channel (FCH) requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technolgy Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xixian Chen, Xiao-Dong Li, James Weisert, Qiang Yuan, Miroslav Budic
  • Patent number: 10198423
    Abstract: A smart selection engine is provided. The smart selection engine may run in the context of a spreadsheet application on any device, service, or general endpoint capable of running the spreadsheet application. The smart selection engine reduces the cognitive load and complexity for performing spreadsheet operations by clearly presenting the user with easy to use and understand options that are big, simple, and lend themselves nicely to natural user interfaces, touch enabled devices, and devices with small displays as well as with graphical user interfaces, larger displays, and traditional input devices. By making contextually based suggestions, the smart selection engine reduces or eliminates the need for the user to be aware of the available operations or how to perform the operations. Further, the smart selection engine improves the consistency and efficiency of working with a spreadsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technolgy Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Augusto Otero, John Campbell, Uhl Albert, Pablo Rochat
  • Patent number: 9507861
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for identifying related strings for search query rewriting are provided. Session data for a user search query session in an accessed click log data is identified. It is determined whether a first additional search query in the session data is related to a first user search query based on at least one of: dwell time; a number of search result links clicked on; and similarity between web page titles or uniform resource locators (URLs). When related, the first additional search query is incorporated into a list of strings related to the first user search query. One or more supplemental strings that are related to the first user search query are also identified. The identified supplemental strings are also included in the list of strings related to the first user search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technolgy Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Alnur Ali, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Bodo von Billerbeck, Sanaz Ahari
  • Patent number: D780758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technolgy
    Inventors: Kate Bailey, Hua Wang