Patents Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
  • Patent number: 12763065
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be received. A speaker embedding may be extracted from the input speech signal. Acoustic properties from the input speech signal may be extracted. An obscured transcription may be generated from the transcription, where the obscured transcription includes obscured representations of sensitive content from the transcription. An obscured speech signal may be generated based upon, at least in part, the extracted speaker embedding and the obscured transcription, where the obscured speech signal includes obscured representations of sensitive content from the input speech signal. The obscured speech signal may be augmented based upon, at least in part, the extracted acoustic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick Aubrey Naylor, Francesco Nespoli
  • Patent number: 12743826
    Abstract: Example solutions for clustering data include: encoding a plurality of source records into a plurality of vectors, each source record containing source terms being encoded as one vector of the plurality of vectors; computing a similarity score for each unique pair of vectors of the plurality of vectors; constructing a similarity graph by: adding a node to the similarity graph for each vector; and adding an edge between each pair of nodes in which the similarity score for the associated pair of vectors exceeds a first similarity threshold; identifying a cluster of nodes within the similarity graph, the cluster of nodes representing a disconnected subgraph within the similarity graph; and generating a graphical representation of the one or more clusters on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Ryan Wang Gao, Lea Vega Romero, Gaurav Anil Yeole, Sekhar P. Chintalapati
  • Patent number: 12743447
    Abstract: Example solutions read compressed data from a file in persistent storage, directly into an in-memory store without decompression. Some examples transcode the compression scheme used by the file into the compression scheme used by the in-memory store whereas, in other examples, the in-memory store is compatible with the compression scheme used by the file. In some examples that use transcoding, radix clustering is used to speed up compression dictionary transcoding. The radix clustering minimizes cache misses, thereby increasing the efficiency of memory access. These approaches significantly improve cold start times when responding to queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Krystian Sakowski, Marius Dumitru, Amir Netz, Cristian Petculescu
  • Patent number: 12739283
    Abstract: In various examples, input queries (e.g. open user queries) are used combination with predefined queries to perform security policy-related actions using a generative machine learning (GML) model or GML models. In one example, an input query relating to a security policy is matched with a predefined query stored in an instruction database. In some examples, the instruction database contains examples of structured configuration data, which in turn can be used by a GML model to configure a predetermined extractor code module to perform a specific policy-related action. In other examples, a security context relating to a security policy is used together with an input query and template query to generate a GML model query. In some examples, the two approaches are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Jinghua Chen, Wen Xu, Gautam Prasad, Mayur Gul Warialani, Juchuan Song, Arun Kumar, Palak Bhatia, Ashish Mehndi, Vinayak Nadir, Kunal Verma, Talhah Munawar Mir, Deepika Puri Gakhar
  • Patent number: 12737458
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: enabling a generative AI system to effectuate an analysis protocol; enabling a user to utilize the generative AI system during an interactive session concerning the analysis protocol; receiving content during the interactive session, thus defining received content; and determining whether the received content is relevant with respect to the analysis protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Hadas Bitran, Aaron Toby Bornstein, Tal Baumel, Ksenya Kveler, Ran Efrati
  • Patent number: 12730985
    Abstract: A method for utilizing contextual data in generating machine translations. The method includes receiving a translation request including an initial prompt received via a user interface. The initial prompt includes a first language passage and a translation instruction. The initial prompt also includes a context data signal received via a context data source. The method further includes generating a context instruction based on the context data signal and generating a modified prompt including the initial prompt and the context instruction. The method further includes sending the modified prompt to a neural machine translation (NMT) model to process the modified prompt and receiving a second language translation passage as a response to the modified prompt. The second translation language passage being a second language translation of the first language passage translated according to the translation instruction and the context instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: North Jude Overby, Nazifa Nawar Chowdhury, Franklin Munoz Garcia, Vikas Raunak, Vishal Chandulal Chowdhary, Tyler Stratton, Jiarui Guo, Alexander Joseph Neshyba
  • Patent number: 12725034
    Abstract: A method comprising: sampling a first causal graph from a first graph distribution modelling causation between variables in a feature vector, and sampling a second causal graph from a second graph distribution modelling presence of possible confounders, a confounder being an unobserved cause of both of two variables. The method further comprises: identifying a parent variable which is a cause of a selected variable according to the first causal graph, and which together with the selected variable forms a confounded pair having a respective confounder being a cause of both according to the second causal graph. A machine learning model encodes the parent to give a first embedding, and encodes information on the confounded pair give a second embedding. The embeddings are combined and then decoded to give a reconstructed value. This mechanism may be used in training the model or in treatment effect estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Chao Ma, Cheng Zhang, Matthew Ashman, Marife Defante, Karen Fassio, Joel Jennings, Agrin Aram Hilmkil
  • Patent number: 12726538
    Abstract: Optimization of data synchronization latency when load balancing requests is provided. A request directed to a first server device in the first region is offloaded to a second server device in a second region that is different from the first region for load balancing. Data is generated based on processing the request by the second server device in the second region. A target region of a client device requesting the generated data is dynamically determined such that the target region is different from the second region. The generated data is stored in a datastore of the target region of the client device requesting the generated data. Thus, data is advantageously directly stored in the region(s) where clients are requesting that data without needing to wait for eventual synchronization of data to the region(s) where clients are requesting that data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Weiting Zhai, Jason Brian Upham, Karl Porus Buhariwala, Shashwat Ajmani, Xiang Chen, Hamza Sahri, Kiran Nallabothula, Run Yang, Xiangqing Zhang, Laura Patrice-Ol Callahan
  • Patent number: 12718526
    Abstract: An image processing system is described which has a memory holding at least one image depicting at least one person previously unseen by the image processing system. The system has a trained probabilistic model which describes a relationship between image features, context, identities and a plurality of names of people, wherein at least one of the identities identifies a person depicted in the image without an associated name in the plurality of names. The system has a feature extractor which extracts features from the image, and a processor which predicts an identity of the person depicted in the image using the extracted features and the probabilistic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Sebastian Nowozin, Tom Ellis, Cecily Peregrine Borgatti Morrison, Daniel Coelho De Castro
  • Patent number: 12719783
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for increasing communication session downtime. A first computing device of a plurality of computing devices transmits a handshake signal to a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices at a predetermined time interval and the second device receives the handshake signals. A communication session between the first computing device and the second computing device is ended when the second computing device does not receive a number X of expected consecutive handshake signals from the first computing device. Prior to a reboot of the first computing device, the number X of expected consecutive handshake signals is increased to a number Y of expected consecutive handshake signals, such that the communication session between the first computing device and the second computing device will be caused to end when the second device does not receive the number Y of expected consecutive handshake signals from the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Vaibhav Hemant Dixit, Saikrishna Arcot, Ying Xie, Guohan Lu
  • Patent number: 12719805
    Abstract: A system for establishing network reliability for a computer network includes a plurality of initiating nodes to transmit a plurality of packets across the network and a plurality of receiving nodes to receive the plurality of packets via the network. A portion of the plurality of packets transmitted from the initiating nodes are appended with identifiers that correspond to characteristics of entities using the network. The plurality of receiving nodes transmit acknowledgement receipts associated with packets appended with the identifiers to a network monitoring system that monitors quality of service associated with the characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Pankaj Garg, Jamie Dorea Gaudette, Luis Irun-Briz
  • Patent number: 12717498
    Abstract: A computerized method determines erasure coding (EC) formats for data extents in storage systems. Traffic history data of a data extent to be stored in the storage system is obtained. Estimated future traffic data is generated using a traffic estimation model, wherein the traffic history data is provided to the model as input. A current storage system constraint is calculated using the obtained traffic history data, and a constraint adjustment value is determined using a proportional, integral, derivative (PID) controller based on the current storage system constraint. An EC format for the data extent is determined using the estimated future traffic data and the determined constraint adjustment value and the data extent is stored in the storage system using the determined EC format. Use of the model and the PID controller balances optimized storage use with efficient data traffic handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Zhu, Yifan Li, Lu Wang, Haoran Li, Fangkai Yang, Guoqing Geng, Terry Chen, Pei Xiao, Zheng Dong, Yu Kang, Zhenshan Yu, Yue Chen, Qingwei Lin
  • Patent number: 12717615
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a distributed transaction are provided. A distributed execution statement including a plurality of tasks for executing a query and a table to be modified by the executed query is received. A first task is transmitted to a first backend node and a second task is transmitted to a second backend node. A first confirmation that the first task is executed and a second confirmation that the second task is executed are received. Executing the first task includes making a first modification to the table and a first identification of the first modification, and executing the second task includes making a second modification to the table and a second identification of the second modification. Based at least on each of the first task and the second task being completed, committing the first modification and the second modification to the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Alan Dale Halverson, Ryan Daniel O'Connor, Jose Aguilar Saborit, Raghunath Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12717631
    Abstract: Operations of a workload are assigned to physical resources of a physical device array. The workload includes a graph of operations to be performed on a physical device array. The graph of operations is partitioned into subgraphs. Partitioning includes at least minimizing the quantity of subgraphs and maximizing resource utilization per subgraph. A logical mapping of the subgraph to logical processing engine (PE) units is generated using features of the subgraph and tiling factors of the logical PE units. The logical mapping is assigned to physical PE units of the physical device array at least by minimizing network traffic across the physical PE units. The operations of the subgraph are performed using the physical PE units to which the logical mapping is assigned. This process enhances the computational efficiency of the array when executing the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Fanny Nina Paravecino, Michael Eric Davies, Abhishek Dilip Kulkarni, Md Aamir Raihan, Ankit More, Aayush Ankit, Torsten Hoefler, Douglas Christopher Burger
  • Patent number: 12711636
    Abstract: Images captured by a camera moving in an environment are received, and for each of a plurality of points in one of the images, outputs are computed using a neural network. The outputs comprise: a trajectory depicting the point in each of the plurality of images, as well as, for each trajectory, a prediction of visibility of the trajectory in each of the images and a prediction of whether the trajectory depicts a static or moving surface in the environment. The neural network receives the images and points as input and computes the outputs, wherein the outputs comprise for each of the trajectories, confidence data. The outputs are sent to a downstream process selected from any of: visual odometry, structure from motion, human body tracking, video editing, vehicle tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Marc André Léon Pollefeys, Weirong Chen
  • Patent number: 12706220
    Abstract: Example solutions for augmenting text inputs for analyzing clinical documents include: identifying a clinical named entity within text content of a clinical input document; adding an anchor tag to the text content, the anchor tag including an entity ID and a clinical attribute associated with the clinical named entity, thereby generating an enhanced input document; and submitting a first query prompt and the enhanced input document to a generative artificial intelligence (GAI) model, the first query prompt including task text and anchoring markup text, the task text includes instructions of a task to be performed by the GAI model on the enhanced input document, the anchoring markup text includes a template of the anchor tag and instruction to add a reference anchor tag to output generated by the GAI model, where the reference anchor tag is to include the entity ID and the clinical attribute of the anchor tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Shahar Yekutiel, Ksenya Kveler, Rachel Wities, Aaron Toby Bornstein, Tom Timianker, Ran Efrati, Yahav Amsalem, Hadas Bitran, Uri Einav
  • Patent number: 12705504
    Abstract: In various examples there is a knowledge base construction and/or maintenance system for use with a probabilistic knowledge base. The system has a probabilistic generative model comprising a process for generating text or other formatted data from the knowledge base. The system has an inference component configured to generate inference results, by carrying out inference using inference algorithms, run on the probabilistic generative model, in either a forward direction whereby text or other formatted data is generated, or a reverse direction whereby text or other formatted data is observed and at least one unobserved variable of the probabilistic generative model is inferred. The inference component is configured to update the knowledge base using at least some of the inference results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: John Michael Winn, John Guiver, Samuel Alexander Webster, Yordan Kirilov Zaykov, Maciej Kukla, Daniel Fabian
  • Patent number: 12706986
    Abstract: A stream tool is disclosed that allows a user to seamlessly connect with the different data streams, regardless of the streams' transmission platforms or communication protocols, in order to visually see a representation of the type of data that the data streams are transmitting. A user may specify a particular data stream and provide corresponding connection details. A collection of abstracted software functions enable interaction with the different stream platforms and protocols. Using these abstracted functions, a stream-processing service accesses a requested data stream and samples its data events for either sample timeframe or up to a threshold number of data events. The sampled data events are parsed and visually presented to the user in an easy-to-understand format. The user may then inspect the data stream's data for use in developing robust applications that may integrate and use such data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: Xavier Geerinck
  • Patent number: 12699799
    Abstract: A computerized method provides secure and controlled access provisions for data exploration in managed compute datasets. A workspace on a compute cluster is created for a user with permissions to the workspace. The compute cluster that includes a code analyzer is provisioned within a cloud computing infrastructure. The code analyzer is configured to: receive a data query from a task executing on the compute cluster; identify a query operation included in the data query; compare the query operation to a list of prohibited query operations for the workspace to which the user has the permissions; and terminate the data query without execution when the query operation is in the list of prohibited query operations for the workspace to which the user has the permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Saurabh Soni, Rahulinder Singh, Jyotsana Singh, Sudhir Angara
  • Patent number: 12694078
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide application management capabilities to enterprises. A computing device of a user, associated with the enterprise, receives an enrollment token signed with a certificate. The enrollment token includes an enterprise identifier associated with the enterprise. The computing device receives a package containing one or more applications. The package also includes an enterprise identifier. Installation and execution of one or more applications from the received package is accepted or rejected based on a comparison of the enterprise identifier from the enrollment token with the enterprise identifier from the received package or application. A web service provides validation services by monitoring the installation and execution of applications on the computing devices associated with the enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Clifford Paul Strom, Daniel Kevin Mcbride, Arvind Ramakrishnan, Yashraj Motilal Borse, Chittaranjan Pattekar