Patents Assigned to Microsoft Technology
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Patent number: 12212461Abstract: Solutions for balancing speed and risk by managing configuration changes include: receiving a second configuration item for displacement, in an exposure group, of a first configuration item; receiving an exposure state, wherein the exposure state indicates an exposure tree comprising a first configuration item branch and a second configuration item branch; determining, based at least on the exposure state: a first portion of the exposure group to continue with the first configuration item, and a second portion of the exposure group to receive the second configuration item; deploying the second configuration item to the second portion of the exposure group, in accordance with the exposure state; receiving, from the central orchestrator, an updated exposure state; and deploying the second configuration item in accordance with the updated exposure state. In some examples, the exposure tree is a hierarchical binary tree. An exemplary configuration item includes a software application version.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: David Nissimoff, Romit Chattopadhyay
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Patent number: 12210791Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for multi-screen management. In some implementations, a plurality of connection requests may be received from a plurality of screen devices respectively. A screen host unit corresponding to each screen device may be created. A connection of each screen host unit to a corresponding screen device may be established. Screen display data may be transmitted, by at least one screen host unit, to at least one corresponding screen device through at least one corresponding connection respectively. Moreover, in some implementations, a connection request may be transmitted to a screen management hub. A connection to a corresponding screen host unit created by the screen management hub may be established. Screen display data may be received from the screen host unit through the connection. The screen display data may be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ran Bi, Wei Yang
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Patent number: 12210455Abstract: A computer system that records a replayable execution trace based on recording cache coherency protocol (CCP) messages into a first trace, and on recording memory snapshot(s) into a second trace. Based on determining that tracing of execution of a first execution context is to be enabled, the computer system initiates logging, into the second trace, of one or more memory snapshots of a memory space of the first execution context, and enables a hardware tracing feature of a processor. Enabling the tracing feature causes the processor to log, into the first trace, CCP message(s) generated in response to one or more memory access into the memory space of the first execution context. After enabling the hardware tracing feature of the processor, the computer system also logs or otherwise handles a write into the memory space of the first execution context by a second execution context.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Jordi Mola
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Patent number: 12212888Abstract: A computing system is provided, including a camera configured to capture a series of images in a video stream, processing circuitry, and an image processing pipeline including a preprocessing module and an encoder, in which the preprocessing module is configured to receive the video stream from the camera at a camera-native video data rate parameter. The processing circuitry is configured to communicate with a server to establish a joint video communication session with remote client devices and receive a requested video data rate parameter from the server for the video stream captured by the camera. The processing circuitry is further configured to send a command to the preprocessing module to adjust the camera-native video data rate parameter of the video stream to the requested video data rate parameter and preprocess the video stream at the requested video data rate parameter and pass the preprocessed video stream to the encoder.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mikko Henrik Simonen, Tuomas Sakari Jarvinen
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Patent number: 12213001Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing transmission of retries between computing nodes in a core network environment. For example, systems described herein involve collecting transmission data including timing and failure data for use in generating a retry policy that includes rules and instructions that govern transmission of retries between computing nodes. Once generated, the retry policy may be applied to message packages by selectively transmitting message retries based on specific timing delays that are determined from the collected transmission information. This the generation and implementation of the retry policy may significantly reduce a quantity of retry messages transmitted by computing nodes within a core network architecture, thereby improving network conditions in a variety of ways.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Devesh Verma
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Patent number: 12212543Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for enabling runtime supply chain security of web applications and the discovery of active malware attacks. For example, a server is configured to receive CSP-based data from browsers executing on various clients. Such data may be received via a browser extension or via a proxy between the web applications and the browsers. Using the CSP-based data, the server generates a database of supply chain inventory. The database specifies resources that are loaded for a particular web application, along with a location from where such resources are loaded. The database further specifies a chain of dependencies between such resources. The database is analyzed to determine whether any such resources have been compromised with malware or whether clients on which such resource have been loaded have been compromised with malware. Responsive to determining such cases, actions(s) may be performed to mitigate the malware.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Safwan Mahmud Khan, Michael Hendrickx
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Patent number: 12212576Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for defining and applying constraints that regulate a supervisee's interaction with applications. In one implementation, the technique provides a user interface presentation to a supervisor that lists a set of applications that run on plural application execution platforms. The user interface presentation also allows the supervisor to set platform-agnostic constraint information for any identified application. The platform-agnostic constraint information, once set for an application, constrains interaction by a supervisee with all versions of that same application. That is, the constraint information is said to be agnostic with respect to platform in the sense that it applies to a variety of application execution platforms that run the application. In one example, the platform-agnostic constraint information specifies a permitted amount of an activity that the supervisee is permitted to perform across all versions of an application.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rui Suresh Zhu, Daniel Martin Strommen, Irina Petronela Salvan, Fernando Israel Osorio Cedeno, Alec Richard Lindberg, Thomas Anand Jeyaseelan, Mouna Sidi Hida, Emre Aydinceren
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Patent number: 12209880Abstract: Techniques for enabling a library of local maps to remain de-coupled from a global map are disclosed. An MR system is determined to be located on a platform that is currently moving or that has an ability to readily move. That platform's type is determined. Based on the determined type for the platform, a 3D boundary that approximates a shape for the platform's type is generated. The 3D boundary is imposed on the platform. Scanning data for the platform is acquired. The bounds for that scanning data is at least initially limited to that of the 3D boundary. The scanning data is used to build or supplement a library of local maps. The library is representative of the platform. That library is prevented from being coupled to a global map.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Joshua Aidan Elsdon, Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys, David John McKinnon
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Patent number: 12210628Abstract: Classifying packages based on generic feature extraction. A computer system identifies a set of training packages, including a first subset known to be malicious, and a second subset known to be benign. The computer system extracts a set of training feature vectors from the set of training packages by inputting each training package to a feature extraction model, which generates a training feature vector for each training package. The computer system trains a classification model using the set of training feature vectors. After training the classification model using the set of training feature vectors, a subject package is classified as malicious or benign based on extracting a feature vector for the subject package by inputting the subject package to the feature extraction model, and inputting the feature vector to the classification model.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rahul Pandita, Max Schaefer, Albert Ziegler
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Patent number: 12211626Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; generating medical encounter topical information via artificial intelligence, wherein the medical encounter topical information is based at least in part upon the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning one or more topics to be discussed during the medical encounter; and providing the medical encounter topical information to the medical entity.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
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Patent number: 12212346Abstract: A ground station computing system for communicating with a satellite is provided, including a processor and associated memory storing instructions that cause the processor to execute a software-defined radio (SDR) program. The SDR program is configured to receive signals from a plurality of satellites and determine a doppler shift signature pattern of one of the satellites. The SDR program is further configured to detect, within the received signals from the plurality of satellites, packet preambles from the one of the plurality of satellites, based on correlations between portions of the received signals and the doppler shift signature pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tusher Chakraborty, Ranveer Chandra, Vaibhav Singh
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Patent number: 12210784Abstract: A computer implemented method includes creating a cache within system management memory to cache data from a firmware flash memory to allow access to the cache by system firmware, providing a baseboard management controller ownership of the firmware flash memory in a server, updating the firmware in the firmware flash memory via the baseboard management controller, relinquishing baseboard management controller ownership of firmware flash memory upon completion of updating the firmware, and flushing the cache back to the firmware flash memory in response to baseboard management controller relinquishing ownership of the firmware flash memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mallik Bulusu, Tom Long Nguyen, Daini Xie, Karunakara Kotary, Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed, Subhankar Panda, Ravi Mysore Shantamurthy
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Patent number: 12210379Abstract: A wearable device includes multiple subsystems including a processor and a memory device, multiple temperature sensors coupled to sense temperatures of the multiple subsystems, and programming, including an application, stored on the memory device for execution by the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving temperature information from the multiple temperature sensors corresponding to temperatures associated with the multiple subsystems, processing the temperature information to identify a first subsystem of the multiple subsystems, and providing a notification to the application executing on the processor to mitigate application performance in a manner to reduce heat generated by the first subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sudeesh Reddy Pingili, Ashraf Ayman Michail, Jerome Raymond Halmans
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Patent number: 12210517Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for suggesting geographic results to a user. The systems, devices, and methods may include receiving a prefix for a geographic query and ranking received candidate results for the prefix of the geographic query. The systems, devices, and methods may provide a query expansion based on a highest ranked candidate result. The systems, devices, and methods may determine a likelihood of the user selecting the query expansion, and if the likelihood exceeds a threshold, provide the query expansion.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alexander Rusnak, Dragomir Dimitrov Yankov, Shekoofeh Mokhtari, Kupa Tsheko Muyambo Mutungu
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Patent number: 12210817Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to a compression scheme for stable universally unique identities in a collaborative editing environment. A client receives edits to a document and immediately creates a local short identity for an element of each edit, whereby the local short identity represents an offset from a base unique identity associated with the client from which a unique identifier assigned to the element is derivable. The local short identity information including the local short identity for each element is transmitted to a server. Subsequently, global short identity information is received from the server from which one or more global short identities that each map to a local short identity of a client of a plurality of clients collaborating on the document can be determined by the client. Each global short identity is a compact identity that is universally unique to the plurality of clients including the client.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Paul Jerome Kwiatkowski, Daniel Ryan Lehenbauer, Taylor Scott Williams, Noah David Encke
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Patent number: 12210831Abstract: In various examples there is a computer-implemented method of database construction. The method comprises storing a knowledge graph comprising nodes connected by edges, each node representing a topic. Accessing a topic type hierarchy comprising a plurality of types of topics, the topic type hierarchy having been computed from a corpus of text documents. One or more text documents are accessed and the method involves labelling a plurality of the nodes with one or more labels, each label denoting a topic type from the topic type hierarchy, by, using a deep language model; or for an individual one of the nodes representing a given topic, searching the accessed text documents for matches to at least one template, the template being a sequence of words and containing the given topic and a placeholder for a topic type; and storing the knowledge graph comprising the plurality of labelled nodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Elena Pochernina, John Winn, Matteo Venanzi, Ivan Korostelev, Pavel Myshkov, Samuel Alexander Webster, Yordan Kirilov Zaykov, Nikita Voronkov, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Marius Alexandru Bunescu, Alexander Armin Spengler, Vladimir Gvozdev, Thomas P. Minka, Anthony Arnold Wieser, Sanil Rajput, John Guiver
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Patent number: 12211248Abstract: A computing system including an edge computing device. The edge computing device may include an edge device processor configured to receive edge device contextual data including computing resource availability data. Based at least in part on the edge device contextual data, the edge device processor may select a processing stage machine learning model of a plurality of processing stage machine learning models and construct a runtime processing pipeline of one or more runtime processing stages including the processing stage machine learning model. The edge device processor may receive a runtime input, and, at the runtime processing pipeline, generate a runtime output based at least in part on the runtime input. The edge device processor may generate runtime pipeline metadata that indicates the one or more runtime processing stages included in the runtime processing pipeline. The edge device processor may output the runtime output and the runtime pipeline metadata.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Shadi Abdollahian Noghabi, Ranveer Chandra, Krishna Kant Chintalapudi
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Patent number: 12211317Abstract: The present disclosure relate to highlighting audience members with reactions to a presenter of an online meeting. Unlike physical, fact-to-face meeting that enables spontaneous interactions among the presenter and the audiences that are collocated with the presenter, presenting materials during an online meeting raises an issue of the present not being able to see real-time reactions or feedback by the audience members. The present disclosure addresses the issue by dynamically determining one or more audience members who indicate reactions during the online meeting or presentation and displaying faces of the one or more audience members under spotlight to the presenter. The presenter sees faces of the audience members with reactions during the online presentation and responds to the audience members and keep the audience engaged. The spotlight audience server analyzes video frames and determines types of reactions of the audience members.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Javier Hernandez Rivera, Daniel J. McDuff, Jin A. Suh, Kael R. Rowan, Mary P. Czerwinski, Prasanth Murali, Mohammad Akram
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Patent number: 12210464Abstract: A cache service provides applications in a containerized, multi-tenant cloud-computing system low-latency access to secrets. The cache service may operate as a cluster-level service or a sidecar service. The cache service may store copies of secrets (which are located in one or more absolute stores) in a cache storage. The cache service and the cache storage may be closer to the applications than the one or more absolute stores are to the applications. The cache service may aggregate secrets associated with multiple entities in a single cache storage. The cache service may support isolation between secrets such that secrets of a first entity are isolated from secrets of a second entity. The cache service may enforce granulated access controls such that it can apply different access controls to secrets of a first entity than to secrets of a second entity.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLCInventors: Bhaskardeep Khaund, Bo Wu, Andrey A. Lukyanov, Nicolae Voicu
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Patent number: 12212615Abstract: An online meeting system begins the process of connecting a user to an online meeting when a request is received from a user to start or join the online meeting. In response to the request, a pre-meeting user interface (UI) is displayed having a user interface control which, when activated, enables transmission of audio and/or video data for the online meeting, and prior to activation of the control, connection parameters are shared with an online meeting service to preheat the meeting. In response to activation of the control, transmission of audio and/or video data for the online meeting is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Nagaswapna Bhamidipati, Xin He, Milica Jovanović, Artur Pawel Kania, Namendra Kumar, Rui Liang, Yue Li, Joel Harodi Marquez Catano, Abhilash Chandrasekharan Nair, Gaurav Pancholi, Jindrich Parus, Martin Petrla, Denis Postu, Rama Krishan Prasad Satya Prakash, Kensaku Sueda, Balvinder Kaur Thind, Hao Xu