Patents Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12688203
    Abstract: To avoid inconsistencies caused by clock skew across data storage tiers, a point-in-time restore service creates a restore account, restores a partition of the database to its state at the designated point-in-time, including data from that time. A restored value is read from the data and a list is retrieved of segments written to a disaggregated storage tier by the existing partition. The disaggregated storage tier includes a first segment with a first value and a second segment with a second value, the values indicating their creation order. A first comparison is made between the restored value and the first value, and a second comparison is made between the restored value and the second value. Based on these comparisons, the first segment but not the second segment is copied to the restore account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Armaan Sood, Krishnan Sundaram
  • Patent number: 12688684
    Abstract: A computerized method trains and uses a multimodal fusion transformer (MFT) model for content moderation. Language modality data and vision modality data associated with a multimodal media source is received. Language embeddings are generated from the language modality data and vision embeddings are generated from the vision modality data. Both kinds of embeddings are generated using operations and/or processes that are specific to the associated modalities. The language embeddings and vision embeddings are combined into combined embeddings and the MFT model is used with those combined embeddings to generate a language semantic output token, a vision semantic output token, and a combined semantic output token. Contrastive loss data is generated using the three semantic output tokens and the MFT model is adjusted using that contrastive loss data. After the MFT model is trained sufficiently, it is configured to perform content moderation operations using semantic output tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Ye Yu, Gaurav Mittal, Matthew Brigham Hall, Sandra Sajeev, Mei Chen, Jialin Yuan
  • Patent number: 12689586
    Abstract: Example solutions for providing route aggregation as a service (RaaS) are disclosed. A RaaS server receives original routing tables from routers in a wide area network (WAN), aggregates the routes by identifying common prefixes, and returns more compact aggregated routing tables to the routers. The routers use the aggregated routing tables to efficiently route data traffic in the WAN. Multiple resiliency approaches are disclosed, in order to prevent the routers from flushing the aggregated routes in the event that the RaaS server experiences an outage and the border gateway protocol (BGP session between each router and the RaaS server is lost. Example resiliency measures includes the use of a long lived stale time (LLST), reaching a length of perhaps weeks, during which the routers continue to use the aggregated routing tables, and the use of mirroring the aggregated routing tables in other RaaS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Vishwa Nanduri, Pappula Prabhakar Reddy, Samir Jain, Himanshu Raj, Sridharan J, Snehal Kuber Yadav, Aniruddha Parkhi, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Paul David Mattes, Francesco De Paolis, Zahira Nasrin, Alap Mehta, Annam Srinivas
  • Patent number: 12688187
    Abstract: Natural language to database query translation optimization is disclosed. Due to the flexibility of natural language and database query languages, translations may differ in form, yet still be valid. A natural language query is translated to a first database query in a database query language using a query translator. A first and second database query result are generated by performing a first and second database query on a database. The second database query differs from the first database query in form (e.g., order of the query parameters), but is functionally similar to the first database query, such that an ideal query translation would produce equivalent database query results (e.g., same retrieved information, even if in a different order). If the first database query result matches the second database query result, training reinforcement is provided, but if not, a training adjustment is provided for the query translator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Yonathan Weill, Oren Barkan, Noam Koenigstein
  • Patent number: 12681472
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure identify a pattern of features associated with a computing component indicating an increased probability that the component incurs an uncorrectable error. Historical component data, component features, server data, and server services are utilized to identify the patterns that correlate to an increased probability that the component incurs an uncorrectable error. For example, this data is used as input into a machine learning platform. Proactive and/or mitigating actions that reduce the probability of an uncorrectable error or its negative effects are presented and/or implemented to minimize or eliminate disruption in cloud computing services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Chin Hwan Park, Adam Jeffery Grenzebach, Juan Arturo Herrera Ortiz
  • Patent number: 12682571
    Abstract: In various examples there is a computer-implemented method performed by a rendering device. A depth image is rendered from a 3D model according to a predicted pose. The depth image is divided into a plurality of tiles. An error map is computed comprising, for each tile of the plurality of tiles, a planar deviation error value that represents a geometric complexity of the tile and comprises an extent to which a geometry of the tile deviates from a plane. The error map, or information derived from the error map, is sent to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: Christian Voss-Wolff
  • Patent number: 12675532
    Abstract: Systems and methods for inferring the favorite authors and collaborators of a user are provided. The method includes storing an enterprise authorship database, identifies a document accessed by a user identifier (UID), identifying contributors to the identified document, generating a contribution score for each contributor of the identified contributors, based on each generated contribution score, determining one or more authors of the identified document, creating an authorship record by associating UIDs of the determined one or more authors with the identified document, and updating the enterprise authorship database with the created authorship record, wherein the authorship record is used to identify a relationship between the UID and the determined one or more authors and generate a recommendation for the UID based on the identified relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Eivind Berg Fosse, Ute Katja Schiehlen, Sergey Putilin, Tinus Sola Flagstad, Mohammadreza Bonyadi, Ola Saetrom, Espen Trautmann Sommerfelt, Torbjørn Helvik
  • Patent number: 12677112
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes enabling menuless operations using spatially aware tags with virtual geo-fenced boundaries. A tag manager implemented on a processor obtains movement data associated with an ultrawide band (UWB) enabled initiator device within a selected geo-fenced zone. The movement data is generated by one or more UWB enabled responder(s) within the selected geo-fenced zone. The movement data includes data describing 3D movements of the initiator device within the selected geo-fenced zone. A tag manager identifies a sequence of 3D movements of the initiator device using the movement data. The tag manager maps the sequence of 3D movements to zone-specific and/or user-specific action(s) using a menuless operations mapping table. The tag manager triggers a target computing device within the selected geo-fenced zone to perform the matched action(s). The target computing device can include an internet of things (IoT) device, a computing device, or the initiator device itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: Charbel Khawand
  • Patent number: 12676813
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for reducing communication session downtime includes transmitting first signals at a predetermined time interval of X seconds; upon initiation of a reboot operation of a first device associated with the processor, decreasing the predetermined time interval from X seconds to Y seconds; transmitting the first signals at the time interval of Y seconds; and once the reboot of the driver is complete, increasing the predetermined time interval from Y seconds to X seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Vaibhav Hemant Dixit, Saikrishna Arcot, Ying Xie, Guohan Lu
  • Patent number: 12670158
    Abstract: Database management techniques can gauge real-time caching states of no-schema-based (noSQL) databases (DBs) during runtime operation by maintaining a log table to reflect modifications to the noSQL DB. The log table is maintained by adding row entries to reflect modifications to the noSQL DB and therefore does not requiring querying the noSQL DB. The log table may then be deduplicated to remove stale entries and queried to generate a cost table reflecting a real-time caching state of the noSQL DB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: Mohamed Azmil Macksood
  • Patent number: 12664278
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems and storage media for conducting a security review of a system. Certain examples relate to the use of trained generative AI to generating a root security query using a machine learning (ML) generator, based on a system description. A security requirement associated with the root security query is extracted, and an indication of the root security query is output at a user interface. A user input is received in response, and the ML generator generates a follow-up request that is output via the user interface. A second user input is received in response to the follow-up request, and the ML generator then determines that the security requirement is not satisfied by the target system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Tvisha Rajesh Gangwani, Ramesh Chinta, Sahil Sanjay Sanghvi, Kimia Pourali, Michael Richard Yagley, Shashank Yerramilli, Komal Darshil Pandya
  • Patent number: 12657465
    Abstract: Disclosed solutions for improved machine learning (ML) employ knowledge balancing self-distillation with adaptive mutual information (AMI). Examples include: for a neural network (NN) having a plurality of modules, determining a task objective for at least a final module of the plurality of modules; for the NN, determining a balancing objective using at least an output of the final module and an output of a first intermediate module of the plurality of modules; determining an overall objective, wherein determining the overall objective comprises combining the task objective with the balancing objective; and adjusting weights of the NN to minimize the overall objective. Balancing information may combine mutual information (between an intermediate module output and the output of the final module) with self-information (for the intermediate module output) to produce AMI. Adjusting weights of the NN during training, using the AMI, results in knowledge balancing self-distillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Ye Yu, Gaurav Mittal, Mei Chen, Yu Gong
  • Patent number: 12658295
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing machine vision and audio is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a user encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information and audio encounter information. The machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information are temporally-aligned to produce a temporarily-aligned encounter recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Guido Remi Marcel Gallopyn, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, Donald E. Owen, Patrick Naylor, Amr Nour-Eldin, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Mehmet Mert Öz, Garret N. Erskine
  • Patent number: 12657390
    Abstract: A computerized method for summarizing digital content based on a query from a user is described. An inference of the query is used to identify a website that includes non-structured content. The most relevant media within the website is identified based on the inference and content from the most relevant media is extracted. Using the inference, semantic summaries are generated from the extracted content, and an aggregation of the semantic summaries are presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12657764
    Abstract: Determining a location of an entity comprises: receiving a query comprising a 2D image depicting an environment of the entity; searching for a match between the query and a 3D map of the environment. The 3D map comprising a 3D point cloud, the match indicating the location of the entity in the environment. Searching for the match comprises: extracting descriptors from the 2D image referred to as image descriptors; extracting descriptors from the 3D point cloud referred to as point cloud descriptors; correlating the image descriptors with the point cloud descriptors to produce correspondences, wherein a correspondence is an image descriptor corresponding to a point cloud descriptor; estimating, using the correspondences, the location of the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Johannes Lutz Schönberger, Rui Wang, Prune Solange Garance Truong, Marc André Léon Pollefeys