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Publication number: 20240089365Abstract: Examples that relate to calling on a computing device are disclosed. One example provides a computing device, comprising, a first display a second display, a sensor system a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to output, via one or both of the first display and the second display, a notification of an incoming phone call at the computing device, and based on output from the sensor system indicating a relative angle between the first display and the second display being changed to an angle greater than a predetermined angle, answer the incoming phone call.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Scott D. SCHENONE, Otso Joona Casimir TUOMI, Eduardo SONNINO, Spencer Lee DAVIS, Sergio Eduardo RODRIGUEZ VIRGEN, TJ RHOADES, Panos Costa PANAY
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Publication number: 20240088598Abstract: A connector for an electronic device is disclosed. The connector includes a housing. The housing includes a leading surface. The leading surface forms a plug opening and a fulcrum spaced away from the plug opening. The connector includes an electronic plug extending through the plug opening away from the leading surface of the housing. The connector includes a pivot providing the electronic plug a range of angular adjustment relative to the leading surface of the housing. The connector includes a bias mechanism biasing the electronic plug to a default position within the range of angular adjustment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Scott ALLAWAY, Gianna Marie MORENA, Minh Cao NGUYEN, Suet Fong TIN
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Publication number: 20240087155Abstract: A scale and pose estimation method for a camera system is disclosed. Camera data for a scene acquired by the camera system is received. A scale prior parameter characterizing scale of the camera system is received. A cost of a cost function is calculated for a similarity transformation. The cost of the cost function is influenced at least by the scale prior parameter. Based at least on the cost function being less than a threshold cost, an estimated scale and pose of the camera system is output based on the similarity transformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Victor M. FRAGOSO ROJAS, Mei CHEN, Gabriel TAKACS
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Publication number: 20240086545Abstract: Some storage systems are configured with VDL (valid data length) type controls that are implemented on a per cluster basis and, in some instances, on a sub-cluster basis, rather than simply a per file basis. In some instances, per-cluster VDL metadata for the storage clusters is stored and referenced at the edge data volume nodes of a distributed network for the storage system rather than, and/or without, storing or synchronizing the per-cluster VDL metadata at a master node that manages the corresponding storage clusters for the different data volume nodes. Sequence controls are also provided and managed by the master node and synchronized with the edge data volume nodes to further control access to data contained in the storage clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mathew GEORGE, Rajsekhar DAS, Vladimir PETTER
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Publication number: 20240086761Abstract: The present concepts include a neuroergonomic service that processes multimodal physiological, digital, and/or environmental inputs from a user and predicts cognitive states of the user. Thus, the neuroergonomic service provides personalized feedback to the user about her current mental and physiological wellbeing to enable modulation of mood, stress, attention, and other cognitive measures for improved productivity and satisfaction. The neuroergonomic service utilizes machine learning models that are trained offline using sensor inputs taken from participants in a controlled environment that purposefully induce an array of cognitive states upon the participants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aashish PATEL, Weiwei YANG, Hayden HELM, Daniel J. MCDUFF, Siddharth SIDDHARTH, Jen-Tse DONG
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Publication number: 20240086215Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for non-disruptively hibernating and resuming a guest environment using a network virtual service client. In examples, when a guest environment is hibernated, a network virtual service client provides an instruction to a virtual network interface card to set the device power state of the virtual network interface card to a low power state. The network virtual service client disables the communication channels used by the network virtual service client and saves the operating state of the virtual network interface card. When the guest environment is resumed, the network virtual service client provides an instruction to set the device power state of the virtual network interface card to a full power state. The network virtual service client reenables the communication channels used by the network virtual service client and restores the operating state of the virtual network interface card.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jie ZHOU, Dmitry MALLOY, Khoa A. TO, Omar CARDONA
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Publication number: 20240089332Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for profile switching by the computing device. In an example, a computing device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to execute the instructions. The processor may receive a request to initiate a new instance of a website. The processor may also determine a domain name of the website in response to the request. The processor may also determine a first user profile from a plurality of user profiles that corresponds to the domain name based on profile information corresponding to one or more of profile history data, profile favorites data, or administrative settings data. The processor may also launch the new instance of the website in a browser according to the first user profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed MALL, Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor ANDREW
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Publication number: 20240086719Abstract: A computing system including a plurality of processing devices configured to execute a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layer. The processing devices are configured to execute the MoE layer at least in part by receiving an input tensor including input tokens. Executing the MoE layer further includes computing a gating function output vector based on the input tensor and computing a sparse encoding of the input tensor and the gating function output vector. The sparse encoding indicates one or more destination expert sub-models. Executing the MoE layer further includes dispatching the input tensor for processing at the one or more destination expert sub-models, and further includes computing an expert output tensor. Executing the MoE layer further includes computing an MoE layer output at least in part by computing a sparse decoding of the expert output tensor. Executing the MoE layer further includes conveying the MoE layer output to an additional computing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yifan XIONG, Changho HWANG, Wei CUI, Ziyue YANG, Ze LIU, Han HU, Zilong WANG, Rafael Omar SALAS, Jithin JOSE, Prabhat RAM, Ho-Yuen CHAU, Peng CHENG, Fan YANG, Mao YANG, Yongqiang XIONG
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Publication number: 20240085985Abstract: This document relates to employing tongue gestures to control a computing device, and training machine learning models to detect tongue gestures. One example relates to a method or technique that can include receiving one or more motion signals from an inertial sensor. The method or technique can also include detecting a tongue gesture based at least on the one or more motion signals, and outputting the tongue gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Raymond Michael WINTERS, IV, Tan GEMICIOGLU, Thomas Matthew GABLE, Yu-Te WANG, Ivan Jelev TASHEV
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Publication number: 20240085711Abstract: A head-wearable display device includes a display panel to emit display light. An optical array panel is positioned along an optical path of the display light emitted by the display panel, and configured to redirect the display light toward an eyebox. An eye tracking system estimates a current pupil position of a user eye relative to the head-wearable display device. An actuator translates a position of the optical array panel relative to the display panel to move a position of the eyebox toward the current pupil position of the user eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Long YANG
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Publication number: 20240086034Abstract: A system and method for rendering a plurality of user interface (UI) components of a UI screen based on a priority order is conducted by receiving a request to load the UI screen, each component of the UI screen being associated with a priority order, creating a data structure for rendering the UI components in accordance with the priority order, the data structure including a list of the UI components in an order in which they should be rendered, generating an event for rendering a first UI component in the data structure, receiving an indication that the first UI component has been rendered, responsive to receiving the indication that the first UI component has been rendered, moving to a next UI component in the list to render and continuing with the rendering of the UI components in accordance with the list until all UI components in the list have been rendered.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rahul GUPTA, Jiten SINGH SADHWANI
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Publication number: 20240085714Abstract: The present disclosure describes near-eye display systems including an array of projectors and a one-dimensional exit pupil expander. The array of projectors can be arranged along a first dimension and can output image light towards an input coupler within a waveguide that provides one-dimensional exit pupil expansion. In some implementations, arrays of monochromatic projectors are implemented and arranged in offset columns. The input coupler in-couples the image light from the array of projectors into a TIR path within the waveguide. Different optical elements, including diffractive and reflective optics, may be implemented as the input coupler. The image light travels within the waveguide until it interacts with an output coupler. Upon interaction with the output coupler, the image light is expanded in a second dimension transverse to the first dimension and is coupled out of the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joel Steven KOLLIN, Andreas GEORGIOU, Ishan CHATTERJEE, Bernard Charles KRESS, Maria Esther PACE, Mario POSSIWAN
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Patent number: 11928429Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for packing tokens to train sequence models. In some embodiments, a plurality of datasets for training a sequence model is received. Each dataset in the plurality of datasets includes a sequence of correlated tokens. A set of training data is generated that includes a subset of a sequence of tokens from a first dataset in the plurality of datasets and a subset of a sequence of tokens from a second, different dataset in the plurality of datasets. The sequence model is trained using the set of training data.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andy Wagner, Tiyasa Mitra, Marc Tremblay
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Patent number: 11928116Abstract: A system and method for boosting items or news posts in a news feed on an organization news site. A boost module allows an organization communicator or administrator to set boost parameters for a selected news post. The boost parameters may include boosting a news post until it is viewed, boosting for a number of impressions, boosting until a particular date, and setting a rank for the news post relative to other boosted items. Boosting a news post may be done when the news post is created and published or after it has been published. Boosted items or news posts may include an icon or symbol to indicate the item is boosted in the user's newsfeed.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Patrick James Kelleher, Brian Arthur Vannoy
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Patent number: 11928120Abstract: Example solutions are disclosed for performing a distributed data query for a connected data set, such as a property graph or a relational database, distributed across a plurality of regions (e.g., different geographic regions) under data flow limitations. For a restrictive limitation, a first region stores a data entity that is subject to a data flow limitation, and a second region stores only a reference to the data entity (e.g., a pseudonymous reference). The query is executed in the first region, and at least a partial representation of the state is injected into the query for execution in the second region. The query locates the reference to the data entity in the second region, and the state of the query from the second region is returned. Query results from the plurality of regions are synthesized into a final result. Further solutions address prohibitive limitations when references are not permitted.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology, LLC.Inventors: Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum, Tor Kreutzer, Jan-Ove Karlberg
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Patent number: 11928567Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are described to improve machine learning (ML) model-based classification of data items by identifying and removing inaccurate training data. Inaccurate training samples may be identified, for example, based on excessive variance in vector space between a training sample and a mean of category training samples, and based on a variance between an assigned category and a predicted category for a training sample. Suspect or erroneous samples may be selectively removed based on, for example, vector space variance and/or prediction confidence level. As a result, ML model accuracy may be improved by training on a more accurate revised training set. ML model accuracy may (e.g., also) be improved, for example, by identifying and removing suspect categories with excessive (e.g., weighted) vector space variance. Suspect categories may be retained or revised. Users may (e.g., also) specify a prediction confidence level and/or coverage (e.g., to control accuracy).Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Oren Elisha, Ami Luttwak, Hila Yehuda, Adar Kahana, Maya Bechler-Speicher
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Patent number: 11928444Abstract: A technique is described herein for assisting a user in editing a file. The technique involves producing current context information that includes an input message and selected file content. The input message describes a user's editing objective, while the selected file content describes a portion of the file to which the editing objective is to be applied. The technique then requests a pattern-completion engine to generate edit information based on the current context information. The edit information describes one or more changes to the selected file content that satisfy the objective of the user. The pattern-completion engine uses a machine-trained autoregressive text-completion model that is trained on revision history information. The model can be trained in a process that incorporates various tests to ensure that the edit information that is generated works as expected, satisfies various performance metrics, and fulfills the editing objectives of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christian Alexander Cosgrove, Saurabh Kumar Tiwary
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Patent number: 11928190Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for protecting commercial off-the-shelf software program code from piracy. A software program may include an executable file having code and data. A platform may modify the executable file such that the data may be placed at a location in memory that is an arbitrary distance from the code. The platform may modify the executable file to include a separation header. The separation header may indicate that the data can be placed at an arbitrary distance in the memory from the code. The separation header may indicate that the code should be loaded into a hardware enclave and that the data should be loaded outside of the hardware enclave. The platform may encrypt the code and provide it to a computing device. The computing device may load the encrypted code into the hardware enclave but load the data into memory outside the hardware enclave.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xinyang Ge, Weidong Cui, Ben Niu, Ling Tony Chen
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Patent number: 11928494Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to configuring managed virtual machines. For instance, a management service (e.g., a mobile device manager) may provide configuration settings to a parent virtual machine. Upon successful application of the configuration settings, the parent virtual machine notifies a configuration service that it is in a steady state and provides the configuration settings to the configuration service. The configuration service notifies a cloud-based service (e.g., a virtual desktop service) that it is configured to instantiate virtual machines. The notification informs the cloud-based service that it is permitted to instantiate child virtual machines. Responsive to receiving the notification, the cloud-based service instantiates child virtual machine(s) as needed.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Peter J Kaufman, Shayak Lahiri, Yi Zhao, Go Komatsu, Pieter Willem Wigleven, Randall R. Cook
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Patent number: 11928875Abstract: Described herein is a mechanism for visual recognition of items or visual search using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of text in images. Recognized OCR blocks in an image comprise position information and recognized text. The embodiments utilize a location-aware feature vector created using the position and recognized information in each recognized block. The location-aware features of the feature vector utilize position information associated with the block to calculate a weight for the block. The recognized text is used to construct a tri-character gram frequency, inverse document frequency (TGF-IDP) metric using tri-character grams extracted from the recognized text. Features in location-aware feature vector for the block are computed by multiplying the weight and the corresponding TGF-IDF metric. The location-aware feature vector for the image is the sum of the location-aware feature vectors for the individual blocks.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Yan Wang, Ye Wu, Arun Sacheti
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Patent number: 11928564Abstract: Systems are provided for facilitating the building and use of models used to make data preparation recommendations. The systems identify ground truth from a plurality of notebooks and utilizes the ground truth to generate the corresponding data preparation recommendation models. The data preparation recommendation models are used to predict accurate (e.g., useful and relevant) data preparations steps based on user input and user notebook data. The data preparation computing system generates a recommendation prompt based on output from the data preparation recommendation model that can be viewed and/or selected by the user to be applied to the user's notebook data.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yeye He, Cong Yan
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Patent number: 11929253Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a nanowire structure. According to an exemplary process, a substrate is firstly provided. An intact buffer region is formed over the substrate, and a sacrificial top portion of the intact buffer region is eliminated to provide a buffer layer with a planarized top surface. Herein, the planarized top surface has a vertical roughness below 10 ?. Next, a patterned mask with an opening is formed over the buffer layer, such that a portion of the planarized top surface of the buffer layer is exposed. A nanowire is formed over the exposed portion of the planarized top surface of the buffer layer through the opening of the patterned mask. The buffer layer is configured to have a lattice constant that provides a transition between the lattice constant of the substrate and the lattice constant of the nanowire.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Geoffrey C. Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond L. Kallaher, Michael James Manfra
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Patent number: 11928856Abstract: A synthetic world interface may be used to model digital environments, sensors, and motions for the evaluation, development, and improvement of computer vision and speech algorithms. A synthetic data cloud service with a library of sensor primitives, motion generators, and environments with procedural and game-like capabilities, facilitates engineering design for a manufactural solution that has computer vision and speech capabilities. In some embodiments, a sensor platform simulator operates with a motion orchestrator, an environment orchestrator, an experiment generator, and an experiment runner to test various candidate hardware configurations and computer vision and speech algorithms in a virtual environment, advantageously speeding development and reducing cost. Thus, examples disclosed herein may relate to virtual reality (VR) or mixed reality (MR) implementations.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Michael Ebstyne, Pedro Urbina Escos, Yuri Pekelny, Jonathan Chi Hang Chan, Emanuel Shalev, Alex Kipman, Mark Flick
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Patent number: 11928781Abstract: An initial mesh is received comprising a hand of a subject. The initial mesh includes a plurality of vertices. A smoothed mesh is generated, and a discrete curvature of the smoothed mesh is determined for each vertex. One or more candidate finger vertices are identified based upon a determination that the discrete curvature for each of the one or more candidate vertices is greater than or equal to a threshold curvature. One or more seed vertices are identified from among the one or more candidate finger vertices based upon a determination that the discrete curvature for one or more other vertices within a neighborhood of each seed vertex is greater than or equal to the threshold curvature. Dilation is performed on the one or more seed vertices to grow one or more patches from the one or more seed vertices. The one or more patches are deprioritized for mesh simplification.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Deboshmita Ghosh
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Patent number: 11929842Abstract: A method and system for managing delivery of a content stream to a plurality of devices participating in an online conference session, including delivering, to each of the devices, the content stream associated with the online conference session at a first signal quality, receiving an indication signal indicating that a first device is to broadcast the content stream, responsive to the indication signal, increasing a signal quality of the content stream delivered to the first device from the first signal quality to a second signal quality, wherein the second signal quality is higher than the first signal quality, delivering the content stream to the first device at the second signal quality, and delivering the content stream to the rest of the devices at the first signal quality or a third signal quality, wherein the third signal quality is lower than the first signal quality.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aaron Linne, Eric Scott Albright, Albert Jose Mangay, Satya Sasikanth Bendapudi, Jizhe Jin
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Patent number: 11930190Abstract: Non-transform blocks of video content may be coded by selectively changing a scanning order. in some implementations, an encoder or decoder may perform a scanning process on a block according to a scanning order. When the block has not been transformed, the encoder or decoder may selectively change the scanning order to a different order. For example, if the block is associated with a particular type of prediction, the scanning order may be changed to a different order. In another example, if the non-transform block has a size that is smaller than a predetermined size, the scanning order may be changed to a different order.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiulian Peng, Jizheng Xu
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Patent number: 11929076Abstract: Disclosed speech recognition techniques improve user-perceived latency while maintaining accuracy by: receiving an audio stream, in parallel, by a primary (e.g., accurate) speech recognition engine (SRE) and a secondary (e.g., fast) SRE; generating, with the primary SRE, a primary result; generating, with the secondary SRE, a secondary result; appending the secondary result to a word list; and merging the primary result into the secondary result in the word list. Combining output from the primary and secondary SREs into a single decoder as described herein improves user-perceived latency while maintaining or improving accuracy, among other advantages.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Hosam Adel Khalil, Emilian Stoimenov, Christopher Hakan Basoglu, Kshitiz Kumar, Jian Wu
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Patent number: 11928474Abstract: Selectively updating branch predictors for loops executed from loop buffers is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a branch predictor update circuit of a processor is configured to detect a loop comprising a plurality of loop instructions in an instruction stream, and to determine that the loop is stored within a loop buffer circuit of the processor. The branch predictor update circuit is further configured to determine a count of potential history register updates to the history register for the plurality of loop instructions, and to determine whether the count of potential history register updates exceeds a size of the history register. The branch predictor update circuit is also configured to, responsive to determining that the count of potential history register updates does not exceed the size of the history register, update a branch predictor of the branch predictor circuit based on the plurality of loop instructions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh, Saransh Jain, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Daren Eugene Streett
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Patent number: 11930020Abstract: The disclosure is directed towards the real-time detection and mitigation of security threats to a domain name system (DNS) for a communication network. A graph-theoretic method is applied to detect compromised DNS assets (e.g., DNS servers and web servers that DNS servers map domain names to). A graph is generated from domain name resolution (DNR) transactions. The nodes of the graph represent the DNS assets and edges between the nodes represent the DNR transactions. The graph is analyzed to detect features that signal compromised assets. The detection of such features serves to act as a binary classifier for the represented assets. The binary classifier acts to classify each node as non-compromised or compromised. The analysis is guided by supervised and/or unsupervised machine learning methods. Once the assets are classified, DNR transactions are analyzed in real-time. If the transaction involves a compromised asset, an intervention is performed that mitigates the threat.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Zheng Dong, Jack Wilson Stokes, III, Jie Li, Jinyuan Jia
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Patent number: 11930616Abstract: A thermal component has a shield portion and a heat exchanger portion. The shield portion includes a plurality of cells adapted to inhibit radio radiation (RF) having a frequency within a target frequency range, while the heat exchanger portion includes a plurality of elongated channels, each one of the elongated channels being physically connected to and in fluid communication with at least one corresponding cell of the plurality of cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rob Huala, Nanqiang Zhu, Donovan D. Van Sleet, Aaron Ray Paff, Andrew Douglas Delano, Patrick Stephen Johnson
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Patent number: 11930390Abstract: Described are examples for providing intent based network slice management using a management data analytics function (MDAF) to predict deficiencies. A network management system receives an intent for a network slice constituent. The network management system configures computing resources for the network slice constituent to satisfy the intent based on expected performance of the computing resources. The network management system receives feedback with respect to actual performance of the network slice constituent. The network management system determines, based on analysis of the feedback by a management data analytics function (MDAF), a predicted deficiency of the network slice constituent not being able to satisfy the intent. The network management system modifies the configuration of the computing resources based on the feedback and the predicted deficiency to satisfy the intent.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ronald Mark Parker, Michael Anthony Brown, Bahareh Sadeghi, Mark Gordon Libby
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Patent number: 11930548Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of establishing multiple infrastructure connections to multiple access points via a single wireless network interface controller (WNIC). Capability information is analyzed to determine combination(s) of identified frequency bands over which the WNIC is capable of communicating simultaneously. Availability information is analyzed to determine signal qualities associated with respective available frequency bands. A primary infrastructure connection is established to a first access point via the WNIC based at least in part on a first frequency band associated with the first access point being included among the identified frequency bands and being associated with a relatively high signal quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Dhanya Krishnan Nair, Gianluigi Nusca
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Patent number: 11930016Abstract: A client application is specified by a target tenant and represented in an OAuth provider, along with a corresponding secret. A source tenant consents to permissions to be executed by the client application on a resource of the source tenant. A target service uses the secret to obtain an access token from an authorization server coupled to the source tenant and uses the access token to obtain access, specified by the permissions, to the resource served by a source service acting on behalf of the source tenant.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Anshul Dube, Parul Manek, Steven Mark Silverberg, Shankaranand Arunachalam, Jason Craig Nelson, Andrew Burke Ryan, Robert A. Lowe, Ganesh Pandey
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Patent number: 11930358Abstract: A method of data communication includes receiving, by a first wireless access gateway (WAG), at least a first data packet corresponding to a first data flow transmitted from user equipment (UE) and receiving, by a second WAG, at least a second data packet transmitted from the UE. In response to receiving the second data packet, the second WAG determines an identity of the first WAG, and in response to determining the identity of the first WAG, the method includes establishing a tunnel connection between the first WAG and the second WAG. After establishing the tunnel connection, the method includes receiving by the second WAG at least a third data packet corresponding to the first data flow transmitted from the UE, and the second WAG transmits to the first WAG, via the tunnel connection, the third data packet.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mark Libby, Deepak Garg, Girish Nair, Narsi Veldanda
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Patent number: 11929971Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to email threading based on machine learning determined categories and features. A network system accesses a plurality of emails addressed to a user. The network system then classifies, using a machine learning model, each email into at least one of a plurality of categories. For a category of the plurality of categories, one or more feature values are extracted from each email in the category. Based on the category and the extracted feature values, the network system groups messages having a same feature value in the same category together into a single email thread. Information related to the single email thread is then presented at a client device of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Charles Yin-Che Lee, Victor Poznanski
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Patent number: 11928207Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing automatic graph-based detection of potential security threats. A Bayesian network is initialized using an association graph to establish connections among network nodes in the Bayesian network. The network nodes are grouped among clusters that correspond to respective intents. Patterns in the Bayesian network are identified. At least one redundant connection, which is redundant with regard to one or more other connections, is removed from the patterns. Scores are assigned to the respective patterns in the Bayesian network, based on knowledge of historical patterns and historical security threats, such that each score indicates a likelihood of the respective pattern to indicate a security threat. An output graph is automatically generated. The output graph includes each pattern that has a score that is greater than or equal to a score threshold. Each pattern in the output graph represents a potential security threat.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Anisha Mazumder, Haijun Zhai, Daniel Lee Mace, Yogesh K. Roy, Seetharaman Harikrishnan
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Patent number: 11928262Abstract: The combination of active and reference haptics on an electronic device, such as a wearable display device, can convey information to a user without requiring the user to look at the device. An electronic device may include a housing, a display disposed in the housing and including an interface surface arranged for user contact and a reference haptic. The interface surface includes an active haptic output that provides a time-dependent haptic output and a reference haptic disposed on the housing or the interface surface to provide a time-independent haptic output related to the time-dependent haptic output.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hong Z. Tan, Zhaoyuan Ma
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Publication number: 20240078373Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to creating a long note from one or more short notes made in a source document. A long note is a separate document created by the system to capture each of the one or more short notes and related source content from the source document and compiles them in one place for independent review and modification. The long note captures the connection between the short note and the source document with source content such as the related text, images, or other source content within the source document to which the short note is directed. The long note may be created independently of a user request, such that the entry of a short note into the source document initiates the creation of the long note.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: David Conger
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Publication number: 20240080580Abstract: A camera system comprises a lamp configured to emit light, a lamp driver configured to energize the lamp, an image-sensor array configured to acquire image data, a lenslet array, and an image engine. The lenslet array comprises a plurality of lenslets arranged laterally over the image-sensor array and configured to focus the light, reflected from a subject, onto the image-sensor array. The image engine is configured to (a) receive the image data from the image-sensor array, (b) resolve the image data into a plurality of component images, and (c) return an enhanced image based on the plurality of component images, the enhanced image having enhanced spatial resolution relative to any of the component images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Curtis Alan TESDAHL, James Peele Terrell, JR.
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Publication number: 20240080255Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a processor that receives a network graph. The processor further receives a specification of a network traffic control heuristic for a network traffic routing problem over the network graph. The processor further constructs a gap maximization problem that has, as a maximization target, a difference between an exact solution to the network traffic routing problem and a heuristic solution generated using the network traffic control heuristic. The processor further generates a Lagrange multiplier formulation of the gap maximization problem. At a convex solver, the processor further computes an estimated maximum gap as an estimated solution to the Lagrange multiplier formulation of the gap maximization problem. The processor further performs a network traffic control action based at least in part on the estimated maximum gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Behnaz ARZANI, Pooria NAMYAR, Ryan Andrew BECKETT, Srikanth KANDULA, Santiago Martin SEGARRA, Himanshu RAJ
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Publication number: 20240080475Abstract: Innovations for signaling state of a decoded picture buffer (“DPB”) and reference picture lists (“RPLs”). In example implementations, rather than rely on internal state of a decoder to manage and update DPB and RPLs, state information about the DPB and RPLs is explicitly signaled. This permits a decoder to determine which pictures are expected to be available for reference from the signaled state information. For example, an encoder determines state information that identifies which pictures are available for use as reference pictures (optionally considering feedback information from a decoder about which pictures are available). The encoder sets syntax elements that represent the state information. In doing so, the encoder sets identifying information for a long-term reference picture (“LTRP”), where the identifying information is a value of picture order count least significant bits for the LTRB. The encoder then outputs the syntax elements as part of a bitstream.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Yongjun Wu
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Publication number: 20240078340Abstract: A data processing system implements detecting that a first user device associated with a first user has added a first sponsored content item to a host electronic document by adding a first reference to the first sponsored content item to the host electronic document. The first sponsored content item is stored separately in a memory of a cloud-based service from the host electronic document. The data processing system further implements determining that the first user has permission to share the first sponsored content item with other users of the cloud-based service, generating sponsor information to associate the sponsored content item with the host electronic document to permit users having access to the host electronic document to access the sponsored content item, and storing the sponsor information in a sponsored access datastore.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicants: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stephen Lincoln RICE, Sean Lamont Grant LIVINGSTON, Shiguang DONG, Zhenguang CHEN, Vladimir FESICH, Vijay SHARMA
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Publication number: 20240080485Abstract: Techniques and tools for reducing latency in video encoding and decoding by constraining latency due to reordering of video frames, and by indicating the constraint on frame reordering latency with one or more syntax elements that accompany encoded data for the video frames. For example, a real-time communication tool with a video encoder sets a syntax element that indicates a constraint on frame reordering latency, which is consistent with inter-frame dependencies between multiple frames of a video sequence, then outputs the syntax element. A corresponding real-time communication tool with a video decoder receives the syntax element that indicates the constraint on frame reordering latency, determines the constraint on frame reordering latency based on the syntax element, and uses the constraint on frame reordering latency to determine when a reconstructed frame is ready for output (in terms of output order).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Gary J. Sullivan
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Publication number: 20240077974Abstract: A method to process touch input on a touch-screen display device having an electronic display layer arranged behind a series of column electrodes and behind a series of row electrodes. The method comprises: concurrently driving one or more row electrodes while leaving undriven one or more other row electrodes; sensing a row signal from the one or more other row electrodes; sensing a column signal from the series of column electrodes; and providing a corrected column output based at least partly on the column signal and on the row signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: On HARAN, Eliyahu BAREL
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Publication number: 20240079770Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to controlling an electronic device including a multi-mode antenna system. In a first operating mode, a radio signal is transmitted via a first antenna, a second antenna is actively de-tuned the while receiving a reflected radio signal thereby increasing isolation between the first and second antennas, an object is detected based at least on the reflected radio signal and the multi-mode antenna system is switched to operation in a second operating mode. In the second operating mode, a first remote radio signal transmitted by a remote antenna of a remote electronic device is received, via the first antenna, a second remote radio signal transmitted by the remote antenna is received via the second antenna, and a position of the remote electronic device is determined based at least on a phase difference between the first remote radio signal and the second remote radio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Marc HARPER
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Publication number: 20240080470Abstract: Innovations in flexible reference picture management are described. For example, a video encoder and video decoder use a global reference picture set (“GRPS”) of reference pictures that remain in memory, and hence are available for use in video encoding/decoding, longer than conventional reference pictures. In particular, reference pictures of the GRPS remain available across random access boundaries. Or, as another example, a video encoder and video decoder clip a reference picture so that useful regions of the reference picture are retained in memory, while unhelpful or redundant regions of the reference picture are discarded. Reference picture clipping can reduce the amount of memory needed to store reference pictures or improve the utilization of available memory by providing better options for motion compensation. Or, as still another example, a video encoder and video decoder filter a reference picture to remove random noise (e.g., capture noise due to camera imperfections during capture).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu
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Patent number: 11921788Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11921728Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Junaid Ahmed, Waleed Malik, Arnold Overwijk
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Patent number: 11921730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Madeline Schuster Kleiner, Nathaniel George Freier, Bernhard Kohlmeier, Amod Anil Agashe, Jignesh Shah, Tomasz Lukasz Religa
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Patent number: 11921782Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Ming Zhou