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Publication number: 20240096268Abstract: A digital display includes a plurality of pixel rows. For each pixel row, the digital display includes an EM gate driver configured to supply the pixel row with a luminance-controlling signal during each of a plurality of image frames. A luminance controller is configured to instruct the EM gate drivers to supply a pulse-width modulated signal to the plurality of pixel rows. Some pixel rows are supplied with a pulse-width modulated signal starting with an on pulse, and some pixel rows are supplied with a pulse-width modulated signal starting with an off pulse, on the same or different image frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ying ZHENG, Matthew D. MORRIS, Vasudha GUPTA, Younghun PAIK
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Publication number: 20240095060Abstract: Systems and methods are taught for providing customers of a cloud computing service to control when updates affect the services provided to the customers. Because multiple customers share the cloud's infrastructure, each customer may have conflicting preferences for when an update and associated downtime occurs. Preventing and resolving conflicts between the preferences of multiple customers while providing them with input for scheduling a planned update may reduce the inconvenience posed by updates. Additionally, the schedule for the update may be transmitted to customers so that they can prepare for the downtime of services associated with the update.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jiaxing ZHANG, Thomas MOSCIBRODA, Haoran WANG, Jurgen Aubrey WILLIS, Yang CHEN, Ying YAN, James E. JOHNSON, Ajay MANI
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Publication number: 20240096063Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reusing and retraining an image recognition model for video analytics. The image recognition model is used for inferring a frame of video data that is captured at edge devices. The edge devices periodically or under predetermined conditions transmits a captured frame of video data to perform inferencing. The disclosed technology is directed to select an image recognition model from a model store for reusing or for retraining. A model selector uses a gating network model to determine ranked candidate models for validation. The validation includes iterations of retraining the image recognition model and stopping the iteration when a rate of improving accuracy by retraining becomes smaller than the previous iteration step. Retraining a model includes generating reference data using a teacher model and retraining the model using the reference data. Integrating reuse and retraining of models enables improvement in accuracy and efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ganesh ANANTHANARAYANAN, Yuanchao SHU, Paramvir BAHL, Tsuwang HSIEH
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Publication number: 20240094969Abstract: Disclosed is the differential application of scalars to compensate pixel degradation. Input image data is associated with a commanded luminance at each of a plurality of pixels. A degradation value is determined for each pixel. Based on the degradation value, an elevated drive current is determined to produce commanded luminance at the pixel. A required scalar is determined for each pixel to hold the elevated drive current from exceeding a drive current threshold. An applied scalar for each pixel is determined for each pixel to be applied to the elevated drive current. For at least some pixels, the applied scalar for a first pixel is based at least on [I] the required scalar of a second pixel and [2] a spatial relationship between the first pixel and the second pixel. Applied scalars are then used to output corrected imagery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kyle William HERSHEY, Scott Robert PIECUCH, Ying ZHENG
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Publication number: 20240094788Abstract: A device comprising a display and a display controller. The display comprises a first display portion and a second display portion. The display controller is configured to assess a temperature condition of a surface of the first display portion; and responsive to the temperature condition, to initiate a switching of display content from one of the display portions to the other display portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Zenghui ZHAO, Chau Van HO
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Publication number: 20240094896Abstract: A method for rendering digital inking is presented. The method comprises receiving inking input at a local application window, and locally processing the received inking input to generate preliminary inking imagery for presentation in the local application window. Parameters of the received inking input are uploaded to a remote client for remote processing to generate finalized inking imagery. The preliminary inking imagery is updated based on the finalized inking imagery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Sandeep PATNAIK
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Publication number: 20240094901Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to computing devices and methods for performing touch detection within a virtual trackpad area of a touch screen display. In one example, a non-trackpad touch input signal is received from outside the virtual trackpad area and processed with at least a jitter restrictor algorithm that applies a non-trackpad distance between reported touch locations. A virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area. On condition of determining that the virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area, the virtual trackpad touch input signal is processed with the jitter restrictor algorithm that applies a virtual trackpad distance between reported touch locations that is smaller than the non-trackpad distance between reported touch locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Matan SLASSI, Dmitry BIRENBERG, Gilad PUNDAK, Nadav LINENBERG, Andrew Pyon MITTEREDER
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Patent number: 11935313Abstract: Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic document.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Honghao Qiu
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Patent number: 11934964Abstract: System and methods for performing analytical operations are described. A hardware-based regular expression (RegEx) engine performs a regular expression operation on a stream of data units based on a finite automata (FA) graph. Performing includes configuring a regular expression engine of a hardware-based regular expression accelerator to, beginning at a root node in the plurality of nodes of the FA graph, step the regular expression engine through one or more nodes of the FA graph until the regular expression engine arrives at a skip node and to consume, at the skip node, two or more data units from the stream of data units before traversing one of the directional arcs to another node.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rajan Goyal, Satyanarayana Lakshmipathi Billa
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Patent number: 11934426Abstract: A method and system for receiving data relating to one or more activities performed by a user on a document within a specific time period, the one or more activities being performed by using an application, analyzing the data to identify a category of user activity based at least on the type of activity performed on the document, and transmitting a signal to a device for storage in association with the document, the signal including the identified category.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bernhard Kohlmeier, Madeline Schuster Kleiner, Jon Meling, Jan Heier Johansen, Vegar Skjaerven Wang
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Patent number: 11935542Abstract: A hypothesis stitcher for speech recognition of long-form audio provides superior performance, such as higher accuracy and reduced computational cost. An example disclosed operation includes: segmenting the audio stream into a plurality of audio segments; identifying a plurality of speakers within each of the plurality of audio segments; performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) on each of the plurality of audio segments to generate a plurality of short-segment hypotheses; merging at least a portion of the short-segment hypotheses into a first merged hypothesis set; inserting stitching symbols into the first merged hypothesis set, the stitching symbols including a window change (WC) symbol; and consolidating, with a network-based hypothesis stitcher, the first merged hypothesis set into a first consolidated hypothesis.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Naoyuki Kanda, Xuankai Chang, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Takuya Yoshioka
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Patent number: 11934533Abstract: The disclosure is directed towards the detection of supply chain-related security threats to software applications. One method includes identifying differences between updated source code and previous source. The updated source code corresponds to an updated version of an application. The previous source code corresponds to a previous version of the application. A risk score is determined for the updated version. The risk score is based on a machine learning (ML) risk model. The ML risk model analyzes the differences between the updated source code and the previous source code. A value of the risk score corresponds to potential security threats that are associated with the updated version. The potential security threats are not associated with the previous version of the application. The risk score is provided to interested parties.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Oron Golan, Adir Atias, Aviad Pines, Aviram Fireberger
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Patent number: 11936669Abstract: Unauthorized use of user credentials in a network is detected. Data indicative of text strings being used to access resources in the network is accessed. Regex models are determined for the text strings. Troupings of the regex models are determined based on an optimization of a cumulative weighted function. A regex model having a cumulative weighted function that exceeds a predetermined threshold is identified. An alert is generated when the cumulative weighted function for the identified regex model exceeds the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Andrey Karpovsky, Tomer Rotstein, Fady Nasereldeen, Naama Kraus, Roy Levin, Yotam Livny
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Patent number: 11934340Abstract: In accordance with implementations of the subject matter described herein, there provides a solution for multi-path RDMA transmission. In the solution, at least one packet is generated based on an RDMA message to be transmitted from a first device to a second device. The first device has an RDMA connection with the second device via a plurality of paths. A first packet in the at least one packet includes a plurality of fields, which include information for transmitting the first packet over a first path of the plurality of paths. The at least one packet is transmitted to the second device over the plurality of paths via an RDMA protocol. The first packet is transmitted over the first path. The multi-path RDMA transmission solution according to the subject matter described herein can efficiently utilize rich network paths while maintaining a low memory footprint in a network interface card.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Guo Chen, Thomas Moscibroda, Peng Cheng, Yuanwei Lu, Yongqiang Xiong
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Patent number: 11935154Abstract: A method and system for transforming an input image via a plurality of image transformation stylizers includes receiving the input image; providing the input image, information about the plurality of image transformation stylizers and at least one of user data, history data, and contextual data to a trained machine-learning (ML) model for selecting a subset of the plurality of image transformation stylizers; receiving as an output from the ML model the subset of image transformation stylizers; executing the subset of the image transformation stylizers on the input image to generate a plurality of transformed output images; ranking the plurality of transformed output images based on at least one of the input image, the user data, the history data, and the contextual data; and providing the ranked plurality of transformed output images for display.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ji Li, Fatima Zohra Daha, Bei Liu, Huan Yang, Jianlong Fu
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Patent number: 11935294Abstract: This disclosure describes how to identify objects in an augmented reality environment. More specifically, the various systems and methods described herein describe how an augmented reality device can recognize objects within a real world environment, determine where the object is located, and also identify the various surfaces of the object in real time or substantially real time.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Anirudh Koul, Baihan Huang, Sambodhi Chakrabarty
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Patent number: 11934589Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a mouse device (102) through pressure detection, and further proposes a corresponding mouse device (102). Pressure detected between the mouse device (102) and an operation surface (104) may be obtained. An operating state corresponding to the pressure may be determined. The mouse device (102) may be configured to the operating state.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Masaaki Fukumoto, Hao Zhuang, Jianjun Ju, Paul Kos, Nicolas Schmitt
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Patent number: 11935010Abstract: Systems and methods directed to formulating and suggesting a subject line based on content of an email message are provided. More specifically, content corresponding to one or more portions of an email may be received, where the content may be utilized to determine one or more email topics and at least one intent of the email. An intent of the email may correspond to whether an action is to be performed, whether a question is presented, whether a request for time is present, and/or any other request on the part of the recipient or the sender. Based on the intent of the email and the one or more topics, a subject line suggestion may be formulated and presented to a user.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Kalyan Ayloo
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Patent number: 11934377Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to detecting data inconsistencies within a distributed database and identifying the cause thereof. For example, lineage events are emitted from different components of the distributed system that operate on various data files. A consistency checking engine analyzes these events and detects inconsistencies with respect to the data files. The embodiments described herein checks the integrity of the database and assists in understanding the root cause in case of a corruption. Moreover, it provides the timeline for the corruption and whether it is repairable or not. These properties enable determining the right time to restore the customer's database or the right set of actions to repair the corruption. In case of repairable corruption, the correct compensating repair actions may be applied.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Maninderjit Singh Parmar
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Patent number: 11936724Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for configuring service mesh networking resources for dynamically discovered external entities. The methods and systems create custom resource objects for services provided by the external entities and dynamically create service mesh network resources for the custom resource objects. The methods and systems enable communications with the external entities using the service mesh network resources.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Akash Baid, Nitish Malhotra, Michael Anthony Brown
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Patent number: 11931977Abstract: A method of fabricating a multi-core polymer optical fibre comprises arranging optical fibre preforms in a stack, the optical fibre preforms each comprising a polymer core and polymer cladding surrounding the polymer core; and drawing and bonding the stack to form the multi-core polymer optical fibre. Any contaminants or impurities which collect on outer surfaces of the preforms may be confined to boundaries between the preforms, which may avoid attenuation of signals passed through the cores while at the same time reducing crosstalk between cores of the final manufactured fibre. Also provided is a multi-core polymer optical fibre obtainable by the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Paolo Costa, Gilberto Brambilla, Kai Shi, Hitesh Ballani, Richard James Baca
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Patent number: 11934810Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of translating an edit from a child computer language to a parent computer language while maintaining a semantic meaning of the edit. Parent code that is based on the parent computer language is compiled, which automatically triggers generation of child code that is mapped to the parent code and that is based on the child computer language. A determination is made that the edit, which is not mapped to the parent code, is implemented in the child code to provide edited child code. The parent code is updated to include a change that is based on the semantic meaning of the edit. The updated parent code is configured such that compilation of the updated parent code automatically triggers generation of an updated version of the child code that includes the semantic meaning of the edit.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Wengier, Nicholas Taylor Mullen
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Patent number: 11934801Abstract: Embodiments use a multi-modal approach to generate software programs that match a solution program description. The solution program description may include natural language, input-output examples, partial source code, desired operators, or other hints. Some embodiments use optimized prompts to a pre-trained language model to obtain initial candidate programs. Maximal program components are extracted and then recombined variously using component-based synthesis. Beam search reduces a solution program search space by discarding some candidates from a given synthesis iteration. Relevance metrics, string similarity metrics, operator frequency distributions, token rareness scores, and other optimizations may be employed. By virtue of optimizations and the multi-modal approach, a solution program may be obtained after fewer iterations than by use of a language model alone.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kiarash Rahmani, Mohammad Raza, Sumit Gulwani, Vu Minh Le, Daniel James Morris, Arjun Radhakrishna, Gustavo Araujo Soares, Ashish Tiwari
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Patent number: 11934534Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for analyzing a program to be executed on a computer to detect vulnerability for malicious attacks using the program. One method includes an operation for performing dynamic vulnerability detection of a driver when the driver is loaded in a computing system. The dynamic vulnerability detection comprises detecting at least one offset made available by the driver for access to the driver, and detecting application programming interface (API) calls made by the driver. Further, the method includes performing static vulnerability detection of the driver by analyzing binary code of the driver. The static vulnerability detection comprises determining the at least one offset available for access to the driver, and identifying vulnerable code paths to functions accessing kernel functionality.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Raghav Pande, Jordan Josef Geurten, Danut Antoche-Albisor
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Patent number: 11934341Abstract: Distributed computing systems, devices, and associated methods of virtual RDMA switching are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes intercepting a command from an application in a container to establish an RDMA connection with a remote container on a virtual network. In response to the intercepted command, an RDMA endpoint at a physical NIC of a server is created. The method can also include intercepting another command to pair with a remote RDMA endpoint corresponding to the remote container. The intercepted another command contains data representing a routable network address of the remote RDMA endpoint in the RDMA computer network. Then, the RDMA endpoint created at the physical NIC of the server can be paired with the remote RDMA endpoint using the routable network address of the remote RDMA endpoint.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Yibo Zhu, Jitendra D. Padhye, Hongqiang Liu
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Patent number: 11934874Abstract: A serverless query processing system receives a query and determines whether the query is a recurring query or a non-recurring query. The system may predict, in response to determining that the query is the recurring query, a peak resource requirement during an execution of the query. The system may compute, in response to determining that the query is the non-recurring query, a tight resource requirement corresponding to an amount of resources that satisfy a performance requirement over the execution of the query, where the tight resource requirement is less than the peak resource requirement. The system allocates resources to the query based on an applicable one of the peak resource requirement or the tight resource requirement. The system then starts the execution of the query using the resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hiren Shantilal Patel, Shi Qiao, Alekh Jindal, Malay Kumar Bag, Rathijit Sen, Carlo Aldo Curino
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Patent number: 11936747Abstract: Techniques for establishing a network connection with a client device and responding to composite requests from the client device. For a composite request identifying a first action associated with a first data plugin component and a second action associated with a different second data plugin component, the first action is performed by executing a first portion of the data plugin component and transmitting corresponding response data in a first transmission to the client device via the network connection, and the second action is performed by executing a second portion of the data plugin component and transmitting corresponding response data in a second transmission separate from the first transmission to the client device via the network connection.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aninda Ray, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Knut Kristian Johansen, Ryan Antoine Nakhoul, Nikita Voronkov
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Patent number: 11934548Abstract: Methods for centralized access control for cloud relational database management system resources are performed by systems and devices. The methods utilize a central policy storage, managed externally to database servers, which stores external policies for access to internal database resources at up to fine granularity. Database servers in the processing system each receive external access policies that correspond to users of the system by push or pull operations from the central policy storage, and store the external access policies in a cache of the database servers for databases. For resource access, access conditions are determined via policy engines of database servers based on an external access policy in the cache that corresponds to a user, responsive to a resource access request from a device of the user specifying the internal resource. Data associated with the resource is provided to the user based on the access condition being met.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Yueren Wang, Elnata Degefa, Andreas Wolter, Steven Richard Gott, Nitish Gupta, Raghav Kaushik, Rakesh Khanduja, Shafi Ahmad, Dilli Dorai Minnal Arumugam, Pankaj Prabhakar Naik, Nikolas Christopher Ogg
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Patent number: 11934972Abstract: Systems and methods are described for facilitating operation of a plurality of computing devices. Data indicative of enumerated resources of a computing device is collected. The data is collected without dependency on write permissions to a file system of the one computing device. A condition of the computing device is determined based on historical data associated with enumerated resources of other computing devices. The identified condition can be updated as updated historical data becomes available. A communication to the computing device may be sent based on the identified condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Todd R. Rawlings, Rajvinder P. Mann, Daniel P. Commons
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Patent number: 11934398Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for optimizing selection of a cached execution plan to use in processing a parametric query. For example, systems described herein involve training a plan selection model that makes use of machine learning to identify an execution plan from a set of pre-selected execution plans based on predicted cost of executing a query instance in accordance with the selected execution plan (e.g., relative to predicted costs of executing the query instance using other pre-selected execution plans). This application describes features related to lowering costs associated with selecting the execution plan in a way that will continue to be more accurate overtime based on training and refining the plan selection model.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Anshuman Dutt, Kapil Eknath Vaidya, Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri
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Patent number: 11936230Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a battery, a processor configured to receive electrical power from the battery via a voltage regulator, and one or more additional electronic components configured to receive electrical power from the battery. The computing device may further include a first current detector configured to detect a total battery discharge current. The voltage regulator may be configured to receive a first analog current signal from the first current detector, convert the first analog current signal into first digital current data, and transmit the first digital current data to the processor. The processor may be further configured to determine a difference between the total battery discharge current and an available electric current limit for the battery. In response to at least determining the difference, the processor may be further configured to adjust one or more performance parameters of the processor such that the difference is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Donghwi Kim, Gregory Allen Nielsen
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Patent number: 11936543Abstract: A first data link and a second data link are established between two endpoints. For each of the first and second data links, a first metric is determined based on a first scaling factor for characterizing how quickly link health degrades over time, and a time at which a most recent packet was received on the respective data link. A second metric indicative is determined based on a second scaling factor for controlling how often to probe the first and second data links in addition to regular traffic. Based on the first and second metrics, one of the first or second data links is selected for sending a data packet.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Michael Lacher
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Patent number: 11936655Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may identify activities of an entity on resources over a predetermined period of time, in which the entity is to use permissions assigned to the entity over the resources to perform the identified activities. The processor may also identify which of a plurality of groups of permissions includes the permissions the entity used to perform the identified activities and may determine permutations of the identified plurality of groups of permissions. The processor may further calculate respective scores for each of the determined permutations to identify permutations of the groups of permissions having the lowest scores and may output information pertaining to the determined permutations having the lowest scores.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Mor Rubin
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Patent number: 11936603Abstract: A method and system for displaying an image in a communication thread accessible to a first and second user are disclosed, including receiving an indication of a selection of a first image by the first user for display in the communication thread, analyzing user attribute settings of the first user or the second user to determine if at least one of the first user or the second user has a user attribute setting corresponding to a customizable aspect of the selected first image, and causing, based on the analyzing, in different first and second modes, one of the selected first image or a modified image based on the selected first image to be displayed in the communication thread.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Samuel Robert Cundall, Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci
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Patent number: 11936549Abstract: Methods and devices for an automated Internet of Things (IoT) certification service to verify plug and play capabilities of one or more IoT devices for use with a cloud service provider may include receiving a device identification of an IoT device to certify with the cloud service provider. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection of one or more certification tests to perform to plug and play capabilities of the IoT device. The methods and devices may include performing the one or more certification tests. The methods and devices may include generating a device certification for the plug and play capabilities of the IoT device in response to the one or more certification tests passing.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Tun-Jan Chuang, Devis Lucato, Timothy Alan Laverty, Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan, Koichi Hirao
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Patent number: 11936884Abstract: Techniques for coding and deriving (e.g., determining) one or more coded-block-flags associated with video content are described herein. A coded-block-flag of a last node may be determined when coded-block-flags of preceding nodes are determined to be a particular value and when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In some instances, the predetermined condition may be satisfied when log2(size of current transform unit) is less than log2(size of maximum transform unit) or log2(size of current coding unit) is less than or equal to log2(size of maximum transform unit)+1. The preceding nodes may be nodes that precede the last node on a particular level in a residual tree.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu
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Patent number: 11934806Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for enabling a user to select a plurality of functional modules from a library of functional modules; and enabling the user to visually arrange the plurality of functional modules to form a conversational application; wherein the conversational application includes a contingency platform configured to enable an administrator of the conversational application to activate a contingency plan at some point-in-time after the deployment of the conversational application.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Ardman, Andrew Matkin, Nirvana Tikku, Robert A. Follett
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Patent number: 11934306Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for an append-only block-oriented object storage system. An unstructured storage object is stored in cloud storage. A block is data is received, from a client, to append to the unstructured storage object. A universally unique identifier of the client, and client contextual information regarding the block of data, are received from the client. The client contextual information comprises an identifier of a most recently appended block from the client. When the identifier of the most recently appended block from the client matches a stored identifier associated with the universally unique identifier of the client, the block of data is appended to the unstructured storage object, and the stored identifier associated with the universally unique identifier of the client is updated in accordance with the received client contextual information.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sandesh Ashok Doddameti, Himanshu Gupta, Jegan Devaraju, Maneesh Sah
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Patent number: 11934468Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for controlling content distribution. The methods and systems receive an original search query and expand the original search query by adding one or more neutral words to create an expanded search query. The methods and systems automatically classify the original search query using the expanded search query in an accurate manner and use the classification to control content distribution.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Tech nology Licensing, LLCInventor: Sandipan Dandapat
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Patent number: 11936659Abstract: Described are examples for providing a system for managing configuration and policies for a virtualized wide area network (vWAN) support on a wide area network (WAN). The vWAN includes a plurality of virtual network entities associated with geographic locations including the physical computing resources of the WAN and virtual connections between the virtual network entities. The system includes a network safety component for managing configurations and policies of the vWAN on the WAN. The network safety component receives a change to a policy or configuration of the vWAN from an operator of a network connected to the vWAN. The network safety component evaluates a set of safety rules for the operator based on the change and a network state of a physical WAN underlying the vWAN. The network safety component generates an error message in response to at least one of the set of safety rules failing the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ryan Andrew Beckett, Sharad Agarwal, Paramvir Bahl, Rachee Singh, Abhishek Udupa
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Patent number: 11934327Abstract: A field programmable gate array (FPGA) including a configurable interconnect fabric connecting a plurality of logic blocks, the configurable interconnect fabric and the logic blocks being configured to implement a data masking circuit configured to: receive input data including data values at a plurality of indices of the input data; select between a data value of the data values and an alternative value using a masking multiplexer to generate masked data, the masking multiplexer being controlled by a mask value of a plurality of mask values at indices corresponding to the indices of the input data; and output the masked data. In some examples, the configurable interconnect fabric and the logic blocks are further configured to implement a mask generation circuit configured to generate the mask values. In some examples, the mask values are received from external memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jinwen Xi, Ming Gang Liu, Eric S. Chung
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Patent number: 11936682Abstract: In an example embodiment, a deep learning algorithm is introduced that operates directly on a raw sequence of user activity in an online network. This allows the system to scalably leverage more of the available signal hidden in the data and stop adversarial attacks more efficiently than other machine-learned models. More particularly, each specific request path is translated into a standardized token that indicates the type of the request (e.g., profile view, search, login, etc.). This eliminates the need for human curation of features. Then, the standardized request paths are standardized to integers based on the frequency of that request path across all users. This allows information about how common a given type of request is to be provided to the machine-learned model. The integer array is the activity sequence that is fed into the deep learning algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: James R. Verbus, Beibei Wang
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Patent number: 11936664Abstract: Embodiments detect identity attacks by comparing usage of compromised passphrases or other weak credentials in failed sign-in attempts to access restriction conditions. A restriction threshold amount of weak credential failed sign-ins (WCFSI) or a WCFSI increase indicates an identity attack, such as a password spray attack. Going beyond the mere number of failed sign-ins by also considering credential strength allows embodiments to detect attacks sooner than other approaches. An embodiment may also initiate or impose defenses by locking accounts, blocking IP addresses, or requiring additional authentication before access to an account is allowed. Weak credentials may include short passwords, simple passwords, compromised passwords, or wrong usernames, for instance. Password strength testing may be used for attack detection in addition to preventive use on passwords proposed by authorized users. Familiar and unfamiliar traffic source locations may be tracked, as sets or individually.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew Numainville, Rohini Goyal, Jingjing Zhang
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Patent number: 11934237Abstract: A motherboard assembly comprises a motherboard, a first computing component attached to the motherboard, and a coolant container attached to the motherboard. An air-cooled heat sink is attached to the coolant container. The coolant container, the heat sink, and the motherboard form a hermetically sealed enclosure that encompasses the first computing component and that is configured to retain dielectric working fluid covering the first computing component. The heat sink is positioned to condense vapors formed from boiling of the dielectric working fluid and to cause condensed dielectric working fluid to return to a pool of the dielectric working fluid that comprises the first computing component. The motherboard assembly additionally comprises a second computing component attached to the motherboard and positioned outside of the hermetically sealed enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ruslan Nagimov, Eric Clarence Peterson, Winston Allen Saunders
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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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