Patents by Inventor Alnur Ali
Alnur Ali has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9954683Abstract: Embodiments are provided for securely visualizing and routing digital signatures in an electronic document generated by an application program executing on a computer system. The application program may generate an electronic document for receiving a signature graphic, and calculate a hash value from the electronic document and the signature graphic, and create a cryptographic signature from the hash value using a cryptographic encryption method. The electronic document is digitally signed by embedding the cryptographic signature therein. The application program may further collect and route digital signatures by automatically collecting signatures from individual signers, one-by-one, and identify the appropriate signature line for each signer to sign. The application program may further generate a user interface for creating and collecting digital signatures.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alnur Ali, Hyong Guk Kim, Alexander Malek
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Patent number: 9507861Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for identifying related strings for search query rewriting are provided. Session data for a user search query session in an accessed click log data is identified. It is determined whether a first additional search query in the session data is related to a first user search query based on at least one of: dwell time; a number of search result links clicked on; and similarity between web page titles or uniform resource locators (URLs). When related, the first additional search query is incorporated into a list of strings related to the first user search query. One or more supplemental strings that are related to the first user search query are also identified. The identified supplemental strings are also included in the list of strings related to the first user search query.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technolgy Licensing, LLCInventors: Alnur Ali, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Bodo von Billerbeck, Sanaz Ahari
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Publication number: 20160099812Abstract: Embodiments are provided for securely visualizing and routing digital signatures in an electronic document generated by an application program executing on a computer system. The application program may generate an electronic document for receiving a signature graphic, and calculate a hash value from the electronic document and the signature graphic, and create a cryptographic signature from the hash value using a cryptographic encryption method. The electronic document is digitally signed by embedding the cryptographic signature therein. The application program may further collect and route digital signatures by automatically collecting signatures from individual signers, one-by-one, and identify the appropriate signature line for each signer to sign. The application program may further generate a user interface for creating and collecting digital signatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alnur Ali, Hyong Guk Kim, Alexander Malek
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Patent number: 8799312Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for rewriting queries and labeling word pairs. Queries are received and alternate words are identified for word pairs (i.e., query words and alternate words). Word pair links are presented to users and indicators are received based on actions taken by the users. Labels are assigned to the word pairs based on the indicators and communicated to a classifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Seyed Ali Ahmadi, Alnur Ali, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Deepak Agarwal, Sameer Yusufali Merchant, Michael Revow, Ahmad Abdulkader
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Patent number: 8732151Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for identifying query rewriting replacement terms are provided. A list of related string pairs each comprising a first string and second string is received. The first string of each related string pair is a user search query extracted from user click log data. For one or more of the related string pairs, the string pair is provided as inputs to a statistical machine translation model. The model identifies one or more pairs of corresponding terms, each pair of corresponding terms including a first term from the first string and a second term from the second string. The model also calculates a probability of relatedness for each of the one or more pairs of corresponding terms. Term pairs whose calculated probability of relatedness exceeds a threshold are characterized as query term replacements and incorporated, along with the probability of relatedness, into a query rewriting candidate database.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alnur Ali, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Bodo von Billerbeck, Sanaz Ahari
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Patent number: 8689131Abstract: Embodiments are provided for creating and executing a custom action in a workflow generated by an application program executing on a computer system. The application program may receive a selection of a custom action to execute in the workflow in a user interface generated by the application program. The application program may translate the custom action into a user interface button for executing the custom action in the workflow. The application program may display the button for executing the custom action in the workflow. The application program may also resolve references to external content in a shared workflow document by communicating with a workflow engine to register a callback function for receiving a location of the shared workflow document on a remote computer system. The workflow engine may send the location of the shared workflow document to the application program to enable access to the external content.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alnur Ali, Alexander Malek, Phillip Allen
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Publication number: 20120254218Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for identifying query rewriting replacement terms are provided. A list of related string pairs each comprising a first string and second string is received. The first string of each related string pair is a user search query extracted from user click log data. For one or more of the related string pairs, the string pair is provided as inputs to a statistical machine translation model. The model identifies one or more pairs of corresponding terms, each pair of corresponding terms including a first term from the first string and a second term from the second string. The model also calculates a probability of relatedness for each of the one or more pairs of corresponding terms. Term pairs whose calculated probability of relatedness exceeds a threshold are characterized as query term replacements and incorporated, along with the probability of relatedness, into a query rewriting candidate database.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Alnur Ali, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Bodo von Billerbeck, Sanaz Ahari
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Publication number: 20120254217Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for identifying related strings for search query rewriting are provided. Session data for a user search query session in an accessed click log data is identified. It is determined whether a first additional search query in the session data is related to a first user search query based on at least one of: dwell time; a number of search result links clicked on; and similarity between web page titles or uniform resource locators (URLs). When related, the first additional search query is incorporated into a list of strings related to the first user search query. One or more supplemental strings that are related to the first user search query are also identified. The identified supplemental strings are also included in the list of strings related to the first user search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Alnur Ali, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Bodo von Billerbeck, Sanaz Ahari
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Publication number: 20120166473Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for rewriting queries and labeling word pairs. Queries are received and alternate words are identified for word pairs (i.e., query words and alternate words). Word pair links are presented to users and indicators are received based on actions taken by the users. Labels are assigned to the word pairs based on the indicators and communicated to a classifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: SEYED ALI AHMADI, ALNUR ALI, APARNA LAKSHMIRATAN, DEEPAK AGARWAL, SAMEER YUSUFALI MERCHANT, MICHAEL REVOW, AHMAD ABDULKADER
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Publication number: 20110225152Abstract: The present invention is related to constructing a search-result caption that represents content of a search result (e.g., webpage). Information that is extracted from the webpage and/or other webpages is categorized and ranked based on a perceived relevance to a user context.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: SCOTT BEAUDREAU, Gayathri Venkataraman, Ajay Nair, Alnur Ali, Ian Johnson, Daniel Marantz, Tim Hoad, Rekha Seshadrinathan, Ping Yin, Minnie Yan, Toan Huynh, Song Zhou, Ramki Natarajan
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Publication number: 20100185973Abstract: Embodiments are provided for creating and executing a custom action in a workflow generated by an application program executing on a computer system. The application program may receive a selection of a custom action to execute in the workflow in a user interface generated by the application program. The application program may translate the custom action into a user interface button for executing the custom action in the workflow. The application program may display the button for executing the custom action in the workflow. The application program may also resolve references to external content in a shared workflow document by communicating with a workflow engine to register a callback function for receiving a location of the shared workflow document on a remote computer system. The workflow engine may send the location of the shared workflow document to the application program to enable access to the external content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alnur Ali, Alexander Malek, Phillip Allen
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Patent number: 7752224Abstract: A programmability mode for interacting with data stores within a document allows real time interaction. Data for structuring information associated with a document, such as document metadata, is maintained in the data store where relationships between different pieces of data are maintained in a location distinct from the surface level view of a document. The data store exposes interfaces to the various pieces of data in the data store for allowing different applications to access and operate on one or more of the data pieces. The pieces of data may be structured according to a markup language such as the Extensible Markup Language (XML), and XML schemas may be associated with each piece of data for allowing the data store to validate the structure applied to the data based on an XML schema associated with a given piece of data.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2006Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tristan A. Davis, Ali Taleghani, Brian M. Jones, Marcin Sawicki, Robert A. Little, Alnur Ali
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Publication number: 20100100743Abstract: Embodiments are provided for securely visualizing and routing digital signatures in an electronic document generated by an application program executing on a computer system. The application program may generate an electronic document for receiving a signature graphic, and calculate a hash value from the electronic document and the signature graphic, and create a cryptographic signature from the hash value using a cryptographic encryption method. The electronic document is digitally signed by embedding the cryptographic signature therein. The application program may further collect and route digital signatures by automatically collecting signatures from individual signers, one-by-one, and identify the appropriate signature line for each signer to sign. The application program may further generate a user interface for creating and collecting digital signatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alnur Ali, Hyong Guk Kim, Alexander Malek
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Publication number: 20090083616Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating a ubiquitous electronic form that will function correctly in multiple execution environments. According to embodiments, a request is received to create, edit, or fill an electronic form. An input processor detects the request and, in response thereto, identifies the runtime execution environment for the requested form. Once the input processor has identified the execution environment for the electronic form, the input processor instructs a form generator to generate the electronic form for use within the identified execution environment. In response to such an instruction, the form generator generates the electronic form for use in the identified execution environment. The form generator may programmatically generate a layout for the electronic form.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2007Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Alnur Ali, Roberto C. Taboada, Pradeep K. Rasam