Patents by Inventor Christian König

Christian König 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).

  • Patent number: 9262397
    Abstract: Architecture that detects and corrects writing errors in a human language based on the utilization of three different stages: error detection, correction candidate generation, and correction candidate ranking. The architecture is a generic framework for generating fluent alternatives to non-grammatical word sequences in a written sample. Error detection is addressed by a suite of language model related scores and other scores such as parse scores that can identify a particularly unlikely sequence of words. Correction candidate generation is addressed by a lookup in a very large corpus of “correct” English that looks for alternative arrangements of the same or similar words or subsequences of these words in the same context. Correction candidate ranking is addressed by a language model ranker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Gamon, Christian König
  • Patent number: 9189488
    Abstract: Hash values corresponding to a file are processed in windows to determine a minimum hash value for each window. Each window may begin at a minimum hash value determined for a previous window and end after a fixed number of hash values. If a hash value is less than a threshold hash value, it is added to a buffer that is used to store the hash values in sorted order for a current window. If a hash value is greater than the threshold, it is added to another buffer whose hash values are not stored in sorted order. At the end of the current window, the minimum hash value in the first buffer is selected as the landmark for the window. If the first buffer is empty, then the hash values in the other buffer are sorted and the minimum hash value is selected as the landmark for the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Manasse, Arnd Christian König, Paul Adrian Oltean
  • Publication number: 20150230461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composition comprising a pesticide and an alkoxylate of the formula (I) as defined below. The invention further relates to said alkoxylate. The invention further relates to a method of preparing said composition by bringing the alkoxylate and the pesticide into contact. Finally, the invention relates to a method of controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired insect or mite attack and/or for regulating the growth of plants, wherein said composition is allowed to act on the respective pests, their environment or the crop plants to be protected from the respective pest, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or on their environment; and to seed containing said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Murat Mertoglu, Rainer Berghaus, Andreas Kunst, Benedikt Crone, Christian Koenig
  • Patent number: 8983936
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards simulating query execution to provide incremental visualization for a global data set. A data store may be configured for searching at least a portion of a global data set being stored at an enterprise-level data store. In response to a user-issued query, partial query results are provided to a front-end interface for display to the user. The front-end interface also provides statistical information corresponding to the partial query results in relation to the global data set, which may be used to determine when a current set of query results becomes acceptable as a true/accurate estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Danyel A. Fisher, Arnd Christian König, Steven M. Drucker
  • Publication number: 20140244604
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards predicting compressibility of a data block, and using the predicted compressibility in determining whether a data block if compressed will be sufficiently compressible to justify compression. In one aspect, data of the data block is processed to obtain an entropy estimate of the data block, e.g., based upon distinct value estimation. The compressibility prediction may be used in conjunction with a chunking mechanism of a data deduplication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Adrian Oltean, Cosmin A. Rusu, Arnd Christian König, Mark Steven Manasse, Jin Li, Sudipta Sengupta, Sanjeev Mehrotra
  • Publication number: 20140200327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyols and the preparation and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sebastian KOCH, Christian Koenig
  • Publication number: 20140094531
    Abstract: A process for producing rigid polyurethane foams or rigid polyisocyanurate foams is provided. The process contains the reaction of polyisocyanate, fatty acid modified polyetherpolyol, polyetherpolyol, optionally flame retardant, blowing agent, catalyst, and optionally further auxiliary and/or admixture agent, wherein the polyetherpolyol is obtained by a process containing reacting orthotolylenediamine and optionally further co-starters with alkylene oxide containing ethylene oxide wherein the ethylene oxide content is more than 20 wt %, and then reacting the reaction product with alkylene oxide containing propylene oxide wherein the 1,2-propylene oxide content is more than 20 wt %, in the presence of a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gunnar KAMPF, Olaf JACOBMEIER, Tobias KALUSCHKE, Christian KOENIG
  • Patent number: 8606627
    Abstract: A system that facilitates selecting advertisements that match a search query is described herein. The system includes a search query receiver component that receives a search query including keywords. The system also includes a match component that uses an associative data structure to identify in the associative data structure one or more data nodes that are associated in the associative data structure with respective unique keys corresponding to respective one or more hashes of combinations of the keywords in the search query. For each identified data node, the match component selects advertisements associated with bid phrases stored in the identified data node that respectively only include keywords included in the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Arnd Christian König, Martin Miroslavov Markov, Kenneth Ward Church
  • Patent number: 8594239
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of documents is divided into samples. Small bit-strings are generated for selected samples from each of the documents and used to create a sketch for each document. Because the bit-strings are small (e.g., only one, two, or three bits in length), the generated sketches are smaller than the sketches generated using previous methods for generating sketches, and therefore use less storage space. The generated sketches are compared to determine documents that are near-duplicates of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Manasse, Arnd Christian König
  • Publication number: 20130268520
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards simulating query execution to provide incremental visualization for a global data set. A data store may be configured for searching at least a portion of a global data set being stored at an enterprise-level data store. In response to a user-issued query, partial query results are provided to a front-end interface for display to the user. The front-end interface also provides statistical information corresponding to the partial query results in relation to the global data set, which may be used to determine when a current set of query results becomes acceptable as a true/accurate estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Danyel A. Fisher, Arnd Christian König, Steven M. Drucker
  • Publication number: 20130231413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polyetherester polyol comprising the reaction product of a1) 5 to 63 wt % of one or more polyols or polyamines or mixtures thereof having an average functionality of 2.5 to 8, a2) 2 to 50 wt % of one or more fatty acids, fatty acid monoesters or mixtures thereof, a3) 35 to 70 wt % of one or more alkylene oxides of 2 to 4 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas KUNST, Berend ELING, Markus SCHUETTE, Sebastian KOCH, Christian KOENIG, Marc FRICKE
  • Publication number: 20130231410
    Abstract: The invention relates to rigid polyurethane foams obtainable by reaction of A) organic or modified organic polyisocyanates or mixtures thereof, B) compounds having two or more isocyanate-reactive hydrogen atoms in the presence of C) optionally further polyester polyols, D) optionally polyetherol polyols, E) optionally flame retardants, F) one or more blowing agents, G) catalysts, and H) optionally further auxiliaries and/or additives, wherein component B) comprises the reaction product of a1) 15 to 40 wt % of one or more polyols or polyamines having an average functionality of 2.5 to 8, a2) 2 to 30 wt % of one or more fatty acids and/or fatty acid monoesters, a3) 35 to 70 wt % of one or more alkylene oxides of 2 to 4 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Olaf JACOBMEIER, Gunnar Kampf, Christian Koenig
  • Publication number: 20130190418
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel polyetherester polyols and to a process for preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Kunst, Berend Eling, Christian Koenig
  • Publication number: 20120259897
    Abstract: Hash values corresponding to a file are processed in windows to determine a minimum hash value for each window. Each window may begin at a minimum hash value determined for a previous window and end after a fixed number of hash values. If a hash value is less than a threshold hash value, it is added to a buffer that is used to store the hash values in sorted order for a current window. If a hash value is greater than the threshold, it is added to another buffer whose hash values are not stored in sorted order. At the end of the current window, the minimum hash value in the first buffer is selected as the landmark for the window. If the first buffer is empty, then the hash values in the other buffer are sorted and the minimum hash value is selected as the landmark for the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Manasse, Arnd Christian König, Paul Adrian Oltean
  • Publication number: 20120213313
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of documents is divided into samples. Small bit-strings are generated for selected samples from each of the documents and used to create a sketch for each document. Because the bit-strings are small (e.g., only one, two, or three bits in length), the generated sketches are smaller than the sketches generated using previous methods for generating sketches, and therefore use less storage space. The generated sketches are compared to determine documents that are near-duplicates of one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Manasse, Arnd Christian König
  • Publication number: 20120192404
    Abstract: A concrete screw is disclosed. The concrete screw has a shaft section, a thread section, which is arranged on the front end of the concrete screw and is provided with at least one expansion slot, and an expansion element, which is allocated to the expansion slot such that the expansion element expands the expansion slot during screw-in. A method and a tangential impact screwdriver for driving in such a concrete screw are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Falk ROSENKRANZ, Christian Koenig, Bernhard Sander
  • Publication number: 20120135323
    Abstract: A low-temperature fuel cell having an integrated water management system for passive discharge of product water includes at least one membrane-electrode assembly having at least one anode-side and one cathode-side electrode and at least one membrane disposed between the electrodes, current collector structures disposed on the anode-side and cathode-side and distribution structures for fuel and oxidant disposed on the anode-side and cathode-side. The cathode-side distribution structure hereby has a capillary structure for transporting away the product water and also gas supply channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Kolja Bromberger, Christian Koenig, Volker Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20120089387
    Abstract: Architecture that detects and corrects writing errors in a human language based on the utilization of three different stages: error detection, correction candidate generation, and correction candidate ranking. The architecture is a generic framework for generating fluent alternatives to non-grammatical word sequences in a written sample. Error detection is addressed by a suite of language model related scores and other scores such as parse scores that can identify a particularly unlikely sequence of words. Correction candidate generation is addressed by a lookup in a very large corpus of “correct” English that looks for alternative arrangements of the same or similar words or subsequences of these words in the same context. Correction candidate ranking is addressed by a language model ranker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gamon, Christian König
  • Publication number: 20120051657
    Abstract: Similarity is determined between documents based on a method for identifying documents that are likely to be based on another document. The method can include the determination of a containment coefficient, which can indicate when a template document is a subset or substantially a subset of another document. Based on this determination, an appropriate document management action can be taken, such as implementing a security policy or modifying the display of messages from a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Lamanna, Raja Charu Vikram Kakumani, Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan, Arnd Christian König
  • Patent number: 8105720
    Abstract: A humidity sensing device for measuring a humidity of a reactant stream in a fuel cell system is provided. The humidity sensing device includes a humidity sensor coupled to a sensor housing. The sensor housing is adapted to selectively move the humidity sensor to an operating position and to a non-operating position in the fuel cell system. A fuel cell system and a method employing the humidity sensing device in the fuel cell system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christian Koenig, Ulrich Dumke, Rocco Schoene