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101	US 8108920 B2 patent document	Passive client single sign-on for web applications A system provides single sign-on capabilities for accessing a Web application through a passive client across multiple realms within a federation. A federation refers to different organizations or realms that...	31-Jan-2012
102	US 8107469 B2 patent document	Enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device A system and method for enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling routing of data on...	31-Jan-2012
103	US 8107571 B2 patent document	Parameterized filters and signaling techniques Filter taps for filters are specified by filter coefficient parameters. The filter taps are greater in number than the coefficient parameters from which the filter taps are calculated. For example, two...	31-Jan-2012
104	US 8107939 B2 patent document	Software defined radio architecture A computing device with a software defined radio. The software defined radio has an architecture with separate components to provide control functions and data processing functions. The control components...	31-Jan-2012
105	US 8108396 B2 patent document	Techniques for specifying and collecting data aggregations Data records containing one or more fields, which can be considered keys and/or values, are received, and processed such that data values of records that contain key values of interest are aggregated together....	31-Jan-2012
106	US 8108767 B2 patent document	Electronic data interchange transaction set definition based instance editing An EDI document instance is generated or edited via an editor tool that also displays a corresponding EDI schema, thus allowing editing of an EDI document instance alongside its corresponding EDI schema,...	31-Jan-2012
107	US 8108899 B2 patent document	Interactive entertainment system for presenting supplemental interactive content together with continuous video programs An interactive entertainment system enables presentation of supplemental interactive content along side traditional broadcast video programs, such as television shows and movies. The programs are broadcast in a...	31-Jan-2012
108	US 8107671 B2 patent document	Script detection service Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made as to which human writing system is associated with individual text characters in a string of one or more text...	31-Jan-2012
109	US 8108205 B2 patent document	Leveraging back-off grammars for authoring context-free grammars A system and method of refining context-free grammars (CFGs). The method includes deriving back-off grammar (BOG) rules from an initially developed CFG and utilizing the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to...	31-Jan-2012
110	US 8108430 B2 patent document	Carousel control for metadata navigation and assignment A property tree user interface permits user assignment of values to metadata properties and user navigation of data, within a system that includes a data storage subsystem in which data items are organized and...	31-Jan-2012
111	US 8108441 B2 patent document	Efficient creation, storage, and provision of web-viewable documents A system and method are disclosed for providing a resource, such as a document, to a client computing device. A request is received at a server from the client for particular named objects representing a...	31-Jan-2012
112	US 8108450 B2 patent document	Aggregation of write traffic to a data store A method and a processing device are provided for sequentially aggregating data to a write log included in a volume of a random-access medium. When data of a received write request is determined to be suitable...	31-Jan-2012
113	US 8108483 B2 patent document	System and method for generating a consistent user namespace on networked devices A system and method for implementing a consistent user name-space on networked computing devices is provided. When a network connection between a local or host computing device and one or more remote computing...	31-Jan-2012
114	US 8108548 B2 patent document	Methodology and system for file replication based on a peergroup The claimed invention adapts an existing operating system native replication service component to interface with a general application running on a peer-to-peer network. The claimed invention provides the...	31-Jan-2012
115	US 8108612 B2 patent document	Location updates for a distributed data store Version indicators within an existing range can be associated with a data partition in a distributed data store. A partition reconfiguration can be associated with one of multiple partitions in the data store,...	31-Jan-2012
116	US 8108623 B2 patent document	Poll based cache event notifications in a distributed cache Systems and methods that supply poll based notification system in a distributed cache, for tracking changes to cache items. Local caches on the client can employ the notification system to keep the local...	31-Jan-2012
117	US 8108777 B2 patent document	Sections of a presentation having user-definable properties In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a...	31-Jan-2012
118	US 8108799 B2 patent document	Remoting of windows presentation framework based applications in a non-composed desktop Described are systems and methods for remoting applications, such as those based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). The systems and methods are based on remoting information associated with a structural...	31-Jan-2012
119	US 8108248 B2 patent document	Market design for a resource exchange system Providing a market design for a peer-to-peer resource exchange system. Prices for a plurality of resources such as storage space, upload bandwidth, and download bandwidth are calculated and balanced based on...	31-Jan-2012
120	US 8108361 B2 patent document	Efficient column based data encoding for large-scale data storage The subject disclosure relates to column based data encoding where raw data to be compressed is organized by columns, and then, as first and second layers of reduction of the data size, dictionary encoding...	31-Jan-2012
121	US 8108398 B2 patent document	Auto-summary generator and filter A system that facilitates data presentation and management includes at least one database to store a corpus of data relating to one or more topics. The system further includes a summarizer component to...	31-Jan-2012
122	US 8108787 B2 patent document	Distributing input events to multiple applications in an interactive media environment In an interactive media environment, input events are distributed to a plurality of applications where each application includes zero or more script components and zero or more markup files and has a Z order...	31-Jan-2012
123	US 8108831 B2 patent document	Iterative component binding Component domains used to define a binding between various components associated with the component domain. The component domain tracks the various services to be imported by each component, and tracks the...	31-Jan-2012
124	US 8108868 B2 patent document	Workflow execution plans through completion condition critical path analysis Optimizing workflow execution. A method includes identifying a completion condition. The completion condition is specified as part of the overall workflow. The method further includes identifying a number of...	31-Jan-2012
125	US 8108360 B2 patent document	Database object update order determination In one embodiment, a computer system receives an indication that a portion of data at a first node in a first database table is to be modified according to a received update command. The computer system assigns...	31-Jan-2012
126	US 8108371 B2 patent document	Web engine search preview Presenting both hyperlinks and thumbnail versions of search engine results is described in this application. More specifically, a graphical user interface (GUI) having multiple display areas is described. One...	31-Jan-2012
127	US 8108902 B2 patent document	System and method for local machine zone lockdown with relation to a network browser A method and system for locking down a local machine zone associated with a network browser is provided. Placing the local machine zone in a lockdown mode provides stricter security settings that are applied to...	31-Jan-2012
128	US 2012/0023162 A1 patent application	Executing Business Logic Extensions on a Client Computing System A server platform exposes server-hosted application services to client applications. Calls to the server-hosted application services may be executed along with custom business logic extensions. A client...	26-Jan-2012
129	US 2012/0023423 A1 patent application	Orientation free user interface A dynamically orientable graphical user interface (GUI) can include user input controls that are configured to receive user input. The GUI can be displayed as a band around a perimeter of a horizontally...	26-Jan-2012
130	US 2012/0023456 A1 patent application	Interactive image matting A user interface enables interactive image matting to be performed on an image The user interface may provide results including an alpha matte as feedback in real time. The user interface may provide...	26-Jan-2012
131	US 2012/0023492 A1 patent application	Workload interference estimation and performance optimization Architecture that facilitates the estimation of interference among workloads (e.g., virtual machines) due to sharing of a shared resource (e.g., a shared cache of a computer processor), and optimization of a...	26-Jan-2012
132	US 2012/0021815 A1 patent application	Motivational Deployment Mechanism For Networked Systems The described implementations relate to networked or distributed systems and more particularly to providing motivation for deployment of networked systems. One technique gathers a solicitation hierarchy in a...	26-Jan-2012
133	US 2012/0022962 A1 patent application	Ecommerce marketplace integration techniques Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for integrating ecommerce marketplaces. An ecommerce integration framework has definitions for common data entities that are commonly used by multiple ecommerce...	26-Jan-2012
134	US 2012/0023487 A1 patent application	Measuring actual end user performance and availability of web applications Techniques for monitoring web application performance are provided. A request for a web application is received at an application server. A response pipeline at the application server generates client...	26-Jan-2012
135	US 2012/0019513 A1 patent application	3d layering of map metadata Techniques and tools are described for rendering views of a map in which map metadata elements are layered in 3D space through which a viewer navigates. Layering of metadata elements such as text labels in 3D...	26-Jan-2012
136	US 2012/0023101 A1 patent application	Smart defaults for data visualizations Smart defaults are provided for data visualization by creating a default layout of rows, columns, filters, and comparable elements that improve a user's experience in finding relevant answers within the data....	26-Jan-2012
137	US 2012/0023442 A1 patent application	Dynamic user interface for previewing live content A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the...	26-Jan-2012
138	US 2012/0019789 A1 patent application	Rear-projection display Various embodiments related to rear-projection image display are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a projector for projecting an image and a screen configured to display the image. The...	26-Jan-2012
139	US 2012/0023081 A1 patent application	Customizing search home pages using interest indicators Methods and systems for utilizing images of interest to a user, so far as they relate to recent, current or upcoming events, to generate custom search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request...	26-Jan-2012
140	US 2012/0023595 A1 patent application	Method for updating data in accordance with rights management policy Disclosed is a computerized system and method for dynamically applying a rights management policy to a message by allowing an administrator to associate certain rights management policies with certain senders...	26-Jan-2012
141	US 2012/0020409 A1 patent application	Estimating sample-domain distortion in the transform domain with rounding compensation Techniques and tools are described for compensating for rounding when estimating sample-domain distortion in the transform domain. For example, a video encoder estimates pixel-domain distortion in the transform...	26-Jan-2012
142	US 2012/0023093 A1 patent application	Extraction of rich search information from index servers via an alternative asynchronous data path A search engine system is described herein that provides an alternative data path for collecting results provided by index servers. The alternative data path collects the results in a direct and asynchronous...	26-Jan-2012
143	US 2012/0020554 A1 patent application	Variable kernel size image matting Image matting is performed on an image having a specified foreground region, a background region and an unknown region by selecting a kernel size based on a size of the unknown region. The matting processing is...	26-Jan-2012
144	US 2012/0021838 A1 patent application	Automatic Delivery of Digital Content to a Computing Device Automatic downloading of digital content to a computing device is provided. Digital content that is available from a remote content server is checked to determine if any digital content matches criteria...	26-Jan-2012
145	US 2012/0022850 A1 patent application	Statistical machine translation processing A method of statistical machine translation (SMT) is provided. The method comprises generating reordering knowledge based on the syntax of a source language (SL) and a number of alignment matrices that map...	26-Jan-2012
146	US 2012/0022948 A1 patent application	Advertising framework for wireless networks Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points or...	26-Jan-2012
147	US 2012/0023026 A1 patent application	Mobile wallet and digital payment The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates securing a wireless digital transaction. A terminal component can receive a portion of data related to a payment for at least one of...	26-Jan-2012
148	US 2012/0023251 A1 patent application	Dynamic composition of media The subject disclosure relates to dynamic composition including the ability to create interoperable combinations of content by the publisher, e.g., determined to be an optimal combination, and offer such...	26-Jan-2012
149	US 8102765 B2 patent document	Correlation-based rate adaptation for communication networks A correlation-based rate adaptation scheme (CORA) is enabled for practical communication devices that provides for communication data rate adaptation in a complex and/or rapidly changing communication...	24-Jan-2012
150	US 8102798 B2 patent document	Method and apparatus for managing scanning in wireless computing devices to reduce power consumption A method and system for scanning in a wireless device having a wireless network interface card (NIC) is presented. The system has a scanning history table for storing scanning results and a scanning engine that...	24-Jan-2012
151	US 8103667 B2 patent document	Ranking results of multiple intent queries Techniques and systems are disclosed providing improved ranking of results to an online search-based query. One or more user types are identified for a search-based query, which may correspond to a number of...	24-Jan-2012
152	US 8104019 B2 patent document	Debugging in an operating system with multiple subsystems A facility for debugging in an operating system with native and non-native subsystems is described. The facility employs a debugger designed for use with the native subsystem. The debugger receives an...	24-Jan-2012
153	US 8104080 B2 patent document	Universal schema for representing management policy A computer-readable storage medium has a data structure stored thereon for constructing expressions representing software configurations to be applied to software. The data structure includes a first data field...	24-Jan-2012
154	US 8104088 B2 patent document	Trusted operating environment for malware detection Techniques and apparatuses for scanning a computing device for malware are described. In one implementation, a trusted operating environment, which includes a trusted operating system and a trusted antivirus...	24-Jan-2012
155	US 8102797 B2 patent document	Web format-based wireless communications Web compatible information is effortlessly exchanged over wireless communications utilizing web-based formats. These techniques can be employed over, for example, NFC air links and other wireless communication...	24-Jan-2012
156	US 8102841 B2 patent document	Auxiliary peripheral for alerting a computer of an incoming call An auxiliary call control component is coupled to a computing system alerts the computing system of an incoming call in instances where the computing system is not capable of processing the incoming call. When...	24-Jan-2012
157	US 8103011 B2 patent document	Signal detection using multiple detectors Signal detectors are described herein. By way of example, a system for detecting signals can include a microphone signal detector, a loudspeaker signal detector, a signal discriminator and a decision component....	24-Jan-2012
158	US 8103536 B2 patent document	Unified model for authoring and executing flow-based and constraint-based workflows Designing and executing a workflow having flow-based and constraint-based regions. A user selects one or more activities to be part of a constraint-based region. Each constraint-based region has a constraint...	24-Jan-2012
159	US 8103547 B2 patent document	Logocons: AD product for brand advertisers Logocons provide a new online advertising product for brand advertisers. During a computing session especially with consumer-generated content, brand names may be replaced or supplemented with logocons in web...	24-Jan-2012
160	US 8103592 B2 patent document	First computer process and second computer process proxy-executing code on behalf of first process Upon a first process encountering a triggering device, a second process chooses whether to proxy-execute code corresponding to the triggering device of the first process on behalf of such first process based at...	24-Jan-2012
161	US 8103718 B2 patent document	Content discovery and transfer between mobile communications nodes Content discovery and content transfer between mobile communications nodes is often required, for example, to synchronize maps, traffic hot spot information and the like for vehicle mounted satellite navigation...	24-Jan-2012
162	US 8103905 B2 patent document	Detecting and recovering from process failures A service is used to process files. The processing of the files is performed by worker services that are assigned to process a portion of the files. Each worker service that is processing a portion of the files...	24-Jan-2012
163	US 8104021 B2 patent document	Verifiable integrity guarantees for machine code programs A verifier performs static checks of machine code to ensure that the code will execute safely. After verification is performed, the code is executed. The code modules generated by the rewriter and verified by...	24-Jan-2012
164	US 8104043 B2 patent document	System and method for dynamic cooperative distributed execution of computer tasks without a centralized controller A system and method is provided for cooperative execution of distributed tasks by networked computers without the use of a centralized controller to coordinate the task execution. Each computer has an execution...	24-Jan-2012
165	US 8104070 B2 patent document	Interest aligned manual image categorization for human interactive proofs A system and method that facilitates and effectuates distinguishing a human from a non-human user. A human interactive proof (HIP) employs images from a large private database of manually categorized images to...	24-Jan-2012
166	US 8103247 B2 patent document	Automated secure pairing for wireless devices Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) are described herein that relate to automated secure pairing for devices, and that relate to parallel downloads of content using devices. The tools for pairing the...	24-Jan-2012
167	US 8103445 B2 patent document	Dynamic map rendering as a function of a user parameter Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Detailed information can be dynamically rendered as a function of a...	24-Jan-2012
168	US 8103599 B2 patent document	Calculating web page importance based on web behavior model Method for determining a webpage importance, including receiving web browsing behavior data of one or more users; creating a model of the web browsing behavior data; calculating a stationary probability...	24-Jan-2012
169	US 8103632 B2 patent document	Self-contained partial database backups Methods and computer readable media for restoring a database. In a method, a backup of a subset of a database is created, where the subset includes a filegroup and database metadata describing the filegroup....	24-Jan-2012
170	US 8103706 B2 patent document	Nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection using overlooking roots A reference-counting garbage collection system utilizing overlooking roots injects eager reference-counting updates into the program. An overlooking roots reference-counting subsumption optimization tool...	24-Jan-2012
171	US D652841 S1 patent document	Display screen with in-process indicator	24-Jan-2012
172	US 8103684 B2 patent document	Abstract pipeline component connection The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for connecting pipeline components such as data flow pipeline components. Pipeline components are wrapped in metadata components that include the component...	24-Jan-2012
173	US 8103686 B2 patent document	Extracting similar entities from lists/tables Large numbers of lists of entities may be mined for similar entities to related searches. A representation for each list may be determined to provide for a comparison between lists and to support membership...	24-Jan-2012
174	US 8103815 B2 patent document	Lazy handling of end of interrupt messages in a virtualized environment Techniques enable reducing a number of intercepts performed by a hypervisor by reducing a number of End Of Interrupt (EOI) messages sent from a virtual central processing unit (CPU) to a virtual advanced...	24-Jan-2012
175	US 8103967 B2 patent document	Generating and organizing references to online content Systems, methods, and computer storage media for generating a virtual workspace that references online media content of interest, facilitates re-visitation of encountered instances of content, and shares those...	24-Jan-2012
176	US 8104025 B2 patent document	Extensible metadata Systems and methods for extensible metadata are described. In one aspect, source code is compiled to generate an assembly. During assembly generating operations, metadata and extensible metadata is emitted into...	24-Jan-2012
177	US 8104074 B2 patent document	Identity providers in digital identity system A digital identity system includes a principal including an identity selector programmed to receive a security policy from a relying party, review a plurality of digital identities associated with the...	24-Jan-2012
178	US 8100756 B2 patent document	Dynamic problem solving for games A system that facilitates enhancing a game, game play or playability of a game may include an experience component, a game component and an alteration component. The experience component can collect a portion...	24-Jan-2012
179	US 8102813 B2 patent document	Coordinating a transition of a roaming client between wireless access points using another client in physical proximity Systems and methods for handling a transition of a roaming mobile user device (i.e., a roaming client) from one access point (AP) to a target AP, referred to herein as soft inter-AP handoff. This technique...	24-Jan-2012
180	US 8103498 B2 patent document	Progressive display rendering of processed text A method and a system are provided for processing displayed text and progressively displaying results of processing the displayed text. In some embodiments, displayed text may be submitted as processing...	24-Jan-2012
181	US 8103638 B2 patent document	Partitioning of contended synchronization objects Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for partitioning contended synchronization objects. A particular method determines a contention-free value of a performance metric associated with a...	24-Jan-2012
182	US 8103652 B2 patent document	Indexing explicitly-specified quick-link data for web pages Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for permitting webmasters to explicitly specify links or other web pages that the webmaster believes...	24-Jan-2012
183	US 8103674 B2 patent document	E-matching for SMT solvers Embodiments are introduced which provide for creation of an E-matching code tree index which works on E-graphs to make E-matching more efficient. Use of the E-matching code tree allows performing matching of...	24-Jan-2012
184	US 8103759 B2 patent document	Message redirection within a messaging infrastructure The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for redirecting client messages between hosts within a messaging infrastructure. When a host receives a client message, it can...	24-Jan-2012
185	US 8103847 B2 patent document	Storage virtual containers A controller of a Solid State Device (SSD) defines a mapping from memory devices, such as flash packages, that make up the SSD to one or more storage virtual containers. The storage virtual containers are...	24-Jan-2012
186	US 8103093 B2 patent document	Image segmentation of foreground from background layers Segmentation of foreground from background layers in an image may be provided by a segmentation process which may be based on one or more factors including motion, color, contrast, and the like. Color, motion,...	24-Jan-2012
187	US 8103109 B2 patent document	Recognizing hand poses and/or object classes There is a need to provide simple, accurate, fast and computationally inexpensive methods of object and hand pose recognition for many applications. For example, to enable a user to make use of his or her hands...	24-Jan-2012
188	US 8103598 B2 patent document	Compiler for probabilistic programs A compiler for probabilistic programs is described. The inputs to the compiler are a definition of a model and a set of inference queries. The model definition is written as a probabilistic program which...	24-Jan-2012
189	US 8103725 B2 patent document	Communication using delegates A facility allows for automatic delegation of incoming real-time communications based on a delegation scheme. The delegation scheme may be rules-based and may be applied to a single real-time communication...	24-Jan-2012
190	US 8102426 B2 patent document	3D vision on a chip A 3D camera for determining distances to regions in a scene comprising: a photosurface having a plurality of pixels each of which comprises a circuit having a light sensitive element that provides a current...	24-Jan-2012
191	US 8103441 B2 patent document	Caching navigation content for intermittently connected devices Selectively caching content related to routing data in a computing device. Prior to traversing a route, one or more access points to a network are identified. An expected level of access to a network (e.g.,...	24-Jan-2012
192	US 8103537 B2 patent document	Decision theoretic approach to targeted solicitation by maximizing expected profit increases A decision theoretic approach to targeted solicitation, by maximizing expected profit increases, is disclosed. A decision theoretic model is used to identify a sub-population of a population to solicit, where...	24-Jan-2012
193	US 8103629 B2 patent document	Bi-directional data modification with synchronization Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints, including the modification of data on an endpoint without necessarily modifying data that is communicated between endpoints are disclosed. In such...	24-Jan-2012
194	US 8103665 B2 patent document	Soliciting information based on a computer user's context A user search request is received and context information for the user is identified. The user search request and the context information are then combined to generate search criteria corresponding to the user...	24-Jan-2012
195	US 8103687 B2 patent document	Selecting member sets for generating asymmetric queries Tools and techniques are described for selecting member sets for generating asymmetric queries. User interfaces provided by this description may include representations of different dimensions that include...	24-Jan-2012
196	US 8103720 B2 patent document	Apparatus and computer-readable media for processing HTTP requests Various embodiments of the invention are directed to closely integrating functionality between an internet server and a WebDAV tool. Areas of specific focus in this document include delegation of duties between...	24-Jan-2012
197	US 8103753 B2 patent document	Distributing membership information for multi-party application layer sessions Membership information for participating computer systems participating in a multi-party conferencing session is distributed by intermittently exchanging link databases with one or more neighbor computer...	24-Jan-2012
198	US 8103823 B2 patent document	Host initiated background formatting of optical medium A method and a host processing device are provided for background formatting, or de-icing, an optical medium with no de-icing assistance from an optical drive upon which the optical medium is mounted. In a...	24-Jan-2012
199	US 8102865 B2 patent document	Group based allocation of network bandwidth The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for group based allocation of terminal server network bandwidth. Output packets are classified into groups based on...	24-Jan-2012
200	US 8103008 B2 patent document	Loudness-based compensation for background noise Loudness-based compensation systems and techniques are described which provide audio compensation in noisy environments. Loudness approximations are determined for an audio block both by itself and in the...	24-Jan-2012

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