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201	US 8103495 B2 patent document	Feature oriented protocol modeling Modeling protocols. A method includes accessing a number of model programs. Each model program includes computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions describe the behavior of at least...	24-Jan-2012
202	US 8103503 B2 patent document	Speech recognition for determining if a user has correctly read a target sentence string Systems and methods for processing a user speech input to determine whether the user has correctly read a target sentence string are provided. One disclosed method may include receiving a sentence array...	24-Jan-2012
203	US 8103608 B2 patent document	Reference model for data-driven analytics A taxonomy reference model for use in an analytical modeling component. The analytical modeling component defines analytical relationships between the model parameters using analytical relations. The analytical...	24-Jan-2012
204	US 8103644 B2 patent document	Data access layer class generator Systems and methods that that automatically generate a data access layer for a middle tier of a relational data store with stored procedures, via a data access layer generator. The data access layer generator...	24-Jan-2012
205	US 8103646 B2 patent document	Automatic tagging of content based on a corpus of previously tagged and untagged content An automated mechanism of automatically tagging media files such as podcasts, blog entries, and videos, for example, with meaningful taxonomy tags. The mechanism provides active (or automated) assistance in...	24-Jan-2012
206	US 8103668 B2 patent document	Search control and authoring environment A technique for adding a search control by a user to a file, webpage, desktop, or mobile device, for example. The control lets the end user create documents, webpages, or dashboards with static and/or dynamic...	24-Jan-2012
207	US 2012/0014363 A1 patent application	Simultaneous wireless support in software defined radio A system and method for providing the ability to discover the capabilities of a user's computer to determine whether it is capable of supporting more than one wireless protocol simultaneously is provided. A...	19-Jan-2012
208	US 2012/0016583 A1 patent application	Multiple directions to a destination without providing a specific origin The automatic generation of multiple sets of directions for navigating geographically to a specific destination without specification of an origin. Based on the destination, candidate roads or other...	19-Jan-2012
209	US 2012/0016673 A1 patent application	Speaker recognition via voice sample based on multiple nearest neighbor classifiers A speaker recognition system generates a codebook store with codebooks representing voice samples of speaker, referred to as trainers. The speaker recognition system may use multiple classifiers and generate a...	19-Jan-2012
210	US 2012/0016866 A1 patent application	Scaled management system An exemplary system for managing an applications and data space includes a strategy layer configured to receive a query statement and to formulate one or more custom queries based on the query statement and a...	19-Jan-2012
211	US 2012/0017223 A1 patent application	Interface Protocol and API for a Wireless Transceiver A wireless protocol may be implemented in a smart transceiver device that contains the physical (PHY) and media access control (MAC) layers of the wireless protocol stack. In various embodiments, a serial...	19-Jan-2012
212	US 2012/0013932 A1 patent application	Print plug-in isolation In embodiments of print plug-in isolation, a print system input can be received at a print system, and the print system input can be redirected from the print system to an isolation module that isolates one or...	19-Jan-2012
213	US 2012/0016586 A1 patent application	Visual assessment of landmarks Visual images may be used to detect, or verify the existence of, landmarks. In one example, the landmarks may be used to provide driving or walking directions. A set of records may be examined to identify the...	19-Jan-2012
214	US 2012/0017172 A1 patent application	Display-agnostic user interface for mobile devices Application user interfaces can be displayed on different sizes and types of displays without having to modify the application for each different display by scaling a layout of the user interface automatically...	19-Jan-2012
215	US 2012/0017213 A1 patent application	Ultra-low cost sandboxing for application appliances The disclosed architecture facilitates the sandboxing of applications by taking core operating system components that normally run in the operating system kernel or otherwise outside the application process and...	19-Jan-2012
216	US 2012/0016743 A1 patent application	Using a directed graph as an advertising system taxonomy Embodiments relate to generating and using a directed graph as an advertising network taxonomy. Individual delivery locations provided by publishers for presenting advertisements are identified. A directed...	19-Jan-2012
217	US 2012/0016864 A1 patent application	Hierarchical merging for optimized index Methods, systems, and media are provided for an optimized search engine index. The optimized index is formed by merging small lower level indexes of fresh documents together into a hierarchical cluster of...	19-Jan-2012
218	US 2012/0017263 A1 patent application	Security Authorization Queries In an example implementation, a bifurcated security scheme has a first level that does not allow usage of negations and a second level that does permit usage of negations. In another example implementation, an...	19-Jan-2012
219	US 2012/0016863 A1 patent application	Enriching metadata of categorized documents for search Methods for enriching metadata associated with a document that is categorized in a document category are described. Documents are pre-categorized within a document category. Uniform resource locaters (URL) that...	19-Jan-2012
220	US 2012/0016903 A1 patent application	Identity management user experience Upon requesting to share one or more types of identity information, a user is automatically presented with an interface through which the user can interact in selecting an amount of identity items to share. A...	19-Jan-2012
221	US 2012/0017120 A1 patent application	Monitoring activity with respect to a distributed application Techniques are described herein that are capable of monitoring activity with respect to a distributed application. A server system includes logical tiers, each including processing system(s) configured to...	19-Jan-2012
222	US 2012/0014313 A1 patent application	Opportunistic use of wireless network stations as repeaters Implementation of opportunistic use of stations in a wireless network as repeaters is described. In one implementation, a station detects the existence of rate anomaly in a wireless network. In response to the...	19-Jan-2012
223	US 2012/0014540 A1 patent application	Method and apparatus for audio normalization A request is received to play an audio file. A determination is made regarding whether volume normalization parameters associated with the audio file are stored in a media library. If the volume normalization...	19-Jan-2012
224	US 2012/0016869 A1 patent application	Collecting and Presenting Temporal-Based Action Information Functionality is described for collecting and presenting action information. The action information describes actions that take place on items at specified times. Among other applications, the functionality...	19-Jan-2012
225	US 2012/0013887 A1 patent application	Method and system for multi-phase dynamic calibration of three-dimensional (3d) sensors in a time-of-flight system A phase-based TOF system preferably generates an optical waveform with fast rise and fall times, to enhance modulation contrast, notwithstanding there will be many high order harmonics. The system is preferably...	19-Jan-2012
226	US 8099292 B2 patent document	Multi-channel audio encoding and decoding An audio encoder and decoder use architectures and techniques that improve the efficiency of multi-channel audio coding and decoding. The described strategies include various techniques and tools, which can be...	17-Jan-2012
227	US 8099429 B2 patent document	Relational linking among resoures Systems and methods that integrate user assigned association among a plurality of resources or entities. The subject innovation employs an association component that relates such resources or entities, based on...	17-Jan-2012
228	US 8099432 B2 patent document	Efficient paging of search query results Methods and computer-readable media provide for efficient paging of search results in accordance with the access rights of a user. According to various implementations, a request for a search query results in a...	17-Jan-2012
229	US 8099498 B2 patent document	Probabilistic mesh routing Routing messages using unreliable routing data. A method includes receiving a message from a computer readable communication medium. Characteristic properties of the message are calculated so as to determine...	17-Jan-2012
230	US 8099726 B2 patent document	Implementing strong atomicity in software transactional memory A software transactional memory system is described which utilizes decomposed software transactional memory instructions as well as runtime optimizations to achieve efficient performance. The decomposed...	17-Jan-2012
231	US 8098584 B2 patent document	Optimization of traffic routing for data center services Techniques and systems for providing optimization of traffic routing for data centers are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method may include identifying a plurality of available source sites and paths...	17-Jan-2012
232	US 8099279 B2 patent document	Interactive clustering method for identifying problems in speech applications A method of aiding a speech recognition program developer by grouping calls passing through an identified question-answer (QA) state or transition into clusters based on causes of problems associated with the...	17-Jan-2012
233	US 8099288 B2 patent document	Text-dependent speaker verification A text-dependent speaker verification technique that uses a generic speaker-independent speech recognizer for robust speaker verification, and uses the acoustical model of a speaker-independent speech...	17-Jan-2012
234	US 8099365 B2 patent document	Extended data collection for multi-merchant purchasing environment for downloadable products A multi-merchant purchasing system is configured to identify downloadable products selected by a user for purchase. The identified downloadable products are offered by multiple merchants. The multi-merchant...	17-Jan-2012
235	US 8099370 B2 patent document	System for financial documentation conversion A method to prepare an Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) document in a web-hosted server includes authenticating a user, uploading financial information from a spreadsheet, storing the information,...	17-Jan-2012
236	US 8099408 B2 patent document	Web forum crawling using skeletal links A method and system for identifying informative links of a web site for use in crawling the web site is provided. A forum crawler analyzes sample web pages of a web forum to identify informative links and then...	17-Jan-2012
237	US 8099417 B2 patent document	Semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging Relevant search results for a given query may be determined using click data for the query and the number of times the query is issued to a search engine. The number of clicks that a result receives for the...	17-Jan-2012
238	US 8099505 B2 patent document	Aggregating connection maintenance to optimize resource consumption Combining network connection maintenance operations that use a resource to extend battery life. Each of the network connections has a timer and a defined tolerance for early connection maintenance. After...	17-Jan-2012
239	US 8099664 B2 patent document	Dynamic help user interface control with secured customization A method and system is disclosed for generating a help interface to present static help content and customized help content for an application. Help content data is accessed to define the static help content...	17-Jan-2012
240	US 8099761 B2 patent document	Protocol for device to station association A technique that enables a portable device to be automatically associated with a plurality of computers. Information that a computer can use to authenticate a portable device and establish a trusted...	17-Jan-2012
241	US 8097355 B2 patent document	Protecting against incorrect battery polarity Embodiments of battery holders with dual-contact assemblies are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a battery holder with a substrate and a spring dual-contact assembly, wherein the spring dual-contact assembly...	17-Jan-2012
242	US 8098730 B2 patent document	Generating a motion attention model Systems and methods to generate a motion attention model of a video data sequence are described. In one aspect, a motion saliency map B is generated to precisely indicate motion attention areas for each frame...	17-Jan-2012
243	US 8099456 B2 patent document	Application programming interface for implementing directory service access using directory service markup language A set of DSML application programming interface (DSML API) functions is provided to facilitate the implementation of DSML-based directory service access. The DSML API includes a DSML document API class for...	17-Jan-2012
244	US 8099500 B2 patent document	Policy service system architecture for sessions created using STUN Described herein are embodiments for setting, managing, and monitoring connection policies for a plurality of network paths from a first endpoint to a second endpoint. In embodiments, a set of candidate...	17-Jan-2012
245	US 8099548 B2 patent document	Power efficient media playback on general purpose portable devices A portable multifunction computing device optimizes cache storage when processing media files and the like. During a playback operation, the device caches as many media items as possible such that during...	17-Jan-2012
246	US 8099599 B2 patent document	Controlling access to data streams Access to one or more data streams can be controlled by encrypting a description of how segments of the data streams can be assembled, for example, to produce an audio or video program. Access to the one or...	17-Jan-2012
247	US 8098728 B2 patent document	Compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams employing multi-directional spatial encoding A process for compressing and decompressing non-keyframes in sequential sets of contemporaneous video frames making up multiple video streams where the video frames in a set depict substantially the same scene...	17-Jan-2012
248	US 8098964 B2 patent document	Raw image processing A system, a method and computer-readable media for processing raw image data with a graphics processing unit (GPU). Raw image data generated by an imaging sensor is received. A set of instructions for...	17-Jan-2012
249	US 8098831 B2 patent document	Visual feedback in electronic entertainment system The presentation of visual feedback in an electronic entertainment system is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment relates to a method of providing user feedback in an electronic entertainment system, wherein the...	17-Jan-2012
250	US 8098842 B2 patent document	Enhanced beamforming for arrays of directional microphones A novel enhanced beamforming technique that improves beamforming operations by incorporating a model for the directional gains of the sensors, such as microphones, and provides means of estimating these gains....	17-Jan-2012
251	US 8099373 B2 patent document	Object detector trained using a working set of training data An object detector that includes a number of weak classifiers can be trained using a subset (a “working set”) of training data instead of all of the training data. The working set can be updated so that, for...	17-Jan-2012
252	US 8099458 B2 patent document	Workgroup application with contextual clues A workgroup application with contextual clues. The workgroup application allows any one of multiple participants to provide input, such as commands to edit a document or speech. The effects of the input are...	17-Jan-2012
253	US 8099494 B2 patent document	Tuning and optimizing distributed systems with declarative models A system for automatically adjusting operation of a distributed application program includes analytics means having a monitoring component. The monitoring component receives one or more event streams of data...	17-Jan-2012
254	US 8099678 B2 patent document	Dynamic determination of actions on selected items on a report Various technologies for processing a selection on an item on a report. In one implementation, a request to perform an action on the item may be received. Whether one or more actions corresponding to the item...	17-Jan-2012
255	US 8099719 B2 patent document	Transactional debugger for a transactional memory system and detecting conflicts Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a debugger for programs running under a transactional memory system. When running a particular program using the debugger, the system detects when...	17-Jan-2012
256	US 8098593 B2 patent document	Multi-level interconnection network A method and system for providing a multi-level interconnection network is provided. A multi-level interconnection network comprises basic cells that are aggregated into higher level cells at each level of the...	17-Jan-2012
257	US 8098885 B2 patent document	Robust online face tracking Systems and methods are described for robust online face tracking. In one implementation, a system derives multiple resolutions of each video frame of a video sequence portraying movement of a visual object....	17-Jan-2012
258	US 8099459 B2 patent document	Content feedback for authors of web syndications Transmit user feedback from a user to a web syndication author. A first communication link is opened. Content data from the web syndication author is received. The received content data is stored on a first...	17-Jan-2012
259	US 8099503 B2 patent document	Methods and systems for providing secure access to a hosted service via a client application The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing secure user access to services offered by a service provider to a client application over a network. One embodiment includes receiving an...	17-Jan-2012
260	US 8099710 B2 patent document	UI behaviors Implementing desired business logic functionality. The desired business logic functionality may include a number of individual functions. A number of computer implemented modules are selected. Each module is...	17-Jan-2012
261	US 8099721 B2 patent document	Parsing of declarations in all branches of preprocessor conditionals Declarations from an input source code or tokenized source code are serialized into a stream of tokens produced by following each branch of a preprocessor conditional directive statement that interrupts a...	17-Jan-2012
262	US 8098158 B2 patent document	RFID server internals design The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates implementing an RFID process by providing creation and/or execution of the RFID process as it relates to a provider(s) and the associated...	17-Jan-2012
263	US 8099324 B2 patent document	Securely providing advertising subsidized computer usage A method and apparatus for assuring delivery of paid advertising to a user may involve asking a question about an advertisement or requiring data about the advertisement to be entered. In one embodiment, a...	17-Jan-2012
264	US 8099452 B2 patent document	Event stream conditioning A distributed event processing system that can organize (e.g., order) input streams regardless of actual time of receipt is provided. This order may simply be arrival order or given explicitly on a specific...	17-Jan-2012
265	US 8099720 B2 patent document	Translating declarative models The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for translating declarative models. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate processing declarative models to perform...	17-Jan-2012
266	US 8099764 B2 patent document	Secure push and status communication between client and server Systems and methods of authentication and authorization between a client, a server, and a gateway to facilitate communicating a message between a client and a server through a gateway. The client has a trusted...	17-Jan-2012
267	US 8098245 B2 patent document	Smart navigation for 3D maps An interest center-point and a start point are created in an image. A potential function is created where the potential function creates a potential field and guides traversal from the starting point to the...	17-Jan-2012
268	US 8099464 B2 patent document	Method and apparatus for providing an instant message notification An instant messaging client application is provided that receives requests to initiate instant messaging conversations and, in response to the requests, displays a notification window. The notification window...	17-Jan-2012
269	US 8099758 B2 patent document	Policy based composite file system and method A policy configurable file system includes a computer system upon which the policy configurable file system operates, a policy source for providing the configuration policies, and one or more file servers. The...	17-Jan-2012
270	US 8099774 B2 patent document	Dynamic updating of firewall parameters The dynamic updating of firewall parameters is described. One exemplary embodiment includes receiving a policy rule that includes a reference to a predefined container that specifies a permissible value range...	17-Jan-2012
271	US 2012/0009896 A1 patent application	Above-lock camera access Apparatus and methods are disclosed for allowing smart phone users to “capture the moment” by allowing easy access to a camera application when a mobile device is in an above-lock (or locked) mode, while also...	12-Jan-2012
272	US 2012/0011084 A1 patent application	Semantic entity manipulation using input-output examples Semantic entity manipulation technique embodiments are presented that generate a probabilistic program capable of manipulating character strings representing semantic entities based on input-output examples....	12-Jan-2012
273	US 2012/0011179 A1 patent application	Fat directory structure for use in transaction safe file system Directories in a file system are defined with a dummy cluster in a file allocation table as the initial entry. Subsequent clusters in a directory's definition may define any data for the directory that can be...	12-Jan-2012
274	US 2012/0011209 A1 patent application	Internet e-mail bridge An Internet mail bridge is provided for downloading e-mail messages from Internet mail servers supporting different email protocols, such as the Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) and Web Distributed Authoring and...	12-Jan-2012
275	US 2012/0011511 A1 patent application	Methods for supporting users with task continuity and completion across devices and time Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing task continuity and supporting task completion across devices and time. A task management application is configured to monitor one or more...	12-Jan-2012
276	US 2012/0011152 A1 patent application	Generating Programs Based on Input-Output Examples Using Converter Modules A program generation system is described that generates a program based on a plurality of input-output examples. The input-output examples include input items and corresponding output items. The program...	12-Jan-2012
277	US 2012/0011259 A1 patent application	User Authentication Across Multiple Network Stacks A computing device provides an application that uses multiple protocol stacks to communicate with a server. The server requires messages from each of the protocol stacks to include a credential for a user of...	12-Jan-2012
278	US 2012/0008128 A1 patent application	Method and system to reduce stray light reflection error in time-of-flight sensor arrays Haze-type phase shift error due to stray light reflections in a phase-type TOF system is reduced by providing a windowed opaque coating on the sensor array surface, the windows permitting optical energy to...	12-Jan-2012
279	US 2012/0010996 A1 patent application	Recommendations and targeted advertising based upon directions requests activity and data Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing recommendations and/or advertisements based upon route query activity. A web server is configured to receive queries from an entity. The queries and...	12-Jan-2012
280	US 2012/0011177 A1 patent application	Transaction-safe fat file system improvements Concepts for enhancing operation of transaction-safe file allocation table systems are described. The concepts include writing a file to non-volatile memory media and rendering an update of file size to the...	12-Jan-2012
281	US 2012/0009999 A1 patent application	Ubiquitous unified player identity tracking system Systems and method for providing a single sign in a gaming console that associates online activity that is out-of-game/cross game, and/or online activity that is in-game, and/or activity that is offline and...	12-Jan-2012
282	US 2012/0011242 A1 patent application	Generating alerts based on managed and unmanaged data Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating informational alerts. Notifications are received from both unmanaged devices and managed services. The received notifications may be annotated to...	12-Jan-2012
283	US 2012/0008535 A1 patent application	Soft handoffs in networks Various embodiments enable a device to maintain a plurality of connections to a plurality of wireless networks simultaneously using one radio. For instance, a device can partition in time, or “time-slice”, when...	12-Jan-2012
284	US 2012/0011106 A1 patent application	Shared log-structured multi-version transactional datastore with metadata to enable melding trees Architecture that includes an ordered and shared log of indexed transaction records represented as multi-version data structures of nodes and node pointers. The log is a sole monolithic source of datastore...	12-Jan-2012
285	US 2012/0011199 A1 patent application	Providing web-based imaging services within a client-based application Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented system and method for providing web-based features in a client-based digital imaging application. A location on a client is provided for storing a number of...	12-Jan-2012
286	US 2012/0011493 A1 patent application	Binary code change vulnerability prioritization A human-readable list of patch differences ranked by weight helps vulnerability analysts allocate their time. From binary code, identified source functions and recognized sink functions are used when assigning...	12-Jan-2012
287	US 2012/0011014 A1 patent application	Media purchase techniques Media purchase techniques are described. In an implementation, an indication is received that an item of media was successfully purchased through a single transaction that includes rights for access to the item...	12-Jan-2012
288	US 2012/0011195 A1 patent application	Url-facilitated access to spreadsheet elements Embodiments are directed to providing URL-facilitated access to spreadsheet component elements. In embodiments, a client may discover and then access elements of an existing workbook directly through a URL. In...	12-Jan-2012
289	US 2012/0011212 A1 patent application	Cluster-Based Friend Suggestion Aggregator Techniques are described to generate a list of suggested friends for a client of a social networking service. In an implementation, a cluster of clients is identified from among the clients of the social...	12-Jan-2012
290	US 2012/0011454 A1 patent application	Method and system for intelligently mining data during communication streams to present context-sensitive advertisements using background substitution The present invention mines or extracts data present during interaction between at least two participants, for example in a chat session, a video session, etc. via the Internet. The data, which can include...	12-Jan-2012
291	US 8095513 B2 patent document	Safe buffer A method and system for implementing a safe buffer is described herein. The method includes implementing a buffer class that ensures that accesses to memory are performed in a safe manner. The buffer class may...	10-Jan-2012
292	US 8095571 B2 patent document	Partitioning modeling platform data The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for partitioning modeling platform data. Embodiments of the invention facilitate partitioning modeling platform data into nested...	10-Jan-2012
293	US 8095601 B2 patent document	Inter-proximity communication within a rendezvous federation The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating inter-proximity communication within a rendezvous federation. Nodes maintain collateral ring set entry tables...	10-Jan-2012
294	US 8095623 B2 patent document	Device emulation to facilitate data transfer Described is a technology by which a circuit, such as one incorporated into a USB-like cable, couples a client computing device to a server computing device. The circuit outputs identification information to...	10-Jan-2012
295	US 8095865 B2 patent document	Layout manager Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for managing layout updates to user interface elements. A dirty state of user interface elements is tracked in a tree with multiple nodes of user interface...	10-Jan-2012
296	US 8095917 B2 patent document	Debugger for virtual intermediate language operations Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for testing intermediate language operations. A debugger harness is provided that instruments an intermediate language stream to replace intermediate language...	10-Jan-2012
297	US 8092289 B2 patent document	Techniques for use with computerized games having cards Techniques are described for determining card movement in a computerized game. A representation of one or more cards to be played in a simulated environment is provided. A movement of at least one of said cards...	10-Jan-2012
298	US 8094719 B2 patent document	Streaming methods and systems Various embodiments provide methods and systems for streaming data that can facilitate streaming during bandwidth fluctuations in a manner that can enhance the user experience. In one aspect, a forward-shifting...	10-Jan-2012
299	US 8094928 B2 patent document	Stereo video for gaming A real-time stereo video signal of a captured scene with a physical foreground object and a physical background is received. In real-time, a foreground/background separation algorithm is used on the real-time...	10-Jan-2012
300	US 8094939 B2 patent document	Digital ink-based search Described is searching directly based on digital ink input to provide a result set of one or more items. Digital ink input (e.g., a handwritten character, sketched shape, gesture, drawing picture) is provided...	10-Jan-2012

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