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401	US 8090610 B2 patent document	Extensible framework for designing workflows A user interface for building a componentized workflow model. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of...	03-Jan-2012
402	US D651609 S1 patent document	Display screen with an animated image	03-Jan-2012
403	US 8090620 B2 patent document	Query analysis for geographic-based listing service A unique system and method facilitates analyzes searches or queries that are geographic based. In particular, a user can submit a geo-tag based search for items posted on a listing service according to the...	03-Jan-2012
404	US 8090679 B2 patent document	Method for measuring web site performance An approach for systematically and objectively assessing the health of a web site, or other complex system, using two layers of information. A scoring method is used to provide an objective qualitative...	03-Jan-2012
405	US 8090738 B2 patent document	Multi-modal search wildcards A multi-modal search system (and corresponding methodology) that employs wildcards is provided. Wildcards can be employed in the search query either initiated by the user or inferred by the system. These...	03-Jan-2012
406	US 8091016 B2 patent document	Visually manipulating instance collections The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for visually manipulating instance collections. Items presenters present data collections along with custom designers for each...	03-Jan-2012
407	US 8091070 B2 patent document	Deep embedding of program languages A programming language is implemented in terms of another programming language via deep and/or modified shallow embedding. Embedded language control structures and/or type system are decomposed to primitive...	03-Jan-2012
408	US 8091074 B2 patent document	Execution-centric source code view Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing an execution-centric view of source code. Source code is reconstructed in an execution-centric format from a prior execution of an application....	03-Jan-2012
409	US 8091108 B2 patent document	Meta data enhanced television programming A variety of meta data based enhancements to media content viewing are described, including making meta data corresponding to media content available for user searching and using meta data to identify highlight...	03-Jan-2012
410	US D651604 S1 patent document	Electronic mouse	03-Jan-2012
411	US D651615 S1 patent document	Display screen with an icon	03-Jan-2012
412	US 8090669 B2 patent document	Adaptive learning framework for data correction Architecture that employs adaptive learning algorithms to adapt a data correction tool to user-specific behavior during runtime. The architecture includes a framework for training and measuring adaptive...	03-Jan-2012
413	US 8090685 B2 patent document	Knowledge based synchronization of subsets of data with no move condition An efficient way is provided to represent and exchange knowledge and/or partial knowledge across nodes when synchronizing between any two nodes. A first node sends a second node its knowledge and/or partial...	03-Jan-2012
414	US 8090740 B2 patent document	Search-centric hierarchichal browser history A search-centric hierarchical browser history technique that provides for the creation of a Web search history hierarchy organized according to the search queries that a user has conducted. In one embodiment,...	03-Jan-2012
415	US 8090834 B2 patent document	System and method for optimizing server resources while providing interaction with documents accessible through the server A system and method for optimizing server resources while providing interaction with documents accessible through the server. The system allows a user to open and interact with a document without opening a...	03-Jan-2012
416	US 8090847 B2 patent document	Session broker extensibility application program interface Described are techniques for providing an application program interface that leverages the terminal services session broker infrastructure to support third party plug-in applications. In a typical scenario,...	03-Jan-2012
417	US 8090861 B2 patent document	Content management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds Managing content by influencing its distribution in the form of blocks or other units is crucial to the performance of a peer-to-peer content distribution system. We provide a content management module at each...	03-Jan-2012
418	US 2011/0317554 A1 patent application	Distributed and Scalable Network Address Translation A method of enabling an electronic privately addressable source to be publicly addressable starts at a receiver where an electronic message is received. It is communicated from a sender with a private address...	29-Dec-2011
419	US 2011/0317631 A1 patent application	Scheduling communications in a mobile device A method scheduling outgoing communication in a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal quality profile for an area in which the device is located. The method further includes...	29-Dec-2011
420	US 2011/0317914 A1 patent application	Techniques for robust color transfer Techniques and systems to transfer color robustly between images are described. In an embodiment, a technique for transferring color includes separating color information of a registered source image into a one...	29-Dec-2011
421	US 2011/0319174 A1 patent application	System and method for configuring game data about players Information is shared among users in a system by the use of a service. The service receives information from at least two different game applications that each have a configuration file (defined with a common...	29-Dec-2011
422	US 2011/0320114 A1 patent application	Map Annotation Messaging A map annotation message including map annotation data that represents a route is received by a receiving device. The map annotation data is analyzed to determine a route represented by the map annotation...	29-Dec-2011
423	US 2011/0320433 A1 patent application	Automated Joining of Disparate Data for Database Queries Described is associating metadata with different sources of data (e.g., database tables) that allows a single view of data from the sources to be created. An administrator creates baseviews corresponding to...	29-Dec-2011
424	US 2011/0321027 A1 patent application	Rebootless display driver upgrades Systems and methods for rebootless updating of a IHV display driver are disclosed. According to such a method, first, the operating system stops the driver from running Second, the system switches over to an...	29-Dec-2011
425	US 2011/0321063 A1 patent application	Application settings migration using virtualization Application setting virtualization for a user. Application settings from a source computer are copied to a user-specific location on a destination computer and layered under corresponding application settings...	29-Dec-2011
426	US 2011/0316884 A1 patent application	Alternative semantics for zoom operations in a zoomable scene A scene comprising a set of visual elements may allow a user to perform “zoom” operations in order to navigate the depth of the scene. The “zoom” semantic is often applied to simulate optical visual depth,...	29-Dec-2011
427	US 2011/0317399 A1 patent application	Display backlights with adjustable narrow viewing angle Display components (e.g., liquid crystal displays (LCDs)) are viewable at different viewing angles, such as by a first user positioned directly in front of the display and by a second user positioned to one...	29-Dec-2011
428	US 2011/0320380 A1 patent application	Video content recommendations Video content recommendations are described. In embodiments, a request for a recommendation of video content is received from a client device, and the recommendation includes identifiers of video assets for an...	29-Dec-2011
429	US 2011/0320423 A1 patent application	Integrating social network data with search results A user of a social network may submit a search query relating to one or more topics to a search engine indexing a set of data items, but the search results, while authoritative and informative, may be highly...	29-Dec-2011
430	US 2011/0320520 A1 patent application	Dynamic partitioning of applications between clients and servers Optimization mechanism that dynamically splits the computation in an application (e.g., cloud), that is, which parts run on a client (e.g., mobile) and which parts run on servers in a datacenter. This...	29-Dec-2011
431	US 2011/0320586 A1 patent application	Flexible and Safe Monitoring of Computers Described is a server monitoring technology that is scalable to large numbers of servers, e.g., in a datacenter. Agents on servers run queries to monitor data sources for that server, such as performance...	29-Dec-2011
432	US 2011/0321037 A1 patent application	Data only solution package Technologies are described herein for deploying a data only solution package separate from custom code. In this way, lifecycles of the data only solution package and the custom code can be separately...	29-Dec-2011
433	US 2011/0321130 A1 patent application	Network layer claims based access control Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for basing access control decisions at the network layer at least in part on information provided in claims, which may describe attributes of a computer...	29-Dec-2011
434	US 2011/0316984 A1 patent application	Adaptive adjustment of depth cues in a stereo telepresence system Described is a stereoscopic display (telepresence) system that includes a depth cue adjustment mechanism for changing screen disparity to move a fixation distance of a viewer (subject) closer to a focus...	29-Dec-2011
435	US 2011/0319019 A1 patent application	Capacitive bonding of devices Various embodiments relate to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium,...	29-Dec-2011
436	US 2011/0320116 A1 patent application	Providing an improved view of a location in a spatial environment Technologies are described herein for providing an improved view of a location in a spatial environment. A current image associated with a current location of a geographic area is displayed. A user-selected...	29-Dec-2011
437	US 2011/0320273 A1 patent application	Serving content based on conversations Keywords may be extracted from conversations, such as Instant Messaging (IM) conversations, and content may be served based on the extracted keywords. In one example, an analysis component runs on a machine...	29-Dec-2011
438	US 2011/0320556 A1 patent application	Techniques For Migrating A Virtual Machine Using Shared Storage Techniques for providing the ability to live migrate a virtual machine from one physical host to another physical host employ shared storage as the transfer medium for the state of the virtual machine. In...	29-Dec-2011
439	US 2011/0320956 A1 patent application	Interaction between ads and applications Various technologies, methods, systems, processes, and compositions of matter pertaining to advertisements, and advertisement interactions with users and applications may be described. A single advertisement...	29-Dec-2011
440	US 2011/0320981 A1 patent application	Status-oriented mobile device One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a status-oriented mobile device. A user interface (UI) is provided that concurrently presents a plurality of user-related status-oriented...	29-Dec-2011
441	US 2011/0321029 A1 patent application	Upgrade management of application components Architecture that enables separation of a user interface (UI) upgrade from the content and application logic upgrade. Administrators can upgrade to take advantage of new infrastructure features, and...	29-Dec-2011
442	US 2011/0316338 A1 patent application	Hierarchical Power Smoothing Power is provided to one or more devices in a system that includes a hierarchical power smoothing environment having multiple tiers. In response to a peak in power usage by the one or more devices, power is...	29-Dec-2011
443	US 2011/0316853 A1 patent application	Telepresence systems with viewer perspective adjustment Described herein is a telepresence system where a real-time a virtual hologram of a user is displayed at a remote display screen and is rendered from a vantage point that is different than the vantage point...	29-Dec-2011
444	US 2011/0316965 A1 patent application	Combining direct and routed communication in a video conference A video conference cross-links at least a portion of the clients for point to point communication while still using a video conference server. The video conference server continues to manage some aspects of the...	29-Dec-2011
445	US 2011/0317120 A1 patent application	Liquid crystal display (Lcd) A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided that comprises a rearward LCD substrate sheet that has an array of vias formed, where the vias provide electrical conduction between both sides of the rearward LCD...	29-Dec-2011
446	US 2011/0319166 A1 patent application	Coordinating Device Interaction To Enhance User Experience A method for coordinating interaction between one or more computing devices for users participating in an interactive activity is provided. A reference point is identified on a physical surface via a primary...	29-Dec-2011
447	US 2011/0320373 A1 patent application	Product conversations among social groups Conversations about products and product areas arise among users who also participate in social networks. These conversations often occur over generalized communications channels, such as email or social...	29-Dec-2011
448	US 2011/0320405 A1 patent application	Detachable computer with variable performance computing environment Computing devices are often designed in view of a particular usage scenario, but may be unsuitable for usage in other computing scenarios. For example, a notebook computer with a large display, an integrated...	29-Dec-2011
449	US 2011/0320823 A1 patent application	Trusted sensors Architecture that provides trusted sensors and trusted sensor readings on computing devices such as mobile devices. The architecture utilizes a trustworthy computing technology (e.g., trusted platform module...	29-Dec-2011
450	US 2011/0320889 A1 patent application	Server Reachability Detection An application attempts to use a first protocol stack to send a first message to a server. After attempting to send the first message to the server, the application attempts to use a second protocol stack to...	29-Dec-2011
451	US 2011/0317019 A1 patent application	Enabling white space networks independent of low-threshold sensing Described is a technology by which a remote or local geo-location service provides white space information that one or more client devices and/or base stations may use to determine which white spaces are...	29-Dec-2011
452	US 2011/0320426 A1 patent application	Rich site maps Providing a website map to a user. A method includes gathering information about web pages in a website, including information related to web page relationships, controls, and executable code underlying one or...	29-Dec-2011
453	US 2011/0320440 A1 patent application	Placement of search results using user intent Technologies are described herein for placing search results on a search engine results page (SERP). A query may be received. The query may be transmitted to a plurality of search result providers. A first set...	29-Dec-2011
454	US 2011/0320536 A1 patent application	Acceleration of social interactions A system and method for facilitating social interactions between different individuals. Information available about each of the individuals engaged in a social interaction is used to provide a “social...	29-Dec-2011
455	US 2011/0320745 A1 patent application	Data-scoped dynamic data race detection A dynamic shared-memory data race detection tool with data-scoping capabilities to reduce runtime overheads is disclosed. The tool allows users to restrict analysis of memory locations to heap and/or stack...	29-Dec-2011
456	US 2011/0320767 A1 patent application	Parallelization of Online Learning Algorithms Methods, systems, and media are provided for a dynamic batch strategy utilized in parallelization of online learning algorithms. The dynamic batch strategy provides a merge function on the basis of a threshold...	29-Dec-2011
457	US 2011/0320822 A1 patent application	Keyed human interactive proof players A human interactive puzzle (HIP) authorization architecture where keyed and animated puzzles are executed by HIP players which are distinct and obfuscated to the point where breaking a single player is a...	29-Dec-2011
458	US 2011/0321001 A1 patent application	Visualization of runtime analysis across dynamic boundaries The formulation of an architectural diagram of a software program having multiple components. A static model identifying at least some of the components and a relationship between the components is accessed by...	29-Dec-2011
459	US 2011/0320018 A1 patent application	System and method for configuring game data about players Information is shared among users in a system by the use of a service. The service receives information from at least two different game applications that each have a configuration file (defined with a common...	29-Dec-2011
460	US 2011/0320119 A1 patent application	Location brokerage system A location brokerage system is described herein. A plurality of computing devices that are configured to output data that is indicative of a geographic location of a user are registered with the location...	29-Dec-2011
461	US 2011/0320441 A1 patent application	Adjusting search results based on user social profiles Many contemporary computing scenarios involve the submission by a user of a search query to be applied to a data set (such as a set of web pages indexed by a web search engine.) Additionally, many users...	29-Dec-2011
462	US 2011/0320496 A1 patent application	Concurrency control for confluent trees Architecture that addresses the efficient detection of conflicts and the merging of data structures such as trees, when possible. The process of detecting conflicts and merging the trees is a meld operation....	29-Dec-2011
463	US 2011/0320560 A1 patent application	Content authoring and propagation at various fidelities Content may be authored on a device using various types of information, and may be propagated at various different fidelities. In one example, a user enters or captures information on a mobile device, such as a...	29-Dec-2011
464	US 2011/0320603 A1 patent application	Application integration of network data based on resource identifiers A resource identifier parser can derive information from resource identifiers that are provided to non-browser application programs or the operating system, such as through the desktop area of a windows-based...	29-Dec-2011
465	US 2011/0320821 A1 patent application	Federation among services for supporting virtual-network overlays Computerized methods, systems, and computer-readable media for promoting cooperation between a first and second virtual network overlay (“overlay”) are provided. The first overlay is governed by a first...	29-Dec-2011
466	US 2011/0321129 A1 patent application	Disambiguating online identities Described herein are technologies pertaining to disambiguating identities/accounts over a plurality of online services. Public data streams pertaining to accounts of different online services are analyzed, and...	29-Dec-2011
467	US 2011/0317633 A1 patent application	Fine-grained channel access in wireless networks A fine-grained channel access system and method to facilitate fine-grained channel access in a high-data rate wide-band wireless local-area network (WLAN). Embodiments of the system and method divide an entire...	29-Dec-2011
468	US 2011/0317871 A1 patent application	Skeletal joint recognition and tracking system A system and method are disclosed for recognizing and tracking a user's skeletal joints with a NUI system and further, for recognizing and tracking only some skeletal joints, such as for example a user's upper...	29-Dec-2011
469	US 2011/0320284 A1 patent application	Market for Social Promotion of Digital Goods A social network marketplace may monitor communications between an advertiser and a consumer by generating signatures for communications and tracking those signatures through social network communications until...	29-Dec-2011
470	US 2011/0320431 A1 patent application	Strong typing for querying information graphs Described herein is using type information with a graph of nodes and predicates, in which the type information may be used to determine validity of (type check) a query to be executed against the graph. In one...	29-Dec-2011
471	US 2011/0320446 A1 patent application	Pushing Search Query Constraints Into Information Retrieval Processing This patent application relates to interval-based information retrieval (IR) search techniques for efficiently and correctly answering keyword search queries. In some embodiments, a range of...	29-Dec-2011
472	US 2011/0320538 A1 patent application	Delivering messages from message sources to subscribing recipients Many scenarios involve the delivery of messages received from various message sources to recipients, based on subscriptions established between various recipients and message sources. The recipients may be...	29-Dec-2011
473	US 2011/0321128 A1 patent application	Public access point The invention instantiates a Personal VLAN bridge, using IEEE Std. 802.11 elements. The result is a bridge, referred to as a public access point, that is better suited for implementing public wireless data...	29-Dec-2011
474	US 2011/0316871 A1 patent application	Fast reconfiguration of graphics pipeline state Techniques and technologies are provided for binding resources to particular slots associated with shaders in a graphics pipeline. Resource dependencies between resources being utilized by respective shaders...	29-Dec-2011
475	US 2011/0317522 A1 patent application	Sound source localization based on reflections and room estimation Described is modeling a room to obtain estimates for walls and a ceiling, and using the model to improve sound source localization by incorporating reflection (reverberation) data into the location estimation...	29-Dec-2011
476	US 2011/0317632 A1 patent application	Integrating White Space Support into a Network Stack Described is incorporating white space networking components into a network stack. A user mode spectrum access control component determines which white space channels are currently allowed for use based upon...	29-Dec-2011
477	US 2011/0319148 A1 patent application	Virtual and location-based multiplayer gaming A system and method combining real-world actions and virtual actions in a gaming environment. In one aspect, a massively multiplayer environment combines the real world actions and virtual actions of a...	29-Dec-2011
478	US 2011/0320250 A1 patent application	Advertising products to groups within social networks Within a social network, users may form social groups based on shared traits, such as experiences and interests. The social network may be able to detect a user interest among the users of a social group in one...	29-Dec-2011
479	US 2011/0320407 A1 patent application	Shared data collections A data sharing mechanism may allow programs to share access to data collections. The mechanisms that implement the sharing may allow programs written in any language to read and write a shared collection. The...	29-Dec-2011
480	US 2011/0320443 A1 patent application	Navigation to Popular Search Results Systems, methods, and computer media for enhancing search results, as well as user interfaces for performing search queries and navigating search results, are provided. A search query is received from a user. A...	29-Dec-2011
481	US 2011/0320467 A1 patent application	Using Message Sampling To Determine The Most Frequent Words In A User Mailbox A method is presented for generating a list of frequently used words for an email application on a server computer. When a request is received for a word frequency list for emails stored in a user's mailbox, a...	29-Dec-2011
482	US 2011/0320522 A1 patent application	Context-specific network resource addressing model for distributed services A back-end locator service can be utilized to identify a specific computing device, from among multiple computing devices in a domain, that is the most appropriate computing device to handle a particular type...	29-Dec-2011
483	US 2011/0320539 A1 patent application	WiFi Proximity Messaging Techniques for utilizing APs and messaging service for delivering personalized message to individual mobile devices connected to internet through APs.	29-Dec-2011
484	US 2011/0320564 A1 patent application	Health-related opportunistic networking A wireless opportunistic network that can facilitate data transfer by way of interconnected devices is disclosed. In accordance with this opportunistic network, each of the devices effectively contributes to...	29-Dec-2011
485	US 2011/0320715 A1 patent application	Identifying trending content items using content item histograms Within a content item set, particular content items may be identified as trending, based on changes in a frequency of references to the content items. For example, users of a social network may reference web...	29-Dec-2011
486	US 2011/0320924 A1 patent application	Handwritten paper-based input digital record management A handwritten paper-based input digital record management system and method to facilitate record management by directly accepting handwritten pen-based data input on ordinary paper forms. A user places a paper...	29-Dec-2011
487	US 2011/0321028 A1 patent application	Applications including multiple experience modules An application on a device includes multiple experience modules that each implement a set of features when the application is running on the device. Each of the multiple experience modules includes a first...	29-Dec-2011
488	US 2011/0321031 A1 patent application	Updating nodes considering service model constraints Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for deploying an update to nodes propagated throughout a data center are provided. Launching new upgrade to hosting environment residing on the nodes typically...	29-Dec-2011
489	US 2011/0321059 A1 patent application	Stack overflow prevention in parallel execution runtime A parallel execution runtime prevents stack overflow by maintaining an inline counter for each thread executing tasks of a process. Each time that the runtime determines that inline execution of a task is...	29-Dec-2011
490	US 2011/0321152 A1 patent application	Trusted intermediary for network layer claims-enabled access control Embodiments of the invention provide a trusted intermediary for use in a system in which access control decisions may be based at least in part on information provided in claims. The intermediary may request...	29-Dec-2011
491	US 8085701 B2 patent document	Local area network translating bi-directional packet repeater A translating bi-directional packet repeater includes a first antenna and a second antenna for receiving a wireless signal, amplifying it, and retransmitting it on a different channel. The channel associated...	27-Dec-2011
492	US 8085756 B2 patent document	Automatically sending rich contact information coincident to a telephone call Rich contact information is provided coincident to a telephone call on a mobile device in an alternate communication. When a telephone call is received on the phone, rich content such as rich personal contact...	27-Dec-2011
493	US 8085844 B2 patent document	Signaling reference frame distances Techniques and tools for signaling reference frame distances are described. For example, a video encoder signals a code for a reference frame distance for a current field-coded interlaced video frame. The code...	27-Dec-2011
494	US 8085990 B2 patent document	Hybrid maps with embedded street-side images The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful...	27-Dec-2011
495	US 8086496 B2 patent document	Aggregation of product data provided from external sources for presentation on an E-commerce website Aggregation of product data provided from external sources of product data for presentation on an e-commerce website. A set of product data related to a product that is offered for sale in e-commerce is...	27-Dec-2011
496	US 8086562 B2 patent document	Arrangement for anonymous API downloaded resources for advanced content Provided are arrangements for downloading resources and managing downloaded resources. A file is requested from a HTTP server, the file associated with an original URI. The file is downloaded and assigned a...	27-Dec-2011
497	US 8086672 B2 patent document	When-free messaging The present invention relates to systems and methods that mitigate the intrusiveness of communications between message senders and receivers while facilitating more courteous, seamless, and timely interactions....	27-Dec-2011
498	US 8086845 B2 patent document	Secure tunnel over HTTPS connection Many secure tunnels require protocols that require special handling, authorization or security certificates, such as L2TP and PPTP. This often eliminates them for use between a corporate or agency network and...	27-Dec-2011
499	US 8085933 B2 patent document	Cipher for disk encryption Encryption is provided with additional diffusion components to construct a block cipher with a large and variable block size. The cipher incorporates an encryption system or algorithm such that the cipher is at...	27-Dec-2011
500	US 8086536 B2 patent document	Location based licensing The present invention provides a method and system for location-based digital rights management. Digital rights for protected content are restricted to a specific location or region by specifying the approved...	27-Dec-2011

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