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No	Document	Title	Date
501	US 8086659 B2 patent document	Task sequence interface According to one aspect of task sequence interfaces, a method includes exposing an interface that allows task sequences to be performed on a plurality of remote devices, and receiving requests regarding the...	27-Dec-2011
502	US 8086701 B2 patent document	Platform for managing and configuring network state A network state platform for managing a network having a number of network nodes is disclosed. A user provides a policy layer a high level instruction indicative of the desired network performance. The policy...	27-Dec-2011
503	US 8086772 B2 patent document	Transferable component that effectuates plug-and-play A plug-and-play system comprises an agent component that includes instructions for enabling a first device and a mobile device to be compatible upon detecting a connection between the first device and the...	27-Dec-2011
504	US 8086899 B2 patent document	Diagnosis of problem causes using factorization Technology is described for diagnosing problem causes in complex environments by using factorization of a plurality of features. An embodiment can include the operation of identifying a plurality of entities...	27-Dec-2011
505	US 8086954 B2 patent document	Programmable object models for bibliographies and citations Programmable object models for bibliographies and citations enable manipulation of bibliographic information. For example, a programmable object model for one or more bibliographic sources in a document may...	27-Dec-2011
506	US 8086992 B2 patent document	Enable top-down service design Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a software development application that supports development using a top-down approach. The user creates a high-level system design for a system...	27-Dec-2011
507	US 8087061 B2 patent document	Resource-reordered remediation of malware threats Systems and methods that mitigate affects of malware and facilitate remediation processes. An analysis engine generates a list of actions for resources associated with the malware, and prioritizes/sorts the...	27-Dec-2011
508	US 8087072 B2 patent document	Provisioning of digital identity representations A system and method for provisioning digital identity representations (“DIRs”) uses various techniques and structures to ease administration, increase accuracy, and decrease inconsistencies of a...	27-Dec-2011
509	US 8086227 B2 patent document	Collaboratively locating disconnected clients and rogue access points in a wireless network Methods are described for using collaboration of neighboring wireless devices to enable location of disconnected wireless devices and rogue wireless access points. A central server computes the locations of the...	27-Dec-2011
510	US 8086719 B2 patent document	Bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching In embodiments of bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching, synchronization logic is implemented to determine whether an attachment of an electronic message to be...	27-Dec-2011
511	US 8086902 B2 patent document	Method and apparatus for testing media player software applications A method, system and program application is provided for automatically testing the operation of a media player with media files (e.g., video files) that are embodied in various formats. In one illustrative...	27-Dec-2011
512	US 8086906 B2 patent document	Correlating hardware devices between local operating system and global management entity A method and apparatus for correlating the identities of hardware devices, such as processors and memory controllers, between a local operating system and a global management entity is described. When the...	27-Dec-2011
513	US 8085302 B2 patent document	Combined digital and mechanical tracking of a person or object using a single video camera A combined digital and mechanical tracking system and process for generating a video using a single digital video camera that tracks a person or object of interest moving in a scene is presented. This generally...	27-Dec-2011
514	US 8086037 B2 patent document	Tiling and merging framework for segmenting large images Described is a technology by which a large image is processed into a seamless, radiometric mean image containing meaningful image objects. A large source image is tiled into non-overlapping tiles, which are...	27-Dec-2011
515	US 8086455 B2 patent document	Model development authoring, generation and execution based on data and processor dependencies A recognition (e.g., speech, handwriting, etc.) model build process that is declarative and data-dependence-based. Process steps are defined in a declarative language as individual processors having...	27-Dec-2011
516	US 8086631 B2 patent document	Search result diversification Methods, apparatus, and systems directed to receiving search queries, retrieving documents, computing the number of categories to present for a given query, computing the number of results to show in each...	27-Dec-2011
517	US 8086686 B2 patent document	Persisting a group in an instant messaging application A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or...	27-Dec-2011
518	US 8086842 B2 patent document	Peer-to-peer contact exchange A system may publish authenticated contact information in a publicly available index store, retrieve the contact information, and validate it. The claimed method and system may provide a client-based, server...	27-Dec-2011
519	US 8086853 B2 patent document	Automatic centralized authentication challenge response generation A centralized challenge response verification server such as a RADIUS server is used to generate challenge responses as well as to verify challenge responses. In this way, the requirement for all machines to...	27-Dec-2011
520	US 8086591 B2 patent document	Combining domain-tuned search systems The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or techniques that effectuate combining domain-tuned search systems. The system can include mechanisms that obtain queries, written descriptions, or illustrative...	27-Dec-2011
521	US 8086849 B2 patent document	Secure internet-scale eventing A method and system are provided for delivering event messages in a secure scalable manner. A network includes an event distribution device serving as an event generation device for generating and disseminating...	27-Dec-2011
522	US 8086959 B2 patent document	Method and system for inferring a schema from a hierarchical data structure for use in a spreadsheet A method and system are provided for inferring a schema from an electronic document containing hierarchical data for use in a spreadsheet application program. The electronic document containing the hierarchical...	27-Dec-2011
523	US 8087006 B2 patent document	Static performance analysis of software Technologies for estimating deviations in the performance characteristics of a newer version of software relative to an older version. Such performance characteristics include cache misses, pages faults, and...	27-Dec-2011
524	US 8087028 B2 patent document	Computing device resource scheduling Systems and methods for scheduling computing device resources include a scheduler that maintains multiple queues. Requests are placed in one of the multiple queues depending on how much resource time the...	27-Dec-2011
525	US 8085281 B2 patent document	Method of displaying input from a portable computing device A method and system is described for displaying input from a portable computing device to a second computing device. On the second computing device, a display region is created. The region may be a stand alone...	27-Dec-2011
526	US 8086031 B2 patent document	Region detection Disclosed herein are systems methods and devices related to region detection of an image. Detected regions include pixels of a particular one or more colors without requiring faces within the image to be...	27-Dec-2011
527	US 8086565 B2 patent document	File system watcher in the presence of different file systems The claimed subject matter is directed to a file system watcher in the presence of different file systems to allow synchronization of replicated files distributed among different file systems without...	27-Dec-2011
528	US 8086590 B2 patent document	Product suggestions and bypassing irrelevant query results A computer system, computer media, and computer-implemented method for generating product suggestions and providing product information are provided. The computer system includes a relevance engine, a product...	27-Dec-2011
529	US 8086741 B2 patent document	Method and system for delayed allocation of resources The present invention allows a server to delay allocating resources to a client's request. When the client requests a feature that requires server resources, the server accepts and acknowledges the client's...	27-Dec-2011
530	US 8086743 B2 patent document	Multi-channel communication with request reordering or reprioritization In one example, a client and a server may communicate with each other using a control channel and a data channel. The control channel carries requests from the client to the server, and the data channel carries...	27-Dec-2011
531	US 8086859 B2 patent document	Generation of electronic signatures A generator uses a robust programming framework to create an electronic signature in association with a data item, wherein the electronic signature includes time stamps and/or countersignatures. The generator...	27-Dec-2011
532	US 8086963 B2 patent document	Inheritance model between masters, layouts and slides An N-level inheritance model is provided to develop presentations. A hierarchical inheritance model includes master slides, custom layout slides, and slides including the material for the presentation. The...	27-Dec-2011
533	US 8086465 B2 patent document	Transform domain transcoding and decoding of audio data using integer-reversible modulated lapped transforms A “STAC Codec” provides audio transcoding and decoding by processing an encoded audio signal using a backward-adaptive run-length Golomb-Rice (RLGR) decoder to recover transform coefficients of the encoded...	27-Dec-2011
534	US 8086593 B2 patent document	Dynamic filters for relational query processing Systems and methods that eliminate non-qualifying data for queries against data warehouses and improve execution time, via a dynamic filter component(s). In general, such dynamic filter components are derived...	27-Dec-2011
535	US 8087015 B2 patent document	Assignment of application models to deployment targets A distributed application deployment engine uses declarative deployment data that describes deployment characteristics for application modules, and potential target environments. The engine uses the deployment...	27-Dec-2011
536	US 8087073 B2 patent document	Authentication architecture A system enabling an application desiring access to a resource addressable by a URI to produce a response to an authentication challenge to a request to access the URI without including code specific to an...	27-Dec-2011
537	US 8083591 B2 patent document	Game hosting service A network gaming service accesses attributes of a particular user to match the user to a gaming session with users having similar attributes. A game hosting service uses preferences of the users in a session...	27-Dec-2011
538	US 8083593 B2 patent document	Recording media on gaming consoles An integrated gaming and media experience is disclosed, including recording of content on a gaming console. A digital video recorder (DVR) application running alongside a television client component allows...	27-Dec-2011
539	US 8085364 B2 patent document	Display with focussed illumination A liquid crystal display with focused illumination is described. In an example, a light-source emitting a plurality of discrete colors is focused onto a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display...	27-Dec-2011
540	US 8086275 B2 patent document	Alternative inputs of a mobile communications device In an implementation, a mobile communications device includes a display device having touchscreen functionality, a keyboard having a plurality of physical keys that include a dedicated key and letter keys...	27-Dec-2011
541	US 8086437 B2 patent document	Modeling and simulating software contention Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to modeling and simulating software contention. In aspects, a model declares properties of a scarce software object and models software components that need...	27-Dec-2011
542	US 8086439 B2 patent document	Translation of text into numbers A text string representing a number in a specific language is converted to a text string by tokenizing the string, distributing the tokens across a multi-level data structure to find possible distributions, and...	27-Dec-2011
543	US 8086442 B1 patent document	Efficient use of exceptions in text segmentation Input text may be broken into sentence, or other types of segments, by first detecting exceptions in the input text, and then detecting break positions. Given a segment breaking scheme that comprises a set of...	27-Dec-2011
544	US 8086549 B2 patent document	Multi-label active learning Multi-label active learning may entail training a classifier with a set of training samples having multiple labels per sample. In an example embodiment, a method includes accepting a set of training samples,...	27-Dec-2011
545	US 8086671 B2 patent document	Systems and methods that facilitate in-order serial processing of related messages The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate serial access to related messages stored within a queue. The systems and methods comprise a conversation manager that generates conversation...	27-Dec-2011
546	US 8086682 B2 patent document	Tracking of electronic mail messages Electronic mail messages are tracked for the sender by allowing the sender to flag the electronic mail messages. Flagging the electronic mail messages allows for various notifications to be provided to the...	27-Dec-2011
547	US 8086778 B2 patent document	Filter driver to enumerate smartcard nodes for plug and play Described herein is a filter driver in a smartcardreader class that recognizes the presence of a smartcard in a smartcard reader and creates a device node (devnode).	27-Dec-2011
548	US 8086882 B2 patent document	Energy measurement techniques for computing systems An energy measurement system (“EMS”) and techniques for correlating energy consumption to computing system activity. The EMS includes a data acquisition module, a processing module, and optionally a...	27-Dec-2011
549	US 2011/0310016 A1 patent application	Computer mouse sleeve A flexible sleeve includes a first flexible sheet of a first hardness. The first flexible sheet has a first perimeter including a first lip edge and a first pocket edge. The flexible sleeve also includes a...	22-Dec-2011
550	US 2011/0312414 A1 patent application	Automated certification of video game advertising using ocr Methods and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate generating an analysis or certification of inventory elements in a virtual environment, such as a 3-D...	22-Dec-2011
551	US 2011/0313833 A1 patent application	Reconstructing the online flow of recommendations Online recommendations are tracked through a forwarding service. For example, a user may send an email to a friend recommending a product specified at a web site identified by a URI embedded in the email....	22-Dec-2011
552	US 2011/0313844 A1 patent application	Real-time-ready behavioral targeting in a large-scale advertisement system A “Real-Time-Ready Analyzer” combines a data stream management system (DSMS) with a map-reduce (M-R) framework to construct a streaming map-reduce framework that is suitable for real-time Behavioral Targeting...	22-Dec-2011
553	US 2011/0314070 A1 patent application	Optimization of storage and transmission of data The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for end-to-end optimization of data storage and transmission of data. Details of how data is stored within a data store are...	22-Dec-2011
554	US 2011/0314045 A1 patent application	Fast set intersection Described is a fast set intersection technology by which sets of elements to be intersected are maintained as partitioned subsets (small groups) in data structures, along with representative values (e.g., one...	22-Dec-2011
555	US 2011/0314122 A1 patent application	Discrepancy detection for web crawling Search engines may utilize web crawlers to discover desirable content that may be provided to users as search results. Unfortunately, document providers, such as websites, may return junk web pages and/or...	22-Dec-2011
556	US 2011/0313954 A1 patent application	Community model based point of interest local search The present disclosure describes a community model based point of interest local search platform. Specifically, logs of users that store selections while accessing a point of interest application are loaded...	22-Dec-2011
557	US 2011/0314012 A1 patent application	Determining query intent A tree structure has a node associated with each category of a hierarchy of item categories. Child nodes of the tree are associated with sub-categories of the categories associated with parent nodes. Training...	22-Dec-2011
558	US 2011/0314001 A1 patent application	Performing query expansion based upon statistical analysis of structured data A method described herein includes an act of receiving a query from a user, wherein the query is configured to search over a plurality of documents belonging to a particular domain. The method also includes an...	22-Dec-2011
559	US 2011/0314023 A1 patent application	Online Stratified Sampling for Classifier Evaluation To determine if a set of items belongs to a class of interest, the set of items is binned into sub-populations based on a score, ranking, or trait associated with each item. The sub-populations may be created...	22-Dec-2011
560	US 2011/0314229 A1 patent application	Error Detection for Files Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to error detection for files. In aspects, before allowing updates to a clean file, a flag marking the file as dirty is written to non-volatile storage....	22-Dec-2011
561	US 2011/0314210 A1 patent application	Leveraging chip variability Embodiments are described that leverage variability of a chip. Different areas of a chip vary in terms of reliability under a same operating condition. The variability may be captured by measuring errors over...	22-Dec-2011
562	US 2011/0314375 A1 patent application	Personal Assistant for Task Utilization An electronic personal assistant that uses task information to obtain task performance assistance and help content is provided. Tasks from an electronic tasks application may be utilized by the personal...	22-Dec-2011
563	US 2011/0314364 A1 patent application	Generating financial data documents using templates A computing system is disclosed including a computer processor configured to receive a selection of a template and identify a data field in the template. The data field indicates financial data to fill in the...	22-Dec-2011
564	US 2011/0314537 A1 patent application	Automatic construction of human interaction proof engines Human Interaction Proofs (“HIPs”, sometimes referred to as “captchas”), may be generated automatically. An captcha specification language may be defined, which allows a captcha scheme to be defined in terms of...	22-Dec-2011
565	US 2011/0314540 A1 patent application	Preventing abuse of services through infrastructure incompatibility Spammers, and other abusers of web services, may be deterred in their attempts to sign up for these services at large scale by making changes to the service registration procedure, where the changes are...	22-Dec-2011
566	US 2011/0314452 A1 patent application	Tracing just-in-time compilation with pointers to local variables In one embodiment, a trace optimizing engine may create an optimized trace of an operation segment of a software program. A memory 130 may store a trace of an operation segment and an inherited stack frame from...	22-Dec-2011
567	US 2011/0314416 A1 patent application	Collected media content data Collected media content data is described. In embodiments, browsing inputs are received from a client device when a user interacts with the client device to browse media content available via the Internet....	22-Dec-2011
568	US 2011/0314405 A1 patent application	Contextual control of dynamic input device A computing system includes one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications to dynamically display images on a dynamic input device. The one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications...	22-Dec-2011
569	US 2011/0310015 A1 patent application	Computer mouse A computer mouse includes a head and a tail. The head is configured to detect movement relative to a reference surface. The head is selectively switchable between an on state and an off state. The tail is...	22-Dec-2011
570	US 2011/0310125 A1 patent application	Compartmentalizing focus area within field of view A system and method are disclosed for selectively focusing on certain areas of interest within an imaged scene to gain more image detail within those areas. In general, the present system identifies areas of...	22-Dec-2011
571	US 2011/0310026 A1 patent application	Easy word selection and selection ahead of finger The described embodiments allow for the selection of content in a touch screen display. The method includes detecting a single tap on a word of text in a text editing field in a touch screen, and responsive to...	22-Dec-2011
572	US 2011/0310226 A1 patent application	Use of wavefront coding to create a depth image A 3-D depth camera system, such as in a motion capture system, tracks an object such as a human in a field of view using an illuminator, where the field of view is illuminated using multiple diffracted beams....	22-Dec-2011
573	US 2011/0310961 A1 patent application	Video rate control based on transform-coefficients histogram A quantization factor is determined using information from a histogram of transform coefficients that are produced from a transformed video frame. The histogram is used in estimating an encoded frame size of...	22-Dec-2011
574	US 2011/0311137 A1 patent application	Hierarchical filtered motion field for action recognition Described is a hierarchical filtered motion field technology such as for use in recognizing actions in videos with crowded backgrounds. Interest points are detected, e.g., as 2D Harris corners with recent...	22-Dec-2011
575	US 2011/0311205 A1 patent application	Recording of sports related television programming A video recording system that controls recording of television programming relating to sporting events to better match the intent of a user who specified programming for recording. The system merges data from...	22-Dec-2011
576	US 2011/0312303 A1 patent application	Context-driven data sharing This patent application pertains to context-driven data sharing, and specifically to data sharing relating to a telephone call. One example can establish a telephone call between first and second computing...	22-Dec-2011
577	US 2011/0313865 A1 patent application	Ad copy quality detection and scoring Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for evaluating the quality of text within online advertisements using output from a language model are provided. The output from the language model may be used by a...	22-Dec-2011
578	US 2011/0313843 A1 patent application	Search advertisement targeting Described is processing the search results obtained from a search engine to determine advertisements that match properties of those search results. For example, the URL-related information or domain-related...	22-Dec-2011
579	US 2011/0314044 A1 patent application	Flexible content organization and retrieval Among other things, one or more techniques and systems are disclosed for saving and retrieving browser-based content or portions thereof for browser-based interactions. Metadata is generated for a selection of...	22-Dec-2011
580	US 2011/0314156 A1 patent application	Memorable resource names Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for generating a human memorable resource name. Both a first part of the resource name and a second part of the resource name are...	22-Dec-2011
581	US 2011/0314121 A1 patent application	Cellular data communication for mobile devices A method for managing data communication of a mobile device in a mobile network is provided. The method may include receiving a request, at a cloud proxy, to retrieve Internet data from the Internet. The...	22-Dec-2011
582	US 2011/0314013 A1 patent application	Ranking advertisements While browsing, a user may interact with a wide variety of images. The user may upload and share images taken with a digital camera and/or search for image using a search engine. Because images are rich in...	22-Dec-2011
583	US 2011/0314000 A1 patent application	Transformation rule profiling for a query optimizer Technology is described for transformation rule profiling for a query optimizer. The method can include obtaining a database query configured to be optimized by the query optimizer of a database system. An...	22-Dec-2011
584	US 2011/0314024 A1 patent application	Semantic content searching One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed that provide for document retrieval where a user can identify key attributes of potential target documents that are desirable (e.g., have a particular...	22-Dec-2011
585	US 2011/0313999 A1 patent application	Slicing relational queries using spool operators A relational database server may concurrently execute many relational queries, but a complex relational query may cause performance delays in the fulfillment of other relational queries. Instead, the relational...	22-Dec-2011
586	US 2011/0313975 A1 patent application	Validating files using a sliding window to access and correlate records in an arbitrarily large dataset Data records in files may be validated by sequentially accessing the data records while allowing random data access within a sliding window. The data records may also be validated by caching record values....	22-Dec-2011
587	US 2011/0314266 A1 patent application	On-demand database server startup and shutdown A database startup service is launched at the boot time of a computer that is configured to receive requests to start the execution of a database server. A business application plug-in is then started in a...	22-Dec-2011
588	US 2011/0314338 A1 patent application	Data collisions in concurrent programs Described are techniques for detecting data collisions between a first portion and a second portion of an application executing on a computer, the first portion and the second portions executing concurrently...	22-Dec-2011
589	US 2011/0314404 A1 patent application	Context-Based Task Generation A triggering mechanism for generating task reminders based on contextual information associated with the tasks is provided. Contextual information may be extracted from a variety of sources and may be related...	22-Dec-2011
590	US 2011/0314459 A1 patent application	Compiler with user-defined type inference rules Performance of a program written in dynamic languages is improved through the use of a compiler that provides type inference for methods having a user-defined element. The user-defined element may be an input...	22-Dec-2011
591	US 2011/0314550 A1 patent application	Watermark to identify leak source Watermarks may be used to deter certain types of information leaks. In one example, leaks occur in the form of posting, in public forums, screen shots of private pages. To deter this example kind of leak,...	22-Dec-2011
592	US 2011/0309919 A1 patent application	Providing Directional Force Feedback In Freespace Technology is presented for generating directional force feedback in free space to a user using a mass rotatable about a movable axis. The mass and movable axis are responsive to a control signal to generate a...	22-Dec-2011
593	US 2011/0310120 A1 patent application	Techniques to present location information for social networks using augmented reality Techniques to present location information using augmented reality are described. An apparatus may comprise an augmentation system operative to augment an image with information for an individual, the image...	22-Dec-2011
594	US 2011/0310216 A1 patent application	Combining multiple bit rate and scalable video coding Video streams are generated using a combination of Multiple Bit Rate (MBR) encoding and Scalable Video Coding (SVC). Capabilities and requests of the clients are used in determining the video streams to...	22-Dec-2011
595	US 2011/0310898 A1 patent application	4to6 network stack for ipv4 applications Systems, methods and computer storage media for utilizing IPv6 addressing for globally unique identification of network endpoints when communications from or to an IPv4 compatible application. An IPv4 packet of...	22-Dec-2011
596	US 2011/0311136 A1 patent application	Cross-domain browser pre-fetching through data transcoding Browser application programs may be prevented from performing cross-domain retrieval of anything other than image files. To enable browsers to pre-fetch resources utilizable by code executing in a browser-based...	22-Dec-2011
597	US 2011/0314010 A1 patent application	Keyword to query predicate maps for query translation A query comprising a set of keywords may be applied to a data set having various attributes, but it may be difficult to determine the query predicates intended for each keyword (e.g., the attributes targeted by...	22-Dec-2011
598	US 2011/0314003 A1 patent application	Template concatenation for capturing multiple concepts in a voice query Architecture that provides the capability to identify which parts (terms and phrases) of a voice query have been covered by predefined phrase templates, and then to concatenate matching phrase templates into a...	22-Dec-2011
599	US 2011/0314256 A1 patent application	Data Parallel Programming Model Described herein are techniques for enabling a programmer to express a call for a data parallel call-site function in a way that is accessible and usable to the typical programmer. With some of the described...	22-Dec-2011
600	US 2011/0314520 A1 patent application	Online service access controls using scale out directory features Embodiments provide application and/or resource access control features of an online computing environment, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides access control...	22-Dec-2011

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