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No	Document	Title	Date
601	US 2011/0314418 A1 patent application	List Authoring Surface A list authoring surface (LAS) is provided that includes a lightweight user interface component for entering, displaying, manipulating, and providing reminders for one or more tasks that takes the place of...	22-Dec-2011
602	US 2011/0314399 A1 patent application	Windowless runtime control of dynamic input device Windowless runtime control of a dynamic input device is provided by a computing system including a container module to host one or more runtime environments, including a windowless runtime environment. The...	22-Dec-2011
603	US 2011/0314454 A1 patent application	Incremental compositional dynamic test generation Concepts and technologies are described herein for incremental compositional dynamic test generation. The concepts and technologies described herein are used to increase the code coverage and security...	22-Dec-2011
604	US 2011/0314458 A1 patent application	Binding data parallel device source code A compile environment is provided in a computer system that allows programmers to program both CPUs and data parallel devices (e.g., GPUs) using a high level general purpose programming language that has data...	22-Dec-2011
605	US 2011/0310109 A1 patent application	Visual previews Visual animation platforms may allow users to develop visual media projects, such as movies. Many visual animation platforms may provide animation effects that may be applied to visual elements of a visual...	22-Dec-2011
606	US 2011/0310217 A1 patent application	Reducing use of periodic key frames in video conferencing The generation and delivery of key frames to clients of a video conference are performed in response to a need for a synchronization point. Instead of automatically sending a key frame periodically to each of...	22-Dec-2011
607	US 2011/0310439 A1 patent application	Optimized font subsetting for a print path Subject matter described herein is directed to providing font-rendering information (e.g., XPS file) that is usable to print a document. For example, a font file is received that defines a font type included in...	22-Dec-2011
608	US 2011/0310899 A1 patent application	Distributed Virtual Network Gateways Computerized methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for distributing virtualized gateway functionality to multiple nodes within a physical network. Initially, drivers that carry out the...	22-Dec-2011
609	US 2011/0311094 A1 patent application	Techniques to verify location for location based services Techniques to verify a participant's visit to a specific location are described. An embodiment may provide a system that generates a pattern that is unique to the location, and that may further be unique to a...	22-Dec-2011
610	US 2011/0312398 A1 patent application	Tracking Career Progression Based On User Activities A method for generating career progression information for a user participating in one or more activities in a processing device is disclosed. User progress in the activities is tracked. The activities include...	22-Dec-2011
611	US 2011/0313803 A1 patent application	Social Task Lists Providing access to task lists via social communications systems is provided. A user may expose a list authoring surface and associated task lists to other users via one or more social communications systems....	22-Dec-2011
612	US 2011/0313827 A1 patent application	Application usage rewards platform A system and method of providing incentives for users to use computer applications. Application use by a user is tracked and participation credits are provided to the user based on the tracked use. Credits can...	22-Dec-2011
613	US 2011/0314039 A1 patent application	Media Item Recommendation Media item recommendation is described. In one example, a statistical model of media consumption is applied to media session consumption data from a community of users to infer parameters of the model. The...	22-Dec-2011
614	US 2011/0314064 A1 patent application	Notifications Platform Described is a notifications platform that routes notifications to endpoints of recipients, corresponding to email, instant messaging, text messaging, telephones, social networks, blogs and/or the like. A...	22-Dec-2011
615	US 2011/0314028 A1 patent application	Presenting display characteristics of hierarchical data structures Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer-storage media for providing a method of presenting display characteristics of data items organized in hierarchical data structures....	22-Dec-2011
616	US 2011/0314251 A1 patent application	Memory safety of floating-point computations Concepts and technologies are described herein for determining memory safety of floating-point computations. The concepts and technologies described herein analyze code to determine if any floating-point...	22-Dec-2011
617	US 2011/0314246 A1 patent application	Hierarchical allocation for file system storage device Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to storage allocation. In aspects, a hierarchical data structure is used to track allocation data for storage managed by a file system. The hierarchical...	22-Dec-2011
618	US 2011/0314202 A1 patent application	Managing cache data and metadata Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for managing cache metadata providing a mapping between addresses on a storage medium (e.g., disk storage) and corresponding addresses on a cache device at data...	22-Dec-2011
619	US 2011/0314372 A1 patent application	Document representation transitioning One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for transitioning between representations of an electronic document. Elements, such as visual elements, common between a first set of elements from a first...	22-Dec-2011
620	US 2011/0314361 A1 patent application	Generating recommendations for improving a presentation document User actions, content, and other elements related to a presentation document are received. These elements are analyzed to generate recommendations for improving a presentation document. The presentation...	22-Dec-2011
621	US 2011/0314383 A1 patent application	Secured and filtered personal information publishing Selectively shared and filtered personal information collections are provided. Personal information collections include calendars, task lists, address books, and other collections of information that may be...	22-Dec-2011
622	US 2011/0314419 A1 patent application	Customizing a search experience using images Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that present images customized for a user. In embodiments, a search query input by a user and user data...	22-Dec-2011
623	US 2011/0314424 A1 patent application	Scaling type overlay icons A method and system are provided for displaying icons in accordance with user preferences. The method includes providing a user with a size selection mechanism for selecting an icon size from a range of sizes....	22-Dec-2011
624	US 2011/0314400 A1 patent application	Assisted filtering of multi-dimensional data Interactive and dynamic exploring of filter criteria for large amounts of numerical data having multiple dimensions is described. Exploration occurs without excessive amounts of computation or querying of a...	22-Dec-2011
625	US 2011/0314402 A1 patent application	Flagging, Capturing and Generating Task List Items Generation of a task or reminder in an electronic task list authoring surface from a variety of data or information locations or media without the need for launching a separate task or reminder application and...	22-Dec-2011
626	US 2011/0314444 A1 patent application	Compiler-Generated Invocation Stubs for Data Parallel Programming Model Described herein are techniques for generating invocation stubs for a data parallel programming model so that a data parallel program written in a statically-compiled high-level programming language may be more...	22-Dec-2011
627	US 2011/0310232 A1 patent application	Spatial and temporal multiplexing display Described is using a combination of which a multi-view display is provided by a combining spatial multiplexing (e.g., using a parallax barrier or lenslet), and temporal multiplexing (e.g., using a directed...	22-Dec-2011
628	US 2011/0310427 A1 patent application	Printing direct2d-rendered items Technology described herein is directed to converting display-rendering instructions (e.g., DIRECT2D) into print-rendering instructions (e.g., EMF, WMF, XPS, and SVG). For example, a request to print an item...	22-Dec-2011
629	US 2011/0310735 A1 patent application	Resource Allocation Framework for Wireless/Wired Networks A resource allocation framework for wireless/wired networks is described. In an embodiment, methods of end host based traffic management are described which operate separately from the underlying access control...	22-Dec-2011
630	US 2011/0311101 A1 patent application	Method and system to segment depth images and to detect shapes in three-dimensionally acquired data A method and system analyzes data acquired by image systems to more rapidly identify objects of interest in the data. In one embodiment, z-depth data are segmented such that neighboring image pixels having...	22-Dec-2011
631	US 2011/0313859 A1 patent application	Techniques for advertiser geotargeting using map coordinates Techniques to provide geo-targeted advertising are described. A technique may include displaying a map to an advertiser at a first zoom level. The advertiser may stay at the first zoom level or change to a...	22-Dec-2011
632	US 2011/0313851 A1 patent application	Tool for analysis of advertising auctions A tool for off-line experimentation with auction parameters for auctions for an ad space. The tool computes, using historical bid information, values per click to advertisers competing for the ad space. The...	22-Dec-2011
633	US 2011/0313848 A1 patent application	Metadata-enabled dynamic updates of online advertisements Systems, methods, and computer media for dynamically updating online advertisements and providing updated online advertisements are provided. An object-oriented online advertisement is provided that has...	22-Dec-2011
634	US 2011/0314085 A1 patent application	Offline modification of business data Concepts and technologies for offline modification of business data are disclosed. A client device caches a cached version of business data. A business connectivity services (“BCS”) application executing on the...	22-Dec-2011
635	US 2011/0314041 A1 patent application	Community authoring content generation and navigation One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for creating socially authored, or community authored, summaries of documents and/or for navigating a forum comprising such summaries. In one embodiment, at...	22-Dec-2011
636	US 2011/0314030 A1 patent application	Personalized media charts Personalized media charts are described. In embodiments, a request can be received for a personalized media chart that lists media assets as recommendations in a relevant order for a user. The media assets are...	22-Dec-2011
637	US 2011/0313994 A1 patent application	Content personalization based on user information A particular method of content personalization based on user information includes receiving data representing an information retrieval task. The data is received at a server from a computing device associated...	22-Dec-2011
638	US 2011/0314544 A1 patent application	Evaluating shell code findings Concepts and technologies are described herein for evaluating shellcode findings. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, shellcode findings can be evaluated to determine if the...	22-Dec-2011
639	US 2011/0314412 A1 patent application	Compositing application content and system content for display Application content and system content are composited to create composited frames for display by drawing foreground application content into an application buffer, building a reconstruction buffer, drawing...	22-Dec-2011
640	US 2011/0314445 A1 patent application	User augmented reverse engineering Disclosed herein is user augmented reverse engineering, where, in one embodiment, during the generation of a graphical representation of a codebase, database, binary and the like, users may be provided with an...	22-Dec-2011
641	US 2011/0314555 A1 patent application	Abstractions and automation for enhanced sharing and collaboration The present invention provides methods for using abstractions of people, including dynamic and static groups of people, to enhance the efficiency of the specification and automation of policies for sharing...	22-Dec-2011
642	US 2011/0310233 A1 patent application	Optimization of a Multi-View Display Described herein is a multi-view display (based on spatial and/or temporal multiplexing) having an optimization mechanism that dynamically adjust views based upon detected state changes with respect to one or...	22-Dec-2011
643	US 2011/0309956 A1 patent application	Low power sensing via resistive sensor matrix Embodiments are disclosed that relate to input devices. In one embodiment, an input device comprises a sensor matrix having first and second pluralities of conductors, a plurality of first resistors, a...	22-Dec-2011
644	US 2011/0310002 A1 patent application	Free space directional force feedback apparatus A directional feedback device generating a directional force feedback in free space. The device includes a force generation structure including a rotatable mass creating a physical force vector in three...	22-Dec-2011
645	US 2011/0310118 A1 patent application	Ink Lag Compensation Techniques Ink lag compensation techniques are described. In implementations, an input is recognized by a computing device as an ink stroke to be rendered on a display device of the computing device. An extension is...	22-Dec-2011
646	US 2011/0310088 A1 patent application	Personalized navigation through virtual 3d environments Personalized navigation technique embodiments are presented that generally involve providing personalized navigation through a virtual three-dimensional (3D) environment. In one general embodiment this is...	22-Dec-2011
647	US 2011/0310220 A1 patent application	Depth camera illuminator with superluminescent light-emitting diode A depth camera illuminator with a superluminescent light-emitting diode (SLED) in a motion tracking system. One or more SLEDs have a sufficient power, such as 75-200 milliwatts, to extend in a field of view in...	22-Dec-2011
648	US 2011/0310891 A1 patent application	Merchant powered click-to-call method A method is disclosed for enhancing the predictability, scalability and cost effectiveness of online advertising with voice over IP connectivity and event tracking technologies. A service provider maintains a...	22-Dec-2011
649	US 2011/0311144 A1 patent application	Rgb/Depth camera for improving speech recognition A system and method are disclosed for facilitating speech recognition through the processing of visual speech cues. These speech cues may include the position of the lips, tongue and/or teeth during speech. In...	22-Dec-2011
650	US 2011/0313805 A1 patent application	Customizable user interface including contact and business management features Embodiments provide aspects of a workspace interface that includes a number of customizable business role workspaces, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides a number of...	22-Dec-2011
651	US 2011/0313553 A1 patent application	Predictive resampler scheduler algorithm A predictive resampler scheduler algorithm may be provided. An audio frame may be received from a producer. The audio frame may be transmitted to a consumer and a delay between receiving the audio frame and...	22-Dec-2011
652	US 2011/0313847 A1 patent application	Mapping identifiers Systems and methods for mapping identifiers are provided. Activity logs illustrate activities and/or events associated with a plurality of identifiers. The identifiers may be registered identifiers,...	22-Dec-2011
653	US 2011/0314048 A1 patent application	Social network user list detection and searching Within a social network, users may define user lists comprising users who share a semantic nexus. The creation and updating of user lists may be detected by monitoring the messages of users to detect list...	22-Dec-2011
654	US 2011/0314127 A1 patent application	Quick deploy of content Non-administrators selectively move content from a source network to a destination network. The source network includes a deployment server that can deploy an item and its dependencies (if any) listed in a...	22-Dec-2011
655	US 2011/0314017 A1 patent application	Techniques to automatically manage social connections Techniques to manage social connections are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The memory may be arranged to store a social analysis component that when...	22-Dec-2011
656	US 2011/0313968 A1 patent application	Hyperlocal smoothing Concepts and technologies are described herein for hyperlocal smoothing. The hyperlocal smoothing solutions described herein provide a smooth view of data and events across hyperlocal geographic areas by...	22-Dec-2011
657	US 2011/0313993 A1 patent application	Grammar compression Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars include a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class...	22-Dec-2011
658	US 2011/0314279 A1 patent application	Single-Use Authentication Methods for Accessing Encrypted Data Single-use authentication methods for accessing encrypted data stored on a protected volume of a computer are described, wherein access to the encrypted data involves decrypting a key protector stored on the...	22-Dec-2011
659	US 2011/0314370 A1 patent application	Tiered pageview generation for computing devices A page controller module is provided for generating a pageview on a computing device according to a page definition that identifies a plurality of blocks corresponding to the pageview. In response to the page...	22-Dec-2011
660	US 2011/0314381 A1 patent application	Natural user input for driving interactive stories A system and method are disclosed for combining interactive gaming aspects into a linear story. A user may interact with the linear story via a NUI system to alter the story and the images that are presented to...	22-Dec-2011
661	US 2011/0314482 A1 patent application	System for universal mobile data A system and method is disclosed aggregating and organizing a user's cloud data in an encompassing system, and then exposing the sum-total of that cloud data to application programs via a common API. Such a...	22-Dec-2011
662	US 2011/0314543 A1 patent application	System state based diagnostic scan In some embodiments, a local agent on a target system may evaluate current and/or historical system state information from a store (either local or remote) and dynamically adjust the level of diagnosis...	22-Dec-2011
663	US 2011/0314408 A1 patent application	Method and system for operating multiple web pages with anti-spoofing protection Method and system for operating tabbed browsing with anti-spoofing protection. Tabbed browsing operates to detect pop-up dialogs sent from malicious web pages operating in a background browser. Keystrokes and...	22-Dec-2011
664	US 2011/0314460 A1 patent application	Compile time interpretation of markup codes The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for compile time interpretation of markup codes. Embodiments of the invention can be used to specify custom behaviors to be taken...	22-Dec-2011
665	US 2011/0310007 A1 patent application	Item navigation using motion-capture data A system and method is provided for using motion-capture data to control navigating of a cursor in a user interface of a computing system. Movement of a user's hand or other object in a three-dimensional...	22-Dec-2011
666	US 2011/0310117 A1 patent application	Localized layout and routing in an interactive diagramming system Embodiments are directed to determining an appropriate neighborhood region for updating a node layout of an interactive diagramming system. A computer system receives an input indicating at least one change to...	22-Dec-2011
667	US 2011/0310872 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...	22-Dec-2011
668	US 2011/0313817 A1 patent application	Key performance indicator weighting The relative priorities or weightings of key performance indicators (KPIs) are objectively evaluated for a web service to facilitate determining where efforts should be made in improving the web service. A...	22-Dec-2011
669	US 2011/0313648 A1 patent application	Probabilistic Map Matching From A Plurality Of Observational And Contextual Factors Systems, methods, and devices are described for implementing map matching techniques relating to measured location data. Probabilistic models, including temporal Bayesian network models and Hidden Markov...	22-Dec-2011
670	US 2011/0313857 A1 patent application	User centric real-time advertisement bidding A client-based ad agent dynamically determines whether an advertisement campaign should bid on an impression for an end user and/or sets the bid price of the advertisement campaign for the impression. When an...	22-Dec-2011
671	US 2011/0313846 A1 patent application	Including personalized content in an advertisement The present invention is directed to personalizing an advertisement. In an exemplary embodiment, ad-rendering instructions are received that, when executed, prompt retrieval of user-specific information (e.g.,...	22-Dec-2011
672	US 2011/0314047 A1 patent application	Subscription for integrating external data from external system Technologies are described herein for integrating external data from an external system into a client system. A subscription filed is selected. The subscription filed may include a read method and a query...	22-Dec-2011
673	US 2011/0314043 A1 patent application	Full-fidelity representation of xml-represented objects A data structure may exist in various representations, such as an object in an object-oriented system or a set of elements included in an extensible markup language (XML) document structured according to an XML...	22-Dec-2011
674	US 2011/0314153 A1 patent application	Networked device authentication, pairing and resource sharing A system and method are disclosed for pairing computing devices using an authentication protocol that allows an initiating computing device to gain access to a secure, encrypted network of a target computing...	22-Dec-2011
675	US 2011/0314168 A1 patent application	System for interaction of paired devices A system and method are disclosed for setting interactions between paired computing devices. Paired devices may interact in a master-slave relationship, where the slave device is an intelligent computing device...	22-Dec-2011
676	US 2011/0314018 A1 patent application	Entity category determination Summaries of entities (e.g., people, places, things, concepts, etc.) may provide additional useful information to user. For example, a search engine may provide a summary of an entity within search results. A...	22-Dec-2011
677	US 2011/0313992 A1 patent application	Generating Search Result Summaries Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of...	22-Dec-2011
678	US 2011/0314270 A1 patent application	Encrypted network traffic interception and inspection A method of operating a computing device that allows inspecting data that the device attempts to transmit over a network in an encrypted form for presence of malware, viruses or confidential information. The...	22-Dec-2011
679	US 2011/0314230 A1 patent application	Action framework in software transactional memory A software transactional memory system implements a lightweight key-based action framework. The framework includes a set of unified application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by an STM library that allow...	22-Dec-2011
680	US 2011/0314366 A1 patent application	Integrating a web-based crm system with a pim client application A customer relationship management (CRM) system utilizes a form definition, user interface (UI) definitions, and UI code to generate Web pages for interacting with CRM data. A CRM plug-in is configured to...	22-Dec-2011
681	US 2011/0314380 A1 patent application	Extensible video insertion control Extensible video insertion control is described. In embodiments, a media asset is received to render as video for display. Mapped video data is also received that identifies object insertion spaces in the media...	22-Dec-2011
682	US 2011/0314326 A1 patent application	Monitoring service endpoints Today, data networks are ever increasing in size and complexity. For example, a datacenter may comprise hundreds of thousands of service endpoints configured to perform work. To reduce network wide degradation,...	22-Dec-2011
683	US 2011/0314528 A1 patent application	Techniques to modify and share binary content when disconnected from a network Techniques to modify and share binary objects when disconnected from a network are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory. The memory may be operative to store a media annotation...	22-Dec-2011
684	US 2011/0314395 A1 patent application	Sequential and non-sequential access to records within a list The disclosure provided herein allows a user of a web application to sequentially or non-sequentially open records from a single or multi-page list across page boundaries without leaving the current viewing...	22-Dec-2011
685	US 2011/0314407 A1 patent application	Custom visualizations in tab groups A multi-document application that includes a multi-document interface that includes a view area that displays one document at a time and includes a tab group element that displays tabs, each tab having a...	22-Dec-2011
686	US 2011/0314461 A1 patent application	Implementing parallel loops with serial semantics The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing parallel loops with serial semantics. Embodiments of the invention provide a semantic transforms and codegen...	22-Dec-2011
687	US 2011/0314553 A1 patent application	Location enabled bookmark and profile Location based profiles are used to modify the configuration of a computing device based on a detected location. The location based profiles allow features such as cameras to be enabled and disabled. Physical...	22-Dec-2011
688	US 2011/0310031 A1 patent application	Stylus settings Stylus settings techniques are described. In implementations, an input is recognized as selecting at least one object displayed in a user interface by a display device of a computing device. Responsive to the...	22-Dec-2011
689	US 2011/0311104 A1 patent application	Multi-Stage Linear Structure from Motion Described is a linear structure from motion technique that is scalable, parallelizable, treats images equally, and is robust to outliers, without requiring intermediate bundle adjustment. Camera rotations for...	22-Dec-2011
690	US 2011/0312374 A1 patent application	Mobile and server-side computational photography Automated photographic capture assistance and analysis is effectuated to assist users in capturing sufficient and optimal images of a desired image scene for use in a photographic end product. Photographic...	22-Dec-2011
691	US 2011/0313548 A1 patent application	Event Prediction Using Hierarchical Event Features Event prediction using hierarchical event features is described. In an embodiment a search engine monitors search results presented to users and whether users click on those search results. For example,...	22-Dec-2011
692	US 2011/0313807 A1 patent application	Dimensionality reduction for global advertisement inventory optimization Computer-readable media for determining whether to accept a candidate order from an advertiser, to display a particular number of advertisements within a specified time segment are provided. Initially, the...	22-Dec-2011
693	US 2011/0313766 A1 patent application	Identification of people using multiple types of input Systems and methods for detecting people or speakers in an automated fashion are disclosed. A pool of features including more than one type of input (like audio input and video input) may be identified and used...	22-Dec-2011
694	US 2011/0313779 A1 patent application	Augmentation and correction of location based data through user feedback User feedback such as “crowd sourcing” is utilized for supplementing and correcting augmented location information like augmented maps and/or street view images. User feedback on missing or incorrect...	22-Dec-2011
695	US 2011/0313582 A1 patent application	Classifying devices by fingerprinting voltage and current consumption Architecture that automatically classifies and identifies devices via device “fingerprints” once plugged into a power receptacle. A digital sample of electrical information such as current or current and...	22-Dec-2011
696	US 2011/0313834 A1 patent application	Eliciting social search responses from sponsoring agents A user may submit to a set of users a query relating to a commercial transaction, and may evaluate the responses provided therefrom. However, the set of users may include vendors or their representatives who...	22-Dec-2011
697	US 2011/0313832 A1 patent application	Pricing in social advertising Online recommendations are tracked through a forwarding service. The forwarding service can provide such statistics to an ad service, which can provide incentives to the recommending user and a consuming user....	22-Dec-2011
698	US 2011/0313845 A1 patent application	Learning Display Parameters to Maximize Advertising Revenue In one embodiment, an evolving advertising system automatically optimizes internet advertising. A data storage unit 250 may store an evolving advertisement unit 320 with an advertisement characteristic...	22-Dec-2011
699	US 2011/0313953 A1 patent application	Automated Classification Pipeline Tuning Under Mobile Device Resource Constraints An architecture and techniques to enable a mobile device to efficiently classify raw sensor data into useful high level inferred data is discussed. Classification efficiency is achieved by tuning the mobile...	22-Dec-2011
700	US 2011/0314011 A1 patent application	Automatically generating training data Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate generating binary classifier and entity extractor training data. Seed URLs are selected and URL patterns within the seed URLs are...	22-Dec-2011

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