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1	US 2012/0028615 A1 patent application	Two-way communication of events between a mobile device and remote client The present application allows two-way communication between a remote client and a mobile device, such as a mobile phone. User's can be informed of phone events in real time, regardless of their proximity to...	02-Feb-2012
2	US 2012/0030317 A1 patent application	Capture of Content from Dynamic Resource Services Methods are described which enable processing of resources originally accessed by a content access operation. An identifier is generated and used to augment all requests for resources which relate to a...	02-Feb-2012
3	US 2012/0026917 A1 patent application	Server-centric high performance network architecture for modular data centers Disclosed are systems and methods for network architecture that is a server-centric network architectural design.	02-Feb-2012
4	US 2012/0030178 A1 patent application	Interfaces for high availability systems and log shipping Architecture for replicating a database through log shipping. A replication service replicates data using one or more new internal application program interfaces (APIs), a replay configuration API which...	02-Feb-2012
5	US 2012/0030200 A1 patent application	Topics in relevance ranking model for web search Described is a technology by which topics corresponding to web pages are used in relevance ranking of those pages. Topics are extracted from each web page of a set of web pages that are found via a query. For...	02-Feb-2012
6	US 2012/0030206 A1 patent application	Employing Topic Models for Semantic Class Mining A topic modeling architecture is used to discover high-quality semantic classes from a large collection of raw semantic classes (RASCs) for use in generating responses to queries. A specific semantic class is...	02-Feb-2012
7	US 2012/0030338 A1 patent application	Web page load time prediction and simulation Embodiments of automated cloud service performance prediction are disclosed. The automated cloud service performance prediction includes extracting a parental dependency graph (PDG) for a webpage. The PDG...	02-Feb-2012
8	US 2012/0030473 A1 patent application	Unique block header patterns for media verification Authenticating the source of digital media is performed by using unique, randomly generated variably encoded frequency patterns to create mastering specific, profiles for sets end user media which can be...	02-Feb-2012
9	US 2012/0026178 A1 patent application	Raw image processing A system, a method and computer-readable media for processing raw image data with a graphics processing unit (GPU). Raw image data generated by an imaging sensor is received. A set of instructions for...	02-Feb-2012
10	US 2012/0026992 A1 patent application	Energy-Efficient On-The-Fly Wi-Fi Hotspot Using Mobile Devices One or more mobile devices and a cloud server computing device are utilized to provide Internet access to one or more client computing devices. One of the clients is designated as a Wi-Fi access point. The...	02-Feb-2012
11	US 2012/0030609 A1 patent application	Virtual keyboard text replication Text that is selected at a virtual keyboard is submitted to and displayed at an application data field and is echoed at a keyboard data field that is in relatively close proximity to virtual keys used to select...	02-Feb-2012
12	US 2012/0030674 A1 patent application	Non-Disruptive, Reliable Live Migration of Virtual Machines with Network Data Reception Directly into Virtual Machines' Memory Techniques are disclosed for the non-disruptive and reliable live migration of a virtual machine (VM) from a source host to a target host, where network data is placed directly into the VM's memory. When a live...	02-Feb-2012
13	US 2012/0028610 A1 patent application	Privacy-enabled telephone directory A privacy-enabled telephone directory is disclosed that is implemented through a contact facilitator. The contact facilitator receives a contact request from a caller which includes the name of the party to be...	02-Feb-2012
14	US 2012/0029938 A1 patent application	Anonymous Healthcare and Records System Described herein is using cryptographic techniques (anonymous proof systems) to ensure the anonymity of health records when processing payment claims related to insurers and pharmacies. A patient receives a...	02-Feb-2012
15	US 2012/0030169 A1 patent application	Application instance and query stores An instance persistence command for an update to a state of an instance of an application can be issued. In response to the persistence command, a transaction with an instance store can be initiated. As part of...	02-Feb-2012
16	US 2012/0030325 A1 patent application	Wireless synchronization of media content and subscription content Arrangements are provided which use a host computer to configure a wireless portable device's network connection parameters. The radio on the portable device may be used to help locate nearby accessible...	02-Feb-2012
17	US 2012/0027250 A1 patent application	Data difference guided image capturing Methods and apparatuses are disclosed. Previously stored images of one or more geographic areas may be viewed by online users. A new low-resolution image may be acquired and aspects of the new low-resolution...	02-Feb-2012
18	US 2012/0027313 A1 patent application	Line and pixel based methods for intra frame coding Images can be coded based on filters defined by filter coefficients or weights assigned to previously decoded pixel values of nearby lines. The filter coefficients can be selected based on evaluation of a set...	02-Feb-2012
19	US 2012/0028806 A1 patent application	Method For Planar Implementation Of PI/8 Gate In Chiral Topological Superconductors Disclosed herein is a topologically protected π/8-gate which becomes universal when combined with the gates available through quasi-particle braiding and planar quasi-particle interferometry. A twisted...	02-Feb-2012
20	US 2012/0029906 A1 patent application	Language Detection Service Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text...	02-Feb-2012
21	US 2012/0026085 A1 patent application	Image contrast enhancement in depth sensor Embodiments related to the enhancement of contrast in an image pattern in a structured light depth sensor are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides, in a structured light depth sensor system...	02-Feb-2012
22	US 2012/0028687 A1 patent application	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...	02-Feb-2012
23	US 2012/0030749 A1 patent application	Dynamic load redistribution among distributed servers Embodiments are directed to redistributing authentication requests among a plurality of authentication servers and to centrally managing authentication affinities among distributed servers using a secure...	02-Feb-2012
24	US 2012/0030227 A1 patent application	System of providing suggestions based on accessible and contextual information A system and method for offering suggestions to a user of a mobile computing device based on information relevant to the user and a context data. The mobile computing device has access to lists of data...	02-Feb-2012
25	US 2012/0030252 A1 patent application	Modeling recurring events in a data store Time-related properties may be modeled independent of a base object. Rather than storing time properties with the object, they may be stored independently. A given object may be stored once, even if it has a...	02-Feb-2012
26	US 2012/0030333 A1 patent application	Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Streaming Overlay Construction and Optimization This document describes a directed graph model using a peer-to-peer overlay structure and a gossip-based protocol to maintain the distributed membership. A protocol suite for peers to join the live streaming...	02-Feb-2012
27	US 2012/0030355 A1 patent application	Dynamically allocating index server resources to partner entities A provisioning system is described for dynamically and automatically allocating index server resources to different respective uses. For example, the provisioning system can allocate index server resources...	02-Feb-2012
28	US 2012/0027011 A1 patent application	Intelligent formatting of voip telephone numbers A system and method are disclosed for intelligent formatting of VoIP telephone numbers. The intelligent VoIP formatting system includes a presentation and user interface layer, an E.164 formatting engine, a...	02-Feb-2012
29	US 2012/0027242 A1 patent application	Adjustable earphone and earphone set An earphone comprises an inner shell, a stem and a pivot connection. The inner shell has a generally circular periphery shaped to at least partially fit in a user's concha. The stem is mounted to the inner...	02-Feb-2012
30	US 2012/0030167 A1 patent application	Data migration for service upgrades Embodiments are directed to efficiently migrating data from one version of a service to another version and to temporarily transitioning a user to a different service for evaluation. A computer system...	02-Feb-2012
31	US 2012/0030277 A1 patent application	Preview publishing of reports Described are embodiments directed to providing a preview feature in a report designer that allows modifications to report metadata to be made and previewed accurately. In embodiments, the feature allows a user...	02-Feb-2012
32	US 8106909 B2 patent document	Common key frame caching for a remote user interface Common key frames are provided to a client during initialization to provide more efficient remoting of user interface graphical information. By storing the common key frames at the client, the common key frames...	31-Jan-2012
33	US 8107531 B2 patent document	Signaling and repeat padding for skip frames A video codec efficiently signals that a frame is identical to its reference frame, such that separate coding of its picture content is skipped. Information that a frame is skipped is represented jointly in a...	31-Jan-2012
34	US 8108345 B2 patent document	Managing rich presence collections in a single request A method and system for increasing the computational and network efficiency of presence servers having collections of publications is provided. The presence system uses several techniques that enable a presence...	31-Jan-2012
35	US 8108466 B2 patent document	Automated offloading of user-defined functions to a high performance computing system Technologies are described herein for the automated offloading of the execution of a user-defined function (“UDF”) to a high performance computing (“HPC”) system. When a request is received to calculate a...	31-Jan-2012
36	US 8108587 B2 patent document	Free-space reduction in cached database pages A computing system stores a database comprising pages. Each of the pages is the same size. When a page is requested, a block of virtual memory addresses is associated with the page and a set of physical data...	31-Jan-2012
37	US 8108785 B2 patent document	Supporting user multi-tasking with clipping lists A method for managing windows in a display is disclosed. The method comprises forming clippings for windows located in a focal region of a display; displaying the clippings in a peripheral region of the...	31-Jan-2012
38	US 8108848 B2 patent document	Automatic and transparent memoization Functions are memoized automatically and transparently. Memoized code can be injected automatically within a program to facilitate efficient and/or expeditious execution thereof, among other things. The...	31-Jan-2012
39	US 8107642 B2 patent document	Spatial noise suppression for a microphone array A noise reduction system and a method of noise reduction includes a microphone array comprising a first microphone, a second microphone, and a third microphone. Each microphone has a known position and a known...	31-Jan-2012
40	US 8107758 B2 patent document	Block based image processing Block based image processing techniques are described in which one or more processing filters are applied to an image block by block. One or more filters are identified to process an image. Attributes are...	31-Jan-2012
41	US 8108388 B2 patent document	Significant change search alerts An alert search mechanism is used with search engines such as a crawler to search for desired documents and/or resources. Particular documents are found by using search queries. The search mechanism track...	31-Jan-2012
42	US 8108399 B2 patent document	Filtering of multi attribute data via on-demand indexing Systems and methods that employ auxiliary data structures in form of indexes (e.g., slice indexes) to process incoming queries in query retrieval systems (e.g., Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)...	31-Jan-2012
43	US 8108421 B2 patent document	Query throttling during query translation A computer determines whether an original query expressed in an initial query language includes clauses unsupported by a target query language. If so, the computer separates the original query into a...	31-Jan-2012
44	US 8108288 B2 patent document	Distributed reverse auction A distributed reverse auction allows an auction to end when a dealer is first in time to accept a bid. A purchaser creates an account that relates to a specified purchase. The purchaser places bids at different...	31-Jan-2012
45	US 8108343 B2 patent document	De-duplication and completeness in multi-log based replication Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to multi-log based replication. In aspects, database fragments are associated with different logs. Each change to a duplicated database record may be...	31-Jan-2012
46	US 8108497 B2 patent document	Selective enablement of runtime-based application behaviors A system and method for deploying software from a central location to a plurality of remote install sites. The system includes a network-accessible server system and a plurality of computing devices. Based on...	31-Jan-2012
47	US 8108578 B2 patent document	Hidden desktop director for an adaptive device A computing system with an adaptive input mechanism that facilitates intuitive and powerful user/computer interaction is disclosed. One example embodiment includes a logic subsystem, a display link configured...	31-Jan-2012
48	US D653262 S1 patent document	Display screen with an icon	31-Jan-2012
49	US 8108221 B2 patent document	Mixed lossless audio compression A mixed lossless audio compression has application to a unified lossy and lossless audio compression scheme that combines lossy and lossless audio compression within a same audio signal. The mixed lossless...	31-Jan-2012
50	US 8108362 B2 patent document	Secure content descriptions The invention describes a control node for a content distribution network and a method of automatically verifying content distributed over a network at a node in the network. In the method, a content...	31-Jan-2012
51	US 8108513 B2 patent document	Remote monitoring of local behavior of network applications Computer-executable instructions comprising some or all of a program can be delivered to a client for execution on a real-time basis such that the client receives anew the computer-executable instructions for...	31-Jan-2012
52	US 8108540 B2 patent document	Envelope attachment for message context A system for aggregating context information for messages. The system includes a context container. The context container associates names with context values and metadata for context entries. The system...	31-Jan-2012
53	US 8108711 B2 patent document	Systems and methods for hosting and testing services over a network Communication symmetry is leveraged to facilitate testing of network services. To identify, isolate, understand, and resolve problems a test client is employed. In accordance with one aspect, a service can be...	31-Jan-2012
54	US 8108791 B2 patent document	Multi-screen user interface A user interface and techniques for presenting content in a multiple virtual screens are described. The user interface has one or more multiple virtual screen to define separate and distinct portions of content...	31-Jan-2012
55	US 8108920 B2 patent document	Passive client single sign-on for web applications A system provides single sign-on capabilities for accessing a Web application through a passive client across multiple realms within a federation. A federation refers to different organizations or realms that...	31-Jan-2012
56	US 8107469 B2 patent document	Enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device A system and method for enabling routing of data on a network based on a portion of data accessed from a non-network enabled device is disclosed. The technology includes a method for enabling routing of data on...	31-Jan-2012
57	US 8107571 B2 patent document	Parameterized filters and signaling techniques Filter taps for filters are specified by filter coefficient parameters. The filter taps are greater in number than the coefficient parameters from which the filter taps are calculated. For example, two...	31-Jan-2012
58	US 8107939 B2 patent document	Software defined radio architecture A computing device with a software defined radio. The software defined radio has an architecture with separate components to provide control functions and data processing functions. The control components...	31-Jan-2012
59	US 8108396 B2 patent document	Techniques for specifying and collecting data aggregations Data records containing one or more fields, which can be considered keys and/or values, are received, and processed such that data values of records that contain key values of interest are aggregated together....	31-Jan-2012
60	US 8108767 B2 patent document	Electronic data interchange transaction set definition based instance editing An EDI document instance is generated or edited via an editor tool that also displays a corresponding EDI schema, thus allowing editing of an EDI document instance alongside its corresponding EDI schema,...	31-Jan-2012
61	US 8108899 B2 patent document	Interactive entertainment system for presenting supplemental interactive content together with continuous video programs An interactive entertainment system enables presentation of supplemental interactive content along side traditional broadcast video programs, such as television shows and movies. The programs are broadcast in a...	31-Jan-2012
62	US 8107671 B2 patent document	Script detection service Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made as to which human writing system is associated with individual text characters in a string of one or more text...	31-Jan-2012
63	US 8108205 B2 patent document	Leveraging back-off grammars for authoring context-free grammars A system and method of refining context-free grammars (CFGs). The method includes deriving back-off grammar (BOG) rules from an initially developed CFG and utilizing the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to...	31-Jan-2012
64	US 8108430 B2 patent document	Carousel control for metadata navigation and assignment A property tree user interface permits user assignment of values to metadata properties and user navigation of data, within a system that includes a data storage subsystem in which data items are organized and...	31-Jan-2012
65	US 8108441 B2 patent document	Efficient creation, storage, and provision of web-viewable documents A system and method are disclosed for providing a resource, such as a document, to a client computing device. A request is received at a server from the client for particular named objects representing a...	31-Jan-2012
66	US 8108450 B2 patent document	Aggregation of write traffic to a data store A method and a processing device are provided for sequentially aggregating data to a write log included in a volume of a random-access medium. When data of a received write request is determined to be suitable...	31-Jan-2012
67	US 8108483 B2 patent document	System and method for generating a consistent user namespace on networked devices A system and method for implementing a consistent user name-space on networked computing devices is provided. When a network connection between a local or host computing device and one or more remote computing...	31-Jan-2012
68	US 8108548 B2 patent document	Methodology and system for file replication based on a peergroup The claimed invention adapts an existing operating system native replication service component to interface with a general application running on a peer-to-peer network. The claimed invention provides the...	31-Jan-2012
69	US 8108612 B2 patent document	Location updates for a distributed data store Version indicators within an existing range can be associated with a data partition in a distributed data store. A partition reconfiguration can be associated with one of multiple partitions in the data store,...	31-Jan-2012
70	US 8108623 B2 patent document	Poll based cache event notifications in a distributed cache Systems and methods that supply poll based notification system in a distributed cache, for tracking changes to cache items. Local caches on the client can employ the notification system to keep the local...	31-Jan-2012
71	US 8108777 B2 patent document	Sections of a presentation having user-definable properties In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a...	31-Jan-2012
72	US 8108799 B2 patent document	Remoting of windows presentation framework based applications in a non-composed desktop Described are systems and methods for remoting applications, such as those based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). The systems and methods are based on remoting information associated with a structural...	31-Jan-2012
73	US 8108248 B2 patent document	Market design for a resource exchange system Providing a market design for a peer-to-peer resource exchange system. Prices for a plurality of resources such as storage space, upload bandwidth, and download bandwidth are calculated and balanced based on...	31-Jan-2012
74	US 8108361 B2 patent document	Efficient column based data encoding for large-scale data storage The subject disclosure relates to column based data encoding where raw data to be compressed is organized by columns, and then, as first and second layers of reduction of the data size, dictionary encoding...	31-Jan-2012
75	US 8108398 B2 patent document	Auto-summary generator and filter A system that facilitates data presentation and management includes at least one database to store a corpus of data relating to one or more topics. The system further includes a summarizer component to...	31-Jan-2012
76	US 8108787 B2 patent document	Distributing input events to multiple applications in an interactive media environment In an interactive media environment, input events are distributed to a plurality of applications where each application includes zero or more script components and zero or more markup files and has a Z order...	31-Jan-2012
77	US 8108831 B2 patent document	Iterative component binding Component domains used to define a binding between various components associated with the component domain. The component domain tracks the various services to be imported by each component, and tracks the...	31-Jan-2012
78	US 8108868 B2 patent document	Workflow execution plans through completion condition critical path analysis Optimizing workflow execution. A method includes identifying a completion condition. The completion condition is specified as part of the overall workflow. The method further includes identifying a number of...	31-Jan-2012
79	US 8108360 B2 patent document	Database object update order determination In one embodiment, a computer system receives an indication that a portion of data at a first node in a first database table is to be modified according to a received update command. The computer system assigns...	31-Jan-2012
80	US 8108371 B2 patent document	Web engine search preview Presenting both hyperlinks and thumbnail versions of search engine results is described in this application. More specifically, a graphical user interface (GUI) having multiple display areas is described. One...	31-Jan-2012
81	US 8108902 B2 patent document	System and method for local machine zone lockdown with relation to a network browser A method and system for locking down a local machine zone associated with a network browser is provided. Placing the local machine zone in a lockdown mode provides stricter security settings that are applied to...	31-Jan-2012
82	US 2012/0023162 A1 patent application	Executing Business Logic Extensions on a Client Computing System A server platform exposes server-hosted application services to client applications. Calls to the server-hosted application services may be executed along with custom business logic extensions. A client...	26-Jan-2012
83	US 2012/0023423 A1 patent application	Orientation free user interface A dynamically orientable graphical user interface (GUI) can include user input controls that are configured to receive user input. The GUI can be displayed as a band around a perimeter of a horizontally...	26-Jan-2012
84	US 2012/0023456 A1 patent application	Interactive image matting A user interface enables interactive image matting to be performed on an image The user interface may provide results including an alpha matte as feedback in real time. The user interface may provide...	26-Jan-2012
85	US 2012/0023492 A1 patent application	Workload interference estimation and performance optimization Architecture that facilitates the estimation of interference among workloads (e.g., virtual machines) due to sharing of a shared resource (e.g., a shared cache of a computer processor), and optimization of a...	26-Jan-2012
86	US 2012/0021815 A1 patent application	Motivational Deployment Mechanism For Networked Systems The described implementations relate to networked or distributed systems and more particularly to providing motivation for deployment of networked systems. One technique gathers a solicitation hierarchy in a...	26-Jan-2012
87	US 2012/0022962 A1 patent application	Ecommerce marketplace integration techniques Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for integrating ecommerce marketplaces. An ecommerce integration framework has definitions for common data entities that are commonly used by multiple ecommerce...	26-Jan-2012
88	US 2012/0023487 A1 patent application	Measuring actual end user performance and availability of web applications Techniques for monitoring web application performance are provided. A request for a web application is received at an application server. A response pipeline at the application server generates client...	26-Jan-2012
89	US 2012/0019513 A1 patent application	3d layering of map metadata Techniques and tools are described for rendering views of a map in which map metadata elements are layered in 3D space through which a viewer navigates. Layering of metadata elements such as text labels in 3D...	26-Jan-2012
90	US 2012/0023101 A1 patent application	Smart defaults for data visualizations Smart defaults are provided for data visualization by creating a default layout of rows, columns, filters, and comparable elements that improve a user's experience in finding relevant answers within the data....	26-Jan-2012
91	US 2012/0023442 A1 patent application	Dynamic user interface for previewing live content A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the...	26-Jan-2012
92	US 2012/0019789 A1 patent application	Rear-projection display Various embodiments related to rear-projection image display are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a projector for projecting an image and a screen configured to display the image. The...	26-Jan-2012
93	US 2012/0023081 A1 patent application	Customizing search home pages using interest indicators Methods and systems for utilizing images of interest to a user, so far as they relate to recent, current or upcoming events, to generate custom search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request...	26-Jan-2012
94	US 2012/0023595 A1 patent application	Method for updating data in accordance with rights management policy Disclosed is a computerized system and method for dynamically applying a rights management policy to a message by allowing an administrator to associate certain rights management policies with certain senders...	26-Jan-2012
95	US 2012/0020409 A1 patent application	Estimating sample-domain distortion in the transform domain with rounding compensation Techniques and tools are described for compensating for rounding when estimating sample-domain distortion in the transform domain. For example, a video encoder estimates pixel-domain distortion in the transform...	26-Jan-2012
96	US 2012/0023093 A1 patent application	Extraction of rich search information from index servers via an alternative asynchronous data path A search engine system is described herein that provides an alternative data path for collecting results provided by index servers. The alternative data path collects the results in a direct and asynchronous...	26-Jan-2012
97	US 2012/0020554 A1 patent application	Variable kernel size image matting Image matting is performed on an image having a specified foreground region, a background region and an unknown region by selecting a kernel size based on a size of the unknown region. The matting processing is...	26-Jan-2012
98	US 2012/0021838 A1 patent application	Automatic Delivery of Digital Content to a Computing Device Automatic downloading of digital content to a computing device is provided. Digital content that is available from a remote content server is checked to determine if any digital content matches criteria...	26-Jan-2012
99	US 2012/0022850 A1 patent application	Statistical machine translation processing A method of statistical machine translation (SMT) is provided. The method comprises generating reordering knowledge based on the syntax of a source language (SL) and a number of alignment matrices that map...	26-Jan-2012
100	US 2012/0022948 A1 patent application	Advertising framework for wireless networks Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points or...	26-Jan-2012

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