Microsoft Patent Applications

OBJECT FOR PRE- TO POST-MEETING COLLABORATION

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112142
Traditionally, meetings are widely utilized in business and personal communications, whether in-person and/or virtual. Organizing such meetings typically involves multiple exchanges of content and messages between users before, during, and after the meeting. In some cases, meetings may occur impromptu and may result in inefficient and unproductive collaboration. A collaboration object configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate before, during, and after a meeting is provided.…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CRITICAL SEQUENCES OF ACTIONS CAUSING PREDETERMINED EVENTS DURING APPLICATION OPERATIONS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111577
A system and method to collect an actions list of action sequences in an application leading to a predetermined resulting event, create pairs of the action sequences, apply a fitting alignment to the action sequence pairs to create fitted action sequence pairs, wherein non-matching data between fitted action sequences of each pair is replaced with gaps to ensure that the first and second fitted action sequences are of equal length and are aligned with one another with the gaps being…

GENERATING AND USING A SEMANTIC INDEX

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104103
Methods and systems for generating and using a semantic index are provided. In some examples, content data is received. The content data includes a plurality of subsets of content data. Each of the plurality of subsets of content data are labelled, based on a semantic context corresponding to the content data. The plurality of subsets of content data and their corresponding labels are stored. The plurality of subsets of content data are grouped, based on their labels, thereby generating…

FARBRICATION METHOD

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240107897
A fabrication method comprising: forming a mask of an amorphous material over a crystalline surface of a substrate, the mask having a pattern of openings defining areas of an active region in which one or more components of one or more active devices are to be formed, the mask further defining a non-active region in which no active devices are to be formed; and forming a deposition material through the mask by an epitaxial growth process. The deposition material thus forms in the…

Eye Contact Optimization

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240106969
Systems and methods for conducting a videoconference including receiving multimedia streams of a plurality of participants in a multimedia conference, the multimedia streams including audio components and video components and displaying video tiles of the participants on a display screen. The audio components and/or the video components of the multimedia streams are analyzed to detect characteristics indicative of a first participant and a second participant having a first conversation…

ADAPTIVE BATTERY MANAGEMENT

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240106256
This document generally relates to techniques for adaptively triggering charging notifications for a battery-powered user device. One example includes a method or technique that can be performed on a computing device. The method or technique can include obtaining a battery charge level of a battery of a battery-powered user device and accessing user data for a user of the battery-powered user device. The user data can reflect previous usage sessions of the user with the battery-powered…

RETRACTABLE CONNECTOR

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240106163
A connector includes a housing including a plug opening and a cable opening. A cable extends through the cable opening away from the housing. An electronic plug is connected to the cable within the housing and extends through the plug opening away from the housing. The electronic plug is selectively moveable relative to the housing between an extended position and a retracted position when a pulling force is applied to the cable. A bias mechanism biases the electronic plug to the…

REDUCED USER AVAILABILITY

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104510
Systems and methods for inferring and notifying an end user about reduced availability of a target user or group of target users in a time range of interest. For instance, the reduced availability service includes components for collecting calendar event information and calendar settings information corresponding to a calendar of a target user, generating an interval graph data structure based on the collected calendar information, determining working hours for the target user,…

SCHEMA AUGMENTATION SYSTEM FOR EXPLORATORY RESEARCH

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104405
In examples, a schema augmentation system for exploratory research leverages intelligence from a machine learning model to augment such tasks by leveraging intelligence derived from machine learning capabilities. Augmenting tasks include schematization of content, such as information units and groupings of information units. Based on the schematization of such content, semantic proximities for information units are determined. The semantic proximities may be used to identify and present…

PRIVACY TRANSFORMATIONS IN DATA ANALYTICS

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104248
Systems and methods are provided for performing privacy transformation of data to protect privacy in data analytics under the multi-access edge computing environment. In particular, a policy receiver in an edge server receives privacy instructions. Inference determiner in the edge server in a data analytics pipeline receives data from an IoT device and evaluates the data to recognize data associated with personally identifiable information. Privacy data transformer transforms the…

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENTLY GENERATING A TITLE FOR A GROUP OF DOCUMENTS

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104055
A system and method automatically generating a title for a cluster of documents includes accessing a plurality of documents that have been categorized as belonging to a document cluster and providing the plurality of documents as an input to a trained title generating machine-learning (ML) model. The trained title generating ML model is trained for generating a title for a document and provides a titles for each of the plurality of documents. An embedding is created for the generated…

PEER VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORING AND AUTO-HEALING SYSTEM

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103895
Systems and methods for monitoring health of virtual machines (VMs) include determining a leader virtual machine (VM) count for a group of VM nodes hosted on a plurality of computing devices; selecting a number of the VM nodes of the group to serve as leader VMs for the group, the number of the VM nodes selected corresponding to the leader VM count; and periodically performing a peer VM monitoring process. The peer VM monitoring process includes periodically storing health information…

UNIVERSAL HIGHLIGHTER FOR CONTEXTUAL NOTETAKING

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240103646
Systems and methods are provided for interactively highlighting a region as pixel data on a screen and automatically retrieving context data associated with content of the highlighted region for contextual notetaking. The highlighted region includes at least a part of one or more windows and one or more applications associated with the one or more windows. The disclosed technology determines a context associated with content of the highlighted region and automatically retrieves context…

TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY WITH VIRTUAL TRACKPAD

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240094901
Examples are disclosed relating to computing devices and methods for performing touch detection within a virtual trackpad area of a touch screen display. In one example, a non-trackpad touch input signal is received from outside the virtual trackpad area and processed with at least a jitter restrictor algorithm that applies a non-trackpad distance between reported touch locations. A virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area. On condition of…

PIXEL LUMINANCE FOR DIGITAL DISPLAY

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240096268
A digital display includes a plurality of pixel rows. For each pixel row, the digital display includes an EM gate driver configured to supply the pixel row with a luminance-controlling signal during each of a plurality of image frames. A luminance controller is configured to instruct the EM gate drivers to supply a pulse-width modulated signal to the plurality of pixel rows. Some pixel rows are supplied with a pulse-width modulated signal starting with an on pulse, and some pixel rows…

INTEGRATING MODEL REUSE WITH MODEL RETRAINING FOR VIDEO ANALYTICS

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240096063
Systems and methods are provided for reusing and retraining an image recognition model for video analytics. The image recognition model is used for inferring a frame of video data that is captured at edge devices. The edge devices periodically or under predetermined conditions transmits a captured frame of video data to perform inferencing. The disclosed technology is directed to select an image recognition model from a model store for reusing or for retraining. A model selector uses a…

COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TABLES

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240095247
Computerized systems are provided for detecting one or more tables and performing information extraction and analysis on any given table. Information can be extracted from one or more cells or fields of a table and feature vectors representing individual cells, rows, and/or columns of the table can be derived and concatenated together. In this way, embodiments can use some or all of the “context” or values contained in various feature vectors representing some or all of a single…

TENANT-CONTROLLED CLOUD UPDATES

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240095060
Systems and methods are taught for providing customers of a cloud computing service to control when updates affect the services provided to the customers. Because multiple customers share the cloud's infrastructure, each customer may have conflicting preferences for when an update and associated downtime occurs. Preventing and resolving conflicts between the preferences of multiple customers while providing them with input for scheduling a planned update may reduce the inconvenience…

SHARING NEIGHBORING MAP DATA ACROSS DEVICES

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240094975
A computing device and method are provided for transmitting a relevant subset of map data, called a neighborhood, to enable mutual spatial understanding by multiple display devices around a target virtual location to display a shared hologram in the same exact location in the physical environment at the same moment in time. The computing device may comprise a processor, a memory operatively coupled to the processor, and an anchor transfer program stored in the memory and executed by the…

CORRECTING IMAGERY WITH DIFFERENTIAL APPLIED SCALARS

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240094969
Disclosed is the differential application of scalars to compensate pixel degradation. Input image data is associated with a commanded luminance at each of a plurality of pixels. A degradation value is determined for each pixel. Based on the degradation value, an elevated drive current is determined to produce commanded luminance at the pixel. A required scalar is determined for each pixel to hold the elevated drive current from exceeding a drive current threshold. An applied scalar for…