Microsoft Patent Applications

MACHINE LEARNING FOR IDENTIFYING IDLE SESSIONS

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121311
Systems and methods for identifying and evicting idle sessions include training a machine learning model as a session classifying model to learn rules for classifying active sessions between clients and the cloud-based service. The session classifying model is trained to receive a plurality of parameters pertaining to the document associated with an active session as input and to apply the rules to the plurality of parameters to determine a classification for the active session and to…

SIMULATED CHORAL AUDIO CHATTER

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121280
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for simulated choral audio chatter in communication systems. One method including: receiving audio data from each of a plurality of users participating in a first group of a plurality of groups for an event using a communication system; generating first simulated choral audio chatter based on the audio data received from each of the plurality of users in the first group; and providing the generated first simulated…

MATRIX BASED BOT IMPLEMENTATION

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119235
In some examples, matrix based bot implementation may include obtaining, for a plurality of bots that are used to respond to a query, a matrix that includes entries including a plurality of scenarios, a plurality of questions corresponding to the plurality of scenarios, and a plurality of responses. Each response may correspond to a specified question. A plurality of scripts may be generated based on an analysis of the matrix. Each script may include at least one question followed by at…

Tomography of unitary matrix using quantum computing device

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119112
A computing system including a quantum computing device and a classical computing device. The computing system computes an estimated unitary matrix over a plurality of iterations that each include, at a processor, computing a current-iteration exponent, a current-iteration error parameter, and a conjugate transpose of a current-iteration estimate of the unitary matrix. Each iteration further includes transmitting the current-iteration exponent, the current-iteration error parameter, and…

DOCUMENT RE-FINDING SYSTEM

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119099
A document re-finding system generates embeddings for concept clips provided by a user, the concept clips defining a concept for searching for content of interest to the user in a plurality of documents previously seen by the user. The re-finding system determines semantic relationships between the concept and document clips, related to respective document among the plurality of documents, based on the concept embedding and embeddings generated for the document clips. A graphical user…

CASCADED VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR EDGE COMPUTING

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119089
This document relates to performing live video stream analytics on edge devices. One example determines resources available to the system, and a video analytics configuration is selected that distributes work between edge devices and cloud devices in a cascading manner, where edge device processing is prioritized over cloud processing in order to conserve resources. This example can dynamically modify the allocation of processing depending on changing conditions, such as network…

FEATURE DEPLOYMENT READINESS PREDICTION

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240118988
Systems and methods directed to generating a predicted quality metric are provided. Telemetry data may be received from a from a first group of devices executing first software. A quality metric for the first software may be generated based on the first telemetry data. Telemetry data from a second group of devices may be received, where the second group of devices is different from the first group of devices. Covariates impacting the quality metric based on features included in the first…

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING DIGITAL INK NOTES

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240118803
A method of and system for automatically generating an ink note object is carried out by detecting receipt of a digital ink input on a user interface (UI) screen, the UI screen being displayed by an application and being associated with at least one of a document, a page or an event. Once digital ink input is detected, the digital ink input is captured. Additionally, contextual data associated with the digital ink input is collected, the contextual data being related to at least one of…

COMPENSATING FOR TOUCH-SCREEN COUPLING THROUGH DISPLAY ELECTRODE

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240118770
A touch-screen display device comprises a series of column electrodes and a series of row electrodes, with an electronic display layer arranged behind the series of column electrodes and behind the series of row electrodes. The series of row electrodes crosses the series of column electrodes such that the electrical impedance at each crossing of a row and column electrode is responsive to the proximity of a touch input to that crossing. A row-drive circuit is configured to apply an…

CONFERENCING SESSION QUALITY MONITORING

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114205
A method for monitoring quality of a conferencing session between a plurality of participant devices is described. One or more data streams of the conferencing session are monitored. Presenter contextual information is determined for media transmitted over the one or more data streams by a presenter device of the plurality of participant devices. A mismatch is identified between the presenter contextual information and a first participant contextual information for a first participant…

DETERMINATIONS OF MODIFICATIONS IN OBJECTS HAVING NESTED CHILD OBJECTS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111553
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored instructions that may cause the processor to determine that information has been inputted into an object, the object including a child object nested within the object. The instructions may also cause the processor to generate a child-object hash value based on contents of the child object, generate a hash value for the object based on contents of the object, the contents of the object including…

Facilitating Interaction among Meeting Participants to Verify Meeting Attendance

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240113904
A technique facilitates interaction among meeting participants for a purpose of verifying meeting attendance. The technique includes the operations of: using a programmatic interface to query a data structure to discover first information regarding meetings that a user is scheduled to attend; using the programmatic interface to query the data structure to discover second information regarding participants of a particular meeting; generating a likelihood measure, based on the second…

CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS RECIPE EXTRACTION FOR LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112760
Examples are disclosed that relate to using natural language processing (NLP) to determine a recipe for a chemical synthesis described in a text to create a life cycle inventory (LCI). One example provides a method comprising receiving an input of a text from a publication comprising a description of a chemical product, and analyzing the text using NLP to determine a recipe for the chemical synthesis, the recipe comprising and action and action metadata, the action metadata comprising a…

DISTORTION CORRECTION VIA ANALYTICAL PROJECTION

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112315
A method for processing a stream of input images is provided. The method includes receiving a stream of input images, and applying a digital effect to the stream of input images. The digital effect is one or more from the group of: a pan, a tilt, or a zoom, of the stream of input images. The method further includes selecting an analytical projection type, from a plurality of analytical projection types, that maps pixels of the input stream of images to projected pixels of a modified…

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.…

ASSISTANT FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON UNKNOWN TOPICS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111958
Techniques are disclosed for assisting users with unknown topics by automatically presenting information associated with the unknown topics to the users. In an example embodiment, an unknown topic is referred to or discussed during a conversation between multiple users. A candidate definition for the topic is determined, where the candidate definition is known by the user that used the topic. Based on a determination that the topic and the candidate definition are unknown to a second…

FILE UPLOAD ON DEMAND

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111731
A data processing system implements obtaining, at a file services platform, first mapping information by mapping files, folders, or a combination thereof stored on each of a plurality of client devices associated with a first user. The data processing system further implements synchronizing the first mapping information with the plurality of client devices, receiving a first request for a first file from a first client device of the plurality of client devices, where the first file…

TELEMETRY GENERATION FOR IN-FIELD HARDWARE TESTING

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111648
A system for capturing hardware telemetry includes a hardware component encoded with hardware logic for emitting a telemetry stream into memory of a computing device. The system further includes a hardware component driver stored in the memory that is configured to parse the telemetry stream, populate telemetry structures defined within a telemetry event schema based on values parsed from the telemetry stream, and generate a telemetry record including the populated telemetry structures.

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…

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT PARTITION DIAGNOSIS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111573
Systems and methods for providing cross-partition preemption analysis and prevention. Computing devices typically include a main central processing unit (CPU) with multiple cores to execute instructions independently, cooperatively, or in other suitable manners. In some examples, one or more cores are partitioned and dedicated to a particular application, where exclusive access of the cores in the partition is intended for running processes of the application. In some examples, some…