Microsoft Patent Applications

ANNOTATING IMAGES FOR TRAINING COMPUTER VISION MODELS

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148765
A method for annotating images to create a corpus for training a multi-task computer vision machine learning model is presented. The method comprises receiving, at one or more annotation specialist models, a plurality of images to be annotated. Via operation of the one or more annotation specialist models, pre-filtered annotations are generated for the plurality of images. Via operation of a data filtering and enhancement module, the pre-filtered annotations are filtered in accordance…

TECHNIQUES FOR ENABLING ON-DEVICE INK STROKE PROCESSING

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148660
A data processing system implements obtaining device information and performance requirements information for a resource-constrained computing device; analyzing the device information and the performance requirements information to determine an amount to compress one or more machine learning models to permit the resource-constrained computing device to operate the one or more machine learning models on the resource-constrained computing device, the one or more machine learning models…

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT OF USER ACTIVITY DATA USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148400
A device includes: a processor, and a memory storing executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor, alone or in combination with other processors, to provide the following: a user interface comprising administrator access to a collaboration system, the user interface comprising a control to invoke an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant function; and an Application Programming Interface (API) to, in response to activation of the control, download…

CONTEXTUALIZATION OF GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODELS BASED ON ENTITY RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148219
The disclosed concepts relate to contextualization of generative language models. In some implementations, a linked entity database is populated with entity resource identifiers of entities extracted from a search log by an entity linker. A contextualized prompt data structure is generated based on the linked entity database, e.g., by including linked entity context information in the contextualized prompt data structure. A response to the contextualized prompt data structure is…

AUTOMATICALLY ASSISTING CONVERSATIONS USING GRAPH DATABASE

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148212
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for automatically assisting conversations using a graph database. In order to minimize misunderstanding of words and phrases used by participants during a conversation, phrases from the conversation may be received by conversation assistance application as the conversation takes place. Entities may be extracted from the phrase based on natural language recognition according to a domain context of the participant being…

MITIGATION OF RANSOMWARE IN INTEGRATED, ISOLATED APPLICATIONS

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148097
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for enabling access to a resource in a secured manner. A token request from an application executing in a first computing environment may be received in a second computing environment. The second computing environment may assign a trust level to the received token request that indicates that the first computing environment may not be trusted. The token request, along with the trust level, may be provided to an…

SIDEBAR SEARCH PANE

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250148037
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems and methods are described that relate to providing, in a browser environment, a sidebar search capability to users. Once in a primary content page, the user is able to select text for searching. In response, the system provides a context menu or keyboard shortcut that includes an option for conducting a sidebar search. In response to user selection, the system passes highlighted or selected text as a parameter to the search…

MULTI-MODAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250147754
A data processing system implements obtaining build logs that include information associated with a software build problem; analyzing the logs to generate a knowledge graph identifying the relationship between various entities in the logs; extracting a signature of a candidate root cause of the build problem from the knowledge graph representing a subset of nodes and edges of the knowledge graph; providing the signature of the candidate root cause to a graphical language model to obtain…

FAN WITH ADJUSTABLE BLADE STRUCTURES

Granted: May 8, 2025
Application Number: 20250146506
Examples are disclosed that relate to fans configured to automatically adjust for imbalances in mass. One example provides a self-balancing fan, comprising a hub comprising a plurality of blade interfaces, and a plurality of blade structures each attached to a corresponding blade interface of the hub, each blade interface comprising a tapered notch in the hub and being configured to increase a balancing force exerted by the hub against the blade structure as a function of increasing…

MEDIA SERVER PROXY THAT SWITCHES STREAMING MEDIA PROTOCOLS

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250141947
A media server proxy switches streaming media protocols (“SMPs”) during streaming of media segments. The media server proxy receives a request, from a playback tool, according to a first SMP to provide information about outgoing media segments of a media sequence. The media server proxy generates the information about outgoing media segments and sends the information to the playback tool. The media server proxy also retrieves, from a remote server, incoming media content for the…

MONITORING PRODUCE QUALITY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN AT THE PALLET LEVEL WITH WIRELESS SIGNALS

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250137940
A data processing system implements transmitting an RF signal using a transmitter disposed at a first side of a produce container containing produce to be monitored for quality. The signal is transmitted on multiple frequencies. The system further implements receiving the signal using a receiver disposed at a second side of the produce container opposite the first side of the produce container so the signal passes through the produce; obtaining a sample signal output by the receiver…

CONDITIONAL GENERATION OF PROTEIN SEQUENCES

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140349
A computing system for conditional generation of protein sequences includes processing circuitry that implements a denoising diffusion probabilistic model. In an inference phase, the processing circuitry receives an instruction to generate a predicted protein sequence having a target functionality, the instruction including first conditional information and second conditional information. The processing circuitry concatenates a first conditional information embedding generated by a first…

RANKING CANDIDATE SEARCH RESULTS BY ACTIVENESS

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139182
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system determines activity features for candidates that match parameters of a search from a moderator of an opportunity, wherein the activity features include an amount of interaction between a candidate and additional moderators and a frequency of visits by the candidate to a platform used to conduct the interaction between the candidate and the additional moderators. Next, the system applies a machine…

Reducing Latency by Processing Parts of a Language Model Query in Parallel

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139136
A technique partitions a user's original query into plural smaller component queries, each of which has a common part and an instance-specific part. The technique distributes the component queries to plural processor instances of a processor. The plural processor instances transform the respective component queries into query-component responses by acting in parallel, independent of each other. The technique generates a final response based on the query-component responses, e.g., by…

LAZY PLUGGABLE FILE HANDLING

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139052
A data processing pipeline is configured to create and utilize a file view—an abstract representation of a data file that includes a data file content handle and metadata comprising file properties and pipeline-definable tags—that is passed from stage to stage in the pipeline using out-of-band processing (i.e., processing that is independent from data file record processing). The stages in the pipeline are configured to transform the file view by modifying the metadata to enable…

Resource-Efficient and Time-Efficient Prompting of a Language Model to Invoke Functions

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250138909
A technique sends a first prompt to a language model that specifies selector information. The selector information provides a summary of a group of functions that are capable of being invoked. The language model responds by choosing one or more functions from the group of functions. The technique then sends a second prompt to the language model that specifies more detailed information regarding just the function(s) that have been identified by the language model. The language model…

OPTIMIZING TELEMETRY VOLUME

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250138821
A system for optimizing telemetry volume generated for an application product includes: a volume calculation service and a configuration service coupled to a client device via a network connection. The volume calculation service receiving identification of a particular event that occurs during execution of the application product by the client and calculating an optimized sampling rate for that event in telemetry produced by the client, the optimized sampling rate calculated based on…

DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS SERVER WITH CODE MAPPING MODULE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250138805
A distributed computing system may include a code repository server configured to store code, a code deployment server configured to receive a deployment of the code, and a development and operations (DevOps) server configured to construct a pipeline between the code repository server and the code deployment server. The DevOps server may be configured to execute a source code management program to receive a request for information regarding a target resource that has been deployed using…

INTERACTION CUSTOMIZATION FOR A LARGE-FORMAT DISPLAY DEVICE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250138721
A method of customizing interactive control for a large-format touch-sensitive display device (LFTSDD) is disclosed. One or more images of a scene in front of the LFTSDD are received via a camera of the LFTSDD. The one or more images are computer-analyzed to recognize a human subject in the scene and a location of the human subject relative to the LFTSDD. A variable interaction zone of a display screen of the LFTSDD is determined based at least on the recognized location of the human…

SPATIALLY TRACKING MUSCLE ACTIVITY

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250138643
A computer-implemented method for spatially tracking muscle activity is disclosed. A muscle activation signal is received from a muscle activation sensor. The muscle activation signal indicates an amount of muscle activation of a muscle associated with a body part. A spatial signal is received from a spatial sensor. The spatial signal indicates a location of the body part in a physical space. Activation data is data that spatially correlates the amount of muscle activation of the body…