Microsoft Patent Grants

Language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265789
Techniques are described herein that are capable of creating a language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator. A context-free grammar is annotated to identify token(s) that are likely to be included in or excluded from a computer program in a manner that violates the context-free grammar. A language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator is created that is configured to generate a parser. The repair engine generator is configured to create a repair engine that:…

Lawful interception triggered task status

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267685
Lawful interception (LI) of electronic communications includes receiving, by a triggering function (TF), a task request including a task identifier (ID) from a LI provisioning function (LIFP). The TF receives an indication of a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment applicable to the received request, and then triggers (including a POI task ID) each point of interception (POI) applicable to the request. The TF receives a task response indicating a status of the task at the…

Systems and methods for dark current compensation in single photon avalanche diode imagery

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267606
A system for dark current compensation in SPAD imagery is configurable to capture an image frame with the SPAD array and generate a temporally filtered image by performing a temporal filtering operation using the image frame and at least one preceding image frame. The at least one preceding image frame is captured by the SPAD array at a timepoint that temporally precedes a timepoint associated with the image frame. The system is also configurable to obtain a dark current image frame. The…

Abstracting geographic location to a square block of pre-defined size

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267399
A client-side system detects a current location of a client device and a cloud interaction metric. The geographic area around the location of the client device is divided into grid sections. The client-side system identifies a pre-defined reference location corresponding to the grid section that the client device location resides in. The pre-defined reference location, corresponding to that grid section, and the cloud interaction metric are provided to a remote server computing system.

Session border controller for message manipulation

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267371
A session border controller has a processor operable to receive a message from a connected peer node. The processor inputs the message to a Message Manipulation Function, MMF, which identifies the message as a SIP message, and in response obtains external state data associated with the message from a source independent from the message. The external state data is provided to the MMF. The SIP message is modified using the MMF according to one or more conditions or rules associated with…

Modulator integration for laser used with display

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266904
A laser device for use with a display including a plurality of pixels is disclosed. The laser device includes a gain section and a modulator. The gain section is electrically coupled with a first current or voltage source. The gain section is configured to selectively amplify an optical power of light reflecting within the gain section based on a first drive current or voltage supplied from the first current or voltage source to the gain section. The modulator is optically coupled with…

Method and system for writing voxels to a transparent substrate

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266391
A method of writing voxels to a substrate using a laser writing system comprises forming a first voxel at a first position in a substrate using a first laser pulse; detecting light emitted or scattered by the substrate as a result of forming the first voxel; determining whether the detected light satisfies a predetermined constraint; and, when the detected light does not satisfy the predetermined constraint, adjusting an amplitude of a second laser pulse. Light emission or scattering…

Combining visual and audio insights to detect opening scenes in multimedia files

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266175
Disclosed is a method for automatically detecting an introduction/opening song within a multimedia file. The method includes designating sequential blocks of time in the multimedia file as scene(s) and detecting certain feature(s) associated with each scene. The extracted scene feature(s) may be analyzed and used to assign a probability to each scene that the scene is part of the introduction/opening song. The probabilities may be used to classify each scene as either correlating to or…

Orientation-based frame selection for composite image creation

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266085
A method for creating a composite image provides for determining, based on orientation sensor data sampled in association with each frame in an image sequence, camera orientation information indicating an orientation of the camera at a time that the frame was captured. Based at least in part on the orientation sensor data, a subset of orientationally-similar frames from the sequence fare identified and combined together to create the composite image.

Multicell document editor minimoremap

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265800
Some embodiments provide a notebook tool enhanced with minimoremap functionality. Notebooks are multicell documents with varied mime types present in the content of various cells of a given notebook, including executable source code such as scripts, non-executable content, markdown text, natural language text, photos, videos, maps, and more. The notebook tool includes a main view and a superimposed minimoremap view which is functionally coordinated with the main view, e.g., for…

User selectable transitional storage partition

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265726
A user can select a capacity setting for a transitional partition that determines the allocation between a low-density partition and a high-density partition in the transitional partition. The transitional partition can dynamically change among multiple settings having different capacities for the low-density partition. If the current setting of the transitional partition does not efficiently utilize the available storage space based on the user's preferences for storing different types…

Authentication of users based on codes embedded in machine-readable items

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265602
According to examples, an apparatus includes a processor that is to obtain a plurality of codes contained in a machine-readable item and send a request for authentication of a user of the machine-readable item to a server. The server is to select a certain code of a plurality of certain codes and return a request for the selected certain code. The processor is to receive the request for the selected certain code from the server and to identify a code in the plurality of codes that…

Game performance prediction from real-world performance data

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263410
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for matching device configurations to games are presented. A set of device configuration tiers may be generated from gameplay telemetry data generated by a plurality of client devices executing a plurality of games. A device configuration for a specific client device may be determined based at least on the specific client device's GUI type. When the specific client device accesses a software game library a…

Transformer-based neural network including a mask attention network

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260338
A transformer-based neural network includes at least one mask attention network (MAN). The MAN computes an original attention data structure that expresses influence between pairs of data items in a sequence of data items. The MAN then modifies the original data structure by mask values in a mask data structure, to produce a modified attention data structure. Compared to the original attention data structure, the modified attention data structure better accounts for the influence of…

Detecting and mitigating abusive network activity based on versioned browser usage

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261858
Methods for detecting and mitigating abusive network activity based on versioned browser usage are performed by systems and devices. Usage values for network activity of legacy web browser versions are determined, where the usage values represent benign network activity associated with active instances of the legacy versions over prior time periods. The number of active instances of legacy browser versions is assumed to generally be monotonically decreasing over time, and thus a bound of…

Incident management engine for an incident management system

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261733
A resilient incident management system is provided that continues operation when certain outages occur. An RSS feed is utilized to indicate incident-related information despite the certain outages. In an embodiment, the incident management system includes a redundant architecture that comprises a traffic manager and a backup traffic manager. The incident management system receives a client request for incident-related information and determines a priority level or a performance level of…

Decoding metadata encoded in error correction codes

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261623
Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for encoding and decoding metadata in error correction codes. During read operation, a decoder generates a first output corresponding to the at least one metadata bit having a first state and a second output corresponding to the at least one metadata bit having a second state. When one of the first and second outputs have a zero value, the decoder sets a value of the at least one metadata bit to the first state or the second state…

Reverse concatenation of error-correcting codes in DNA data storage

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260937
Redundancy information can be included in nucleotide symbol strings encoding underlying data. To avoid propagation of errors during the decoding process, during encoding, a constrained encoding can be performed before the redundancy information is computed. The redundancy information can be an outer encoding across multiple nucleotide symbol strings. An inner coding within nucleotide symbol strings can also be supported. Such redundancy information can be interleaved into the underlying…

System and method for watermarking audio data for automated speech recognition (ASR) systems

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260866
A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing audio information associated with a speech processing system and encoding a watermark in a non-disruptive portion of the audio information.

Inferring structure information from table images

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260662
A computer implemented method includes rendering a document page as an image; detecting tables, columns, and other associated table objects within the image via one or more table recognition models that model objects in the image as overlapping bounding boxes; transforming the set of objects into a structured representation of the table; extracting data from the objects into the structured representation; and exporting the table into the desired output format.