Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chit Wei Saw

Ramarathnam R Venkatesan

Mariusz Hieronim Jakubowski

Eric Norman Badger

Itai Almog

Ganapathy V Raman

Timothy Seung Yoon Paek

Bertrand Raphaël Anckaert

Programs running on an open architecture, such as a personal computer, are vulnerable to inspection and modification. This is a concern as the program may include or provide access to valuable information. As a defense, the actual location of data can be hidden throughout execution of the program by way of periodic location reordering and pointer scrambling, among other things. These techniques serve to complicate static data flow analysis and dynamic data tracking thereby at least deterring program tampering.

Data location obfuscation

The collection and clustering of data input characteristics from a plurality of computing devices is provided. The clustered data input characteristics define user groups to which users are assigned. Input models such as language models and touch models are created for, and distributed to, each of the user groups based on the data input characteristics of the users assigned thereto. For example, an input model may be selected for a computing device based on a current context of the computing device. The selected input model is applied to the computing device during the current context to alter the interpretation of input received from the user via the computing device.

Clustering crowdsourced data to create and apply data input models

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Chit Wei Saw