Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

The Boeing Company

Facebook, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

David Michael Miller

Stephen Russell Falcon

Dan Banay

Clement Chun Pong Yip

John S Holmes

Walter VonKoch

Clement Yip

Walter Vonkoch

John Holmes

Greg D Schechter

Edward Kenneth O'Neil

Daniel Tomko

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Clemens Alden Szyperski

John David Doty

Peter Sewall Ford

Kenneth Fern

John Lawrence Hamby

Quetzalcoatl Bradley

Alexandra K Heron

Patrick Joseph Thrash

Joshua Ryan Williams

Scott D Sanders

Carmen Zlateff

Eric Lawrence Matteson

Markham MacLin

Martin Schleiff

Michael Patrick Hart

Walter Von Koch

Jonathan Wilkins

Matthew William Costello

David Patrick Wolfe

Neil Alexander MacIntosh

Edmund J Jones

Aradhna Chetal

Steve Falcon

Marion M Belden

Norman N Ng

Volha V Gallup

Table base

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a server computing device, a notification which includes: information associated with the identity of the user associated with the user-initiated event or with the identity of the client computing device; a variable, pre-determined string of symbols for the user-initiated event associated with the notification; a variable number describing a value of an attribute associated with the user-initiated event; and a variable parameter describing an attribute of the user at or near the time of the event or an attribute of the variable number. The method includes correlating, by the server computing device, the user-initiated events with a user; and determining, by the computing device, a description of the user-initiated event associated with the notification based at least in part on the string of symbols.

Electronic notifications

A system is provided for modeling and analysis of cybersecurity threats may include a data flow diagram (DFD) creator, threat indicator and threat analyzer. The DFD creator may identify elements of an information system, and compose a DFD including nodes and edges representing components and data flows of the information system. The threat indicator may identify a cybersecurity threat to a particular element of the information system, and add a secondary node representing the cybersecurity threat to the DFD to thereby produce a threat-model DFD for the information system. In metadata associated with the nodes, edges and secondary node, the DFD creator and threat indicator may provide structured information including attributes of the components, data flows and cybersecurity threat. And the threat analyzer may perform an analysis of the cybersecurity threat based on the threat-model DFD and metadata associated with the nodes, edges and secondary node thereof.

Threat modeling and analysis

Identifying software application events

A computer system displays an interactive development environment including a domain specific language (DSL) grammar input receiving area that allows the user to view and interact with DSL grammar inputs, a DSL language input receiving area that allows the user to view and interact with DSL language inputs and a parse output area that allows the user to view the current state of the DSL parser. The computer system begins stepping through each DSL language input to determine whether the DSL language inputs have created an error relative to the DSL grammar. The computer system also presents the resulting output for each DSL language input, so that as the user provides subsequent step inputs, the interactive development environment successively steps through each DSL language input and presents, at each step, the DSL grammar inputs, the DSL language inputs and the corresponding output in the parse output area.

Debugging services for domain specific languages

Systems and methods are described for systems that utilize an interaction manager to manage interactions&#x2014;also known as requests or dialogues&#x2014;from one or more applications. The interactions are managed properly even if multiple applications use different grammars. The interaction manager maintains a priority for each of the interactions, such as via an interaction list, where the priority of the interactions corresponds to an order in which the interactions are to be processed. Interactions are normally processed in the order in which they are received. However, the systems and method described herein may provide a grace period after processing a first interaction and before processing a second interaction. If a third interaction that is chained to the first interaction is received during this grace period, then the third interaction may be processed before the second interaction.

Management and prioritization of processing multiple requests

Computing responses to semantic queries. A method includes accessing a plurality of objects that represent source code for an input program. The source code is transformed into a plurality of immutable objects that are structured such that the immutable objects can be used to derive any response as defined by the semantic rules about the source code. A query is received from a requestor requesting a semantic characteristic of the input program. The semantic characteristic is calculated. The semantic characteristic is returned to the requestor. The semantic characteristic is cached in a cache. Information describing a dependency between the cached semantic characteristic and one or more of the objects in the plurality of objects is stored.

Partial on-demand lazy semantic analysis

Systems and methods are described for a speech system that manages multiple grammars from one or more speech-enabled applications. The speech system includes a speech server that supports different grammars and different types of grammars by exposing several methods to the speech-enabled applications. The speech server supports static grammars that do not change and dynamic grammars that may change after a commit. The speech server provides persistence by supporting persistent grammars that enable a user to issue a command to an application even when the application is not loaded. In such a circumstance, the application is automatically launched and the command is processed. The speech server may enable or disable a grammar in order to limit confusion between grammars. Global and yielding grammars are also supported by the speech server. Global grammars are always active (e.g., 'call 9-1-1') while yielding grammars may be deactivated when an interaction whose grammar requires priority is active.

Systems and methods for managing multiple grammars in a speech recognition system

Systems and methods are described for speech systems that utilize an interaction manager to manage interactions&#x2014;also known as dialogues&#x2014;from one or more applications. The interactions are managed properly even if multiple applications use different grammars. The interaction manager maintains an interaction list. An application wishing to utilize the speech system submits one or more interactions to the interaction manager. Interactions are normally processed in the order in which they are received. An exception to this rule is an interaction that is configured by an application to be processed immediately, which causes the interaction manager to place the interaction at the front of the interaction list of interactions. If an application has designated an interaction to interrupt a currently processing interaction, then the newly submitted application will interrupt any interaction currently being processed and, therefore, it will be processed immediately.

Systems and methods for managing interactions from multiple speech-enabled applications

The different advantageous embodiments provide an inner barrel structure comprising an outer skin, an inner skin, a number of septa, and a truss core.

Unitized engine nacelle structure

An exemplary method involves creating a master session over a first connection through a server; and creating a virtual channel over the connection, the virtual channel operable to communicate a feature session. The method may involve establishing a direct connection that bypasses the server, and switching communication of the feature session to the direct connection. A system for network communication includes a plurality of transport bridges, each transport bridge corresponding to an active network device configuration, and a switching module operable to choose one of the transport bridges to form a connection between two computing devices based on the active network device configuration.

Transport system for instant messaging

Systems and methods are described for a speech system that includes one or more speech controls incorporated into one or more speech-enabled applications that run on the speech system. The controls allow applications to be developed with minimal programming effort to incorporate common speech-enabled application functions. A question control provides a customizable template for requesting information from a user. An announcer control allows a speech-enabled application to provide a user with information without having to re-create an entire announcer process each time it is used. A command control provides a simple way to attach command and control functions to speech-enabled applications. A word trainer control provides a way to associate user-selected voice tags with certain information. Providing the controls for use with speech-enabled applications ensures standardized user interfaces across multiple speech-enabled applications.

Speech controls for use with a speech system

Multi-participant online activities are described. In one or more implementations, a protocol is described which ties an online activity (e.g., an online game) to an instant messaging infrastructure. For example, an online game may leverage the instant messaging infrastructure to form rosters of participants for participation in the online game, Once the roster is formed, the instant messaging infrastructure may further manage the presence of the participants in the online activity, such as which users join and cease participation in the online activity and notify other users of these changes. Further, the state of participation in the online activity may be stored such that the users may continue between sessions.

Multi-participant online activities

A robust device messaging framework is disclosed that enables a user to send commands to a device. A provisioning service is used to provision unique device identities and maps user web identities to device identities. The provisioning service also limits device per day provisioning attempts to limit denial of service attacks. A command service allows remote users to issue commands to a device, synchronize outgoing commands with incoming results, receive accurate feedback about whether a command was received, and maintain state information about the device. A device layer encrypts and stores device identities, authenticates itself with the command service, establishes a high-availability Internet connection to receive alerts that a command has issued, and reports results to the server-based command service.

Remote command framework for devices

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David Michael Miller