The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gearbox LLC

Jason Garms

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Clarence T Tegreene

Mark A Malamud

Robert W Lord

Royce A Levien

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Edward K Y Jung

Eric Leuthardt

Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Kristin Michele Tolle

Shawn P Firminger

Roderick A Hyde

Richard T Lord

Scott Field

Gilad Golan

Anthony Blumfield

Saud A Alshibani

Alvin Loh

Nadim Y Abdo

Adam J Overton

Gary William Flake

Michael Todd Kramer

Brett David Brewer

Marc E Seinfeld

Sterling M Reasor

Karim Taji Farouki

Elissa E S Murphy

Eric I-Chao Chang

John E Parsons, Jr

Darrell Leroy Blegen

Ryan W J Waite

Abhiram G Khune

Douglas S Cavit

Bo J Rohlfsen

Eric J Horvitz

Zhengyou Zhang

Kenneth D Ray

Alejandro Acero

Alexander G Gounares

Paul England

Christian F Huitema

Ross Garrett Cutler

Daniel Ron Simon

Mary P Czerwinski

Feng Zhao

Oscar E Murillo

Adrian Mihail Marinescu

Dinei A Florencio

Jiahe Helen Wang

Milind V Mahajan

Melissa Wood Dunn

Jonathan C Cluts

Janet Ellen Galore

Chuanxiong Guo

Timothy David Sharpe

Art Shelest

Daniel Allen Rosenfeld

Flora P Goldthwaite

Sven Pleyer

John E Parsons

Angela K Butcher

Michael Howard

William Buxton

Kori Marie Quinn

Christopher R Jones

Matthew I Braverman

George Cristian Chicioreanu

Jayaram Nm Nanduri

Andrew J Newman

Ronald A Franczyk

Rob Bernard

Angel S Calvo

Larry Cochrane

Jennifer Mame Pollard

Rene A Vega

Phillip A Chou

Alf Peter Zugenmaier

Kalid M Azad

Paul J Bryan

Benjamin Armstrong

Scott A Field

Alf Zugenmaier

Chuanxiong c/o Microsoft Corporation Guo

Jiahe Helen c/o Microsoft Corporation Wang

Systems and methods are described relating to detecting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; and presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the detecting an indication of at least one attribute of the individual and the accepting sensor data about the individual.

Computational systems and methods for health services planning and matching

Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the accepting sensor data about the individual; and providing a matching system for procurement of at least one selected health service option.

Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; activating at least one sensor at least partially based on the accepting an indication of at least one attribute of the individual; accepting sensor data from the at least one sensor; and presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the accepting sensor data from the at least one sensor.

Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; and presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the accepting an indication of at least one attribute of the individual and the accepting sensor data about the individual.

A facility for applying a software patch is described. Using an automatic patching agent, the facility receives the software patch. In response to receiving the software patch, without user intervention, the facility performs the following acts: First, the facility identifies an instance of an executable module that is currently loaded, and to which the received software patch pertains. Second, the facility applies the received software patch to the identified loaded executable module instance to modify the behavior of the identified executable module instance.

Efficient patching

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can enhance an experience associated with indicia related to a local environment. In particular, the architecture can receive an image that depicts a view of the local environment including a set of entities represented in the image. One or more of the entities can be matched or correlated to modeled entities included in a geospatial model of the environment, potentially based upon location and direction, in order to scope or frame the view depicted in the image to a modeled view. In addition, the architecture can select additional content that can be presented. The additional content typically relates to services or data associated with modeled entities included in the geospatial model or associated with modeled entities included in an image-based data store.

Augmenting a field of view

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can mitigate privacy concerns in connection with ad targeting or data collection. In particular, architecture can be included in a personal mobile communication device such as a cell phone. During communication transactions between the host device and a peer device, shared information can be extracted either from content included in the communication or from metadata. Based upon the shared information, a social graph maintained on the host device can be updated. In addition, the host device can receive a large set of ads and select or tailor a custom ad from the set based upon the social graph.

Privacy-centric ad models that leverage social graphs

Automated file distribution is described. A member of a peer-to-peer network receives from a file server, a file to be distributed. The file is then distributed via the peer-to-peer network to other members of the peer-to-peer network. Members of the peer-to-peer network can choose whether or not to receive a file from another member based on a trust level or reputation associated with the member. The trust level may be based, at least in part, on a number of degrees of separation between the members. Furthermore the file is verified, for example, by validating a digital signature associated with the file.

Automated file distribution

A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining status information about one or more physical attributes associated with one or more first physical entities and one or more second physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, obtaining input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and determining assessment information comparing the one or more first physical entities with the one or more second physical entities based at least in part upon the status information and based at least in part upon the input information. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

System and method for comparison of physical entity attribute effects on physical environments through in part social networking service input

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage private affinities in order to facilitate or enrich relationships between people. In particular, the architecture can receive a profile associated with a user wherein the profile includes a set of private affinities that are cryptographically protected from public inspection. The architecture can decrypt and/or cryptographically compare a private affinity from the profile to an affinity in a disparate profile (associated with a disparate user) in order to identify a matching affinity. Once a matching affinity is identified, a message indicating such can be provided to the user along with a request to publish certain revealed information to the disparate user, possibly based upon a mutual exchange of commensurate information from the disparate user.

Correlating private affinities

Systems and methods are described relating to accepting user input relating to a plurality of health service option selection factors; presenting a plurality of choices for at least one of the health service option selection factors; and presenting at least one outcome output based on a selection of at least one of the plurality of choices for at least one of the health service option selection factors.

A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: providing one or more relevant reported aspects associated with one or more source users that are relevant to achieving one or more target outcomes, the providing of the one or more relevant reported aspects being based, at least in part, on the one or more relevant reported aspects' association with the one or more source users; and developing one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve the one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the development of the one or more personalized plans being based, at least in part, on the providing In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Personalized plan development based on one or more reported aspects' association with one or more source users

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can preprocess audio portions of communications in order to enrich multiparty communication sessions or environments. In particular, the architecture can provide both a public channel for public communications that are received by substantially all connected parties and can further provide a private channel for private communications that are received by a selected subset of all connected parties. Most particularly, the architecture can apply an audio transform to communications that occur during the multiparty communication session based upon a target audience of the communication. By way of illustration, the architecture can apply a whisper transform to private communications, an emotion transform based upon relationships, an ambience or spatial transform based upon physical locations, or a pace transform based upon lack of presence.

Audio transforms in connection with multiparty communication

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