Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Micorsoft Corpration

Microsoft Corporation

Kentaro Toyama

Andrew Blake

Matthew Uyttendaele

Steven Mark Drucker

John Charles Krumm

Brian R Meyers

Bernhard Schoelkopf

Barry L Brumitt

Sean Blagsvedt

Curtis Glenn Wong

Bhrighu Sareen

Eric J Horvitz

Antonio Criminisi

Ravin Balakrishnan

David Patrick Vronay

Padmanabhan Anandan

William Crow

Michel Gangnet

Ramaswamy Hariharan

Patrick Perez

Bradley L Carpenter

Vibhore Goyal

Ron Logan

Gerald Chu

Udai Singh Pawar

Ranveer Chandra

Andrew David Wilson

John R Douceur

Ross Garrett Cutler

Hugues Herve Hoppe

Daniel Chaim Robbins

Nebojsa Jojic

Joseph M Joy

Chandramohan Amyangot Thekkath

Asta Jane Roseway

Tim Paek

Sumit Basu

Maneesh Agrawala

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan

Henry A Sowizral

Clark David Nicholson

Nuria M Oliver

Sean Olin Blagsvedt

Rohan Narayan Murty

Edward Bryan Cutrell

Garrett R Vargas

David James Gemmell

Jack Creasey

Eric K Ringger

Robert C Elmer

Sheldon R Fisher

Andreas Soupliotis

Trausti Thor Kristjansson

Richard P Lewis

Ronald Keith Logan

Narayanan Parthasarathy

Ying Wu

Neeharika Adabala

Jaco Vermaak

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Aman Sagar

Indrani Medhi

Barry L Brummitt

Swagath Kannan

Steven Drucker

Henry Sowizral

A multi-user computer system may distribute user windows across multiple monitors. Some of the user windows may span two or more monitors. Some user windows may share a monitor. Each user window may be associated with a set of user input devices for each user. The user window configuration may be changed on the fly by an administrative user, who may reposition, rotate, scale, or perform other changes to the windows.

Dynamic distribution of client windows on multiple monitors

A range of unified software authoring tools for creating a talking paper application for integration in an end user platform are described herein. The authoring tools are easy to use and are interoperable to provide an easy and cost-effective method of creating a talking paper application. The authoring tools provide a framework for creating audio content and image content and interactively linking the audio content and the image content. The authoring tools also provide for verifying the interactively linked audio and image content, reviewing the audio content, the image content and the interactive linking on a display device. Finally, the authoring tools provide for saving the audio content, the video content and the interactive linking for publication to a manufacturer for integration in an end user platform or talking paper platform.

Talking paper authoring tools

Technology for pre-ordering (e.g., pre-fetching content) at a shared computing premise is described. The technology can enable a user to locate and reserve an available seat at a shared computing premise (e.g., an iCaf&#xe9;). A service can transmit to the user a list of nearby iCaf&#xe9;s or available seats that is ranked or ordered based on various criteria. The selected iCaf&#xe9; may pre-fetch content. The iCaf&#xe9; may also provide the pre-fetched content on removable media so that the user does not need to view all the pre-fetched content only at the iCaf&#xe9;. The iCaf&#xe9; may provide a search and/or document notification service and perform searches, download documents, and check for changes to specified documents even when the user is not logged on or using a computer at the iCaf&#xe9;. After the documents are retrieved and stored, the iCaf&#xe9; may send a notification to the user.

Icaf&#xe9;pre-ordering

Multi-user multi-input desktop workspaces and applications are described. In one aspect, a single computing device presents multiple workspaces on a desktop area. The desktop area is designed for multiple users to provide in parallel inputs. Each workspace is configured for use by a particular set of users. Responsive to user direction, user access restrictions to a particular workspace of the multiple workspaces is suspended to allow a new user to interface within context of a particular workspace.

Multi-user multi-input desktop workspaces and applications

An instant messaging translation plug-in interacts with an instant messaging program to intercept incoming messages and forward these messages to a language translation service. The plug-in then displays a translation received from the service along with the original message. This provides translation which can be used by instant messaging users to communicate across language barriers, and without local translation or knowledge of the internal workings of the translation services used. Additionally, the translation plug-in also provides for manual translation of messages, which allows communication with users who use a different language but do not use the translation plug-in. Messages are modified before translation in order to correct spelling, to prevent particular words or phrases from being translated, and to change instant messaging language into standard language form. The techniques can be performed on various messaging services, including instant messaging on computers or mobile devices, as well as SMS.

Machine translation instant messaging applications

An inter-network remote control system is described that enables remote control of computing devices via two or more disparate data communications networks. In various embodiments, the inter-network remote control system receives a message from a mobile device via a first network, transforms the received message so that it can be relayed via a second network, and forwards the transformed message via the second network to a target computing device to cause that device to be controlled remotely.

Remote control of computing devices via two disparate networks

A facility for cross-application encoding of geographical location information is described. In various embodiments, the facility receives a first document containing information relating to a geographical area, displays an image representing the geographical area, receives input from a user identifying at least a geographical location that is located in the geographical area, encodes a portion of the input to create an encoded link to the geographical location, and causes the link to be added to a second document such that when the link is selected, the first application displays the geographical area and identifies the identified geographical location. In various embodiments, the facility includes a correlating server that correlates geographical locations identified in documents of a first document type with documents containing mapping information.

Cross-application encoding of geographical location information

An occlusion reduction system is described. The occlusion reduction system can reduce occlusions when displaying multiple objects by computing an occlusion measure and applying one or more functional dynamics techniques to minimize the occlusion measure, such as by moving objects, making objects at least partially transparent, and altering the scale of objects. The occlusion reduction system can create a geometric model based on modeling information it receives, establish a viewpoint, identify a set of objects for analysis, and compute an occlusion measure for the identified set of objects.

Reducing occlusions in oblique views

The present invention relates includes system and a method for automatically generating short segments of video (or video 'cliplets') from a larger source video. A cliplet has the properties that its length is determined prior to generation and that the cliplet ideally is semantically meaningful and contains a single short event or theme. Generally, the cliplet generation method processes a large source video and generates cliplet results for presentation (such as to a user). Specifically, the method processes the source video to determine editing points and then extracts cliplets from the source video based on the editing points. The extracted cliplets can overlap in time. Cliplet results then are presented, such as to a user. The cliplet generation system includes a video cliplet generator that processes a large source video and generates cliplets in accordance with the cliplet generation method.

System and method for automatically generating video cliplets from digital video

Users can send short message service (SMS) communication with the purpose of the communication being implied therein. An SMS broker described herein can derive the implied purpose by parsing the communication at least in part according to defined set of rules of syntax and in light of a current context within which the communication was received. In one aspect, the communication is brokered via the SMS broker and it may be intended as a message to be sent to another user identified by a moniker, such as their e-mail alias, which has the advantage of avoiding the need to store phone numbers on memory-constrained devices. In another aspect, the communication is a request for user data of other users also identified in the request by a simple moniker such as their e-mail alias. Additionally, a user can also send a communication intended to update their own user information such as their current location, availability and so on.

Message and address book interchange via short message service

A system and method for combining the precision estimate of a database entry's coordinate value such that the precision information is included as part of the one-dimensional index. This is done by constructing a hierarchical index in which the size of the grid is related to the precision of the coordinate value. A grid index is a gridding of an n-dimensional space into a regular partition of the grid space into grid units, for which for a point in space, x, there is a function index (x), which retrieves a unique integer value for the grid that contains Point x, and a function coordinate (y, s), which returns a point associated with the index y at scale s. A hierarchical grid index is effectively a number of grid indices overlaid on the same space, with grid units of different sizes. In this case, each of the functions employs an additional argument that specifies the size of the grid unit to use. Thus, assuming that the grid size, s, is drawn from a set of grid sizes, S, Index (x,s) returns a unique integer value for the grid of size s that contains Point x. Hierarchical indexes may be used to enhance the performance of database queries. A query that seeks results from a small grid size, s, does not seek matches at a large grid size, s. Similar calculations can be performed for a finite area A.

System and method for employing a grid index for location and precision encoding

A facility for sending enhanced SMS messages is provided. The facility at a sending SMS subscriber unit encodes the original text of an SMS message to produce an encoded SMS message, and transmits the encoded SMS message for receipt by the intended recipient of the SMS message. The facility at a receiving SMS subscriber unit receives the transmitted encoded SMS message and decodes the encoded SMS message to produce the original text of the SMS message. In some instances, the facility at the receiving SMS subscriber unit may not decode the received encoded SMS message and, thus, provide the received SMS message in its received form. In some instances, the facility at the sending SMS subscriber unit may send the original text of the SMS message and have the receiving SMS subscriber unit decode (translate) the original text into a different form.

Enhanced short message service (SMS)

A photo illumination technology that facilitates user selectable illumination of an existing photo ranging from full artificial flash illumination to ambient light illumination and every gradation between. The technology in one embodiment employs a digital camera feature that captures two photos hundredths of a second apart where one photo is captured in concert with a flash and one is captured with no flash. Compensations are made to reconcile any movement of the subject matter that may have occurred between the two photos and the user is presented with the infinite gradations of illumination on the subject matter when selecting a photo for display or printing.

System and method for continuous flash

A location history is a collection of locations over time for an object. A stay is a single instance of an object spending some time in one place, and a destination is any place where one or more objects have experienced a stay. Location histories are parsed using stays and destinations. In a described implementation, each location of a location history is recorded as a spatial position and a corresponding time at which the spatial position is acquired. Stays are extracted from a location history by analyzing locations thereof with regard to a temporal threshold and a spatial threshold. Specifically, two or more locations are considered a stay if they exceed a minimum stay duration and are within a maximum roaming distance. Each stay includes a location, a starting time, and an ending time. Destinations are produced from the extracted stays using a clustering operation and a predetermined scaling factor.

Parsing location histories

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Kentaro Toyama