Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michelle Lynn Holtmann

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Kazuhito Koishida

Vivek Pradeep

Wei Jiang

Raja Bose

Christina Summer Chen

Jonathan Bernard Lester

Wen-Pin Scott Hsu

Ruchita Bhargava

Satish Kumar Shetty

Hiroshi Horii

Wen Wha Lee

Qiong Tang

Computing devices and methods for associating a semantic identifier with an object are disclosed. In one example, a three-dimensional model of an environment comprising the object is generated. Image data of the environment is sent to a user computing device for display by the user computing device. User input comprising position data of the object and the semantic identifier is received. The position data is mapped to a three-dimensional location in the three-dimensional model at which the object is located. Based at least on mapping the position data to the three-dimensional location of the object, the semantic identifier is associated with the object.

Associating semantic identifiers with objects

Mobile devices provide a variety of techniques for presenting messages from sources to a user. However, when the message pertains to the presence of the user at a location, the available communications techniques may exhibit deficiencies, e.g., reliance on the memory of the source and/or user of the existence and content of a message between its initiation and the user's visit to the location, or reliance on the communication accessibility of the user, the device, and/or the source during the user's location visit. Presented herein are techniques for enabling a mobile device, at a first time, to receive a request to present an audio message during the presence of the user at a location; and, at a second time, detecting the presence of the user at the location, and presenting the audio message to the user, optionally without awaiting a request from the user to present the message.

Location-based audio messaging

Registration of a person with an intelligent assistant computer includes obtaining one or more image frames captured via one or more cameras that depict an initially unregistered person. Facial recognition data for the initially unregistered person is extracted from the one or more image frames. A spoken command to register the initially unregistered person is received via one or more microphones. Upon determining that the spoken command originated from the registered person having the pre-established registration privilege, the initially unregistered person is registered as a newly registered person by associating one or more additional privileges with the facial recognition data in a person profile for the newly registered person.

User registration for intelligent assistant computer

Licensing aspects of vendor software packages can be protected with reduced user interaction and effort by automating licensing exploit identification, and if allowed, exploit correction. Automating licensing exploit detection ensures that known exploits are more quickly and efficiently discovered to help maintain genuine software status. Minimizing user interaction in licensing exploit detection and correction involves less disruption to users and generally supports increased user satisfaction with vendor software package usage.

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