Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Quan Yong Tang

Kun Jing

Yaping Liu

Jin Li

Matthew Robert Scott

Hao Wei

Ye Xu

Javier Garcia Flynn

Jill Shih

Xue Bing Tang

Pin Yin

Winny K So

Mengtong Yang

Pengyang Xu

Kaihua Yin

Eric Jing

Vanessa Qianqian Guo

A spike strip for disabling vehicle tires is disclosed which is formed from a scissor arm assembly of a plurality of arms engaged at pivots. Moveably from a collapsed position to an elongated position the assembly has a plurality of spikes engaged thereon for puncturing vehicle tires. The spikes can be removed and replaced and can be formed into spike nets by an engaged cable.

Spike strip

Systems, methods, and computer media for providing alternative market search results are provided. A user search query in a first market is received. Search results relevant to the user search query are identified for the first market in a first language. A user intent to receive search results for the user search query for a second market and in a second language is determined. A search results page is presented that includes headings and search results for the first market in the first language as well as a search result toggle that includes a user-selectable option to present alternative search results for a second market in a second language. Selection of the option to present alternative search results causes search results for the second market and in the second language to be presented in the search results page along with the search results page headings in the first language.

Alternative market search result toggle

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for presenting video as at least a portion of the background of search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request for presentation of a search engine home page, a static image is transmitted for presentation as at least a portion of the background for the search engine home page. Also transmitted is a streaming video file. The static image may or may not be associated with the streaming video file. After a predetermined amount of time, play of the streaming video file is initiated without user action, the streaming video file replacing the static image as at least a portion of the background of the search engine home page. In this way, the user receives a seamless transition from a static image to a video presentation and is provided a rich, immersive experience at the search engine home page.

Hover translation of search result captions

Various embodiments provide an embedded search bar displayed on a display screen of a computing device. Executable code for the embedded search bar may be loaded by a browser from a remote source. The browser may execute the executable code, thereby causing the embedded search bar to be displayed at a fixed position of a display screen. The embedded search bar may be an open and extensible container for applications. The applications may be content-driven applications or utility applications, representations of which may be displayed within the embedded search bar. The applications may interact with the embedded search bar via a set of public application program interfaces. The applications may monitor search queries and may provide information to be displayed within the embedded search bar. The embedded search bar may further include a search window for entering a search query to be performed over a third-party website.

Embedded search bar

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Quan Yong Tang