The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
William B. Dolan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher I. Charla, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher B. Quirk, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher J. Brockett, Bellevue, WA (US);
Noelle M. Sophy, Redmond, WA (US);
Nicole Beaudry, Boston, MA (US);
Vikram Reddy Dendi, Redmond, WA (US);
Pallavi Choudhury, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott T. Laufer, North Bend, WA (US);
Robert A. Sim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Thomas E. Woolsey, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Molnar, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A processing system is described which generates stimulus information (SI) having one or more stimulus components (SCs) selected from an inventory of such components. The processing system then presents the SI to a group of human recipients, inviting those recipients to provide linguistic descriptions of the SI. The linguistic information that is received thereby has an implicit link to the SCs. Further, each linguistic component is associated with at least one feature of a target environment, such as a target computer system. Hence, the linguistic information also maps to the features of the target environment. These relationships allow applications to use the linguistic information to interact with the target environment in different ways. In one case, the processing system uses a challenge-response authentication task presentation to convey the stimulus information to the recipients.