Questions tagged [microsoft]
Related to patents filed, licensed or prosecuted by Applicant MICROSOFT
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Is there something new in the Microsoft application given the Acer patent?
I found a patent filed by Microsoft:
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2021145886
That seems to claim protection for the hinge mechanism of the Surface Laptop Studio. As I see ...
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Outcome of referencing earlier patents in your patent application
Most likely, I will reference MS Color Picker patent in my patent application. My software will use this color selection feature.
If my patent gets accepted, will MS (or anyone else whose patent I ...
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PRIOR ART REQUEST: US7,051,342 - Method and system for remote automation of object oriented applications
This is a prior art request for U.S. Patent No. 7051342 "Method and system for remote automation of object oriented applications", belonging to Microsoft Corporation. The patent expires 2021-10-22, ...
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Microsoft Modular Computing Device - Prior Art Request
Microsoft has submitted an application for a patent to the blatantly obvious idea of designing a computer that consists of independently upgradeable modules - an idea as old as the IBM PC itself only ...
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Patentability of language improvement
Is it possible to patent an improvement of a Programming language ( new method to write it) in order to sell the improvement to Microsoft or others.
Thanks.
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Social Networking - Tracking product recommendations through a URL forwarding service (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON employing a forwarding service to track online recommendations - This application from Microsoft seeks to patent the idea of...Tracking online product recommendations by ...
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PRIOR ART REQUEST: Issued patent US 8255828 B2 (Microsoft): Ribbon UI
Patent US 8255828 B2 (publication US 10/955,967, assigned to Microsoft), Command user interface for displaying selectable software functionality controls, is the main patent protecting the Ribbon UI.
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Dynamic visualization and implementation (Microsoft) - Patent Application US20130339363 - PRIOR ART REQUEST
The gist of this is, they are trying to claim that storing the "type" of graph or report as metadata to a dataset being reported on is novel and unobvious.
A picture is worth 1K words...Figure 5A and ...
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Microsoft Patent from 2008 for "Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast"
Is it just me, or is this patent really broad?
Patent No. 7437290
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7437290.html
Claim 1
A method for automatically censoring audio data, comprising the steps ...
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Online Search - Re-ranking search results based on admin-configured ranking rules (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
This Patent Application received a non-final rejection by the US Patent Office! An initial rejection is part of the typical course of a patent application.
Some of the grounds for rejection (can be ...
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Machine Translation - Using word stems to translate "out-of-vocabulary" words (Microsoft Corporation) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON using word stems to translate unknown words - This application from Microsoft seeks to patent the idea of...Machine translation of unknown words by finding known word stems and ...
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Hash-based Load Balancing (Microsoft) - Issued Patent - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON BALANCING WEB TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION - This patent from Microsoft seeks to patent the idea of using multiple load balancers with a shared virtual IP address to distribute website ...
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Multiplayer Gaming with Head-Mounted Display (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
US Patent Application: US 20130196757 A1
TITLE: Multiplayer Gaming with Head-Mounted Display
Summary: [Translated from Legalese into English] A method of inviting other playes to join you in a ...
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Webpage Extraction - Using Visual Structure and Text Analysis to Label Blocks (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
This Patent Application was given a "final rejection" by the US Patent Office. An applicant has several ways to keep an application in this state alive. They include a request for continuing ...
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Online advertising - Predicting Keyword Performance (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
This Patent Application was given a "final rejection" by the US Patent Office. An applicant has several ways to keep an application in this state alive. They include a request for continuing ...
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Data Modeling - Predicting User Behavior (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
This Patent Application has received a non-final rejection by the US Patent Office! An initial rejection is part of the typical course of a patent application.
Thanks to YOU, the Ask Patents ...
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Email Notification - Dynamic Control of Email (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON DYNAMIC EMAIL NOTIFICATION - This application from Microsoft seeks to patent the idea of... email which changes appearance dynamically based on an external event! 10 minutes of ...
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Scaling based on pixel density (Microsoft) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
In 2013, this Patent Application has received a final rejection by the US Patent Office.
The rejection was based in part on prior art found by Ask Patents community below! The main reference cited by ...
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Social mapping of contacts from computer communication information
This is a Microsoft Patent us7167910 filed in 2002 and issued in 2007, when Web 2.0 was in its infancy. Is someone aware of similar work in the course of next 5/6 years from the issue date.
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Game with Achievement system
I saw this patent own by microsoft.
http://www.google.com/patents/US20060122716
I want to make a game that give a small reward for player who complete some task in game something like kill 50 ...
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Doesn't this mean most current software using scrolling is in violation of Patent 5495566?
In US patent 5495566 (filed 1994-11-22, issued 1996-02-27), Microsoft patented varied speed scrolling depending on the speed of mouse wheel spin, something that is now always used. Does this mean that ...
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How does Apple's patent differ from Microsoft HEL?
How does the patent application US 2011/0037768 “System for Emulating Graphics Operations” filed by Apple (filing date Oct 15, 2010) differ from Microsoft's DirectX/DirectDraw HEL (Hardware Emulation ...
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Prior art for compiler supporting programs as data objects
Microsoft has patent application 2011/0246973 which sounds suspiciously like Lisp. Here's claim 1:
1. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that when executed by a ...
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Relational Database - Using Objects to Access A Relational Database (DataTern) - Issued Patent - PRIOR ART REQUEST
DataTern has Patent No. 5,937,402 on using objects to access a relational database. The patent was issued in 1999, and obviously people were using objects to access databases since the 80's.
Basically,...
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Prior art on Microsoft patents asserted against Barnes & Noble and Motorola
I was wondering whether there was sufficient prior art for some of the patents that Microsoft is with Android device manufacturers? Most of those seem to have been resolved under NDA, but here's some ...
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