Microsoft Patents a Dynamic Compliance-Checking System for App Data Access
Before an app can touch sensitive data, Microsoft's new patent wants to check whether that app is actually playing by the rules…
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Microsoft Patents Automated Data Lineage Extraction from Database Query Logs
Every time a database query runs, it leaves a trail — and Microsoft wants to automatically turn that trail into a full…
Microsoft Patents a Dense Context Engine That Primes AI With Company-Specific Knowledge
Before your AI assistant answers a question, what if it could automatically load up a compressed briefing of everything relevant about your…
Microsoft Patents a Neural Prior Model for Photorealistic 3D Avatars
Microsoft is filing patents on a system that can generate a photorealistic, animatable 3D avatar of you from a single photo —…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Sorts Your Screenshots by What You Were Actually Doing
Microsoft is patenting a way to automatically slice a long stream of screenshots into discrete activity chunks — so instead of a…
Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache
Profiling a CPU is a bit like measuring your car's speed by adding a second engine to power the speedometer — the…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Scores URLs Before Indexing Them
Every second, search engines discover millions of new URLs — and most of them are junk. Microsoft's new patent describes an AI…
Microsoft Patents a Precision Glass Filament Drawing and Cutting Method
Microsoft — best known for software, cloud, and Surface laptops — has quietly filed a patent for manufacturing glass filaments with sub-millimeter…
Microsoft Patents a System for Navigating Screenshot Interfaces with a Keyboard
What if you could navigate a screenshot of a desktop interface using just arrow keys or a gamepad? Microsoft is patenting exactly…
Microsoft Patents a System That Backs Up Files Before You Delete Them
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that intercepts a file deletion in real time, ships the file to cloud storage…
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