Microsoft Patents a Distributed Antialiasing Engine for Smoother Cloud-Streamed Graphics
Jagged edges are the telltale sign of a game or app running on someone else's hardware. Microsoft's new patent proposes splitting the…
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Microsoft Patents an Automated Template System for Chip Interposer Layout Design
Designing the silicon "bridge" that connects multiple chips in a modern processor package is painstaking, repetitive work. Microsoft's new patent describes a…
Microsoft Patents a Smarter Auto-Tuning System for Large-Scale Data Clustering
Clustering millions of data points sounds simple until you realize the whole algorithm breaks if you pick the wrong radius parameter —…
Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Message Drafting Based on User Profile Data
Microsoft wants your messaging app to know why you're sending a message before you even start typing — and then write it…
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…
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…
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