Microsoft Patents a Way to Use Any Device's Peripherals Inside One VM Session
Imagine running your work virtual machine on your laptop but using your iPad's touchscreen to control it — without switching sessions. That's…
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Microsoft Patents a Rare-Term Index to Surface Niche Web Content
Most search indexes are optimized for popular content — but that leaves a long tail of niche, specialized pages effectively invisible. Microsoft's…
Nvidia Patents a Unified Audit Log That Stitches Together Multi-Node Activity
When a single request fans out across dozens of compute nodes, keeping a coherent audit trail is surprisingly hard. Nvidia's new patent…
Nvidia Patents a Delta-Sync System for Multi-User 3D Scene Editing
When multiple artists edit the same 3D scene at once, keeping everyone's view consistent is surprisingly hard. Nvidia's new patent tackles that…
Microsoft Patents a Self-Healing Agent That Fixes Broken Plugins Without Stopping
What if your software agent could figure out which part of itself was broken — and fix just that part — without…
Samsung Patents a System That Figures Out What Your Smart Home Devices Can Do
When you add a new smart device to your home, someone has to figure out what it can actually do — and…
Samsung Patents a System for Browsing Remote Device Files with Live Thumbnails
Samsung is patenting a way for one device to request thumbnail previews of files stored on another device — letting you visually…
Samsung Patents a UI Where Dragged Cards Pull the Whole Stack Behind Them
Imagine dragging the top card in a stack and watching every card beneath it peel off and follow your finger, one by…
Samsung Patents a Camera UI That Previews Image Effects by Scene Zone
Instead of scrolling through filters and hoping for the best, Samsung's new patent lets your camera automatically segment a scene — sky,…
Samsung Patents an Auto-Schema Health Data Analysis System
Samsung is patenting a system that automatically figures out how your health data is structured — and picks the right algorithm to…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants Your Phone to Bundle Related Videos Before You Hit Send
Sharing a bunch of related clips from a night out usually means hunting through your camera roll and stitching things together manually.…
Salesforce Patents a Universal Adapter That Runs Any AI Model, Anywhere
Salesforce is patenting a middleware layer that lets companies deploy machine learning models built in any framework — TensorFlow, PyTorch, you name…
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