Yue Ma, 50Salt Lake City, UT

2009003, Feb 5, 2009

Jul 31, 2007

11/888233

Yue Ma - Redmond WA, US
Patrick J. Niemeyer - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 11/30

726 23

Embodiments are provided to monitor aspects of a process, such as an automation process. In an embodiment, a system includes a number of components configured to monitor and validate operational aspects of a test automation process. In one embodiment, a monitoring application can be used to detect test automation issues, such as file related issues, registry related issues, network related issues, and other operational issues for example. The monitoring application can include a number of rule sets which may be tailored to identify and detect new types of exceptions and other conditions associated with an automation process or some other process. Other embodiments are available.

2012010, May 3, 2012

Dec 1, 2010

12/958242

Yue Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Justin D. Hamilton - Bellevue WA, US
Fang Wen - Beijing, CN
Jian Sun - Beijing, CN

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06K 9/68

382218

Image search techniques are described. In one or more implementations, images in a search result are ordered based at least in part on similarity of the images, one to another. The search result having the ordered images is provided in response to a search request.

2012011, May 3, 2012

Oct 29, 2010

12/916169

Yue Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Justin D. Hamilton - Bellevue WA, US
Wallace Earl Greathouse - Provo UT, US
Bao Tan Nguyen - Bellevue WA, US
Avinash Vemuluru - Redmond WA, US
Paul Valentin Borza - Bellevue WA, US
Rajat Kala - Seattle WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 3/048

715716, 715838

Techniques involving display of image search results are described. In one or more implementations, an image search result is displayed having a plurality of images. Responsive to selection of a particular one of the images, a filmstrip is displayed having a contiguous series of representations of at least a portion of the plurality of images, at least one of which is of the particular image, the particular image is displayed as disposed proximal to metadata associated with the image, and at least a portion of a webpage from which the particular image was obtained is displayed.

2012011, May 10, 2012

Nov 8, 2010

12/941747

JUSTIN DAVID HAMILTON - Bellevue WA, US
YUE MA - Bellevue WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G09G 5/00
G06F 17/30

345660, 707769, 707E1703

Methods and systems for compiling image results into compilation images so that multiple image results may be downloaded via a single browser-download connection are provided. An image search request is received and a plurality of image results that satisfy the image search request are determined. At least a portion of the image results determined to satisfy the search request are dynamically stitched together to create a compilation image. Upon receiving an image download request for a satisfying image result, the compilation image is returned to the user's browser rather than a single thumbnail image. In this way, a plurality of image results is returned via a single browser-download connection and the latency in returning a large number of request-satisfying image results is decreased.

2012015, Jun 21, 2012

Dec 16, 2010

12/970314

Yue Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Justin Hamilton - Bellevue WA, US
Qifa Ke - Cupertino CA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06K 9/00

382118

A method and apparatus is provided for performing image matching. The method includes comparing a face in a first image to a face in each of a set of stored images to identify one or more face-matching images that include similar facial features to the face in the first image. Next, the first image is compared to each of the face-matching images to identify one or more resulting images that are spatially similar to the first image. Accordingly, the resulting image or images have similar facial features and similar overall or background features to those in the first image. For example, if the query image is of a playground with a child swinging on a swing, the image matching technique can find other images of the same child in a setting that appears similar.

2012016, Jun 28, 2012

Dec 28, 2010

12/980071

YUE MA - Bellevue WA, US
JUSTIN DAVID Hamilton - Bellevue WA, US
Gong Cheng - Beijing, CN
Jingdong Wang - Beijing, CN

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G09G 5/02
G06K 9/68

345594, 382218

Visual features of images are translated into visual words defined by a dictionary. The visual words are indexed and the images are stored in an image store. A sketched imaged, translated into visual words, is utilized to search for similar images in the image store. The visual words are compared to visual words in the index to identify matches associated with stored images. The stored images are displayed and ranked according to the highest number of matches. Textual searches are used to supplement or refine the search results.

2013005, Feb 28, 2013

Aug 25, 2011

13/217549

Charles E. Cummins - Seattle WA, US
Justin Hamilton - Bellevue WA, US
Yue Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Hua Ding - Beijing, CN
Xiaowei Sheng - Beijing, CN
Bing Lang - Beijing, CN
Kun Wu - Beijing, CN

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707722, 707E17005, 707E17014

Accurate search results are provided while still honoring content limitations. Content responsive to search, whose presentation is prevented by content limitations is presented in an obscured manner, notifying the user of the existence of the content, while not enabling discerning of details, thereby honoring the content limitations. Attempted user interaction with obscured content acts as an entry point to changing the content limitations, including presenting user notifications of the content limitations and presenting an option to change the content limitations to allow for the unobscured presentation of the obscured content. Graphical content can be obscured by applying graphical modifications to generate new, obscured content that provides only a vague resemblance to the original, including jittering pixels, or other subcomponents, the applying of Gaussian blurs, and pixelization.