Inventor
XU ZHANGWEI
US32 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
8 patentsUS7694153B2Apr 6, 2010
Changing product behavior in accordance with license
MICROSOFT CORP17 citations81
US7669048B2Feb 23, 2010
Computing device limiting mechanism
MICROSOFT CORP7 citations74
US9381427B2Jul 5, 2016
Generic companion-messaging between media platforms
MICROSOFT CORP4 citations66
US7490158B2Feb 10, 2009
Multicast transfer rate probe
MICROSOFT CORP6 citations60
US7539647B2May 26, 2009
Using power state to enforce software metering state
MICROSOFT CORP2 citations59
US9579570B2Feb 28, 2017
Device linking
MICROSOFT CORP0 citations49
US7596671B2Sep 29, 2009
Pre-paid computer monitoring hardware
MICROSOFT CORP1 citations49
US7987512B2Jul 26, 2011
BIOS based secure execution environment
MICROSOFT CORP1 citations46
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
8 patentsUS11962456B2Apr 16, 2024
Automated cross-service diagnostics for large scale infrastructure cloud service providers
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations65
US12542706B2Feb 3, 2026
Automated cross-service diagnostics for large scale infrastructure cloud service providers
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations55
US10750349B2Aug 18, 2020
Device linking
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations49
US9967730B2May 8, 2018
Device linking
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations49
US12184527B2Dec 31, 2024
Health index of a service
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations47
US12587460B2Mar 24, 2026
Health model for cloud service health monitoring
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations44
US12592875B2Mar 31, 2026
Detecting cloud service latency issues through analysis of tenant latency signals
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations42
US12455769B2Oct 28, 2025
Intelligent outage evaluation and insight management for monitoring and incident management systems
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations41
FRANK ALEXANDER
4 patentsUS7610631B2Oct 27, 2009
Method and apparatus for provisioning software
FRANK ALEXANDER26 citations89
US8176564B2May 8, 2012
Special PC mode entered upon detection of undesired state
FRANK ALEXANDER11 citations81
US8112798B2Feb 7, 2012
Hardware-aided software code measurement
FRANK ALEXANDER5 citations62
US8214296B2Jul 3, 2012
Disaggregated secure execution environment
FRANK ALEXANDER2 citations61