Microsoft had 112 patents in cloud during Q1 2024. Microsoft Corp’s Q1 2024 patents focus on innovative methods and systems for privacy protection in data analytics, verifiable attribute mapping for identity and attribute information, customer control over cloud service updates, and threat detection in cloud storage through file clustering and deep scanning. These technologies aim to enhance privacy, security, and efficiency in cloud computing environments. GlobalData’s report on Microsoft gives a 360-degree view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Microsoft grant share with cloud as a theme is 53% in Q1 2024. Grant share is based on the ratio of number of grants to total number of patents.
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Application: Automatic application scaling between private and public cloud platforms (Patent ID: US20240106885A1)
The patent filed by Microsoft describes methods, systems, and computer program products that enable the automatic scaling of an application between private and public cloud computing platforms while enforcing policies to ensure that private data is stored persistently on the private cloud platform and not on the public cloud platform. The system involves a traffic manager on the public platform routing traffic to instances of a web app executing on the private platform, with a traffic monitor on the private platform monitoring performance criteria and reporting traffic telemetry to the traffic manager. Based on this telemetry, the traffic manager may instantiate additional instances of the web app on the public platform to handle traffic, ensuring that private data collected by these instances is stored in the private platform and not in the public platform.
The claims associated with the patent detail the specific components and functionalities of the system, including the communication channels between the public and private platforms, the criteria for scaling instances of the application, and the prohibition on saving data received from the private platform to the public platform's persistent storage. The method outlined in the patent involves receiving traffic telemetry and requests, routing requests based on demand indicated by the telemetry, and automatically scaling the number of instances on the public platform. The computer program product described in the patent includes logic that, when executed, performs operations related to receiving traffic telemetry, requests, and managing the scaling of instances between the private and public cloud platforms.
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