Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brian G Jeans

Charla Pereira

Lisa C Anderson

Michael Alyn Miller

Keith R Kline

Cierra D McDonald

Steve Dolan

Brian Charles Blomquist

Carlos Carvallo

Doug Beck

Sela P Davis

Cody Luitjens

Craig Suthers

Lawrence Michael Sanchez, Ii

David Chiu

Catherine Mary Pidgeon

Jyothi Mathew

Mike Horstmanshof

Nick Koller

Don Sprague

Thiti Wang Aryattawanich

Devices including gaming consoles, personal computers, tablets, smartphones, and the like may be configured with a client for capturing signals which are representative of user interactions with applications such as games. The captured signals are sent to a cloud-based service for archival storage. The service can subsequently replay the archived captured signals and compare them against known rules to determine if an achievement obtained by a user during interaction with the application was legitimately obtained in compliance with the rules or obtained improperly, for example by cheating or exploiting a bug in the application to falsely trigger the achievement. If the achievement is invalid, then the service can retroactively revoke the achievement. Alternatively, the service can replay the captured signals and detect instances in which an achievement was validly achieved but not properly acknowledged. The achievement can then be awarded or unlocked for the user retroactively.

Achievement replay and fraud detection

Embodiments are directed to applying appropriate pluralization rules to text strings and to generating pluralization rules for multiple different languages. In an embodiment, a computer system identifies a user interface (UI) text string that includes a numerical amount for which an appropriate pluralization form is to be determined. The string is represented by a resource identifier (ID). The computer system receives an indication indicating which language the text string is to be displayed in and determines an appropriate resource ID from a set of pre-generated resource IDs based on the numerical amount and the determined language. The pre-generated resource IDs include various language-specific pluralization forms for localization of the text string. The computer system also returns the localized text string at the determined appropriate resource ID to the UI for display. In this manner, the localized text string is presented with the numerical amount and proper pluralization in the indicated language.

Creating and implementing language-dependent string pluralizations

Display screen with an animated user interface

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Snoqualmie, WA, United States of America

Brian G Jeans