Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cameron J A Ferroni

Boyd Cannon Multerer

Rodney Thomas Limprecht

Michael W Thomas

Martin J Sleeman

William D Devlin

Justin Grant

Lara N Dillingham

Alexander E Mallet

Quentin J Clark

John F Ludeman

Philippe Choquier

Damon V Danieli

Van Christopher Van

Todd G Roshak

Noah Heller

A virtual applications architecture is provided according to the present invention. The architecture includes a topology manager for managing applications across a plurality of members, and a virtual applications manager for defining a plurality of resources comprising the applications. The topology manager communicates with the plurality of members to initiate scaling of the applications associated with the virtual applications manager to the members. The architecture may also include a replication system for deploying the applications to the members.

System and method providing virtual applications architecture

A user who has signed on to an online gaming service can send an invitation to a friend appearing in the user's friends list to join in playing the game the user has loaded or may join the friend in playing the game being played by the friend, regardless of whether the game title played by the friend is the same as that loaded on the user's game console. If the game titles are different, the party needing to load the game title to be played is prompted to do so, and then prompted to reboot the game console. Information written about the new game to be played is automatically written on the hard drive of that party's game console and automatically accessed after the reboot for use in expediting the log-in process of the player who had to reboot.

Online game invitations using friends list

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Cameron J A Ferroni