Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dax H Hawkins

Sing Bing Kang

Christian Klein

Anders Hejlsberg

Tommer Leyvand

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Boyd Cannon Multerer

Jason S Flaks

Michal Bortnik

Brian J Deen

James Ernest Johnson

Thomas M Soemo

Steven Dale Lamb

Robert Matthew Craig

Michael Ray Clark

Ali M Vassigh

Pablo Castro

Luca Bolognese

Megan Lesley Tedesco

Jonathan E Lange

Jun Fang

J Clinton Paul Fowler

Michael H Kim

Jeffrey Bernhardt

Jagan M Peri

Mitchell Stephen Dernis

Walter Reed Rector

Mark A Boulter

Joe Dennis Long

Omri Gazitt

Egidio Sburlino

Duncan James McKay

Blaine J Dockter

John M Gehlsen

Joe Bertolami

Chad R Heinemann

Manuel Bronstein

Julien Jacques Nicolas Ellie

Mark P Ashton

Leo Soong

Konstantin Isakov

Gert Er Drapers

Shelley McKinley

A gamercard associated with an integrated gamer profile to identify a gamer is provided to the gamer and other PC/console users who also participate in other online gaming community activities such as game-related web sites. The gamercard is also provided to the user in a modular fashion formatted in a way suitable for the user to display it directly within other applications of the user (such as their personal web sites and mobile device applications for display on their cell phone) without the user having to update the information within the other applications when the information changes in the central database.

Embedded gamer card across multiple devices and networks

Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the use of identity information to help avoid the occurrence of false positive speech recognition events in a speech recognition system. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving speech recognition data comprising a recognized speech segment, acoustic locational data related to a location of origin of the recognized speech segment as determined via signals from the microphone array, and confidence data comprising a recognition confidence value, and also receiving image data comprising visual locational information related to a location of each person in an image. The acoustic locational data is compared to the visual locational data to determine whether the recognized speech segment originated from a person in the field of view of the image sensor, and the confidence data is adjusted depending on this determination.

Speech recognition analysis via identification information

A system for integrating local speech recognition with cloud-based speech recognition in order to provide an efficient natural user interface is described. In some embodiments, a computing device determines a direction associated with a particular person within an environment and generates an audio recording associated with the direction. The computing device then performs local speech recognition on the audio recording in order to detect a first utterance spoken by the particular person and to detect one or more keywords within the first utterance. The first utterance may be detected by applying voice activity detection techniques to the audio recording. The first utterance and the one or more keywords are subsequently transferred to a server which may identify speech sounds within the first utterance associated with the one or more keywords and adapt one or more speech recognition techniques based on the identified speech sounds.

Integrated local and cloud based speech recognition

A content distribution system may be provided for reviewing content such as video games, music, movies, or the like that may be shared by the system. The content distribution system may receive a credential from a user and authenticate the user based on the credential to permit access to the system. The content distribution system may also receive content generated by the user if the user may be authenticated. The content distribution system may provide the received content to a content evaluation entity, for example. The content distribution system may receive a review for the content from the content review entity and then may determine whether the content passes a review process based on the review, for example. The content distribution system may provide additional access to the content if the content passes the review process.

Content distribution and evaluation providing reviewer status

A predictive model is used to populate a cache in a videogame system. The predictive model takes as an input a sequence of file sections that have been requested for the associated videogame thus far. The predictive model then returns the names or indicators of one or more file sections that will likely be requested in the future along with a probability that those file sections will be requested. A cache driver executing in the background of the videogame system may then use the predictive model to reduced load times during the execution of a videogame by retrieving the predicted file sections from the optical disk and placing them in a cache during periods of low CPU activity.

Predictive caching of assets to improve level load time on a game console

Game data is rendered in three dimensions in the GPU of a game console. A left camera view and a right camera view are generated from a single camera view. The left and right camera positions are derived as an offset from a default camera. The focal distance of the left and right cameras is infinity. A game developer does not have to encode dual images into a specific hardware format. When a viewer sees the two slightly offset images, the user's brain combines the two offset images into a single 3D image to give the illusion that objects either pop out from or recede into the display screen. In another embodiment, individual, private video is rendered, on a single display screen, for different viewers. Rather than rendering two similar offset images, two completely different images are rendered allowing each player to view only one of the images.

Three dimensional rendering of display information using viewer eye coordinates

Background audio for a game being played in a video game system is provided via streaming from an outside source. The background audio played is based on details regarding the state of the video game system, including information regarding the game being played on said video game system. The user can select from among several possibilities for background music, and the selection is then streamed to the video game system from the music service. Enforcement of digital rights and purchasing of tracks streamed from the music service are provided for.

Dynamic in-game soundtrack for a console game machine

A system and method facilitating diagnostics support is provided. The system includes application(s) instrumented in accordance with a built-in diagnostics (BID) framework, and, trace component(s). The trace component can selectively employ none, some and/or substantially all of the trace point(s) associated with the application. The system can facilitate instrumentation of a managed data access stack, for example, to enhance supportability of the application.

Built-in diagnostics

A transaction protocol is described that allows a database transaction to begin as a local, lightweight transaction without involving a distributed transaction coordinator and then be promoted to a distributed transaction only when required, e.g. when more than one database connection is required. A promotable enlistment allows a first resource to begin processing a promotable transaction. If the resource is notified that the transaction is being promoted to a distributed transaction, the resource is configured to promote the enlistment to a distributed transaction coordinator which coordinates processing of the transaction between the first resource and at least a second resource.

Promotable transactions with promotable single phase enlistments

An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET&#x2122; platform.

Application program interface for network software platform

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Dax H Hawkins