Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Doug Beck

Michael Alyn Miller

William Michael Zintel

Chad Gibson

Cierra D McDonald

Sela P Davis

Cody Luitjens

Craig Suthers

Dave Reed

Antonio Vargas Garcia

Timothy Arthur Gill

Carlos Carvallo

Daniel Av

Michael J Horstmanshof

Pooja Mathur

Nicholas Koller

Keith R Kline

Steve Dolan

Brian G Jeans

Tim Gill

Mike Horstmanshof

Nick Koller

Don Sprague

Emily Price

Various embodiments relating to management of game data of a video game by a game service and service triggered delivery of game data to various subscribers are provided. In one embodiment, game data of a video game is received at a game service computing machine as the video game is being executed on a user gaming machine. A game statistic is generated by the game service computing machine based on the game data. The game statistic is sent to subscribers having a subscription to the game statistic.

Service-triggered game events

A system for transforming events from discrete events into aggregated values and statistics and for routing events and aggregated values to consuming clients and servers is provided. Events are described in a common syntax amongst different applications accessing the system. Events are routed between the transformation system and other clients and servers. Secondary application developers can provide new functionality using the event and statistic stream even after the primary application developer has already shipped to the consumer.

Application event distribution system

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

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