Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

James Nicholas Helm

Ling Tony Chen

Yasser Baseer Asmi

Michal Bortnik

Steven Dale Lamb

James David Macauley

Erik John Arthur

Shyam Krishnamoorthy

James E Allard

Victor Keith Blanco

Tracy Sharpe

Jerry Paul Hook

Jeffrey S Stone

Daniel E Walther

Daniel S Holt

Systems and method for providing a single sign in a gaming console that associates online activity that is out-of-game/cross game, and/or online activity that is in-game, and/or activity that is offline and in-game with that account. While online, a service tracks activity of gamers and provides usage statistics in a profile. While offline, the game console tracks the player's activity via a mechanism to collect detailed information about a specific player's in-game statistics and accomplishments. The offline activity is cached and uploaded when the console connects to the online service. Players can accumulate achievements offline that are credited towards online activities.

Application interface for tracking player identity

Contributing data to an on-line gamer database

Ubiquitous unified player identity tracking system

Advertising is targeted to a specific user of a user console. A product data request is received from a user console and includes a user identifier, user data, and at least a first product identifier. A user account record associated with the user identifier is identified. The user account record includes a subscription service level identifier and a user account history. The user data are then associated with the user account record. A product catalog is searched for any product related entries associated with the request, and when any product related entries associated with the product data request are found, each such product related entry is provided to the user console.

Targeted merchandising on a user console

In accordance with one aspect of saving audio source identifiers for soundtracks in a gaming system, an audio track is obtained from an audio source and the audio track is saved so that a copy of the audio track is available when the audio source is no longer accessible to a game console. The audio track is at least part of a user-created soundtrack and/or a user-selected soundtrack. The identifier of the audio source is also saved, and when a database containing meta data associated with the audio track is available, the meta data associated with the audio track is obtained from the database, based at least in part on the identifier saved on the storage device, and the obtained meta data is stored.

Saving audio source identifiers for soundtracks in a gaming system

Ubiquitous unified player tracking system

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James Nicholas Helm