Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Jay Thaler

Felix Livni

Nicholas Alexander Allen

Jin Li

Philip Andrew Chou

Sanjeev Mehrotra

Kenneth David Wolf

Cheng Huang

Hao Chen

Mike Scavezze

Matthew James Van Gorder

Daniel Joseph Giambalvo

Brett Ethan Johnson

Nicole Ashley Hamilton

Keith W Ross

Chao Zhang

David B Dehghan

Kenneth A Showman

Nirmal Rajesh Soy

Holly A Hirzel

Carey Tanner

Hardik V Shah

Dennis Craig Marl

Quan Wang

Thomas Alan Sponheim

Renan Jeffereis

Kristopher J Owens

A method and system that enhances a user's performance while interacting with an interactive internet application such as a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game is provided. The network latency experienced by users participating in the MMO game is minimized by dynamically determining an optimal transmission action for a message generated by the MMO game. In one embodiment, determining the optimal transmission action for a message includes dynamically determining the optimal number of redundant Forward Error Correction (FEC) packets to add to a message prior to transmitting a message to a receiving device. The optimal number of FEC packets is determined based on a wide range of varying network conditions.

Minimizing network latency in interactive internet applications

Dynamic role selection of players for different roles in multiplayer gaming sessions is provided. Users seeking to participate in different roles in the game may request participation in the role. Selection of players for roles is made dynamically by varying a selection component for different sessions of the game. The selection component may be a user's game score over different time periods, and can be rotated for different sessions of the game, so that various levels of players have an opportunity to fill game roles.

Role assignment in multiplayer games

An application programming interface (API) for administering the distribution of software updates on an update service node is presented. The API provides a plurality of interface calls through which an administrator can establish rules by which software updates available to the update service node are distributed.

Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system

Transport independent redirection. If a client computing system were to request a service from a service computing system, the service may determine whether or not the client should request the service from yet another service. If the client should request the service from the other computing system, the original service (or its intermediary) generates and transmits a transport-independent redirect message to the client. The client may then issue the request to the new service specified in the redirect response. The redirect message is not limited to a particular type of transport protocol. In addition, the redirect may be made possible in any number of message exchange patterns, not just request-response.

Transport independent redirection

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