Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John M Gehlsen

Ralph A Lipe

Dale Alan Sather

Shannon J Chan

Kosar Akram Jaff

Eric J Horvitz

Thomas W Kuehnel

Mark H Lucovsky

Michal Bortnik

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Steven Dale Lamb

George M Moore

William G Parry

Roland J Ayala

David Michael Sauntry

Lijiang Fang

J Clinton Paul Fowler

Douglas Keith Brubacher

Paul Andrew Steckler

Dax H Hawkins

Guillaume Simonnet

Winnie C Wu

Gary Paolo Raden

Walter Reed Rector

Rhae-Christie Shaw

Kenneth H Cooper

Guillaume Simmonet

Guillaume Simonner

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

The present invention relates to a system and method for configuring and managing network devices. The arrival (and departure) of devices on a network can be detected by a monitor. Upon detection, network devices can be simply and dynamically configured with little or no end-user intervention, for instance by automatically loading device drivers and allocating resources for the devices. Furthermore, network devices can be associated with other network devices such as a personal computer to facilitate seamless integration of network devices with a computer operating system.

Simple and dynamic configuration of network devices

Data associated with a function instance corresponding to a resource on one computer system is published for use on another computer system. A function instance is created on the other computer system using the published data.

Uniform resource discovery with multiple computers

A schema-based device service that provides centralized access to per-user device data, wherein access to the device data is based on each user's identity. The device service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The device schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. A service such as a notification/alerts service accesses data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods, such as in order to customize or modify a notification for a device based on the device characteristics. In one implementation, the device schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role.

Schema-based services for identity-based access to device data

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