Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Matthew Edward Hite

Christopher H Kujawski

Jonathan Shea Robinson

Sam Michael Sarmast

Gregory Mayo Daly

Sam Sarmast

Brian G Russell

Robert Bryce Johnson

Ross Anthony Nelson

Evelyn R Thomas

Christopher Thomas Harmon

Andre Sutanto

Leo Shing

Rachel S Yang

Kristine A Hunter

Flor Albornoz

Rachel Yang

An accessory apparatus includes a housing, an apparatus connector, a plurality of auxiliary accessory interfaces, and an internal microcontroller. The connection connector is configured to mate with a corresponding accessory connector of a physical controller to electrically connect the internal microcontroller to the physical controller. Each auxiliary accessory connector is configured to enable a separate auxiliary user input device to operatively connect to the accessory apparatus and electrically connect with the internal microcontroller. The internal microcontroller is configured to: (1) receive an input control signal from an auxiliary user input device operatively connected to an auxiliary accessory connector of the plurality of auxiliary accessory connectors, (2) map the input control signal to a mapped control signal corresponding to a physical control of the physical controller, and (3) send the mapped control signal to the physical controller via the apparatus connector.

Controller having accessory connectors for externalizing controls

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

Matthew Edward Hite