Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michal Bortnik

Steven Dale Lamb

Ling Tony Chen

James David Macauley

Vincent H Curley

Yasser Baseer Asmi

Patrick W O'Kelley, Ii

Erik John Arthur

Johan Peter Hansen

James Nicholas Helm

Jerry Alan Johnson

J Clinton Paul Fowler

Walter Reed Rector

James Hsi-kai Jen

Claire Anna Jennings

Kurtis Kam-Wing Chinn

Michael Courage

James Hsi-Kai Jen

Max Hoberman

Steven Ryan Gunn

Paolo V Malabuyo

Dax H Hawkins

Henry Morgan

Alan Thomas Shen

John M Gehlsen

Scott Henson

Benjamin F Kilgore

Jerry A Johnson

James His-Kai Jen

Patrick W O'kelley Ii

Ii Patrick W O'Kelley

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

Systems and method for providing a game achievements system where players are rewarded with game achievements based on mastering certain in-game facets of the games they play. Each game achievement may be conveyed in a profile as a badge or trophy, title, description, date, etc. Players may also accumulate points based on game achievements. A display interface may be made available such that a player may see his achievements and total points, as well as those of others.

Game achievements system

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

A user profile for an online gaming service is created. The user profile contains user gaming information received from a first location. The user profile is stored in a database, and the user is permitted to access the user profile from a second location.

Extended and editable gamer profile

Systems and methods for providing a digital identity or profile in a gaming console that communicates to a remote service. A 'Gamer Profile' is created that serves as a building block for services and applications that aim to create a social community of gamers and grow relationships among players. In accordance with the present invention, the Gamer Profile is the entirety of information (e.g., metadata) related to a specific user. The Gamer Profile is developed from a set of services that collect and expose this information in a meaningful way to the community. Feedback information may be included that is provided by other users to further enhance the profile. The Gamer Profile also provides for personalization such that users can customize their gaming experience.

User-centric method of aggregating information sources to reinforce digital identity

Information is shared among users in a system by the use of a service. The service receives information from at least two different game applications that each have a configuration file (defined with a common schema) that defines information from the game application to share with a service. An intermediary program executing on a computer that is also executing one of said game applications receives information from the application as defined by said configuration files and stores at least a portion of the information received from the application. At least a portion of the information is sent to the service when the intermediary is in communication with the service over a network wherein the service provides information about a user of said at least two game applications based on information received by said service.

System and method for configuring game data about players

Contributing data to an on-line gamer database

A game console has the capability to execute programming to unlock an achievement. After the achievements are unlocked, a data store accessible by the game console over a network stores the information in the profile of the user. The achievements associated with the user profiles can be retrieved from the store along with an indicator, that is indicative of a tier level associated with the achievement where the tier indicates a certain performance level associated with unlocking a particular achievement.

Tiered achievement system

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Michal Bortnik