Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Pedro Perez

Stephen G Latta

Kevin Geisner

Relja Markovic

Darren Bennett

Ryan Lucas Hastings

Shawn Crispin Wright

Brian Murphy

Christopher Harley Willoughby

Joel Deaguero

Synchronous and asynchronous communications between avatars is allowed. For synchronous communications, when multiple users are playing different games of the same game title and when the avatars of the multiple users are at the same location in their respective games they can communicate with one another, thus allowing the users of those avatars to communicate with one another. For asynchronous communications, an avatar of a particular user is left behind at a particular location in a game along with a recorded communication. When other users of other games are at that particular location, the avatar of that particular user is displayed and the recorded communication is presented to the other users.

Communication between avatars in different games

One or more physical characteristics of each of multiple users are detected. These physical characteristics of a user can include physical attributes of the user (e.g., the user's height, length of the user's legs) and/or physical skills of the user (e.g., how high the user can jump). Based on these detected one or more physical characteristics of the users, two or more of the multiple users to share an online experience (e.g., play a multi-player game) are identified.

Physical characteristics based user identification for matchmaking

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