Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Richard Andrew Meyer

Shawn L Hargreaves

John Mitchell Walker

Stephen James Styrchak

Aaron Joshua Nonis

Julien Jacques Nicolas Ellie

Ronnie Donnell Yates, Jr

Stephen J Styrchak

Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for a trusted proxy to intercept communications between an untrusted computerized gaming system and an online multi-player gaming service that requires games to be trusted, allowing the untrusted computerized gaming system to use the multi-player gaming service. In addition to allowing the untrusted computerized gaming system to use the multi-player gaming service in general, the trusted proxy can also limit the extent of the interaction between the untrusted computerized gaming system and the multi-player gaming service.

Untrusted gaming system access to online gaming service

Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for an overlaying requester to send graphics commands to a game connected to the overlaying requester via a dummy graphics application programming interface (API) object that the game will render over normal game-play graphics. In addition to allowing the overlaying requester to send graphics commands to the game in general, the dummy graphics API object can also limit the extent of the interaction between the overlaying requester and the computerized gaming system.

Proxy direct 3-D device and remote rendering

Mechanisms are disclosed that allow for the communication between closed computing systems and other computing systems. Gaming consoles, for instance, can use the present mechanisms to communicate with PCs, especially when unsigned content is sent from the PCs to the gaming consoles. The disclosed communication mechanism can have multiple channels to send information (which may include code and/or data associated with the unsigned content) from the PCs to the gaming consoles. Such information may be distributed over several channels on the communication mechanism. For instance, the communication mechanism can first send a subset of a set of information from a computing system to a closed computing system. Then, depending on the closed system resources, the remaining set of information can be sent to the closed system. Various heuristics can be used to make a determination of whether to send the set of information following the sent subset of information, including but not limited to, GPU resources, memory resources, and the like.

Transfer of content to closed systems

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Richard Andrew Meyer