Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stephen Paul Dolan

Justin David Brown

Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto

Hiroki Kobayashi

Theodore Ludovicus Michel

Eric David Heutchy

Micheal Dunn

Vance P O'Neill

Raymond Arifianto

Vincent Bannister

Joel E Wiljanen

Jefferson Ng

Paul Lyttle

Rankin J Kern

David A Straily

Praneeth Kallu

Brahmnes Tsz Foon Fung

Embodiments that relate to systems and methods for grouping players into a multiplayer game session are provided. In one embodiment, a first match request for a multiplayer game session is received and includes one or more requested player attributes. A plurality of other match requests are received, with one being a second match request including one or more requested player attributes. The first and second match requests are matched based on the requested player attributes. A notification of the match is sent to a client device of the first requesting player, with the notification configured to be received while the client device runs a user session different from the multiplayer game session. The notification includes a selectable element configured to instantiate the multiplayer game session on the client device in place of a user session when the selectable element is selected.

Matchmaking in multiplayer gaming

An express content metadata system ('ECM') may provide functionality for uploading, querying and downloading game content without heavy coding requirements on the part of the developers. The ECM may provide fast indexing, searching and data retrieval of content. The ECM may manage evolving changes to content definitions by providing flexible and efficient versioning control over content definitions that allows multiple versions of game content to coexist and be independently searchable.

Method and system for rapid and cost-effective development of user generated content

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Stephen Paul Dolan