Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Craig R Maitlen

Joseph Wheeler

Christopher Michael Novak

Tyler Paul Esselstrom

Aron Richard Chavez

Austin Adrian Astorga

Craig Ray Maitlen

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating a convenient transfer of control elements for a gaming session from one device to another device without interrupting the gaming session for one or more players. For example, systems disclosed herein include pairing an input device (e.g., a gaming controller) with one or more client devices. Once paired, the input device may detect a trigger condition based on proximity of a registered client device to the input device. The client device may pull control of one or more control elements for the gaming session. The client device may then continue the gaming session without interrupting the experience for the user or for other users that may be engaged within the gaming session.

Transferring control elements for a gaming session between devices

The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to manage provisioning of a video game during presentation of a preview of a video game (e.g., video game trailer). Video game previews may be presented through a graphical user interface of an online gaming delivery service. While a video game preview is being presented to a user, a provisioning determination may be made to determine whether to automatically initiate provisioning of a video game (e.g., in the background of the video game preview). For any non-limiting provisioning determination described herein, a state of the provisioning may be determined and graphical indicators of that state information may be presented to a user while the video game preview is being presented. Further examples describe processing related to contextual customization of game previews as well as GUI menus that are used to present game previews.

Management of provisioning of video game during game preview

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