Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Victor Keith Blanco

Hok-Sum Horace Luke

Emily K Rimas-Ribikauskas

Christian James Colando

David James Brumley

Sears Young

Lisa A Osse

Dustin Hubbard

Steve Matteson

David W Williams

Otto G Berkes

James E Allard

David William Baumert

Flora P Goldthwaite

James Nicholas Helm

Tracy Sharpe

Jeffrey S Stone

A gaming system includes a game console that executes an application that creates and plays soundtracks through the gaming system. The application allows a user to create soundtracks by copying audio tracks from one or more audio sources. A user-created soundtrack can be associated with a particular game such that the user-created soundtrack is played during execution of the game instead of the game's default soundtrack.

Method and apparatus for creating and playing soundtracks in a gaming system

An adaptive user interface presented on a heads-up display of an automobile is provided. The adaptive user interface comprises a number of display elements that may be presented in a variety of display states. The display state for each display element is determined based on inputs from a variety of sources (e.g., the automobile).

Adaptive heads-up user interface for automobiles

In accordance with one aspect of saving audio source identifiers for soundtracks in a gaming system, an audio track is obtained from an audio source and the audio track is saved so that a copy of the audio track is available when the audio source is no longer accessible to a game console. The audio track is at least part of a user-created soundtrack and/or a user-selected soundtrack. The identifier of the audio source is also saved, and when a database containing meta data associated with the audio track is available, the meta data associated with the audio track is obtained from the database, based at least in part on the identifier saved on the storage device, and the obtained meta data is stored.

Saving audio source identifiers for soundtracks in a gaming system

A three-dimensional (3-D) user interface (UI) creation system maps a two-dimensional (2-D), interactive UI to an 3-D object template in a 3-D scene. Once mapped, the 2-D UI functions as a simple user interface while appearing as a skin to the 3-D object. A 3-D UI creation tool applies image resources of a 2-D UI template to a 3-D wire frame template to create a 3-D UI. The system provides for rapid implementation of a 3-D UI without need for understanding a 3-D space or 3-D authoring software. The process includes preparing a 2-D UI, loading a 3-D scene of 3-D objects, and mapping the 2-D UI to a 3-D object template in the 3-D scene. A scheme file provides a specification for recreating the 3-D scene in a runtime module whereby the 3-D scene functions as a 3-D UI system, allowing interaction via a user input system.

Creation of three-dimensional user interface

The present invention relates to a synchronization system that utilizes a synchronization wizard ('PullSync') residing on a first computer device to request and receive (or 'pull') data from a second computer device. The first computer device (the &#x201c;syncer&#x201d;) copies files from shared folders on the second computer device (the &#x201c;syncee&#x201d;) in accordance with specific pull-synchronization rules (PSRs) established on the syncer that define the scope and extent of the synchronization. This copying occurs over a network connection using existing and well-defined protocols by which one computer system is able to view and copy files from the available shared folders of a second computer system, and the PullSync wizard software needs to exist only on the first computer system (the syncer) to utilize these existing networking protocols (including existing security/authentication protocols) to selectively copy files from the second computer system.

Systems and methods for the implementation of a peer-to-peer rule-based pull autonomous synchronization system

A gaming system includes a game console that executes an application that creates and plays soundtracks through the gaming system. The application allows a user to create soundtracks by copying audio tracks from one or more audio sources. A user-created soundtrack can be associated with a particular game such that the user-created soundtrack is played during execution of the game instead of the game's default soundtrack. During execution of a game, a user may change the soundtrack being played.

Graphical user interface for a display screen

Animated graphical user interface for a display screen

Ergonomic and functionally-efficient race-track button arrangement circumferentially coupled to a display device

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

Victor Keith Blanco