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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Haiyan Zhang, London, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
James William Scott, Cambridge, GB;
Greg Saul, London, GB;
Alexandra Keeley Bunting, London, GB;
Lee Jason Schuneman, London, GB;
Philip Robert Harrison, Chalfont St Giles, GB;
Struan Andrew Robertson, Oxford, GB;
Jonathan Leslie Venables, London, GB;
Thomas James Mejias Stott, London, GB;
Sandeep Bhara, Hertfordshire, GB;
Navtej Sunner, Rugby, GB;
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A modular assembly system is described which enables interaction with an interactive software experience such as a game. The system enables a coherent physical whole object to be assembled from a core module and one or more peripheral modules. The core module includes a battery, processor and a wireless module which is able to communicate with the interactive software experience which runs on a separate computing device such as a smartphone, tablet or games console. Each of the peripheral modules stores a module ID and these IDs are collected by the core module and communicated to the interactive software experience. The user experience within the interactive software experience changes dependent upon the set of modules which are connected to form the coherent physical whole object and may also be altered as a result of manipulation of the coherent physical whole object or individual modules.