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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
May. 22, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Connor Colin Marwan Al-Joundi, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Norman Badger, Redmond, WA (US);
Tyler Duckworth, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephanie Ling Diao, Seattle, WA (US);
Emily Lynn Bender, Seattle, WA (US);
Jerome Stephen Healy, Seattle, WA (US);
Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Redmond, WA (US);
Sophia Sixue Chen, Chicago, IL (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices is diverse with respect to a type and a manufacturer. The lighting module is referred to as a centralized lighting module because the lighting module is part of an operating system of a computing device. Consequently, a user of the computing device no longer has to download and learn to use multiple different lighting applications if the user wants to create a diverse lighting ecosystem in which lighting-enabled peripheral devices from different manufacturers are connected to the computing device. Similarly, a developer of a computing application no longer has to engage and interact with multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) if the developer wants users of their computing application to be able to create a diverse lighting ecosystem.