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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher M. Pirich, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A gaming system includes a hard disk drive for storing applications and other data. The hard disk drive has multiple storage areas for storing different types of data. Each application executed on the gaming system has an associated data storage area and is prevented from using data storage areas associated with other applications. When saving a game, the saved game data may include a descriptive name of the saved game, a graphic representation of the state of the game when the game was saved, a description of the game state when the game was saved, and a date and time that the game was saved.