The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2003
Damon V. Danieli, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Noah Heller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Van C. Van, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Cameron J. A. Ferroni, Seattle, WA (US);
Todd G. Roshak, Redmond, WA (US);
Damon V. Danieli, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Noah Heller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Van C. Van, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Cameron J. A. Ferroni, Seattle, WA (US);
Todd G. Roshak, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user who has signed on to an online gaming service can send an invitation to a friend appearing in the user's friends list to join in playing the game the user has loaded or may join the friend in playing the game being played by the friend, regardless of whether the game title played by the friend is the same as that loaded on the user's game console. If the game titles are different, the party needing to load the game title to be played is prompted to do so, and then prompted to reboot the game console. Information written about the new game to be played is automatically written on the hard drive of that party's game console and automatically accessed after the reboot for use in expediting the log-in process of the player who had to reboot.