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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:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2004
Brendan K. Reville, Seattle, WA (US);
Dan B. Kroymann, Kirkland, WA (US);
Fabrice Odero, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey D. Henshaw, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey L. Allen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brendan K. Reville, Seattle, WA (US);
Dan B. Kroymann, Kirkland, WA (US);
Fabrice Odero, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey D. Henshaw, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey L. Allen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is direct to a Live Network Explorer (LNE) which allows users to graphically navigate through a web of interconnected friends on a gaming console. The LNE provides a real-time graphical representation of friend-of-friend relationships, with the currently-viewed user as a visual node in the screen center. The center node is surrounded by nodes representing that user's friends. Real-time animation is used to represent transitions as the user navigates from person to person. The LNE also represents groups as a visual node in this graphically interconnected web so that the user can travel to a group that a person belongs to, and can see all the people inside the group by connections. The user can navigate to any of these people in the group. The user can click on a person to bring up their digital identity details.