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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2002
Boyd C. Multerer, Seattle, WA (US);
Darren L. Anderson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mark D. Vanantwerp, Redmond, WA (US);
Dinarte R. Morais, Redmond, WA (US);
Paul E. Newson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mitsuo Koikawa, Minato-ku, JP;
Boyd C. Multerer, Seattle, WA (US);
Darren L. Anderson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mark D. VanAntwerp, Redmond, WA (US);
Dinarte R. Morais, Redmond, WA (US);
Paul E. Newson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Mitsuo Koikawa, Minato-ku, JP;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Discovery and distribution of game session security information includes receiving a request to generate a new game session from a computing device and maintaining a record of a game session identifier for the new game session and a game session key for the new game session, and making the new game session available for other computing devices to join. A request for information describing one or more of a plurality of game sessions may also be received and responded to with the information describing the one or more game sessions as well as a session key that can be used to communicate with at least one of the one or more other computing devices that are part of the game session.