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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2006
Michal Bortnik, Seattle, WA (US);
Henry Paul Morgan, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven Dale Lamb, Seattle, WA (US);
Vincent H. Curley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michal Bortnik, Seattle, WA (US);
Henry Paul Morgan, Redmond, WA (US);
Steven Dale Lamb, Seattle, WA (US);
Vincent H. Curley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms for visual identification of a user in a gaming environment. For example, a digital image is used to identify a user, whether the user is on-line or off-line. This digital image is easily verifiable as an appropriate and non-offensive image because it May come form a controlled digital image source (or set of sources). The digital image is also revocable in a variety of gaming environment contexts by a gaming authority. Lastly, the digital image is changeable depending on the context of the gaming environment, in one aspect, being configured to be visible to the entire gaming environment in one form, and being visible to a subset of the gaming environment in another form.