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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Brian Lloyd Schmidt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher M. Pirich, Seattle, WA (US);
Derek H. Smith, Snohomish, WA (US);
Gregory A. Martinez, Seattle, WA (US);
Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joshua G. Poley, Redmond, WA (US);
Maciej Maciesowicz, Duvall, WA (US);
Michael Cory Maston, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian Lloyd Schmidt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher M. Pirich, Seattle, WA (US);
Derek H. Smith, Snohomish, WA (US);
Gregory A. Martinez, Seattle, WA (US);
Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Sammamish, WA (US);
Joshua G. Poley, Redmond, WA (US);
Maciej Maciesowicz, Duvall, WA (US);
Michael Cory Maston, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Communication between a game console having a communication port and a portable device is facilitated by determining that a portable device has been directly connected to the communication port, determining the protocol associated with the portable device, and communicating with the portable device using a driver associated with the determined protocol. An ancillary application may handle the communication between the game console and the portable device while a game or entertainment application executes concurrently on the game console. The game application may execute in a reserved predetermined amount of hardware resources of the game console while the ancillary application may execute concurrently using the remaining hardware resources.