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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2008
Shawn Hargreaves, Redmond, WA (US);
John Mitchell Walker, Duvall, WA (US);
Richard A. Meyer, Redmond, WA (US);
Shawn Hargreaves, Redmond, WA (US);
John Mitchell Walker, Duvall, WA (US);
Richard A. Meyer, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for an overlaying requester to send graphics commands to a game connected to the overlaying requester via a dummy graphics application programming interface (API) object that the game will render over normal game-play graphics. In addition to allowing the overlaying requester to send graphics commands to the game in general, the dummy graphics API object can also limit the extent of the interaction between the overlaying requester and the computerized gaming system.