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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2012
Patrick W. O'kelley, Seattle, WA (US);
J. Clinton Paul Fowler, Seattle, WA (US);
Johan Peter Hansen, Bellevue, WA (US);
William B. Fulton, Seattle, WA (US);
Jerry Alan Johnson, Medina, WA (US);
Patrick W. O'Kelley, Seattle, WA (US);
J. Clinton Paul Fowler, Seattle, WA (US);
Johan Peter Hansen, Bellevue, WA (US);
William B. Fulton, Seattle, WA (US);
Jerry Alan Johnson, Medina, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A service that provides for setting up game sessions for a plurality of game players. A number of game players that each have a computing device capable of playing a computer game are linked together by the service. The service allows a player to set up a common game session so that a subset of the players can simultaneously start playing the game at the same level. Additionally, the service allows game competitions to be structured and played among a subset of the game players.