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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2012
Applicants:

Kathryn Stone-perez, Shoreline, WA (US);

Jeffrey Margolis, Seattle, WA (US);

Mark J. Finocchio, Redmond, WA (US);

Brian E. Keane, San Jose, CA (US);

Rudy Jacobus Poot, Clyde Hill, WA (US);

Stephen G. Latta, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Kathryn Stone-Perez, Shoreline, WA (US);

Jeffrey Margolis, Seattle, WA (US);

Mark J. Finocchio, Redmond, WA (US);

Brian E. Keane, San Jose, CA (US);

Rudy Jacobus Poot, Clyde Hill, WA (US);

Stephen G. Latta, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/033 (2013.01); A63F 13/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A63F 13/12 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); A63F 13/10 (2013.01); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); G07F 17/3206 (2013.01); G07F 17/3209 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for managing virtual ports are disclosed herein. Each such virtual port may have different associated features such as, for example, privileges, rights or options. When one or more users are in a capture scene of a gesture based system, the system may associate virtual ports with the users and maintain the virtual ports. Also provided are techniques for disassociating virtual ports with users or swapping virtual ports between two or more users.


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