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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2011
Applicant:
Patrick D. Blattner, Sterling, VA (US);
Inventor:
Patrick D. Blattner, Sterling, VA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques are described for enabling the selection of wallpaper to modify the mood projected by an avatar. The mood projected by an avatar may be modified, for example, by modifying behaviors and/or appearance of the avatar to characterize a mood to be projected. The mood projected by an avatar also may be modified based on user action, such as user input of a mood to be projected by the avatar.