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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
John Peter Bruno, Jr., Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Donald James McNamara, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ashok Chandrasekaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Lane Boedigheimer, Redmond, WA (US);
Per-Ola Anders Orvendal, Carnation, WA (US);
Joseph Cusimano, Carnation, WA (US);
Scott Q. Longstreet, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention monitor and dynamically allocate computing resources to a game service. A game service provides a remote gaming environments to which users connect over a wide area network, such as the internet. A game session runs a single instance of a game title. The game session runs the video game code responsible for creating the playing experience for the users. In another embodiment, the number of active game sessions is monitored and computing resources are allocated dynamically as the number of sessions increases or decreases.