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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
James William Scott, Cambridge, GB;
Haiyan Zhang, London, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
Alexandra Keeley Bunting, London, GB;
Jonathan Leslie Venables, London, GB;
Simon Jay Carter, London, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system in which attributes are transferred between generations of characters in an interactive software experience is described. In an embodiment, data identifying one or more hardware attributes for a virtual entity are received from a physical user device associated with that virtual entity. One or more virtual attributes for the virtual entity are accessed and one or more behaviors of the virtual entity within the interactive software experience are modified based on a combination of the hardware and virtual attributes.