Determining relative skills of players
US8538910B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 16, 2007 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63B71/0616
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
There is a desire to provide a way to determine relative skills of players of games such as computer games, chess, tennis and any other suitable type of game. Our earlier Bayesian Scoring system is implemented in Xbox Live (trade mark) and is currently commercially available under the trade name TrueSkill (trade mark). Here we build on our earlier work and use a new method of computation to enable processing times to be significantly reduced. Message passing techniques are adapted to enable computation of updated skill beliefs to be obtained quickly even in the case of multiple teams of multiple players.
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