Game progression using retrieved partial user data

US9421465B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Russell Alexander · Seattle, US
• Daniel Kyle Taylor · Sheffield, GB
• Justin Layne Nordin · Redmond, US
• Daniel R. Mitchell · Redmond, US
• Malia Rebecca Guerrero · Seattle, US
• Kurt Mar · Issaquah, US
• Roger Arthur Roach · Redmond, US
• Travis Muhlestein · Redmond, US
• Robert S. Unoki · Redmond, US
• Kenneth Michael Bayer · Kirkland, US
• Paul S. Hellyar · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 23, 2016
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2209/503
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A system that contains multiple game servers that have a non-user specific unused state, and a user-specific game state. When the game server is providing a game service on the other hand, the game server first obtains the user data for the user and game that is to be initiated. Accordingly, the game servers may be thought of as a bank of game servers, any one of which being potentially utilizable for incoming game requests. Once the game session is completed, the user data for the gamer may be deleted, and the game server goes back into the pool of available generic game servers. The user data is downloaded from a user data store, and may be quite limited to perhaps just that portion of the user data that relates to the game to be played.