Shirlene X Lim

US Patent:

20130288788, Oct 31, 2013

Filed:

Jun 22, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/531264

Inventors:

Shirlene Lim - Redmond WA, US
Timothy Lee Bui - Renton WA, US
Andrew C. Haon - Seattle WA, US
J. Spencer King - Seattle WA, US
Jeremiah Whitaker - Shoreline WA, US
Michael B. Goulding - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

A63F 13/12

US Classification:

463 31, 463 42

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are technologies that allow users to create, issue, accept and participate in gaming challenges. A gaming challenge involves participants playing a gaming application to improve their rank on a leaderboard associated with the application until challenge conditions are met or the challenge expires. Challenges can be time-based, objective-based, a tournament or of other type. A challengor can create a challenge by specifying a gaming application to be played, the leaderboard to be used in the challenge, challenge type, challenge duration, and additional challenge criteria. A gaming service can maintain the leaderboard and pass challenge-related notifications between participants. Participants' computing devices can send notices indicating when a challenge has been met or when a participant's relative ranking has changed. A challengor or challengee can select an avatar expression for animating an avatar when a challenge request or acceptance or decline of a challenge is presented at a computing device.

US Patent:

20160127775, May 5, 2016

Filed:

Oct 31, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/530552

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Enrique de la Garza - Sammamish WA, US
Leah Hobart - Mountain View CA, US
Shirlene Lim - Redmond WA, US
Jonathan Winslow Anderson - Seattle WA, US
Carolyn J. Fuson - Kirkland WA, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/458
H04N 21/466

Abstract:

Increased user interaction performance in group settings is achieved by providing individually interactive secondary content to individual users of a group of users, including a group that is consuming content from a single display device. A group of users is defined based upon detected commonalities. Secondary content is concurrently presented to the defined group of users and includes both non-interactive and interactive content. The interactive content is individually and separately presented to multiple users of the defined group, including co-located users that were consuming the primary content from a single physical display device. The individual and separate presentation includes presenting multiple panels, or sub-divisions, on the single physical display device, with individual, separate panels directed to individual ones of the multiple co-located users and the utilization of personal computing devices that are associated with specific ones of the multiple co-located users.