Patents by Inventor Aron B. Kantor

Aron B. Kantor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Virtual and location-based multiplayer gaming
    Patent number: 9573064
    Abstract: A system and method combining real-world actions and virtual actions in a gaming environment. In one aspect, a massively multiplayer environment combines the real world actions and virtual actions of a participant to influence both character metrics and game play within one or more games provided by the service. In the real world or location-based events, game play occurs in and around links explicitly created between real world locations and virtual representations of those locations within the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda, Aron B. Kantor
  • VIRTUAL AND LOCATION-BASED MULTIPLAYER GAMING
    Publication number: 20110319148
    Abstract: A system and method combining real-world actions and virtual actions in a gaming environment. In one aspect, a massively multiplayer environment combines the real world actions and virtual actions of a participant to influence both character metrics and game play within one or more games provided by the service. In the real world or location-based events, game play occurs in and around links explicitly created between real world locations and virtual representations of those locations within the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda, Aron B. Kantor