Patents by Inventor Bjorn Toft Madsen

Bjorn Toft Madsen 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).

  • Programming APIS for an extensible avatar system
    Patent number: 8446414
    Abstract: Disclosed is an application programming interface (API) that provides for an extensible avatar system. In one embodiment an API may allow video game applications to retrieve structures of data which represent an avatar. The game can then take those structures and incorporate the data into its own rendering system. In another embodiment an API may allow a video game application to render an avatar to a render target or texture wherein the video game system performs rendering and animation functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan K. Reville, Thomas A. Langan, Dan B. Kroymann, Derek H. Smith, Stacey Law, Bjorn Toft Madsen, Rodney Alan Boyd
  • Programming APIS for an Extensible Avatar System
    Publication number: 20100009747
    Abstract: Disclosed is an application programming interface (API) that provides for an extensible avatar system. In one embodiment an API may allow video game applications to retrieve structures of data which represent an avatar. The game can then take those structures and incorporate the data into its own rendering system. In another embodiment an API may allow a video game application to render an avatar to a render target or texture wherein the video game system performs rendering and animation functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan Reville, Thomas A. Langan, Dan B. Kroymann, Derek H. Smith, Stacey Law, Bjorn Toft Madsen, Rodney Alan Boyd
  • USER AVATAR AVAILABLE ACROSS COMPUTING APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20090315893
    Abstract: An avatar along with its accessories, emotes, and animations may be system provided and omnipresent. In this manner, the avatar and its accessories, emotes, and animations may be available across multiple environments provided or exposed by multiple avatar computing applications, such as computer games, chats, forums, communities, or instant messaging services. An avatar system may change the avatar and its accessories, emotes, and animations, e.g. pursuant to a request from the user, instructions from an avatar computing application, or updates provided by software associated with a computing device. The avatar and its accessories, emotes, and animations may be changed by a system or computing application associated with a computing device outside of a computer game or computing environment in which the avatar may be rendered or used by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derek H. Smith, Brendan Reville, Stacey Law, Thomas Langan, Bjorn Toft Madsen, Rodney Alan Boyd, Jerry Alan Johnson, Tian Fung Lim, Richard Henry Irving