Patents by Inventor Daniel Kyle Taylor

Daniel Kyle Taylor 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).

  • Game progression using retrieved partial user data
    Patent number: 9421465
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Russell Alexander, Daniel Kyle Taylor, Justin Layne Nordin, Daniel Ryan Mitchell, Malia Rebecca Guerrero, Kurt Mar, Roger Arthur Roach, Travis J. Muhlestein, Robert Unoki, Kenneth Michael Bayer, Paul Stephen Hellyar
  • GAME PROGRESSION USING RETRIEVED PARTIAL USER DATA
    Publication number: 20150297999
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Alexander, Daniel Kyle Taylor, Justin Layne Nordin, Daniel Ryan Mitchell, Malia Rebecca Guerrero, Kurt Mar, Roger Arthur Roach, Travis J. Muhlestein, Robert Unoki, Kenneth Michael Bayer, Paul Stephen Hellyar