Patents by Inventor Jon Marcus Whitten

Jon Marcus Whitten 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).

  • Method and apparatus for managing data in a gaming system
    Publication number: 20050164782
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a hard disk drive for storing applications and other data. The hard disk drive has multiple regions for storing different types of data. Each application executed on the gaming system has an associated storage area on the hard disk drive. A console application executing on the gaming system prevents a particular application from accessing data in an area of the hard disk drive that is not associated with the particular application. The gaming system also maintains a list of recently used nicknames to simplify entry of nicknames by a user of the gaming system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Marcus Whitten, Christopher Pirich