Patents by Inventor Matt Van Gorder

Matt Van Gorder 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).

  • Patent number: 11366823
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transforming and delivering a digital asset are disclosed. A request is received from an application client incorporated into a memory on one of the one or more user devices and being executed by the one or more processors. The request includes a request for the digital asset and specifies a data format for the digital asset. Source data associated with the requested digital asset is located. The source data describes the digital asset. The source data is transformed in substantially real-time. The transforming includes modifying the source data into a data format consistent with the data format specified in the request. The transformed data is sent to the user device for use in the application client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Unity Technologies SF
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Palmer, Matt Van Gorder
  • Publication number: 20200293544
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transforming and delivering a digital asset are disclosed. A request is received from an application client incorporated into a memory on one of the one or more user devices and being executed by the one or more processors. The request includes a request for the digital asset and specifies a data format for the digital asset. Source data associated with the requested digital asset is located. The source data describes the digital asset. The source data is transformed in substantially real-time. The transforming includes modifying the source data into a data format consistent with the data format specified in the request. The transformed data is sent to the user device for use in the application client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Palmer, Matt Van Gorder
  • Patent number: 8641529
    Abstract: Scheduled programmatic multiplayer game content in a console service is provided. A plurality of multiplayer game events is scheduled. Each event has a fixed start time and fixed end time. Requests from users to participate in event are received and a determination is made as to whether users electing to participate in the game are eligible to participate. If the user is eligible to participate in the game, instructions are provided to a console to allow the user to participate in the game. If the user is not eligible to participate in the game, instructions may be provided to a console to allow a user to view activity in the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Manuel Bronstein, Manoj Gupta, Ivann Alvarado, Colin Riley, Matt Van Gorder, Hao Chen, Gary Hall
  • Publication number: 20110165924
    Abstract: A method for awarding prizes to a plurality of users each participating in a multiuser game via a user console. For each round of the multiuser game, a trivia question and at least two answer choices are electronically delivered to each user participating in the multiuser game. A selection of one of the plurality of answer choices is received from the game console service that delivered the question to the user. Upon receiving the selected answer choice from the game console service, both an electronic participation-based prize and a skill-based prize are electronically awarded to the user associated with the console.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matt Van Gorder, Brett Johnson
  • Publication number: 20090325711
    Abstract: Scheduled programmatic multiplayer game content in a console service is provided. A plurality of multiplayer game events is scheduled. Each event has a fixed start time and fixed end time. Requests from users to participate in event are received and a determination is made as to whether users electing to participate in the game are eligible to participate. If the user is eligible to participate in the game, instructions are provided to a console to allow the user to participate in the game. If the user is not eligible to participate in the game, instructions may be provided to a console to allow a user to view activity in the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manuel Bronstein, Manoj Gupta, Ivann Alvarado, Colin Riley, Matt Van Gorder, Hao Chen, Gary Hall