Patents by Inventor Walter Rector

Walter Rector 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).

  • Publication number: 20070173326
    Abstract: A user profile for an online gaming service is created. The user profile contains user gaming information received from a first location. The user profile is stored in a database, and the user is permitted to access the user profile from a second location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Claire Jennings, J. Clinton Fowler, Kurtis Chinn, Michal Bortnik, Steven Lamb, Walter Rector
  • Publication number: 20070130150
    Abstract: A gamercard associated with an integrated gamer profile to identify a gamer is provided to the gamer and other PC/console users who also participate in other online gaming community activities such as game-related web sites. The gamercard is also provided to the user in a modular fashion formatted in a way suitable for the user to display it directly within other applications of the user (such as their personal web sites and mobile device applications for display on their cell phone) without the user having to update the information within the other applications when the information changes in the central database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: J. Fowler, Dax Hawkins, John Gehlsen, Michal Bortnik, Steven Lamb, Walter Rector
  • Publication number: 20070117630
    Abstract: A gamercard associated with an integrated gamer profile to identify a gamer is provided to the gamer and other PC/console users who also participate in other online gaming community activities such as game-related web sites. The gamercard is also provided to the user from the central database through a gamercard server by a user providing a single URL from any device connected to the web. The URL is uniform for each gamer's gamercard, except for the part of the URL that includes the name associated with the particular gamer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: J. Clinton Fowler, Walter Rector
  • Publication number: 20070117629
    Abstract: An integrated user profile is provided to PC/console gamers who also participate in other online gaming community activities such as web sites that provide online gamer forums. Provided to the users is the ability to view, access, and/or contribute to their console gamer profile using the other online gaming community activities such as participation in web sites. Also, an identity and profile first created on the web site is that which will be used and stored in game play using the PC/console and online live gaming service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: J. Clinton Fowler, Haifeng Zhou, Harris Thurmond, Walter Rector