LOGGING OF RICH ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM SERVICE HISTORY FOR USE AS A COMMUNITY BUILDING TOOL

• US 20090088254A1
• Filed: 10/02/2007
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Courage, Michael R., Johnson, Jerry A., Reville, Brendan K.
• Granted Patent: US 8,566,386 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/795 for finding other players; for building a team; for providing a buddy list
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/535 for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed for aggregating event records obtained from a plurality of videogame consoles, and generating event objects for each event record of the plurality. Additionally, the event objects can be stored in a database that is exposed to a third party via a connection to a network such as the Internet. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method for aggregating data from consoles, comprising:

receiving, from a plurality of videogame consoles, a plurality of event records, wherein each event record of the plurality of event records includes information describing one of a plurality of events conforming to one of a plurality of schemas;

generating, for a first event record that includes information describing a first event according to a first schema, a first event object that includes information describing the first event, wherein the information describing the first event in the first event object conforms to a common schema defined by a service provider;

generating, for a second event record that includes information describing a second event according to a second schema, a second event object that includes information describing the second event, wherein the information describing the second event in the second event object conforms to the common schema;

generating, entries for the first and second event objects in a database, wherein the database includes a plurality of event objects; and

exposing, to an entity different from the service provider, an interface to the database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first event includes information describing an achievement obtained by a user in a videogame.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first event record conforms to a schema defined by a developer of the videogame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of event objects includes a relationship to another event object of the plurality of event objects.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a link in the first event object, wherein the link includes the address of a webpage that includes information associated with the information describing the first event.

6. A system for displaying information obtained from videogame consoles, comprising:

a process configured to query a database that includes a plurality of event objects for a first and second event object, wherein the first event object includes information describing a first event conforming to a common schema, said first event object generated from a first event record including the first information conforming to a first schema, and the second event object includes information describing a second event conforming to the common schema, said second event object generated from a second event record including the second information conforming to a second schema;

a process configured to receive the queried first and second event objects; and

a process configured to display the queried first and second event objects.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the information that describes the first event in the first event object includes a relationship to a third event object of the plurality of event objects, wherein the third event object includes information that describes an associated event conforming to the common schema.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the process configured to receive the queried first and second event objects is additionally configured to receive the third event object.

9. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

a process configured to transmit a subscription request to a notification service, wherein the subscription request includes a user defined criterion; and

a process configured to receive new event objects conforming to the user defined criterion.

10. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

a process configured to embed queried first and second event objects in a webpage.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the first event object includes information describing an achievement obtained by a user in a videogame.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the first event object includes a link, wherein the link is operable to transmit a request to a website for a webpage configured to display information associated with the first event object.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the first event object includes information associated with an achievement earned by a user, and the third event object includes information associated with the user.

14. A computer readable storage medium including computer readable instructions for converting records obtained from a plurality of videogame consoles into a common format, comprising:

instructions for receiving a plurality of event records, wherein each event record of the plurality includes information describing one of a plurality of events, and the information describing one of the plurality of events conforms to one of a plurality of schemas;

instructions for identifying a schema selected from a plurality of schemas that describes one of the plurality of events for each event record of the plurality of event records;

instructions for using the schema identified for each event record to generate an event object, wherein each event object includes the information describing one of the plurality of events, and the information describing one of the plurality of events conforms to a common schema;

instructions for creating entries in a database for each event object generated, wherein the database includes a plurality of event objects; and

instructions for exposing, to an entity different from the service provider, an interface to the database.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, further comprising:

instructions for determining that a first event object of the plurality of event objects is related to a second event object; and

instructions for generating a relationship between the first event object and the second event object.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein a first event of the plurality of event objects includes information describing an achievement obtained by a user in a videogame.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the information describing the achievement conforms to a schema defined by a developer of the videogame.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, further comprising:

instructions for receiving, from a remote computer system, a query for information describing one or more events contained in one or more of the plurality of event objects;

instructions for determining that a group of event objects of the plurality of event objects describe the one or more events; and

instructions for transmitting the group of event objects to the remote computer system.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, further comprising:

instructions for generating a webpage that includes information related to a first event of the plurality of event objects; and

publishing the webpage that includes information associated with the first event.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 19, further comprising:

generating a link in an event object of the plurality of event objects that includes information describing the first event, wherein the link includes the address of the webpage that includes the information associated with the first event.