STATE MANAGEMENT OF DYNAMIC PROPERTIES

• US 20190118098A1
• Filed: 01/08/2018
• Published: 04/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: PAYZER, Gershom L., FOX, Richard Michael, SMITH, Gregory M., PEET, Connor
• Granted Patent: US 11,014,010 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/77 involving data related to game devices or game servers, e.g. configuration data, software version or amount of memory
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/86 Watching games played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43076 of the same content streams on multiple devices, e.g. when family members are watching the same movie on different devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games

Abstract

A broadcast computing device broadcasts an audiovisual stream via a computer network to a plurality of viewing computers. The broadcast computing device stores production information according to a hybrid data type. The broadcasting program receives a request to update the stored production information from a viewing computer, and updates the production information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

executing a video game program;

broadcasting a stream of the video game program to one or more viewing computers;

storing video game information of the video game program using a data instance instantiated according to a hybrid data type including;

one or more static properties,

a dynamic mapper, and

a fragment storage slot;

receiving a code fragment in a data exchange language, the code fragment sent from a viewing computer and requesting an update to the stored video game information;

updating the one or more static properties and the dynamic mapper based on the code fragment; and

storing the code fragment into the fragment storage slot.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the code fragment sent from the viewing computer includes a computer-readable description of an interaction between a user of the viewing computer and a player of the video game program.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the code fragment sent from the viewing computer includes a computer-readable description of an input to the video game program, and wherein updating the one or more static properties and the dynamic mapper based on the code fragment results in an updated game state based on the input to the video game program.

4. A computing system, comprising:

a logic machine; and

a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine to;

execute an electronic sports production program configured to;

receive game state data via a computer network from a plurality of gaming computers executing a multiplayer game, and

broadcast an electronic sports stream via the computer network to a plurality of viewing computers, the electronic sports stream including an audiovisual depiction of gameplay of the multiplayer game;

store production information of the electronic sports stream using a data instance instantiated according to a hybrid data type including;

one or more static properties,

a dynamic mapper, and

a fragment storage slot;

receive a code fragment in a data exchange language, the code fragment sent from a viewing computer and requesting an update to the stored production information;

update the one or more static properties and the dynamic mapper based on the code fragment; and

store the code fragment into the fragment storage slot.

5. The computing system of claim 4, wherein the production information of the electronic sports stream includes a wager from a viewer of the audiovisual stream.

6. A method, comprising:

executing a broadcasting program configured to broadcast an audiovisual

stream via a computer network to a plurality of viewing computers;

storing production information of the audiovisual stream using a data instance instantiated according to a hybrid data type including;

one or more static properties,

a dynamic mapper, and

a fragment storage slot;

receiving a code fragment in a data exchange language, the code fragment sent from a viewing computer and requesting an update to the stored production information;

updating the one or more static properties and the dynamic mapper based on the code fragment; and

storing the code fragment into the fragment storage slot.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the audiovisual stream is a broadcast stream of a video game program.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the audiovisual stream is an electronic sports stream.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the audiovisual stream is a live event stream of a live event.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein an interactive aspect of the live event is controlled responsive to updates to the one or more static properties and responsive to updates to the dynamic mapper.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the interactive aspect of the live event includes an audio track to be played.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein before receiving the code fragment, the fragment storage slot already contains an old code fragment, and wherein storing the code fragment into the fragment storage slot includes merging the code fragment with the old code fragment.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the code fragment and the old code fragment are logs of time-stamped key-value pairs, and where merging the code fragment and the old code fragment includes making a new log including the time-stamped key-value pairs of the old code fragment and the time-stamped key-value pairs of the code fragment, the time-stamped key-value pairs arranged in the new log in order according to the time-stamps.

14. The method of claim 6, wherein the data exchange language is a structured data format usable to organize a plurality of primitive data including number data and string data.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the structured data format is usable to arrange the plurality of primitive data in one or both of an array and a set of key-value pairs.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the structured data format is further usable to recursively embed a first data structure defined in the data exchange language within a second data structure also defined in the data exchange language.

17. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more static properties are stored in a native storage format of the broadcasting program, the native storage format based on a programming language used to define aspects of the broadcasting program.

18. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more static properties are stored in a native storage format of the broadcasting program, the native storage format based on a hardware configuration of a computer executing the broadcasting program.

19. The method of claim 6, further comprising validating the code fragment before updating the one or more static properties and the dynamic mapper based on the code fragment.

20. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more static properties are defined by automatically generating data structure code based on a static interface description, the data structure code executable to store and utilize an instance of a data structure defining the one or more static properties.