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[SilentWatcher]

The beauty of any new technology invented in the United States is that, when it is patented, the company must make all sorts of information about it public. MS must have tons of patents for the 360- and they are all available for public perusal. MS may try to obscure the information by not mentioning brand names directly, but it is obvious what they are referring to. All patents are viewable and searchable online, and are surprisingly specific.

Patents are searchable here:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm

TIP: Add an/MS to your query to limit results to MS patents. For example, search(without the quotes) "an/MS and game and console"

These are just a few examples of what I found- I am sure there are many more.
For example, this a very specific description of how Xbox Live content is encrypted:
    6956947

Not as interesting, but still obviously Xbox 360 related- playing custom soundtracks:
    6878067

Boot Security:
 6907522

Game Disc Layout/Security:
 6910116

What else is there?

EDIT: Bad links replaced by patent numbers- simply search those.

This post has been edited by SilentWatcher: Dec 6 2005, 03:10 AM

[gipperCJ]

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http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat6956947.pdf

http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat6878067.pdf

http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat6907522.pdf

http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat6910116.pdf



those all look like xb1 by the way.


Once you find an inventor on xbox 360, search his name to find many more pats.

search apps through keyword at www.uspto.gov  apps are worse than pats to hackers because they issue after you've searched and then you're infringing and in deep poo without knowing it.

360 apps shouldn't be matured yet.  That division is like 3yrs backlogged.  They should only be published apps.



Reading MS apps:

background tells you what's going on.  This is where you get most informaiton.  It's about the prior art, but it leads into the solution.  Summary is probably unintelligible, but that's the aspect of the invention that's patentable.


about 5-10 paras before the claims is a section following the exemplary operating environment where you find out what the invention really relates to.  generally:
unified messaging system - exchange
mail application/client - outlook
operating system/os/program/application/executable - windows


MS uses no trademarks in applications generally, so don't try searching for them because it'll only throw you off.  everything is a computing device, not a computer or a game console or otherwise, so you may look for game, but it's likely not to yield any good keyword hits.  It could get you an inventor's name though.  Then searching related pats get you to more relevant stuff.


pats aren't going to tell you how things are done. They're only going to give you an overview with which to figure out what is going on.


That said, MS also files apps on inventions that it knows it's not going to bring to the marketplace.  So you may see some misleading stuff.





upon further inspection.

good effort, but they're all xbox pats, not 360.


trying searching apps at www.uspto.gov



I can't beleive that they put game in there, but whatever.  Search it then.

upon further inspection.

good effort, but they're all xbox pats, not 360.


trying searching apps at www.uspto.gov



I can't beleive that they put game in there, but whatever.  Search it then.