{"id":29792,"date":"2018-07-02T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321193"},"modified":"2018-07-02T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:54:00","slug":"microsoft-is-working-on-ai-driven-platform-level-xbox-live-cheat-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/microsoft-is-working-on-ai-driven-platform-level-xbox-live-cheat-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is working on AI-driven, platform-level Xbox Live cheat detection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has filed a patent application for machine learning tech<\/a> that would sniff out cheaters on Xbox Live on the platform level, rather than the more traditional per-game anti-cheat approach.<\/p>\n

Though the patent application was only published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and spotted by Digital Trends<\/a> recently, the application itself was filed back in May 2017.<\/p>\n

If the patent is granted (and the tech itself manifests), Microsoft would be able to use the AI-powered system to detect cheating in third-party games by keeping an eye on things like achievements and progress within the game itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The system itself would keep an eye on player behavior, like scores tracked in Xbox Live leaderboards, and achievements earned, use a classifying function trained by machine learning to analyze that data and decide if a player\u2019s progress in the game was suspicious or normal, and take action against the player if progress is classified as outside the norm.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a significantly more in-depth breakdown of what Microsoft is seeking to patent here<\/a> in the full patent application itself, which can now be found on the USPTO\u2019s website. Currently, the application is listed as a \u2018docketed new case, ready for examination,\u2019 though the application itself is no guarantee that a patent will be granted or the tech itself will ever be implemented.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has filed a patent application for machine learning tech that would sniff out cheaters on Xbox Live on the platform level, rather than the more traditional per-game anti-cheat approach. Though the patent application was only published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and spotted by Digital Trends recently, the application itself was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}