Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Patent
1997-09-12
2000-06-20
Young, Lee
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
463 40, 463 41, 463 42, 273292, 273309, A63F 924
Patent
active
060771615
ABSTRACT:
Multiplayer card games capable of being played online using a communications network are provided. The card games are solitaire-related in that card plays are made to foundations using a number of different card piles. In one embodiment, each player uses a client that includes computer hardware and software for displaying the card layout for that player. The cards of the players of the same multiplayer card game, except for foundation cards, are different. Client and server software are utilized in controlling card plays to the foundations and regulate card movement as displayed using the computer screens of the clients. Certain card plays are disabled for a particular player until validation thereof is received using the server. Indication is provided on a particular player's screen related to the disabled card play. When the same card is played to the same foundation close in time by two or more players, a determination is made as to which player played first using the server software. Depending upon the results of this determination, client software can be utilized in illustrating on the display screen a return of a card that was just played to its origination position. Under such circumstances, the screen displays of the players illustrating these card movements for the particular card play are different.
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Nguyen Binh-An
Ross P.C. Sheridan
Young Lee
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