Center device

Details Center device Center device

2006-04-27

2011-11-22

Milord, Marceau (Department: 2618)

Telecommunications

Transmitter and receiver at separate stations

Short range rf communication

C455S003030, C455S003060, C455S556100, C455S557000, C725S133000, C725S025000, C725S031000, C463S029000, C463S042000, C713S150000, C713S153000, C348S014100, C348S211120

Reexamination Certificate

active

08064827

ABSTRACT:
To provide a center device for accommodating a variety of situations which may occur when a home-use game machine, or the like, is used, in which a plurality of users use their own controller devices such as an input device. A center device communicates between a plurality of controller devices, receives an instructing operation carried out by the user of each controller device, and executes processing according to the instructing operation. The center device selects at least one of the controller devices as a controller device to be authenticated from among the plurality of controller devices by utilizing communication with each of the plurality of controller devices, and conducts authentication processing relative to each of the controller devices while communicating with each of the selected controller device.

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