Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – With communication link
Reexamination Certificate
2004-11-15
2008-10-14
Pezzuto, Robert E (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
With communication link
C463S001000, C463S049000, C463S051000, C434S011000, C434S021000, C434S022000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07435179
ABSTRACT:
A gaming server periodically receives location information from a plurality of distributed gaming devices. Such devices can take the form of cellular telephones or other wireless communications devices equipped with a GPS transceiver. When the gaming server determines that a gaming device is within a predetermined range of another gaming device, it sends an authorization message such as an “in-range” message to one or both of the devices within range of each other. The users of the device(s) receiving the in-range message are then authorized to “shoot” the other user, e.g., by taking a picture of them, pointing a laser at them or other gaming action that may be specified by the rules of the game. The gaming action could also be initiating a game.
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Pezzuto Robert E
Shah Milap
Sprint Spectrum L.P.
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