Method and apparatus for multi-user communications using...

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2005-10-04

2005-10-04

Jones, Scott E. (Department: 3713)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

With communication link

C463S001000, C463S044000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06951516

ABSTRACT:
A multi-user video game with communications capabilities allows players to communicate with one another via simulated mail, leaflets and conversations. Different installations of the game on different discrete video game playing platforms may be unique or different depending upon random or other data available at the platform. For example, different installations may have different subsets of characters, different landscapes, or the like. Player characters from one virtual environment or village may visit another virtual environment or village and return home to his or her resident environment or village. Non-player characters may move from one virtual environment or village to another—thereby providing an ever-changing variety of characters. Communications between different game playing platforms can be provided via portable memory devices, portable game playing devices, or conventional communications means such as networks.

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