Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer conferencing – Cooperative computer processing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-13
2009-12-01
Vincent, David R (Department: 2129)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer conferencing
Cooperative computer processing
C463S002000, C463S042000, C709S240000, C706S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07627632
ABSTRACT:
Techniques enable the reduction of bandwidth requirements for peer-to-peer gaming architectures. In some embodiments, these techniques allow differentiation among players to decide which players should receive continuous updates and which should receive periodic updates. For those gaming systems receiving periodic updates, guided artificial intelligence is employed to simulate activity of a game object based on guidance provided by the periodic updates. Conversely, for those gaming systems receiving continuous updates, the continuous updates may be employed to update the activity of the game object rather than simulating the activity.
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Douceur John R.
Lorch Jacob R.
Pang Jeffrey Anson
Uyeda Frank Christopher
Lee & Hayes PLLC
Microsoft Corporation
Rifkin Ben M
Vincent David R
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