Handling of players and objects in massive multi-player...

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2005-03-24

2011-11-15

Laneau, Ronald (Department: 3714)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

With communication link

C463S031000, C455S453000, C718S105000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08057307

ABSTRACT:
The disclosed massive multi-player on-line gaming environment and method eliminate the coordination and synchronization problems between servers by assigning each game user to a specific client proxy server for game duration and utilizing a space information distribution center to indicate client specific changes in game space. Such configuration eliminates the need to use “grey” areas around partitioning boundaries and servers having to “own” client objects thereby improving massive multi-player on-line gaming scalability.

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