Handling of players and objects in massive multi-player on-line games

US8057307B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Viktors Berstis · Austin, US
• John Daniel Sieron Bethencourt · Verona, US
• Kevin Damm · Sanford, US
• Robert Glenn Deen · Simi Valley, US
• Matthew Hammer · Stoughton, US
• James H. Kaufman · San Jose, US
• Tobin J. Lehman · Cupertino, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 24, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2011
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/3276
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

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.