Google Inc.

Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Weidong Shi

James Ferrans

Jonathan R Engelsma

Mathieu C Hans

Michael D Pearce

Bogdan O Carbunar

Yang Yu

A system for establishing multi-party wireless game sessions includes a game session broker and at least two wireless units. Each wireless unit includes a first wireless device having relatively low power consumption and a second wireless device having relatively high power consumption. The game session broker receives a session ready message that includes location information for a first player and search for a second player having location information matching the location information for the first player. Finding a matching player, the game session broker sends session available messages to wireless units associated with the first and second players. Session ready messages are sent and session available message are received via first wireless devices. Upon receiving the session available message, the first and second players can establish a wireless game session using their respective second wireless devices.

Method and system for virtual mobile game session discovery and player matching

A system for establishing multi-party wireless game sessions includes a game session broker and at least two wireless units. Each wireless unit includes a first wireless device having relatively low power consumption and a second wireless device having relatively high power consumption. The game session broker is configured to receive a session ready message that includes location information for a first player and search for a second player having location information matching the location information for the first player. Upon finding a matching player, the game session broker sends session available messages to the wireless units associated with the first and second players. Session ready messages are sent and session available message are received using the first wireless devices. Upon receiving the session available message, the first and second players can establish a wireless game session using their respective second wireless devices. Preferably, the second wireless devices are maintained powered-off until a session available message is received.

Method of and system for virtual mobile game session discovery and player matching

During operation, each client device will be provided with a list of addresses for all nodes within a network. The addresses for all nodes will be unique to a particular client device such that {address(node), address(node), . . . address(node n)} for a first client does not equal {address(node), address(node), . . . address(node n)} for a second client. Each client's address for a particular node will preferably only be known by the client and a naming server. When sending a message to a destination node, a client device will create a source route consisting of the unique addresses. Because each client's address for a particular node will only be known to itself and the naming server, anyone who intercepts the route will not know what nodes along the route are used for routing the message.

Method and apparatus for performing anonymous source routing

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