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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2016
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Earl Berner, Wylie, TX (US);

Martha Aldaco, Garland, TX (US);

Tasos Kaiafas, McKinney, TX (US);

Gregory Skasko, Irving, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/26 (2014.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.01); A63F 13/77 (2014.01); A63F 13/335 (2014.01); A63F 13/355 (2014.01); A63F 13/352 (2014.01); A63F 13/338 (2014.01); A63F 13/31 (2014.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); A63F 13/213 (2014.01); A63F 13/2145 (2014.01); A63F 13/327 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/26 (2014.09); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/213 (2014.09); A63F 13/216 (2014.09); A63F 13/2145 (2014.09); A63F 13/31 (2014.09); A63F 13/327 (2014.09); A63F 13/335 (2014.09); A63F 13/338 (2014.09); A63F 13/352 (2014.09); A63F 13/355 (2014.09); A63F 13/77 (2014.09); A63F 2300/205 (2013.01); A63F 2300/407 (2013.01); A63F 2300/409 (2013.01); A63F 2300/513 (2013.01); A63F 2300/535 (2013.01); A63F 2300/538 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the present disclosure includes, for example, a method for receiving from a first device a request to initiate a video game with a second device, determining a location of the first device, detecting a difference between first computing resources of the first device and second computing resources of the second device, instructing the first device, the second device, or both to adjust a resource configuration to mitigate an aspect of the difference between the first computing resources and the second computing resources, and coordinating an exchange of first control information provided by the first device and second control information provided by the second device to enable a multiplayer session of the video game between the first device and the second device. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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