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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Lee M. Guinchard, Livermore, CA (US);
Timothy S. Clark, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Michael Andrew Guy Nimmo, Leamington Spa, GB;
Philip Hindle, Leamington Spa, GB;
Assignee:
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/73 (2014.01); A63F 13/245 (2014.01); A63F 13/235 (2014.01); A63F 13/23 (2014.01); A63F 13/22 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/73 (2014.09); A63F 13/22 (2014.09); A63F 13/23 (2014.09); A63F 13/235 (2014.09); A63F 13/245 (2014.09);
Abstract
A system and method relating to a videogame system comprising videogame software and a videogame peripheral is presented. The presented system and method prevents against the use of certain videogame peripherals with unauthorized videogame software through the use of 'protected' and 'unprotected' inputs.