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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1994
Halil Burhan Bakoglu, Ossining, NY (US);
Jeng-Chun Janet Chen, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Andy Geng-Chyun Lean, Merrick, NY (US);
Kiyoshi Maruyama, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Ghung-Wai Yue, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for playing the same video game by a number of players at remote locations over a telephone network. More specifically, a video representation of the game played by a number of video game players stored at each of the player locations. The control signals representing the actions of the players are then transmitted to a single one of the locations where the control signals are sequenced. The sequence control signals are then stored in a queue wherein the video game is played at each of the locations by synchronously reading the control signals from each queue at each of the locations and sending them to corresponding ports of each video game at each location.