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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dan Shimizu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ko Shiota, Kyoto, JP;
Munehito Oira, Kyoto, JP;
Kazuo Koshima, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; G06F 3/00 ;
Abstract
A video game system includes a game program executing system executing a game program and one or more controllers supplying user inputs to the game program executing system. An interface between the controllers and the game program executing system is programmable to periodically poll the controller without involvement of the game program executing system.