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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2005
Viktors Berstis, Austin, TX (US);
John Daniel Sieron Bethencourt, Mt. Horeb, WI (US);
Kevin Blake Damm, Sanford, NC (US);
Robert Glenn Deen, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew Arthur Hammer, Stoughton, WI (US);
James H. Kaufman, San Jose, CA (US);
Tobin Jon Lehman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Viktors Berstis, Austin, TX (US);
John Daniel Sieron Bethencourt, Mt. Horeb, WI (US);
Kevin Blake Damm, Sanford, NC (US);
Robert Glenn Deen, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew Arthur Hammer, Stoughton, WI (US);
James H. Kaufman, San Jose, CA (US);
Tobin Jon Lehman, Cupertino, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The disclosed massive multi-player on-line gaming environment and method eliminate the coordination and synchronization problems between servers by assigning each game user to a specific client proxy server for game duration and utilizing a space information distribution center to indicate client specific changes in game space. Such configuration eliminates the need to use 'grey' areas around partitioning boundaries and servers having to 'own' client objects thereby improving massive multi-player on-line gaming scalability.