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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2008
John R. Douceur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael P. Calligaro, Redmond, WA (US);
Randall C Wood, Snohomish, WA (US);
Jacob R. Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
John R. Douceur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael P. Calligaro, Redmond, WA (US);
Randall C Wood, Snohomish, WA (US);
Jacob R. Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Partitioned artificial intelligence (AI) for networked gaming. An exemplary system splits the AI into a computationally lightweight server-side component and a computationally intensive client-side component to harness the aggregate computational power of numerous gaming clients. Aggregating resources of many, even thousands of client machines enhances game realism in a manner that would be prohibitively expensive on the central server. The system is tolerant of latency between server and clients. Deterministic and stateless client-side components enable rapid handoff, preemptive migration, and replication of the client-side AI to address problems of client failure and game exploitation. The partitioned AI can support tactical gaming navigation, a challenging task to offload because of sensitivity to latency. The tactical navigation AI calculates influence fields partitioned into server-side and client-side components by means of a Taylor-series approximation.