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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2014
Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Adam P. Harris, San Diego, CA (US);
Steve C. Schneider, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for actively validating a network device is provided. Nodes in a network game community are prompted to engage in interrogation and response to facilitate the identification of nodes operating with hacked, modified and non-typical game configurations. In one embodiment, a query is presented to a user's machine which triggers a response, and where the response indicates whether certain data at the user is valid and wherein invalid data is suggestive of illegal community behavior. Functions are triggered and data is queried to determine whether the state of game environment is operating according to known metrics or constraints.