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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 15, 2012
Applicants:

Weidong Shi, Streamwood, IL (US);

Jonathan R. Engelsma, Hudsonville, MI (US);

James C. Ferrans, Wheaton, IL (US);

Mathieu C. Hans, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);

Inventors:

Weidong Shi, Streamwood, IL (US);

Jonathan R. Engelsma, Hudsonville, MI (US);

James C. Ferrans, Wheaton, IL (US);

Mathieu C. Hans, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); A63F 2300/403 (2013.01); A63F 2300/405 (2013.01); A63F 2300/408 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5566 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for establishing multi-party wireless game sessions includes a game session broker and at least two wireless units. Each wireless unit includes a first wireless device having relatively low power consumption and a second wireless device having relatively high power consumption. The game session broker receives a session ready message that includes location information for a first player and search for a second player having location information matching the location information for the first player. Finding a matching player, the game session broker sends session available messages to wireless units associated with the first and second players. Session ready messages are sent and session available message are received via first wireless devices. Upon receiving the session available message, the first and second players can establish a wireless game session using their respective second wireless devices.


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